Quote Originally Posted by SannaR View Post
I'm not even trying to sell them on the expansion. For me and probably Talera it just feels a bit odd to be wanting a skip at where they are in the post 3.0 patches. It would be like if someone had watched a season of a show and told their friend they couldn't watch that season anymore because they couldn't stand it anymore with only two more episodes left in the season. Two episodes that make the start of the next season make sense.
I wanted to skip because i was running into way too many instances of cognitive dissonance. I didn't want to only play a small portion of the expansion and then write it out without the possibility of most of my criticisms being corrected. But that never came. There were no main story quests where Ishgard is trying to make amends with the dragons. Instead, it was constantly Ishgard asking the dragons for help. It was too one sided, and with the way they try to match it to real life counterparts such as racism, it was incredibly offputting. The main character I related to in the entire expansion, Iceheart, gets black widowed. Like Tony Stark, our Ishgard friend gets a full blown memorial while Iceheart gets words referenced too. My character would have made a memorial right beside him. On the other end, I could literally care less about the azure dragoon, he was an absolute douche in my eyes, and yet the story wants me to care about this guy like we go way back since the beginning. I'm like I don't care about this guy, why is the game trying to force me to view him as a friend.

You combine that with the fact that they were forcing me to be with Ishgard's team, which I said, I couldn't care about at alll as a city as a whole, and there were too many instances of me brute forcing the expansion and playing something that my character mostly wouldn't do. I wouldn't have side with Ishgard. I would have side with Gridania. Unlike Ishguard, where I care about maybe 3-4 people in the entire city, Gridania, (and to a lesser extent Limsa) are much more my home.

What they should have done, is allow you the opportunity of either siding with Ishguard or Iceheart, with both coming to the eventual conclusion of needing to take out Nidhogg and the Holy See. That would be the best option. But if they couldn't do that, at least have some quests where Ishguard is helping the dragons with content. And again, I'm talking about Ishguard, not the warrior of light. Ishguard constantly keeps asking for everything under the sun, a request for peace where you're ancestors were the perpetrators needs to be a give/take relationship, and the value place on dragons seems to be incredibly lower than that of Ishguard itself.

So yeah, I'm definitely glad I'm done with this chapter. Seeing as my mount speed indicates cities like Hingashi, I'm hoping the Ishgard chapter is over lol.