I am so freaking bored of Shadowbringer's story

[Elladie]

I'm glad I found this thread, because I feel like I've been taking crazy pills. I have NOT skipped the story, and I am deeply regretting not doing so. This is the MOST boring stuff I've seen in the game since ARR. Aside from the moments we get to see Ran'jit or Ardbert, it's all SHAMELESS filler, like they're deliberately trying to pad it out to get more MSQ skip sales. The characters are utterly forgettable, the Ronkan ruins are a joke of quest design, it just keeps going how dull everything is for the most part. I want to spoon out my eyeballs. Nothing in this story means anything. It's so sugary and vapid. There's no nuance. So black and white -- literally and figuratively. Stormblood was full of consequences and hard choices. This expansion has nothing of the sort.

I am lost for words. If you think this story was black and white .... and sugary? I guess we must have played two different expansions. Shadowbringers is the most morally demanding and ambivalent episode in the story yet

[Bright-Flower]

I'm glad I found this thread, because I feel like I've been taking crazy pills. I have NOT skipped the story, and I am deeply regretting not doing so. This is the MOST boring stuff I've seen in the game since ARR. Aside from the moments we get to see Ran'jit or Ardbert, it's all SHAMELESS filler, like they're deliberately trying to pad it out to get more MSQ skip sales. The characters are utterly forgettable, the Ronkan ruins are a joke of quest design, it just keeps going how dull everything is for the most part. I want to spoon out my eyeballs. Nothing in this story means anything. It's so sugary and vapid. There's no nuance. So black and white -- literally and figuratively. Stormblood was full of consequences and hard choices. This expansion has nothing of the sort.

I'm sorry but what consequences and hard choices were in Stormblood? We lost to Zenos twice but nothing bad actually happened. In fact the resistance didn't even have to abandon Rhangr's Reach after the first loss to him because Zenos got bored and didn't actually finish them off. We didn't even have to come back and reclaim it the resistance just kept it. Do you mean when we revealed our presence in Doma and attacked Zenos again? No consequences there, in fact it actually helped us because Grynwaht chasing us into the Steppe actually helped us rally the Xaela against the Empire.

SB was perhaps the most black and white expansion we've had with the most one note and boring antagonist to date.

SB could have been amazing. The Revolutions song had my hyped for a war story with costs and moral ambiguity, but it just wasn't there.

SHB isn't perfect but IMO it succeeds a lot more than SB did.

[Reap00]

Why did people feed this stupid troll of a thread lmao.

Bravo friend. I agree 100%.

[deadman1204]

While shadowbringers wasn't the best story ever, it still beats every other MMO storywise (admittedly its a VERY low bar).
FFXIV doesn't throw away all the story every new zone/expansion/whatever. All story always counts forever is sadly unique.

[Sated]

FFXIV doesn't throw away all the story every new zone/expansion/whatever. All story always counts forever is sadly unique.

This is so big for me. Coming from so many years of WoW I was absolutely floored when I saw Aymeric, a faction representative, actually showing up and doing things after the HW campaign ended.

[KalinOrthos]

Wait.....people actually read FF stories? Been playing games seen the 1980s, & I do not know what one single FF game was about.....

Regardless of whether or not this is bait, this is a pretty garbage thing to say. The stories of 4-10 are sources of considerable adoration by fans, mostly because their stories are excellent. Even 1 was revolutionary for its time for its subtle way of conveying its story, being told through NPCs and admittedly rudimentary cutscenes.

[LittleChickenNugget]

ITT: Fanboys who are angry that people don't worship the franchise like they do.
Also ITT: FFXIV good, WoW bad.

[HyoMinPark]

ITT: Fanboys who are angry that people don't worship the franchise like they do.
Also ITT: FFXIV good, WoW bad.

More like: People questioning the OP when they start a thread about how boring the story is...but then say that they’ve skipped all of it.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

ITT: Fanboys who are angry that people don't worship the franchise like they do.
Also ITT: FFXIV good, WoW bad.

Football is the most boring sport ever (both of them). Why do people get so up in arms about the different teams? Why do cities have riots over wins/losses?

How dare other people have a different opinion than me on this subject. Clearly they are all fanboys.

[LittleChickenNugget]

I love how easy it is to rile up the FFXIV community. I've missed it here.