Quote Originally Posted by Voltyblast View Post
Not really: SWTOR is a story driven game just like ffxiv, only done better in basically every aspect of the storytelling part: better dialogue, better voice acting (even side quests), dialogue option (which sometimes changes the story) and while only a few expansions are united, you are free to take them at your own pace: for example I can directly jump to the KOTFE right away as soon as I have the right level, skipping the Hutt cartel or Shadow of Revan. Heck I can do the first expansion right at 50, even before finishing the main class story: the game will just warn me about spoilers.

Now whether the game itself is better or not that's for another topic (SWTOR is worse), but in terms of storytelling I consider it to be far superior than FFXIV.

Oh and I'm NOT a fan of Star Wars, so that's a plus for drawing non-fans like me!
There are certainly some things SWTOR does better than FFXIV, but it has come at a price. Any semblance of class or faction flavor is gone right out of the story. You have very few chances to really feel like a Sith or your class, and it suffers from chosen one status even worse than FFXIV. While there is some variation in story and followers based on your decisions, it's still also very much on the rails and that feeling is very strong at many points in time when there's no reasonable way for my character to act in a similar manner to how it acted for the first 50 levels. To some degree this is expected, given what the story is, but they build in a lot of "wrong" choices the game lets you know repeatedly are wrong and kind of forces you in a certain direction (specifically a rather "gray" one), which undermines the value of your supposed choices. In some respects, that is worse than simply not having a choice in the first place.

Also, unless they changed it, the warning about starting new content isn't just that there are spoilers, but that you won't be able to complete your class quests if you haven't already done so.

I'd generally agree the voice acting is better, but it's hard not to be better than FFXIV after they switched to that new studio. I much preferred the ARR actors and many of the characters lost their sort of distinct flavor and identity. Merlwyb in particular was made worse by the change in voicing.