Can we get choices that really matter and have a effect?

[Gula]

It is possible, just not with FF14's way of story telling. It's too rigid.

It is a JRPG with a pre-written story as played by you. The same goes for just about every Final Fantasy. Sure you can have Cloud spend 5 hours snowboarding but at the end of the day he's gotta go after Sephiroth. You, the player, can select choices that sympathize more for the Garleans, but at the end of the Eorzean day, you are playing a Warrior of Light that will do what is right.

[PyurBlue]

It is a JRPG with a pre-written story as played by you. The same goes for just about every Final Fantasy. Sure you can have Cloud spend 5 hours snowboarding but at the end of the day he's gotta go after Sephiroth. You, the player, can select choices that sympathize more for the Garleans, but at the end of the Eorzean day, you are playing a Warrior of Light that will do what is right.

Right, that's how SE has decided to write the story. A more varied story isn't impossible to implement, but it wouldn't work with SE's game design. Their rigid form of story telling isn't totally incompatible with branching stories though, the branches would just have to be limited to details in the middle of the story rather than drastically changing the outcome.

[Gula]

Right, that's how SE has decided to write the story. A more varied story isn't impossible to implement, but it wouldn't work with SE's game design. Their rigid form of story telling isn't totally incompatible with branching stories though, the branches would just have to be limited to details in the middle of the story rather than drastically changing the outcome.

Square Enix didn't write it. Oda and Ishikawa wrote it with the occasional guest star as well as the writers in their department for side quests ect. I believe they should be properly credited because of what they write and how they write it is also different. Such as the differences between YoRHa, Ivalice and Crystal Tower.