Happy Alternatives

[lolnotacat]

You know what ? I miss the time when retcon was the main issue with wow story writing, nowadays it has the same taste as Dawntrail : sanitized, bland, a lot of poorly written characters, power of love and comprehension will prevail bullshit and potentially interesting themes presented with lamest approach imaginable.

I wish Squeenix would hire a fucked up main writer like Yoko Taro in his early years , at least it will be interesting to witness what he has to say through the story he wrote.

We got the Nier raids. Supposedly Yoshi-P put him on a short leash.

[koko-on-da-forumz]

We got the Nier raids. Supposedly Yoshi-P put him on a short leash.

Unironically, I love the Nier raid story because it just makes no sense. The final scene is supposed to be dramatic but it falls so flat that you end up laughing. Incredible stuff, real The Room levels of what.

His writing style is a lot more suited to an expansion than to a patch story, but I also think that FFXIV as a game just doesn't have enough to it for him to play with, ludonarratively. Best you can do is some dialogue options that branch in no meaningful ways, and some fights you're guaranteed to clear blindfolded. He's best doing his own games.

Imagining the elden ring playthrough of an average ffxiv player is a fun exercise.

[Kills tutorial mob]

Phew, that was stressful. Gonna log off and watch paint dry for a bit to calm down.

[Isala]

Unironically, I love the Nier raid story because it just makes no sense. The final scene is supposed to be dramatic but it falls so flat that you end up laughing. Incredible stuff, real The Room levels of what.

His writing style is a lot more suited to an expansion than to a patch story, but I also think that FFXIV as a game just doesn't have enough to it for him to play with, ludonarratively. Best you can do is some dialogue options that branch in no meaningful ways, and some fights you're guaranteed to clear blindfolded. He's best doing his own games.



[Kills tutorial mob]

Phew, that was stressful. Gonna log off and watch paint dry for a bit to calm down.

It makes me giggle that you specified "mob" and not "boss", because that's even more accurate.

[lolnotacat]

Unironically, I love the Nier raid story because it just makes no sense. The final scene is supposed to be dramatic but it falls so flat that you end up laughing. Incredible stuff, real The Room levels of what.

It does...mostly... if you know the whole Nier story, which IMO is a failure since requiring that much homework to understand something which is mean to attract new people will only push them further away. I love Nier and the off-the-wall aspect of the story telling. In a lot of ways it feels like a Greek tragedy with how things develop, but Yoko Taro needed to be a little less Yoko Taro with the story.