Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[VeyaAkemi]

What if, and hear me out, the entire world would be fedora wearers?

If those fedora wearers are as hot as Zero, I am willing to look past the issue.

[Absurdity]

my hot take for the day is:

I mostly dislike sympathetic villains like Yotsuyu and Fordola. Not every villain needs to have a tragic backstory that explains why they are the way they are. Oddly enough though, I love Emet-Selch. Probably my favorite FF villain. Not sure what the difference is for me.

I actually like Zenos for that exact reason, he's not complicated, he just wants to have a good fight with someone that can actually beat him.


...that might as well be a hot take.

[BRVV]

FFXIV villain department was always weak. Zenos needed EW to realize he actually wants the same thing he always wanted? A tough fight... just like in SB.

Even there he was badly used. We loose twice against him and not even once is even the thought about a strategy to counter him or his powers laid out. No, we just have to level up & get better gear! Really weak.

All other villains are all "redeemed". You killed half the universe? It's ok. Have a cookie.


The worst moment of MSQ was that fanfic.org-original-character moment when Sahi & Amon have a talk. Inside another realm of existence basically, they also had the same Ascian inside them and... blah blah blah #iam14andthisisdeep

The twin's dad bumping his fist on the table was pretty high up too. That whole conflict was so forced.

[Gralna]

That a majority of criticism of shadowbringers and endwalker story here on the forums, is people being upset their edgy fanfiction didn't come true.

[EliaStormblade]

That a majority of criticism of shadowbringers and endwalker story here on the forums, is people being upset their edgy fanfiction didn't come true.

Does something being a hot take preclude it being correct?

[BRVV]

That a majority of criticism of shadowbringers and endwalker story here on the forums, is people being upset their edgy fanfiction didn't come true.

It's funny when you realize the EW defenders are the edgy teen #itsActuallyDeep croud. "You see Emmet-Selchie boy actually had the sadness of all of existence inside him!" or some nonsense

Added: Oh yeah i already had #im14AndThisIsDeep in my initial post. So you just mirrored me. How creative. Can't come up with an argument against my hot take or how i'm wrong. Guess it's not to be expected from "EW-was-great"-bots

[Theodric]

There's nothing 'edgy' about expecting Venat to be held accountable for acts of deliberate genocide instead of having it be praised as a 'grim necessity' despite it turning out that the Sundered only exist precisely because the Ancients were unceremoniously subject to genocide and racial replacement in what has to be one of the most convoluted threads of reasoning in a story to date.

The protagonists of the game would never accept Venat's logic being applied to their loved ones, thus there's no reason for anybody else to do so either.

Most of the complaint's regarding Endwalker's story are deceptively framed as something completely different to what is actually being stated.

It's particularly unfortunate because it's very easy to go back through the years and see that quite a lot of the more vocal complaints about Endwalker's narrative and lack of consistency comes from people who not only cared deeply about the story and characters but repeatedly provided sources for what they were discussing and often pointing out how often the game stated one thing in a particular quest only to throw it aside elsewhere the moment that it became inconvenient to hold the protagonists to the same standards as the opposition.

[BRVV]

There's nothing 'edgy' about expecting Venat to be held accountable for acts of deliberate genocide instead of having it be praised as a 'grim necessity' *snip*

Yeah... i mean the way the went WAS the edgy route.

I just hope 7.0 has a good story. Less anime tropes (power of friendship and the like), no more fake deaths (if you dont kill anyone off just dont fake it), characters with depth (maybe even people that aren't heroes for the sake of being heroes! But then again people seem to hate those characters sadly) and better writing. The last one might need a miracle since most quests (since ARR at least) are horribly written.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Hot take: The entire argument about Endwalker has gotten boring. Both sides ever more rapidly jumping to personal insults just makes it even duller.

[BRVV]

I hope we get a 7.0 trailer soon. Even if it's just a teaser. That won't happen tough, would it? I mean it's still a while until 7.0.