It was easily the worst Final Fantasy story I've played through. It's just so damn generic and so heavily padded by, "Go prove yourself" type of stuff. I stopped caring about all the characters and their troubles around Costa del Sol when I was made to fetch dinner so I could be trusted to kill Titan. Killing Ifrit and battling through several dungeons isn't good enough? Or is the story so flimsy that without all the padding it would end too quickly? Not a single character I'm supposed to have an attachment to is likable or interesting in any way and almost all of them are completely incompetent and have the personality of a red brick. The one chance they had to keep me interested was with Thancred and they completely puss'd out and blew it. To top it off the English voice acting is ATROCIOUS! I feel bad saying that because real people worked on it and probably did their best, but it's pretty terrible. I expected way more coming from Final Fantasy. Hell, even the early Final Fantasies like 3 had more charm and cohesion than this mess does.

Right now I'm supposed to do Praetorium, but my experience with the previous instance was so awful that I really have no desire to even finish the story. I try my best to be pleasant even when things go very poorly in an instance because at the end of the day nobody deserves to be treated like dirt when they screw up in a video game. Everybody was so impatient and refused to explain a damn thing and basically just dragged me through the instance. Watching cutscenes is like some cardinal sin that will get you reamed. At one point we wiped and the blame game started and the elitist douche attitudes prevailed. If this is the XIV endgame community, then I am done. I've never even seen such vitriol and rudeness doing LFR in WoW. I get it, the Internet Dickwad theory and whatnot, but I wasn't expecting it to be so true in this game.