Quote Originally Posted by VirusOnline View Post
Recently got back into WoW and I gotta say, XIV could learn a few tricks in dealing with the MSQ.
I sadly prefer the story system developed in BoA and Shadowlands. It brings you up to speed and tells the story in real time rather than cutscene after cutscene after cutscene. There's quite a lot of choice and control over how to level and what story one chooses to experience.
XIV on the other hand ... sheesh ... I've almost considered investing in a PS5 just to watch cutscenes if I dare level another character xD
Now lets not use WoW as a good example for anything, least of all storytelling. WoW doesn't tell you a story at all, it just has you skip 90% of it to get to the latest expansio and basically gives you next to no context for what is even happening, relegating much of the actual plot into external media. That is probably the absolute worst way of telling a story. XIV just needs to learn to interweve story and gameplay better, or just keep the same amount of cutscenes but insert more gameplay segments into the MSQ.