A game for 4 year olds

[SannaR]

Well, if there is one theme from the expansion this topic has certainly demonstrated, it's that different people can have drastically different emotional responses to the same situations be they positive or negative.

I wouldn't say I find character deaths absolutely mandatory to making me emotionally invested in a story, though I was still expecting to have more of a...lasting impression from a world-ending apocalypse instead of having to constantly remind myself that one was happening in the first place.

Did you feel the same way the other time the game has said (insert really bad and maybe urgent thing is happening here) that it also has given about the same amount of showing? Cause it's been like that more than just now. So if you haven't then I wonder why it didn't stick this time. I let this slide due to the medium we're consuming. That and any other time the story has been all hey this thing is really important but we're not going to change the sky box for all zones. Just a few zones or so. I do wonder how their sky boxes are coded. If there's some kind of limit. For me it worked due to how it's explained. The thinnest places get hit first and the worst. And would see the most change. Not saying that at least visually it couldn't have been better cause they could have done more. Yet I do know some would have wanted sort of what happened during the end of 1.0 where there'd be random stuff happening. Which idk if they can do that

[KageTokage]

Did you feel the same way the other time the game has said (insert really bad and maybe urgent thing is happening here) that it also has given about the same amount of showing? Cause it's been like that more than just now. So if you haven't then I wonder why it didn't stick this time. I let this slide due to the medium we're consuming. That and any other time the story has been all hey this thing is really important but we're not going to change the sky box for all zones. Just a few zones or so. I do wonder how their sky boxes are coded. If there's some kind of limit. For me it worked due to how it's explained. The thinnest places get hit first and the worst. And would see the most change. Not saying that at least visually it couldn't have been better cause they could have done more. Yet I do know some would have wanted sort of what happened during the end of 1.0 where there'd be random stuff happening. Which idk if they can do that

I can't recall any situations even remotely near the same level of urgency throughout the MSQ save for the tail end of Shadowbringers, which incidentally was a much stronger push to see things through to see the end then what I got from anything in Endwalker.

I honestly think I got more catharsis from (Hopefully...) being rid of Zenos for good then I did the whole "saved the entire world" bit because it didn't feel like it was in grave danger it was stated to be with how limited the scope of the Final Days was.

[SannaR]

I can't recall any situations even remotely near the same level of urgency throughout the MSQ save for the tail end of Shadowbringers, which incidentally was a much stronger push to see things through to see the end then what I got from anything in Endwalker.

I honestly think I got more catharsis from (Hopefully...) being rid of Zenos for good then I did the whole "saved the entire world" bit because it didn't feel like it was in grave danger it was stated to be with how limited the scope of the Final Days was.

There are people who feel or felt that we shouldn't have been able to enter Ul'dah, Limsa or Gridania back when 2.55 and before we learn Nanamo hadn't actually died. Or have more people react in the towns when baby Dalamud was in the sky. Or when the Towers appeared. Basically any time the skybox got changed or something that should have had a bigger impact than just a zone or two. Like how no one but that Dwarven town reacted to a different part of the mountain side exploding due to the Nier shenanigans.

[sidurgu-12]

There are people who feel or felt that we shouldn't have been able to enter Ul'dah, Limsa or Gridania back when 2.55 and before we learn Nanamo hadn't actually died. Or have more people react in the towns when baby Dalamud was in the sky. Or when the Towers appeared. Basically any time the skybox got changed or something that should have had a bigger impact than just a zone or two. Like how no one but that Dwarven town reacted to a different part of the mountain side exploding due to the Nier shenanigans.

Whats funny is i didnt leave the heavensward zones until nanamo was rescued because i genuinely thought i couldnt lol. Wasnt until a year or so later i learned otherwise.