Infantilized Aesthetics

[Jonnycbad]

If you played FFXI, you'd know gear was cool looking (for the most part) but also subtle. There were no giant flashing axes or huge weapons. Even endgame gear looked cool but tasteful. Look up FFXI relic/mythic weapons to see what I mean.

[Areic]

Your ideas for this game are bad and you should feel bad

[Genoreaper]

As I continue reading this thread, I can't help but wonder when we will be receiving this outfit:

We need an army of this.

Comparing XI to XIV is lime comparing any other two final fantasy games, can you picture sahz doing his drive by summons along side zidane? Sure there are going to be similarities but ff is known to be outlandish and creative, if you want a small conservative axe I'm hard pressed to believe that there aren't any glam models in game to fit your aesthetic desires. As a mage I could use a plain gandalf like stick if I wanted.

The game having so many options let's everyone immerse themselves in whichever game type they want. Why try to stifle it?

Yeah sigma, there was just too much effort in trying to over articulate which became even more a problem when op failed to even specify what immersion he felt was broken. I can't even imagine what theme op is after With biker style tank. .. maybe this?

[Daemic]

It sounds like singleplayer games would suit you better. Depending on the game, you would have control, and there'd be no troublesome encounters with other sentient life to trigger neuroses.

[FoxPaw]

I went through and cleaned up all my posts before reading the last page of comments, I'll swing back thru and delete this one in a few days but I just couldn't resist...

Then again maybe I just don't like the condescending edgelord hipster vibe of this post. I can almost smell the vape clouds attached to all your replies

Ohhh, ohh myyy god this made my day. Edge lord hipster posting thru a could of vape smoke...
I've posted a lot of brash controversial content on this forum and I realize I'm being a little confrontational at times - as such I've been called everything from a sexist, to a lonely basement troll (and now a vape smoking edgelord hipster)... I really can't tell if you believe that or you're just parroting somehting from reddit you thought was clever and would get you solidarity likes here. FWIW - I don't vape and I'm way to woke to be a hipster.

@DevonEllwood

I'd like to buy a vowel.

You can't afford it.

@Sigma-Astra

This is a long-winded post of someone thinking or pretending that they're super smart for using all of these larger words in their ramblings to project a false sense of superior intellect over something that can be summed up neatly with one sentence.

You're the second person on this thread to smart shame me.

[Sigma-Astra]

You're the second person on this thread to smart shame me.

And you've smart shamed someone else for no other reason, let alone told a user to quiet themselves over their own opinion in incredibly aggressive language that wasn't needed. Don't pretend to be so innocent or that using a broader and round-about way with different and longer words somehow makes you a philosophical genius on the forums. Your other topic went down the drain because you fired back with a tone constantly dripping with condescending and faux superiority when you're just another user...on the internet...on this forum. You're not special.

Any time that someone brings up criticism against your arguments, you question their intellect in snide, indirect ways or that your line of thinking (somehow) is far more important than someone else.

Breaching a subject in which you think the game lacks proper realism or is too "cartoony" does not make you smart. You will not win a Nobel Prize for chiding that a video game of all things isn't real enough for you and ruins your immersion. I mean, for god sake, you're playing a catgirl. Your immersion of reality being separated from fantasy is already broken. If you picked a Hyur, you might have had more of a soapbox to stand on. But, you're literally breaking your own rules.

/smh

[ko_]

And you've smart shamed someone else for no other reason, let alone told a user to quiet themselves over their own opinion in incredibly aggressive language that wasn't needed. Don't pretend to be so innocent or that using a broader and round-about way with different and longer words somehow makes you a philosophical genius on the forums. Your other topic went down the drain because you fired back with a tone constantly dripping with condescending and faux superiority when you're just another user...on the internet...on this forum. You're not special.

Any time that someone brings up criticism against your arguments, you question their intellect in snide, indirect ways or that your line of thinking (somehow) is far more important than someone else.

Breaching a subject in which you think the game lacks proper realism or is too "cartoony" does not make you smart. You will not win a Nobel Prize for chiding that a video game of all things isn't real enough for you and ruins your immersion. I mean, for god sake, you're playing a catgirl. Your immersion of reality being separated from fantasy is already broken. If you picked a Hyur, you might have had more of a soapbox to stand on. But, you're literally breaking your own rules.

/smh

Nope. Even a hyur would break those rules cause we in the real world dont have magic or are cartoons. I just think she/he is playing the wrong game. Again like saying sonic is too cartoony and crying that his world doesn't work.

[Genoreaper]

So.. rather than add to the conversation you wanted to have, you chose to only address the parts that put you in your feelings. I don't need to think im clever to feel special I made an honest statement about how your whining edgelord posts looked, if you're used to parroting reddit rhetoric yourself I guess that explains alot. The likes on my posts came solely from people who agreed with what I said, not because they were hoping to like something out of "solidarity" that day.

If you've been labeled as all of that perhaps you should put some thought into the image you're putting out. But then again you're "woke" so that explains plenty.

Enlighten me on why you felt so strongly about this to stumble through your overarticulated op, yet when met with any opposing view, you were unable to even add to the discourse? People have all given you counter arguments, and rather than addressing them... you chose to only pick those lines to highlight?

[Genoreaper]

The usual house cleaning when I get bored with an idea.

Also .. this is just bad form. You dug yourself into a whole and had to hide all your drivel and then pretend it is normal to delete all your comments in what could have been a fair debate on your complaints. Might as well just deleted whole thread or not replied and let it fade into the abyss.

[Vidu]

Serious suggestion: If you're not intrested in debates and oppositions to your... "ideas" and opinions anyways, have you considered using the blog-feature on the Lodestone instead of the official forums and a place thats called "General Discussion", which should be a hint towards what to expect here?

You dont seem intrested in discussion your ideas, so a blogpost might be better suited for them. Afaik you can delete blogs or at least hide them from public view, so this might be a better place for your opinions, if you dont want them discussed or questioned.