Building a better Alphinaud

[Raven2014]

Please make the case for why the cast of FFXIV is better than the cast of FFIX or Dragon Age Origins then. Tell me how this party of characters that has failed to evolve in meaningful ways, have any real stakes, and in several cases has regressed character progression compares to the casts of other media.

Believe it or not, some of us are capable of enjoy things objectively in its own merit without obsessively having to make comparison.