45 minutes of cutscenes...

[WillIrishclover]

I just treated it as a short film they had put into the game to set up and hype up HW tbh.

edit- oh shit didint realise this was a necro thread

[Arohk]

I bet the guy appreciates your input after those 5 years.

I didn't necro this thread, blame ZThing222

[Zakuyia]

Oh op complaining about 2.55 wait till he gets into dawn trail lol. Cutscenes on top of cutscenes with no voice acting either lol

[Lizzit]

mfs will just complain about anything at this point

[Auro_Seldaris]

Sorry: this is a rant, and am fairly sure that it has been said already over and over again. But as you see from the number of posts I'm new.
And I have to vent.

I just finished the 45 - FOURTY-CRAZY-FIVE minutes of cutscenes at the end of patch 2.55.
Am not joking, this is the image proving it:



Ok, the story, I get it, 2.x builds a DOZEN different subplots but it's great as most of them are resolved in the end (I had a feeling this would happen). I liked it, but am annoyed as I only watched and didn't feel part of it!

Why I can't fight my way out?
I'm the *** warrior of light, dammit, I've felled Ifrit, Titan and Acians and countless other Primals and I should be scared of figthing a few Brass Blades and Crystal Braves?

The biggest complaint I have of all the 2.x patch series is that there are plenty of filler quests (go there, come back, go another place, come back), with very few combat parts. You watch the story unfold but don't feel enough drawn into it.



In the finale of the ARR MSQ, Castrum Meridianum & Pretorium, you were part of the story, although with other people, but still you were part of that moment.
Here you only "watched" that long moment, your character was there but there was no involvement.
All felt like a movie and not a game, where you can _be_ part of the moments in the story.

Hope this is not how the rest of the story works, because it's irritating and frustrating.

Because until about 5 minutes prior, these people were all ostensibly your allies. And the WoL, despite what it may seem, isn't a brainless murderhobo. And we're not in the habit of murdering our allies.

EDIT: Is this the new tactic for burying criticism? Necroing random threads from 5 years ago?