FFXIV Dawntrail reviews are out on Metacritic

[Sekundessounet]

Dawntrail deserves to be rated lower than ARR. Dawntrail is the culmination of a decade of MMO experience, and still put out a worse experience with more knowledge, technology, and resources. The voice acting alone is somehow worse than ARR. The story, writing and pacing are worse than ARR. 2.0's world building, as lacking as it was, is miles above the feeble attempt 7.0 made.

We're not "chuds", or whatever slur you want to fling at us, for feeling that Dawntrail fully deserves its low rating. I would personally give it a 0 on my own scale, which I explained earlier. Any game that actually forces me to step away from playing it through how terrible it is, deserves a 0. And DT had three of those moments for me. I would have quit several times over, if it were not for the friends I promised I'd run Savage with. Sure, there are good parts to DT, but they are so grossly overshadowed by the main course of the expansion, the MSQ, that I cannot, and WILL not, give the game credit that the appetizers are somehow better than the main course.

I'll give you a great example of another game that I've played that deserves a 0. Superman 64. The multiplayer in that game is actually a fairly enjoyable, if not stupid, experience. I had more fun playing that than the actual game. But the core of the game is its absolutely miserable single player experience, that frustrates you with how terrible and broken it is to the point where you want to quit. It deserves a 0. And that is where DT sits for me. I would not have gotten to the points of the game that were remotely enjoyable, if I didn't force myself to for friends. The game actively chased me off multiple times. 0/10. Would not play again.

My man, it's kinda funny that you assumed that I was pointing at you as one of those chuds. I said there's a lot of chuds going at it, not that every one of the 0 were one. But okay.

You hate DT ? That's fine, I enjoyed it a lot personally.

Although I'd invite you to NG+ ARR, because pacing even after the rework is still miles and miles more horrible than anything we got since then, DT included. The same goes for voice acting, come on now. At launch, 2.0 even had voicelines that were badly cut off because the sound mix had to be rushed. Let's not be too reactionary.

[Isala]

My man, it's kinda funny that you assumed that I was pointing at you as one of those chuds. I said there's a lot of chuds going at it, not that every one of the 0 were one. But okay.

You hate DT ? That's fine, I enjoyed it a lot personally.

Although I'd invite you to NG+ ARR, because pacing even after the rework is still miles and miles more horrible than anything we got since then, DT included. The same goes for voice acting, come on now. At launch, 2.0 even had voicelines that were badly cut off because the sound mix had to be rushed. Let's not be too reactionary.

I'm currently playing through ARR on an alt. I'd rather have that slow burn than the train wreck of everything happening all at once that DT gave us.

[Sekundessounet]

I'm currently playing through ARR on an alt. I'd rather have that slow burn than the train wreck of everything happening all at once that DT gave us.

Sure, you do you. I'll keep disagreeing with that tho