Can I please have the option to dropkick Alphinaud and Minfilia

[Felis]

pink leather chest guard? not in 3.2

[Averax]

That'll be hard, considering Minfilia...

We have reached an impasse in locating Minfilia

That's what we agreed we'd tell everyone, right?

[Skivvy]

Minfilia can run off a cliff for all I care, but don't you dare insult my poor Alphinaud*!!



*My liking him is based purely on the fact I think he's a cutie pie and I liked his first voice. I do not follow the story, so perhaps he's an annoying prat, but I am over here unphased by that!

[Ragology]

Leave Alpha Nerd alone!!

[Divine_Intervention]

monk /bstance does a flash kick backflip. now, to position my WoL in front of Alph and go ham.

[Hayward]

You really have to wonder what attracts dudebros to games like this when they act like everything should be like a Michael Bay disaster-pornfest.

[ddwarbird]

I haven't got to that point in the game yet but that looks MUCH MUCH better.

[ddwarbird]

I never said that, I just felt the game is a little dull in places, lacking the other high octain fantasy elements that helped make Final Fantasy a household name. I don't think it needs more explosions but more interesting characters that are memorable and make a clear impact on your journey. I want to feel like the fate of the world is in the balance and I honest never feel like that in this game because it lacks emotional resonance or gravitas.

That being said, I will continue to praise the music in this game because Nobuo is a sheer genius and has been for years. I just feel the story doesn't compliment his epic work and the music that pumps you up for battle. FF XIV is the ONLY mmo where I haven't muted the music in battle.

I also want more open ended storytelling where I get to actually CHOOSE the outcome, like choosing which Grand Company to join. I want to be able to go off and join the Garlean Empire and do things for them and make moral choices that effect the outcome of the world.

The game does feel a little linear in a few respects but the actual gameplay design, crafting and combat are all so well designed.

[Meraii]

I also want more open ended storytelling where I get to actually CHOOSE the outcome, .

But that's not final fantasy. Tidus wasn't all "actually I'm going to join a better blitzball team and become a celebrity all over again." Vaan didn't look at the vast expanse of desert he had cross and turn to Ashe and say "you know what, you're on your own".
if you want to choose the outcome or have moral choices, then go play Bioshock or Mass Effect, or Dragonage, or Infamous or any other the other masses of games out there that offer that option. Final Fantasy isn't one of them.
Heck even in WoW, you can't go "actually the Horde aren't so bad, i'm going to not kill them from now on" or defect to the other team with a little white flag or whatever.

As for Alphinaud and Minfilia...decent characters have flaws. It allows for growth and development. In the MSQ you see a pair of know-it-alls separate and pursue different paths. One of them starts bossing you around and acting like he's all that. Then everything goes wrong and he realises how much of a fool he is is, and he learns that asserting his will doesn't always get him what he wants, that his way isn't always the best way, that he can actually be fairly ignorant of others motives...in other words, he grows as a character. He does also start looking at my with lovey-dovey eyes all the time, but I have that effect on people so I try not to let it bother me.

Imagine if they didn't have flaws, and Minfilia was this amazing fighter and brilliant diplomat/leader/organiser/everything else etc. Why would we be there? She'd be able to do it all herself and look glamorous in the process. Doesn't exactly make for a good story that way.

[ddwarbird]

The reason why the Horde are like that in WoW is to make a point that evil is never just black and white, even Final Fantasy acknowledges this. Most of the villians in the series just want everyone in the world to stop fighting and they believe they are saving the world from man. So they believe in the right cause for the wrong reasons. Look at Seymour's motivation in Final Fantasy X, he wants to end all suffering in Spira.

Good and Evil are never simple concepts.

I respect your opinion that morals do not play a part in Final Fantasy but I think every other game in the series has shown that they do understand how good and evil are relative concepts and not set in stone. So giving your character options to choose from would be not that far a stretch.