The State of Endwalker: A 2 year Recap.

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I may as well strike while the iron is hot and remind people that beyond just the content creators currently riding the trend of doing tell alls about their thoughts on the state of the game, that many of us here on the forums had our finger on the pulse earlier on.

Here's "the pulse" that Aveyond had his finger on:

Women shouldn't be allowed to have a personality unless I think they're hot!

I don't think that Y'shtola with the combination of her lackluster appearence and personality gives her the same sort of pass that someone like Yotsuyu or Bayonetta gets when it comes to how they treat men. If someone is a 3, they shouldn't be treating guys like Magnai who I'll just say are 7s or 8 as if they were a 2. Also, Runar deserved someone better who was more emotionally receptive and less arrogant, especially given his warm nature.


This isn't even controversial, it's how the world works. Bad attitude, nothing going on with her looks, topped off with the Mary Sue thing and I am bewildered as to why I'm supposed to find this character likeable or why she of all people gets to be this game's postergirl.

I'm mad about femroes!

This entire experience was also made more difficult due to the presence of the latest insufferable scholar character, the female roegadyn one whose name I won’t even bother to type out. I offer all the prayers and Dynamis in the world to not have to endure its presence again in any other questline. I did not bother to read G’raha Tia’s dialogue and only got his lines second hand – my thoughts on him have already been articulated a thousand times over. What is clear to me is that this femroe is offering fierce competition for him as to which character is more annoying.

I'm mad about jokes!

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I feel like I shouldn't have to point out how obviously on the nose these lines of dialogue were and that I struggle to understand why they made it into the game...when such text was often criticized as being too much when it came from the previous EN localization team. As was the case for several other notable examples from EW's msq text which led to differences in understanding the story, I feel like this was a step too far in terms "creativity."

I'm mad about beds!

I did not think I would have to make this post until, prior to me even logging in, I was alerted to the fact that this is apparently one of the new mounts this patch:



I'm sorry, but why? Why after the high chair do we continue getting these strange and honestly creepy items? Who is the target audience for this? Because it isn't people like myself.

I do not want to see this stuff in game, and I cannot believe that resources were allocated to this. Not as if we didn't already have a flying bed mount anyway.

Thinly veiled rabbit misogyny!

I had no intention of interacting with the latest custom delivery NPC, only to have it reported to me that the elusive male Viis of the First has finally appeared. Only for instead of the cool forest warriors who sometimes venture forth to find their own way in the world...the dude herds sheep. Seriously?

Voeburt was also a kingdom of the First’s equivalent of Au Ra and Roegadyn. Would it not have been more appropriate for something akin to the Myths femroe to show up there instead of embarrassing male Viera further than they already have been with the Starlight Celebration quests?

Curious how Lyna gets to go be a Guard Captain whereas all Anden gets to be is a sheep farmer. Oh but he can come back to the woods whenever because Viera laws just don’t matter anymore.

You're not a man if you don't look like Captain America and all characters I don't like should be removed!

Imagine if Arenvald didn't get his legs randomly snapped in half in 6.3 and went on to join the party as our Paladin as opposed to a character with the face of a little girl. Or if instead of trying to make some kind of pretty boy, Vrtra's human visage wasn't designed in such an uncanny way.

Men usually get the short end of the stick in both customization available to players and the overall appearances of male NPCs, save a few. However, I think it's important to put an immediate halt to these sort of odd looking, widely believed to be self-inserted characters such as the aforementioned one from the alliance raid and the atrocious Viera that kept randomly showing up in Bozja wearing sunglasses.

At this point "subverting expectations" in this regard would mean staying away from those sort of quirky designed characters which have us on a fast-track to someday see our very own version of Fire Emblem Engage's toothpaste chan and delivering more along the lines of this:

The list goes on and on.

Everybody is entitled to their opinion, but Aveyond trying to characterize his past history as if he was some sort of prophet ridiculed for speaking the truth that everyone is now waking up to is absolutely hilarious. Nobody had a problem with your comments about the content drought, Avvy. They had a problem with your... everything else.