Review of 6.3 Story Content

[aveyond-dreams]

• Really wish the writer who did HW would come back.

Likewise. By comparison, those that came after Maehiro seem to have either benefited from luck and coincidence (Shadowbringers) and consequently failed upwards resulting in the spectacular disaster that was Endwalker's base MSQ, where we fought the 500 year old little girl of despair and discovered the true meaning of life. All while the deaths around us were collateral and the protagonist's closest friends were brought back after dying. Again. For Thancred to then proclaim they got away with not even a scratch to show for it all. What kind of apocalyptic story is this? Either make the cast likeable enough to justify keeping them around (this did not happen) or please for the love of God get rid of them.

At any rate, Maehiro's gone off to take charge of FFXVI and while his job in it is probably done and over with, if you were to ask me to take charge of FFXIV's story and lore after Endwalker wrecked it all I'd probably decline outright. Such is his right as well. Confirming no life exists on other planets anymore, destroying entire antagonist factions offscreen unceremoniously, and making the few gods that remain total jokes doesn't lend itself to the sorts of stories I imagine him wanting to tell. FFXIV's setting could be taken seriously back in the ARR-Heavensward days. This is no longer the case.

FFXVI on the other hand appears to be...everything I wish this game would have. More orders of knights. Consequences for overusing or abusing magic - while Y'shtola's aether vision eating her life force away was retconned here. At least in Valisthea she would have been turned to stone by now, and preferably shattered soon afterwards. More Ysayle types. The sort of classic high fantasy elements that are either completely absent from this game or present in such minute or uninspired ways as to be entirely forgettable.

The now publicly available ratings for the game also went into specific detail as to the sort of brutal events we can expect to see, and I'm all for that as well. No more kiddie gloves, finally we're going to see some full on medieval grit. What a pity that the same cannot be said for FFXIV. Instead of animations that would serve the game's fantasy setting, we get steamed buns. Utterly ridiculous.

[VelKallor]

spectacular disaster that was Endwalker's base MSQ,

Im starting to agree on the conclusion that yes: you are a troll.

At any rate, Maehiro's gone off to take charge of FFXVI and while his job in it is probably done and over with, if you were to ask me to take charge of FFXIV's story and lore after Endwalker wrecked it all I'd probably decline outright.

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out .."We are SO happy to hear it....."

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Instead of animations that would serve the game's fantasy setting, we get steamed buns. Utterly ridiculous.

You hate food. SO MUCH kek

[RobynDaBank]

You hate food. SO MUCH kek

Honestly at this point they're playing into the attention IMO. The memes that Aveyond will hate on everything story-related, the memes about food scenes, whatnot.

I remember the days when they defended SMN rework but once that topic died out from the spotlight they were nowhere to be seen.