Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[Skivvy]

On the topic of music, I really am not a fan of all the electric guitar, heavy drums, weird vocals and so on that tends to end up in a lot of the raid/trial music. It seems really outta place to me.

[Haillenartes]

Y'know what, I'll bite the bait: Honestly? I thought Fandaniel was an interesting character from his first appearance. Sue me, I like rancid little men ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

(Also, I mean... the theatrics are just a delight to watch. Those animators and voice actors must've been having a really good time.)

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

Nobody cares about the Viera Race, they are just cosplaying their own Headcanon Version of Fran.
And Male Viera are just Genderbending Fran

Y'know what, I'll bite the bait: Honestly? I thought Fandaniel was an interesting character

Hot Take.....
I agree with this.

[Connor]

Bard should be a full on support healer and not a heavy hitting speedy proc based archer monstrosity. I’d say they should be ashamed by the state of it but I genuinely think they are.

Healers should be designed to heal/support majority of the time and not have time to dps.

When SE practically deleted buffs and debuffs and replaced with the generic ‘damage up’ or ‘damage down’ effect they were making a huge mistake because it watered down the battle system too much.

The numbered system instead of tiered is so lame. I’d rather have Firagaja than Fire V

The Scions are all bland characters with little personality beyond tired tropes and almost no real development over like 6 expansions.

New Summoner is fun. Needs work but still fun.

90% of Scholars play purely for the ‘intellectual’ aesthetics and to have a fairy pet not because they actually have an interest in the job.

Lastly, this game overall doesn’t resemble a Final Fantasy game in any way, shape or form beyond specific references to previous games. Even the job system doesn’t feel in any way like it would in a ‘Final Fantasy’

[Gullis]

Endwalker didn't feel as big as it was hyped up to be

[IdowhatIwant]

Endwalker didn't feel as big as it was hyped up to be

Outside of the story (which was cool playing it but looking back at it was very horrible) it's no different then every expansion SB on. The game is stuck in a formulaic loop that it will not break. Is what was great about ARR and HW was the game took risks and was experimental. Now we get repetitive garbage that we can do for a week and it becomes irrelevant again.

[Burmecia]

Endwalker didn't feel as big as it was hyped up to be

I begun to like EW actually more (never disliked it), when I begun to look at it like last third or quarter of any ok-alright JRPG. When things start to get overly fantastical and bunch of stuff get finally revealed a bit too late to my liking.
JRPG endings are not my favourite things in those games, though I do like JRPGs. Most of the usual ride is fun and I prefer it to end instead being stretched to infinity.
Hopefully looking forward the next "story arc" in 7.0.

[FatalFatalis]

Regarding EW story. I didn't feel like the Loporrits section was paddling and I quite enjoyed it.

[Saraide]

The stormblood alliance raids are even more of a fanservice reference fest than the by definition fan service nier alliance raids. Entirely forced into the game, including the forced tie in to bozja.

[drtasteyummy]

- For a game that is so story driven the amount of voice over is really just pathetic
- Many scenes that were emotional ready to take me were just destroyed by this comical emoting that either goes like this https://youtu.be/7C2MTMr7Eys?t=75 or goes like this
- The UI is somewhat bad the amount of split systems is one thing but the map is nuclear bad like this was made with the purpose to be bad
- New players are so encapsulated it's a holy wonder to me that so many people just continue:
# You want to join a guild? Search on our website
# You want to understand what to do? Read this mega long guide on our website
# You want to whisper someone? You better know the syntax
# Want to play blackmage? Should have known the preclasses
# Did all the sidequests? Only the MSQ/blues are important
# Ask for help in noob chat? Better hope you know who to talk to to get you invited.
This game is a mess for new players that don't have a friend explain it to them or watch 2 hours of guides.
- Endwalker has so many plot holes and the amount of space alien, matter and anti matter references were
so big that one time I was sure that hermes would disclose that he worked on ancient aliens before.

hot take end