What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[Nekokaori]

all I'll say is what "end" what final days.. what price to be paid

non of that exist
Final days only touchs garlimold and thav no where else at all that should have streatched out and focus more on the final days end of the world shit, not stupid ass jokes and sitting at a table stuffing down cheese burgers...

and what price the scions just get auto rezed with their sacfice that makes u cry for not even 10mins before they are revived "Again"

also rlly we could gone back in time again and kill mete before she left elpis after getting the info lol preventing end of days for everyone

plus complete waste not turning anima and magi sisters into a trail or at the very least an alliance raid boss.. its depressing that all they got was 5 seconds of half ass hype

[Lauront]

You ever think we will make any future trips to The Aitiascope to talk to some dead people for exposition or advice? I don't quite remember if there was some canon "You can only go there once" type deal. Though I am sure they won't allow us to go talk to the souls in the Aetherical Sea whenever we fancy.

That'd be cool, but highly doubt it. I'd gladly be proven wrong on that.

[Ixon]

That'd be cool, but highly doubt it. I'd gladly be proven wrong on that.

I feel like if they have no restriction, they could use that to retcon in whatever they want story wise. Seems like a big thing to just leave hanging without revisiting or saying that it's closed for construction or whatever.

[anhaato]

how's this?

Christ... so this was all about a bad joke.

[CrownySuccubus]

I'd like you to find me anyone, literally anyone, even just one person, who has said they wanted that.

Technically, I did say at one point that if I went back in time and had a chance to stop slavery or the Holocaust, I’d do it even if it somehow erased me from existence.

[PawPaw]

Technically, I did say at one point that if I went back in time and had a chance to stop slavery or the Holocaust, I’d do it even if it somehow erased me from existence.

And I'd be right there with you, easy choice.

[Minarisweet]

You know final fantasies tend to be very deep at times so it makes sense endwalker was too deep for a lot of people.

[Brinne]

When I got to the Moon with the Watcher basically admitting that yes, Hydaelyn did constantly lie about basically everything... but it was for a good cause!

Man, my "most Venat-friendly" friend actually immediately said when that came up: "Um, isn't that exactly Thordan's logic? And at the time he was bad for it?" And then we joked a while about how Ilberd is clearly Hydaelyn's real Warrior of Light, because he aligns with her ideology and her methods perfectly, and furthermore, Ilberd Feare has probably won harder than any other FFXIV character ever has, in the long run.

Then I started vaguely thinking about how Hydaelyn and her motivations were, in fact, a weird amalgamation of all major FFXIV villains up until that point (save maybe Nidhogg?), only with those traits framed now as being "good". The rabbit hole deepens. My steps towards full Fandaniel-ization hastens.

[EgilTheStressedMage]

Yes, you've made a number of posts expressing such 'concern' from what I recall. I'd be more worried about those who can't grasp that none of the characters are actually real and are simply pixels on a screen designed to entertain us at the end of the day. Just because someone joins the Dark Brotherhood in an Elder Scrolls game that doesn't suddenly make them a mass murderer after all. Though in my experience, those who express concern over someone's stability in regards to a video game simply aren't coming to a debate in good faith.

Yet there's hundreds of posts of people losing their minds that Venat did this or we did that. I'm not saying you have to like what she, but some here make me think they think they actually live in XIV.

As for the Unsundered world continuing to exist? Well, Shadowbringers already established the existence of alternate universes to justify G'raha Tia's continued existence. The writers may not have gone with the same approach for the Ancients though it's not like it would have been impossible for them to have come up with a way to do so.

Then it's a shame they didn't. But it would lessen the impact of their tragedy if they were somehow just fine somewhere else. They did that enough with everyone else, I don't want this game becoming like Kingdom Hearts. Hell, Emet even looks like Xehanort in Elpis.

We can also look at the single player games and note that the draw for many lies not only in the story of the protagonists but that of the antagonists. A one sided approach where the protagonists gain everything and the antagonists lose everything isn't what a lot of us enjoy...nor was it ever the core premise of FFXIV back when it first launched.

Hence why what happened with Elpis is a tragedy. When I got to Amaurot, and even when I go back there, it was like reaching a certain location in Xenoblade 1: haunting. That there were even quests to do for these effectively ghosts made it worse. TBH, I still have other ideas on what the sound should have been. And while I'm not entirely against Meteion, there was still more I think they should have done, but they'll all be from other games I can't talk about without spoiling, and require rewrite after rewrite of XIV as a whole. If the game was a single player game from the start and not an mmo, I think it would have been the best Final Fantasy they've ever made.

[Caurcas]

Technically, I did say at one point that if I went back in time and had a chance to stop slavery or the Holocaust, I’d do it even if it somehow erased me from existence.

How vainglorious