doing endwalker and no Minfilia

[Darthgummibear]

Either english isn't his first language or he's a terrible troll.

[JohncarterIx]

I bet you say like like like like am i right

[JohncarterIx]

Lol troll i live in a 28 bedroom house lol 59 thousand square feet lol so with 6 dogs. . so whos the troll maybe you lol

[Knot_D]

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Sorry we only care (mostly not as well) if you have Large House in this server instead of in real life

[YukikoKurosawa]

Also spoilers

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I've seen multiple streamers confused about Zenos and Shinryu in Endwalker, literally saying things like "who/what is that" or "why is he a dragon"?

Don't story skip and then act bewildered by your own ignorance.

A lot of them have this thing where they skip unvoiced cutscenes/dialogue because they've rationalized that unvoiced = unimportant because.......I don't know why actually, then get angry when the story expects them to remember something that happened to be in one of those pesky unvoiced cutscenes.

Also this is a troll thread.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Lol troll i live in a 28 bedroom house lol 59 thousand square feet lol so with 6 dogs. . so whos the troll maybe you lol

And I'm the Queen of Mars, so bow down, earthling peasant.

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

Doing Endwalker and no Gaius.
Except for a non-voiced cutscene to explain why no Gaius, even though going to Garlemald.
Such obfuscation was NOT his intention.

We had Lucia and Maxima, though. Besides, Gaius is suspected of regicide. Having him around would only make it appear as though Eorzea was complicit in the assassination.

[AnotherPerson]

A lot of them have this thing where they skip unvoiced cutscenes/dialogue because they've rationalized that unvoiced = unimportant because.......I don't know why actually, then get angry when the story expects them to remember something that happened to be in one of those pesky unvoiced cutscenes.

Also this is a troll thread.

Exactly, unvoiced cutscenes can be just as important, if not - more important - to the storyline. The unvoiced cutscenes are there to make you read and process / internalize what's going on. Sometimes reading is stronger than having it read to you. Likewise - certain story elements can only be shown, not read. (In From the Cold is a more obvious example why they made it an instance rather than just showing it via a cutscene).

FFXIV does this in basically every expansion. If people still haven't picked that up yet... then they must have story skipped through every expansion so far.

[MilkieTea]

So help me if someone posts FMA memes.....

[YukikoKurosawa]

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I think it's just a cope for them being illiterate. More than once I've seen someone say that they hate having to read because it "overwhelms" them, or its "difficult". One complained about the game using "big words" when the words they were complaining about were just ordinary english words that are used very commonly. Like, not even ye olde english, just basic modern day english words were filtering them.

The real problem is the amount of zoomers who can barely or can't read at all. It's strange to me because I come from an age where most rpgs, most games in general, didn't even have voice acting, and just read everything and never had a problem with it or imagined it being a problem for anyone. Some of my favorite games ever are story-focused games that have zero voice acting at all. It's surprising to me how many people now complain about having to read in video games, but I genuinely think it's just a cope for being unable to read and not wanting to admit it. Reading really is not difficult and there's no real reason to hate having to do it unless there's something wrong with you. Voice acting can obviously enhance a scene and there are scenes I think would have been better if they were fully voiced, but sometimes not having voice acting is better (like for example when the writer wants you to not be able to tell who a character is, so the scene being unvoiced prevents you from recognizing them).

But when people skip unvoiced scenes/dialogue they are genuinely getting a much lesser experience out of the story, they're literally not even getting the entire story, missing not just story but character moments and world building. My basic rule is: if the writer wrote it, I should read it, else they wouldn't have written it. Not that sometimes pointless fluff can't be added that is genuinely a waste of time, but voiced cutscenes are no more immune to this issue than unvoiced. They also don't get that the reason for so much not being voiced comes down to money, having to pay not just an english voice cast, but japanese, and whatever other languages. SE does try to save the voicing budget for the most crucial scenes but that doesn't mean everything they didn't have voiced is unimportant and people should stop assuming that. If you're gonna skip, okay, but then don't complain about not understanding the story afterwards.