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

[EgilTheStressedMage]

Was talking more from a story stand-point as opposed to technical. Technically, they should be able to take frame-work from what they have and put it on other characters, but then again we've been told making Squadron members just have a bit of personallity is too much work, so I won't hold my breath for trusts.

I genuinely do not give any solitary damns about the Squadron having personality. You are able to make them as OP as you want. That should be enough. Just fix the way you command them and holy Christ, we don't have to compromise any aspect of the game. Even better: provide an incentive to run with players you won't get in Squadron. Like this is not even something that should be an issue unless Yoshi is just sick to death of XIV and wants to be done with it, money and success be damned.

[anhaato]

I just wish I felt like I was going on a grand adventure again. 6.0 was supposed to be the end of the ARR arc? Why do we immediately go to another shard? After we were just spoon-fed from Fanservice McGee that We HaVe BaReLy ScRaTcHeD the surface of our world?

Wish the Scions would disband for real real, and we could meet new characters.

“Even of Eorzea you know Precious Little” “Cool, does that mean we’re getting to explore the calamity bombed zones in the patches? Maybe uncovering relics of past civilizations like Amdapor or Sil’dih to learn more about them? Perhaps aetherically rebalancing Coerthas somehow to make it green again?” “No, off to another shard you go!”

[Theodric]

“Even of Eorzea you know Precious Little” “Cool, does that mean we’re getting to explore the calamity bombed zones in the patches? Maybe uncovering relics of past civilizations like Amdapor or Sil’dih to learn more about them? Perhaps aetherically rebalancing Coerthas somehow to make it green again?” “No, off to another shard you go!”

I'd also like to see all of that as well as more of the Xaela homeland, places such as Nagxia and the many nations mentioned in the Return to Ivalice/Save the Queen storylines.

[Rulakir]

I don't know why they don't let us create our own companions. The whole deal with the Azem crystal is you're summoning in your non-Scion friends. Instead of giving me randos like in ARR Duty Support just let me create my own party (like retainers) or at least recruit similar to how squadrons work. I guarantee my characters and headcanon for them will be more entertaining.

[anhaato]

New World zones inspired by native territories in North America or the likes of Tenochtitlan or Cusco? A trip to Vietnagxia? Any of the countries annexed by Garlemald? Corvos which sounds like it may be similar to Morocco from what we've been given? Inner Hingashi to see wtf is wrong with their government? Valnain which featured heavily in STQ? Nope, none of that, instead we're getting dragged to the dusky crumbling remains of an entire world inhabited by ugly ass imps. Why? So they can shove even MORE FF4 down our throats! HOW POPULAR COULD FF4 POSSIBLY FOR THEM TO KEEP REFERENCING IT LIKE THIS? WHO GIVES ENOUGH OF A DAMN ABOUT THAT GAME TO BE IN FAVOR OF THIS?

[Raoabolic]

After the events of Endwalker, the song "Answers" seem a lot more dark in nature. It might just be me though.

[Lauront]

After the events of Endwalker, the song "Answers" seem a lot more dark in nature. It might just be me though.

I always thought the messages it put forward were pretty bleak and dark (and funnily enough, dissonant with Dragonsong), but finding out the truth of what happened puts an even more twisted spin on it, IMO.

The Heavensward team managed to make an otherwise generic elf kingdom incredibly deep and rich with culture and storytelling - the current team would cheapen the Void and reduce it to a mere joke because they can’t go 2 hours without pausing for a slice of life scene to “lighten the mood” because their intended audience seemingly can’t go too long in a serious direction without getting overwhelmed.

I do hope that now that XVI is approaching completion, we see a return of Maehiro. A dream MMO for me would be one with Matsuno's world-building prowess and Maehiro's writing style... and some of Yoko Taro's boldness when it comes to allowing for storylines/choices where the protagonists don't always get their way.

[aveyond-dreams]

FFIV remains one of the most well-received and historically significant Final Fantasy games of all time, to the point where playing it is apparently part of the curriculum in video game design degrees in Japan. Crossovers with it are as expected as they are welcome.

That being said, I would have preferred for the tie ins to it to be more grounded in the Source though the Void does have the potential to be fleshed out and interesting later on. Add in ruins of whole cities, or last bastions where humanoid voidsent reside. Add deserts with ashen blue sand where void sand worms live. Add a haunted forest zone enshrouded in mists. Mix together Castlevania with Dark Souls and you have a world people will want to spend time in.

An expansion set in a dark fantasy world of purple skies and black gothic ruins isn’t a bad thing, though the start of season 2 would have been better served by taking place anywhere else on the Source. At least the Void may bring back the sense of danger and suspense that the light-tainted setting of the First had back in Shadowbringers, but even that as a setting may not save the plot from the hands of the current writing direction.

The Heavensward team managed to make an otherwise generic elf kingdom incredibly deep and rich with culture and storytelling - the current team would cheapen the Void and reduce it to a mere joke because they can’t go 2 hours without pausing for a slice of life scene to “lighten the mood” because their intended audience seemingly can’t go too long in a serious direction without getting overwhelmed.

[YukikoKurosawa]

The Heavensward team managed to make an otherwise generic elf kingdom incredibly deep and rich with culture and storytelling - the current team would cheapen the Void and reduce it to a mere joke because they can’t go 2 hours without pausing for a slice of life scene to “lighten the mood” because their intended audience seemingly can’t go too long in a serious direction without getting overwhelmed.

They will insert some new cute voidsent character and they will sell cute new merch based on it and twitter will be filled with fanart of it. It will turn out there's a whole colony of these cute little void critters and we will spend an entire zone hanging out with them and dealing with their whimsical problems before continuing the actual plot.

[FatalFatalis]

They will insert some new cute voidsent character and they will sell cute new merch based on it and twitter will be filled with fanart of it. It will turn out there's a whole colony of these cute little void critters and we will spend an entire zone hanging out with them and dealing with their whimsical problems before continuing the actual plot.

That sounds like future Beast Tribe content.