Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[Remish]

It was a joke. The joke was that the game bloomed during HW and has been falling since then. That was a joke. Long live Final Fantasy™!

My apologies. It was difficult for me to tell. Must have went over my head. Sorry about that.

[aveyond-dreams]

LOL

You think the games sudden growth spurt was because FF franchise fans suddenly discovered it 10 years after the fact?

But I'm finished arguing with you...since it's obvious you're the type I'm talking about.

The things that they drew upon from the franchise appeal to a wide variety of people, from locations to characters, jobs, and themes. Ishgard is our stereotypical fantasy castle-and is one of the most beloved locations in game. It's roughly comparable to Castle Alexandria in terms of how much of a landmark and symbol it has become of their respective games. Doma, a location briefly visited in FFVI was expanded upon along with the neighbouring city of Kugane and helped make Stormblood's otherwise insufferable storyline tolerable due to the inclusion of the goings-on in the east.

When it comes to villains notably, there are several similarities between Emet-Selch and Ardyn from FFXV-a gem of a villain utterly wasted on a subpar game that was only "complete" years after its initial launch date. Several jobs nowadays aren't shying away from drawing upon inspiration from specific characters either, with Paladin well on its way to being a Holy Knight like Agrias from Tactics. Meanwhile, in nearly every Final Fantasy game there's a pivot near the end towards more abstract themes like hope vs despair, etc. When it happened in Endwalker I was not surprised, and in fact felt thankful that there was a little bit more going on to Meteion as opposed to more random final bosses like Necron.

While we probably could have gotten this far by being wholly original, man did it help that there was a plethora of material from the series to take inspiration from.

[MidnightEquinox]

Any fringe group can be a loud and toxic minority.

Casuals in an MMORPG are not a fringe group. They're not a minority. It's not relative to the population of a select community space, it's relative to the whole population.

I'll listen to the first person in the "SE makes things too easy" camp that doesn't dramatically exaggerate things. I can't find common ground with someone who says the content in the game is all doable while watching Netflix when that was definitely not the case in some runs I did the other day.

I don't know what you mean by "balanced content".

[KariTheFox]

My "hot take" is that large amounts of gamers have a very unhealthy relationship with their game or gaming in general, to the point that such an unhealthy relationship is uncomfortably close to a perceived norm and if you mention it people look at you like you grew heads.
Competitive raiders (as well as competitive PvPers) can often be your quintessential loud minority and disproportionately affect games compared to how small their scene actually is. They can damage communities with their streaming influence. Historically, they have also been highly toxic.

Look I don't know about any of this insiduous influence of hardcore streamer stuff, I just like being challenged by difficult fights.

[Recon1o6]

The design of the Au'ra was a major disappointment. When SE first said they were going to add a half dragon/half human playable race, I was initially excited for it thinking that it would look like the half dragon race from D&D or the bipedal half dragons from WoW. But no, the Au'ra just turned out to be a human with horns, a tail, and some scales. Very lame design.

this isn't even a hot take its fact. Also its Au Ra. no apostrophe, thats the kitties

I have to use mods to get the dragon lady I was promised.

[MidnightEquinox]

Look I don't know about any of this insiduous influence of hardcore streamer stuff, I just like being challenged by difficult fights.

I'm not sure how that relates to my point.

[Skivvy]

Since we're still talking things borrowed...

I'm gonna say they did Roeg dirty by not giving them the glorious tails of their Galka predecessors.

[Silver-Strider]

Hot Take: Stomblood was better then Endwalker.

[Seiori]

Roegadyn give me Inquisitor Mozgus energy and face 1 Vieras leads me to believe the Grinch is going to steal there Christmas :P (another hot take)

[MilkieTea]

Face 3 & Face 1 Miqo's give me uncanny valley vibes. Face 2 & Face 4 all the way, babyyy