I tried but its not the game for me

[KizuyaKatogami]

I saw your edits.
For your first one. I think it had something to do with the WoL power rather than his own. Remember, we did the same thing ourself without g'raha with the power of azim and even if that's not the case. I wouldn't say that's a plot hole, just think of it like an anime where they just get a super power up for a certain moment.

For your second
Well....we wouldn't have much of a story now would we? You can apply that logic to a lot of video games. Well why doesn't X kill Y to just gain Y power?
That's not a plot hole and pretty sure g'raha wouldn't go out that easily as well.

Both of those examples you gave are literally examples of plot holes.
Plot hole definition: an inconsistency in the narrative or character development of a book, film, television show, etc.

Both of the examples i gave were indeed inconsistencies. We did it with the power of azem yes, aka a memory crystal of an ancient
being. That’s far different from what Graha is. The problem with the Graha thing is the fact they specifically mention it numerous times in the story and even show us what happens when he’s far away for too long. It’s an inconsistency based on what we were shown. As for the “Graha wouldn’t go out that easy” comment, you seem to forget the man was literally shot and imprisoned by Emet. He wouldn’t have a choice in dying if Emet wanted it, he’s an unsundered.You seem to just be grasping at straws.

[KizuyaKatogami]

Yes he was shot by a gun without warning though or didn't even know emit was there.
He didn't see emet coming and he was in the middle of taking all of our light and its pretty fair to say he was using all his power to do it.
So....

So then…he did indeed go out that easy lmao.

[Gabadabs]

The older FF games weren't MMOs (other than FFXI and I've heard very mixed reactions to its story). You can't tell a story the same way in a MMO as you would in a normal single player game.

A single player game is generally released with its entire story ready to play in a single experience. That allows the story to flow better.

A MMO story is going to have lengthy interruptions while waiting on new content releases. That means not only including elements to explain the interruptions but then adding in reminders of what happened in the past when the new story segment gets released months later. You also have the issue of staff on the game being replaced over time and coming in with slightly different visions of how the story should be progressing.

As a result, you can have a good story in a MMO but will never measure up to the quality of story you get in a good single player game.

With XIV I don't think the issue is the interruptions - I've never caught up to current content, and I've seen many issues with how the game tells it's story.
The issue being that XIV pretty much always tells. The amount of dialogue that serves little purpose and you will never remember is ASTOUNDING. There are so many plot points that there's no way I can keep track of what's going on.

[SpanishInkwehsitor]

With XIV I don't think the issue is the interruptions - I've never caught up to current content, and I've seen many issues with how the game tells it's story.
The issue being that XIV pretty much always tells. The amount of dialogue that serves little purpose and you will never remember is ASTOUNDING. There are so many plot points that there's no way I can keep track of what's going on.

Gee I wonder how Tataru's Summoner training is going, since Square made it a mandatory quest in the MSQ and then abruptly forgot about it for 3 whole expansions....

[Snorky]

With XIV I don't think the issue is the interruptions - I've never caught up to current content, and I've seen many issues with how the game tells it's story.
The issue being that XIV pretty much always tells. The amount of dialogue that serves little purpose and you will never remember is ASTOUNDING. There are so many plot points that there's no way I can keep track of what's going on.

Someone else mentioned this, started a thread on it. Having a digital lore book would be awesome.

[Gabadabs]

Gee I wonder how Tataru's Summoner training is going, since Square made it a mandatory quest in the MSQ and then abruptly forgot about it for 3 whole expansions....

So much of the MSQ, especially in ARR, could be relegated to side quests, but I digress. It's not *bad* content, it just gets excessive.

[Lanadra]

I would say ARR is the problem... buuut you did say that HW just felt like 'more of the same' to you. So that tells me that ARR clearly isn't your issue.. no, sounds more to me like FFXIV's story, the manner of storytelling, just isn't for you. Which is fine.

Only issue I somewhat have with your take is that you automatically label FFXIV's story as 'bad' just because it isn't to your taste, like.. you honestly think thousands upon thousands are just blowing smoke when they say things like HW and ShB are amazing?

