I am so freaking bored of Shadowbringer's story

[Kewitt]

Story-based games may not be for you.

With only 4 posts on the forums.
When did you start playing FFXIV, Did you use story skip items to get into ShB?
If so you already missed the point because you don't know the back story.

The former leader of the FC didn't care for the story but did like the end game raids.
Do you like combat or raids?

If not I'm not sure what the game offers you.

[MomomiMomi]

Churning Mists (Moogles) and Hinterlands (Idylshire and doing some chores for Matoya) say hi. Vundu in the Sea of Clouds. Tailfeather and the dragons in Forelands. The formula was exactly the same back then. Why does it get a pass?

Hint: they're pink and you wear them on your face.

The only one of those that qualify as anywhere near what we have to go through in this expansion is the moogles. I've done HW story 4 times, I remember quite clearly what goes on in it.

[JohnSpawnVFX]

The only one of those that qualify as anywhere near what we have to go through in this expansion is the moogles. I've done HW story 4 times, I remember quite clearly what goes on in it.

So did I recently on an alt. Seemed like the exact same kind of "filler". So I still don't understand why HW gets a pass on it, and ShB gets condemned...

[Luciano_Bozzelli]

Yeah bro you have to read to be engulfed in the story or your basically skimming through a 100 page book looking at only pictures.

I'm glad I enjoy reading, after the story is over I enjoy the various character reactions to what's going on in the world we just saved. An then there are those good multi-quest givers that usually help unlock beast tribes in the future. They have good stories as well... Reading is fundamental!! Lol

[Garruss]

I've been reading how amazing it was and how it rivals single player RPGs... and here I am, bored out of my mind, just skipping through textbox after textbox. And it doesn't even feel like I'm missing anything. It's just that boring and pointless.

The first few hours were amazing. I liked everything until the Greatwood. And since then it went downhill so hard that I can barely bring myself to continue. The entire Greatwood felt like filler to me - from start to finish. The only relevant parts were the very beginning and the very end. Everything in between had so much padding and felt like dozens of sidequests rather than the main story. And then I got to the desert... and it's the same thing again.

I'm about to start the golem duty, and everything that happened in this zone so far felt like 100% filler. I don't even understand how you can write a 'story' filled with so much trivial, menial and pointless crap. It honestly feels like they are trying to pad the hell out of this zone, as nobody can tell me that getting this golem was the best way to reach that area I'm supposed to go to. Every explanation for why I can't just go the simple route is idiotic and unsatisfactory to me. I just destroyed an entire army of sin eaters. Just let me go to my destination directly and find a more interesting way to extend game time, please.

I can honestly say that I'm just completely disappointed with the story so far. The main beats are there, and they are better than anything before, but the everything in between is so utterly pointless that I can't wait to get to the end of it. And I can say with 100% certainty that I could've skipped every single cutscene from the Greatwood until now and I wouldn't have missed anything substantial. I have absolutely no idea what you guys are seeing here, but to me this has the exact same problems every other expansion had as well.

[Shurrikhan]

So did I recently on an alt. Seemed like the exact same kind of "filler". So I still don't understand why HW gets a pass on it, and ShB gets condemned...

Same. Went through HW and SB yet again on a new tank alt just before ShB release. HW had objectively more filler than SB* or ShB (though ShB was a bit closer). I feel like the difference is just that ShB far more blatantly jokes about its own filler when it occurs.

*(Unless one *really* doesn't like the Au'Ra and considers the steps to winning them over entirely filler, instead of just the handful of quests that are more obviously so.)

[PharisHanasaki]

Am I the only one that didn't think anything was a filler?
I felt like I was being shown how is life in the First, every region lived in a different way and had different beliefs. Sure, the trolley part was a bit... silly, but I had fun, and Ahm Araeng's theme is my favorite.

Oh, I do hate fairies though, so that part was annoying and I wanted it over quick (voice acting didn't help there), but that's personal preference.

I once met a guy who asked me what my favorite videogame was, and I mentioned a few FF games. So he went ahead and bought FF4 and tried it for maybe 40 hours before he asked me a bit frustrated: "What is it that you like about this? THe story is cheesy, the main character is annoying, Rosa is stupid, and I just can't feel any connection to the characters or story at all". I just told him we had a different taste, so he didn't have to like what I liked. He loved Pokemon, and I can't see why it's fun to some, but I respect it. Some people just try to hard to like a game that clearly is not for them. It's not wrong to not like Shadowbringers, what's wrong it's you forcing you to play through it and like it because other people do.

[DynnDiablos]

I will admit that once we hit Il Mhaeg the plot slowed to a crawl and now I am in the latter half of the Greatwood and it still is pretty dull. I love the new areas, characters and story and it began with a bang, but this middle slog is really not interesting. I've been playing since Early Access and I am only 1/2 way through the MSQ because I decided to level up GNB/DNC and MCH all to 80 concurrently. I know the story picks up later but I am in no rush to finish it at the moment.

I will say I like it more than SB, which I hated.

[RoyalBeef]

If not I'm not sure what the game offers you.

Probably everything except MSQ Cutscenes ^^ The story is decent for an MMO, but it's not the 2nd coming of Christ or anything. Taste is still subjective, concluding that story based games are not for them just bc they don't like this particular story is a bit far fetched.

[gumas]

Am I the only one that didn't think anything was a filler?
I felt like I was being shown how is life in the First, every region lived in a different way and had different beliefs. Sure, the trolley part was a bit... silly, but I had fun, and Ahm Araeng's theme is my favorite.

Oh, I do hate fairies though, so that part was annoying and I wanted it over quick (voice acting didn't help there), but that's personal preference.

same here, i got hook with the shb story from start until finish, the only part that got my hype down a bit is the trolley part, the drama is fine but... of all thing and they pick a trolley as the story theme? lol