What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[EmpyreanHelios]

I didn’t like many aspects of the Endwalker storyline either, you’re not alone in that. However, making a thread like this is just going to get you hate from people who did.

[Silverquick]

I didn’t like many aspects of the Endwalker storyline either, you’re not alone in that. However, making a thread like this is just going to get you hate from people who did.

To be honest with you, I have not really been that impressed with Endwalker either so far. I just picked it up and am moving through the campaign now. It was about as cringy as ARR at points. You know... run yourself off the cliff kind of naivety, emotion emotion emotion with no reason or rationality behind it, despite many of the characters supposedly being scholars and espousing rationality and reason. it was like all the characters reverted back to ARR with no character development. They reference it... but then don't actually show it.

On top of that it's got some of the worst elements of the Stormblood gameplay that just annoyed the hell out of people, half the time I'm not playing my character but rather someone else's. At the very least in ARR there was a lot more freedom, especially with exploration.

After some of the most interesting and in truth mature stories in Heavensward and Shadowbringers, how did it revert back to this state?

[Theodric]

At the very least in ARR there was a lot more freedom, especially with exploration.

That's definitely something I miss. As a roleplayer, it's been incredibly frustrating to see increasingly less interest in building an actual world to explore and more investment in changing the game's tone and aesthetics in order to appeal to the 'lol so randum xD' crowd. I like consistency and immersion in my world building which is why, when playing the likes of The Witcher 3 I don't suddenly want Geralt to pull out a bucket of KFC and emote eating it.