[Akiudo]

Kay, well, you're free to disagree. But people seem to just casually gloss over the fact that about half the media this company has ever released has been about one step short of garbage. And FFXIV, as much as I might like a lot of what it has to offer, is one of their weaker story efforts.

By the way, while we're talking movies, I seem to recall them struggling to do one of those at some point...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUXVOfdGE4o

funnily enough, i rewatched spirits within 3 years ago and actually quite enjoyed it. not movie of the year quality, but not nearly as bad as i remembered it. its main problem isn't that its a bad movie, it's problem is that its just not what people expect thinking of final fantasy. imagine you would go watch a new avengers movie and after entering the theater you realize you now have to sit through a 3 hour hystorical retelling of life in feudal japan during the warring states period. it may be a perfectly fine movie, good even, but you would still feel ripped off because its not avengers even if oda nobunaga decided to dress up as captain america in the final 5 minutes.


on topic though, best wishes to the op, hope you find something that makes you happy. one point of advice though. you don't need to like the story, if you love other things its perfectly fine to just power through once and than do other stuff you actually find fun.

that aside though, the problem with skipping story during arr is that the story builds up over time, people talk about retcons and all but really, while the definition of that is somewhat wonky a lot of time its actually pretty reasonable stuff that comes up later was just unclear (at least to us) early on and actually does make thematic sense. for example people speculated on the nature of primals since arr came out, lots of people coming really close to the truth with just the information we had, yet the moment we learned more and new things about primals people started screaming "retcon" like square just rewrote world war 2 documents.

all in all no, i don't think the story in ff14 is the best thing ever written, i do however believe that one simply misses a lot of the finer details by skipping up to shadowbringers. if the way the story is presented however just doesn't catch you, or its just not your kind of story than thats perfectly fine, sad for you as you miss out on joy to be had elsewhere but otherwise just fine. i mean i love lord of the rings and hate game of thrones, doesn't mean either one is objectively bad.

[SpanishInkwehsitor]

funnily enough, i rewatched spirits within 3 years ago and actually quite enjoyed it. not movie of the year quality, but not nearly as bad as i remembered it. its main problem isn't that its a bad movie, it's problem is that its just not what people expect thinking of final fantasy. imagine you would go watch a new avengers movie and after entering the theater you realize you now have to sit through a 3 hour hystorical retelling of life in feudal japan during the warring states period. it may be a perfectly fine movie, good even, but you would still feel ripped off because its not avengers even if oda nobunaga decided to dress up as captain america in the final 5 minutes.


on topic though, best wishes to the op, hope you find something that makes you happy. one point of advice though. you don't need to like the story, if you love other things its perfectly fine to just power through once and than do other stuff you actually find fun.

that aside though, the problem with skipping story during arr is that the story builds up over time, people talk about retcons and all but really, while the definition of that is somewhat wonky a lot of time its actually pretty reasonable stuff that comes up later was just unclear (at least to us) early on and actually does make thematic sense. for example people speculated on the nature of primals since arr came out, lots of people coming really close to the truth with just the information we had, yet the moment we learned more and new things about primals people started screaming "retcon" like square just rewrote world war 2 documents.

all in all no, i don't think the story in ff14 is the best thing ever written, i do however believe that one simply misses a lot of the finer details by skipping up to shadowbringers. if the way the story is presented however just doesn't catch you, or its just not your kind of story than thats perfectly fine, sad for you as you miss out on joy to be had elsewhere but otherwise just fine. i mean i love lord of the rings and hate game of thrones, doesn't mean either one is objectively bad.

Problem with a retcon of their own lore is the old story is right there, they could rewrite that as well to keep it in line.

[Akiudo]

Problem with a retcon of their own lore is the old story is right there, they could rewrite that as well to keep it in line.

sure but a lot of what people call "retcon" on here really boils down to "we believed to know better but we didn't" and if you define retcon like that than actual real world history had more than one retcon.

mind you when you think "retcon" in ff14 you may think of very different things than i do and its hard to discuss something like this without entering heavy spoiler territory so i'll leave it at that. still though, a lot (not saying everything) that people call retcon on here makes perfect sense in lore. Realising that the earth revolves around the sun and not the other way around did not "retcon" the god apollo dragging the sun along the firmament on his chariot.