How did people do Endwalker in 2 days?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

I sat through ARR’s story and that was enough for me to tune out the entire story. I just didn’t like it. In my opinion FF7 and 8 probably have the best stories. XIV would probably be at the very bottom for me. Also, I am allowed to have an opinion.

I mean, ARR is just world building. The bulk of the story comes in later expansions....


That's like saying the hobbit or lotr sucks because the first 2 chapters are boring...


Personally, I found ff8s story terrible. I gave up after the first disk.

[Brennus]

Skip cutscenes. The actual required time investment is pretty small.

How the heck do you get anything from the story if you skip all the cutscenes?

[Bearded]

Play at your own pace and enjoy the journey - far too many rush through and then wonder "what now?"

[Avatre]

Play at your own pace and enjoy the journey - far too many rush through and then wonder "what now?"

The "what now" for me is completing stuff that I didn't finish in the last expansion(s), and getting everything else leveled up/geared. And taking time to play other games and not log in to FF every single day, maybe every second or third.

[Jybril]

I sat through ARR’s story and that was enough for me to tune out the entire story. I just didn’t like it. In my opinion FF7 and 8 probably have the best stories. XIV would probably be at the very bottom for me. Also, I am allowed to have an opinion.

HW and SHB are pretty good but my issue is I don't have a say in anything that matters. I also don't like silent protags and I don't care for the cast that much. Only did in HW did is it a journey of friends and they did even more in SHB where they grew to be more likable.

After level 83 if the story in EW, I stopped caring entirely.

The story is pretty poor lol. I don't care about the Ascians, at all.
I hope there is a better villain then them or Zenos in later expansions. I guess I'm just one of few who don't care but enjoy other aspects so no biggie.

[ReynTime]

The expansions (post-ARR) can each be done in less than a day's worth of playthrough when you skip cutscenes.

[van_arn]

I simply didn’t sleep

[Kuroka]

I still feel on the first time you should not be able to skip stuff.... on day two i saw ppl using a certain mount already while i wasnt even Garlemald yet lol

[Kyrj]

Me and my friend have played almost every day since launch for many hours and we are still not done with the story even now. my friend did the expansion in the first 2 days... every day we say to eachother how the did people do all this content in 2 days? seems impossible...

EW is more cutscenes than actual gameplay so skipping goes a long way. Also you can skip a lot in this story and still understand what's going on just by skimming the quest text or just briefly watching a cutscene.

[GrizzlyTank]

MSQ is about 40 hours.