Final Fantasy XIV doesn't actually have that good of a story

[Adeacia]

I play story heavy games all the time. I prefer rpgs because of the stories. I have played countless, Chrono Trigger, the Personas, including nearly every single mainline FF game to name a few. Only FF I haven't finished are 2, 3 and 11. I only started this game because I wanted to see its story.

In my experience with a focus on story heavy games, FF14 has one of the best. I've always viewed it as a single player game wrapped in an mmo. Each expansion is another game in the 14 series.

People always go on about wanting everyone to die, which would only make the story worse. Why get attached to any characters when you know they won't live for long? Death for the sake of it is bad writing. I much prefer good stories, like the one in this game.

[Saefinn]

I play story heavy games all the time. I prefer rpgs because of the stories. I have played countless, Chrono Trigger, the Personas, including nearly every single mainline FF game to name a few. Only FF I haven't finished are 2, 3 and 11. I only started this game because I wanted to see its story.

In my experience with a focus on story heavy games, FF14 has one of the best. I've always viewed it as a single player game wrapped in an mmo. Each expansion is another game in the 14 series.

People always go on about wanting everyone to die, which would only make the story worse. Why get attached to any characters when you know they won't live for long? Death for the sake of it is bad writing. I much prefer good stories, like the one in this game.

I prefer well written deaths that make sense and move the plot along, but killing off characters for the sake of killing off characters or for shock value is cheap. And it's why I feel Nanamo's "death" was poorly received back in 2.55, because coincidentally it was also at the height of popularity of a certain TV Series based on a book that's infamous for killing off beloved characters and it felt like they added it for a dramatic flair to end on. So this was one death I am glad they retconned, it just felt clumsy and unnecessary. Zenos I am less happy about because I felt it was a well presented and purposeful death...that they reversed and made meaningless and it ended up adding nothing to the narrative. And Moenbryda's death I felt was too early, I wanted to get to know her more as a character first. By Haurchie's, that was well done. Emet-Selch's and Elidibus? Also very well done. Zenos again was well done just a shame about them reversing it.

But I do feel the overplay the "they're dead not dead" line a bit too much. In my FC we joke "did you see a body? No? They're not dead".

[shao32]

In my opinion FFxiv story was great in terms or narrative and characters until stormblood where plot armor around main characters and the alliance has grow to much to my taste and the constant "nerfs" on the garlean empire has make the conflict a joke for me, it's hard to feel anything is going the be serious if I never see consequences for the good guys side.

STB and SHB have good moments for sure but both expansions are overshadow by the heavy loses the bad guys constantly takes and literally the none the good guys get, I mean Y'sthola alone have more plot armor than a pure beskar iron man suit on star wars, and the constant fake deaths it's just to cheap, and I don't want to get in to how empty is the Warrior of darkness tittle, I expected it to have similar weight on what the tittle represent compare to Warrior of light in terms of crystal and blessing of light and not being a empty nickname given by peasants without any actual implication of what represent as the other side of the wol coin but I well.

I rate FFxiv as a whole as average compared to other FF rigth now and low average compared to other rpgs since it's not complete and we see.

[Ryan77k]

Nice bait

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[IckeDerTyp]

In this thread, people disvocer 'subjectivity'! What a time to be alive ^^

But on-topic, I think ffxiv probably has the "best" story if we compare it with most other mmorpgs.

But that just brings me back to what I said in the beginning.

Weird!

[TheMightyMollusk]

and then came 3 and you realize nothing you did mattered :P

If you ignore the rest of the game and just focus only on the endings, anyway.

[LaylaTsarra]

Oddly enough the story has brought me to tears many times. I just finished the ending cutscenes which I've seen many time for Shadowbringers with an alt and I still have tears in my eyes.

It's ok for those who don't care for it. That is what makes the world go around.

[White_Wolf_X]

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Yeah, nothing to see here.

[Liam_Harper]

If you didn't feel anything from this games story I'd suggest you quit now and move back to those single player games you praise so much.

The ff14 community seems to have a serious issue with any sort of criticism on their game or comparison to other games, usually resulting in an immediate kneejerk "get lost and quit and go play your other game then!" reaction. It's not healthy. People are allowed to dislike parts of the game in the same way others are allowed to like them. I enjoy the story myself, but opinions are just opinions.

[Sathona]

Oh look another thread made by a troll.