Succinct Story Line summary?

[Ehayte]

Anyone got a quick link to a story-line summary fro 2.0-2.5? I am very guilty of skipping every single cutscene except T12, and not reading any chat boxes at all ever. I am looking to repent for my sins with the penance of reading a summary. Can anyone help?

[dejiko_san]

You can see the cutscenes when you visit the inn.

Click on the book beside your bed and select the quest you want to revisit.

[Edeline]

Inn only shows cutscenes though, not texts form NPCs outside them.

[Ehayte]

Inn only shows cutscenes though, not texts form NPCs outside them.

^^ Yup - I'm looking for like, 3 paragraphs per patch or whatever. Not sure if anyone is into the story enough in this game to have done that, was just curious.

[Kosmos992k]

^^ Yup - I'm looking for like, 3 paragraphs per patch or whatever. Not sure if anyone is into the story enough in this game to have done that, was just curious.

Clearly you are not (into the story - at all). Honestly, why bother playing an RPG if you don't give two craps about the story? I won't be providing your synopsis, mostly because I haven't completed the story yet - I like to take my time. That said, I wouldn't give a synopsis anyway, I don't see why anyone should facilitate you ignoring the story line of the game. Skipping all cut-scenes and dialog up to T12 is almost a text book demonstration of willful ignorance in this context.

[godwin]

They have a point there

[lun4tic]

I skip cut-scenes and dialogue because they're absolute garbage. Everybody talks like either Shakespeare or a pirate in a long, flowery style that I instantly tired of the day I bought the game. On top of that, none of it sounds at all natural. I have more to do with my day than read dialogue.

Even if I didn't skip the cut-scenes, the story is so watered down with pointless busy work that it would be very hard to provide any kind of summary that would be both coherent and succinct.

[Eidolon]

"Oh no! A primal!"
"Thank you hero of light!"
"Everything's ok now! But I hear the beast men are acting up..."
"Oh no! A primal!"

This is a repeating theme within the story.

[Kosmos992k]

I skip cut-scenes and dialogue because they're absolute garbage. Everybody talks like either Shakespeare or a pirate in a long, flowery style that I instantly tired of the day I bought the game. On top of that, none of it sounds at all natural. I have more to do with my day than read dialogue.

Even if I didn't skip the cut-scenes, the story is so watered down with pointless busy work that it would be very hard to provide any kind of summary that would be both coherent and succinct.

Then, why do you bother to play? Seriously, you're playing an RPG in a fantasy setting, it should be obvious that the language used by characters will be stylized in a way similar to the way that it is in Eorzea, it's like that in every RPG with a fantasy setting.

I'm not sure what you're talking about with regard to a watered down story line, if you expected gritty realism and more hard core action/intrigue, then you've come to the wrong kind of virtual world.

[Ehayte]

Clearly you are not (into the story - at all). Honestly, why bother playing an RPG if you don't give two craps about the story? I won't be providing your synopsis, mostly because I haven't completed the story yet - I like to take my time. That said, I wouldn't give a synopsis anyway, I don't see why anyone should facilitate you ignoring the story line of the game. Skipping all cut-scenes and dialog up to T12 is almost a text book demonstration of willful ignorance in this context.

Then, why do you bother to play? Seriously, you're playing an RPG in a fantasy setting, it should be obvious that the language used by characters will be stylized in a way similar to the way that it is in Eorzea, it's like that in every RPG with a fantasy setting.

I'm not sure what you're talking about with regard to a watered down story line, if you expected gritty realism and more hard core action/intrigue, then you've come to the wrong kind of virtual world.

Yup, not really that into it. I play an MMO because I likee doing raid content with other people and building a character up over time. I don't want your synopsis anyways because it will probably be mean-spirited and full of right-click-thesaurus word replacements. I'm not looking for someone to tell me the story so far I was asking if anyone knew of an archive that already exists that summarizes the story.

Because some people don't play for the story of an MMO, they play for the sandbox. Even though FFXIV isn't very sand-box-y, it still provides a good amount of "independent adventuring" for someone to be satisfied paying $15 / mo.

"Oh no! A primal!"
"Thank you hero of light!"
"Everything's ok now! But I hear the beast men are acting up..."
"Oh no! A primal!"

This is a repeating theme within the story.

Yeah I inferred that, haha. I'm more looking for the political struggles and anything ishgard related so that I can have some context for the end of the 2.X storyline.

To be clear, my motivation level is not high enough to actually read the 8 paragraphs of text that come with each fetch quest to understand what is going on in the story. I did it for the PLD job quests and most of the 2.0 story from level 1-50, but I reached my breaking point at 2.1 - too much text for a game in which I spend less than 5% of my time doing anything that has to do with progressing a story.

Also, no offense to anyone that loves the story but its not that good, and I don't like most of the characters. This coming from a huge fan of video games as a story telling medium and someone for whom FFVII changed my perspective of narrative.