Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[Allegor]

The new hairstyle isn't the problem, your abnormally big foreheads are. I'll even put on a tinfoil hat and say that is the reason why most hairstyles we're getting have rather large, borderline emo bangs to cover them up. Even Windcaller had a conveniently thick headband /think



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I'm happy with it, it gives me petty satisfaction when the shoe is on the other foot. - signed, a male Roe that was tired we only ever got cutesy/feminine hairstyles.

[Midareyukki]

The new hairstyle isn't the problem, your abnormally big foreheads are. I'll even put on a tinfoil hat and say that is the reason why most hairstyles we're getting have rather large, borderline emo bangs to cover them up. Even Windcaller had a conveniently thick headband /think

The Windcaller one in specific is an actual hairstyle from another game.


Past that? Yeah. There's a ridiculous amount of short hair options in this game, but if you want to have amazing-looking locks, bowl cuts or bangs, the game all but spoils you.

And this is my Hot Take on the hair thing. Unfortunately, not every hair is made to cater to your race.
Roegadyn have felt this since the start of the game. Hrothgar know it. Pretty much every race out there that easily gets unflattering looks knows it. If you're a race whose model doesn't mesh well with the hairstyle, sorry but you got other choices to pick from. No need to get your knickers in a twist over it.

It's unfortunate, sure, but it's natural. Not everything is fit to other races, and the game can't always be having these issues on the same races.

[Turnintino]

While i don't dislike Emet (i liked him as a villain in ShB), I do dislike some of the stuff they did with him. Making it that he was one of our closest friends in a previous life, all the "see he's not a bad guy, he's just grumpy" shit in Elpis (I hate the scene where we're forced to beg him for help "Please, Emet-Selch." ugh my wol would not have gone along with that shit.) and the way they basically force your wol to like him, like all the terrible shit he did is just forgiven and now he's just your slightly grumpy uncle giving you a travel bucket list. Yet another "redeemed" villain to throw in the pile.

For my own hot take, I also dislike a lot of the Ancient shit in general. The Pandaemonium raids are a prefect example. I just don't give a shit about what's going on and want everyone to just shut up. Like what does any of this shit have to do with me? Who are you people? No, I don't care about your daddy issues, Eric. Only story content I've been tempted to skip. We never should have gone back to Elpis. It should have been one and done for the story. Now we have even more time travel shit to deal with, and it was already questionable in EW MSQ.

The only Ancient thing I even really like is Hythlodaeus, and even then he just showed up, looked pretty, was funny and once all was said and done I barely ever thought about him again.

Couldn't agree more.

Tangential, and I don't think this is a hot take by any stretch, but it was also just... insane to me that Venat got to keep her memory. I thought for sure that the convenient memory-eraser was inserted solely to tie up all the timey-wimey loose ends... A little lazy, to say the least, but it would've made what we know to be her behavior afterwards a hell of a lot less baffling lol.

Re: Emet, while I can see how he could make for a compelling villain to some players, I was already pretty burned out by the Ascians at that point, so it was just a miss all the way through for me. And even by the end of his storyline in SHB, it was clear we were meant to be sympathetic to him, and I was just, like... No?? Like you said, these writers love to redeem a villain, and while it's not exactly offensive to me that they'd try -- this is a fantasy game -- it's still almost breathtaking that they'd expect us to hand-wave all the genocide just because baby misses his fwends~ uwu

Obviously a lot of people love him, and they are free to do so, but man oh man does he leave me cold. And as you mentioned, it did not help that the narrative forced our character to fall in line with him. If the game had allowed us even a little more freedom to express any kind of distaste or resistance, I probably wouldn't have been quite as annoyed lol.

[Selsix]

Ultimates are stupid content that only pander to a super tiny niche of players and are a complete waste of developer time. Also the weapons are really gaudy and ugly.

[VeyaAkemi]

While i don't dislike Emet (i liked him as a villain in ShB), I do dislike some of the stuff they did with him. Making it that he was one of our closest friends in a previous life, all the "see he's not a bad guy, he's just grumpy" shit in Elpis (I hate the scene where we're forced to beg him for help "Please, Emet-Selch." ugh my wol would not have gone along with that shit.) and the way they basically force your wol to like him, like all the terrible shit he did is just forgiven and now he's just your slightly grumpy uncle giving you a travel bucket list. Yet another "redeemed" villain to throw in the pile.

One thing I feel the need to say is that the Emet we met in Elpis didn't need to be forgiven for anything, we were in the past, that Emet had done nothing and the grumpy-but-has-a-big-heart guy we met was who Emet-Selch used to be, before the trauma of losing everyone he loved and cared for set in and he lost everything, and that changes a man, plus a good chunk of Zodiark tempering which may or may not have been in effect, that's deeply debatable, and you get present-day villain Emet.

What bothered me far more is the scene in Ultima Thule, when Hyth and Emet are summoned, because at that point, that was present-day Emet, a purified Emet that had been returned to the star after his death, but it was still him, and while I enjoy the scene and this didn't ruin anything for me, it did get me thinking that it was a rather glaring flaw, maybe you could argue that the stakes were too high to be picky about who would help us, we accept help from Zenos of a all people shortly after, but it still glosses over everything he did.

[Shinkuno]

The Windcaller one in specific is an actual hairstyle from another game.


Past that? Yeah. There's a ridiculous amount of short hair options in this game, but if you want to have amazing-looking locks, bowl cuts or bangs, the game all but spoils you.

And this is my Hot Take on the hair thing. Unfortunately, not every hair is made to cater to your race.
Roegadyn have felt this since the start of the game. Hrothgar know it. Pretty much every race out there that easily gets unflattering looks knows it. If you're a race whose model doesn't mesh well with the hairstyle, sorry but you got other choices to pick from. No need to get your knickers in a twist over it.

It's unfortunate, sure, but it's natural. Not everything is fit to other races, and the game can't always be having these issues on the same races.

Let me tell you, most hair doesnt fit any race. Like modern legend has a kinda exposed forehead on everything but lalafell

[Midareyukki]

Let me tell you, most hair doesnt fit any race. Like modern legend has a kinda exposed forehead on everything but lalafell

And that's fine. That's exactly what I'm saying: you can't expect generically-made stuff that isn't optimized to your race to always work on you. And that shouldn't come as a surprise. Yet it does to so many people.

[TheMightyMollusk]

And that's fine. That's exactly what I'm saying: you can't expect generically-made stuff that isn't optimized to your race to always work on you. And that shouldn't come as a surprise. Yet it does to so many people.

But you don't understand, I'm a paying customer so I'm always right and this small indie company needs to cater to my every whim or I'll cry.

[Soge01]

That's a very unfortunate child.

[Vyrerus]

They should make the raiding scene more desirable instead of cordoning off Salvage from Normal and such. I think we should be given totally new encounters, cutscenes, and story along with the higher tier raiding. And the raiders should be forced to sit through it like Praetorium, the first time.

Raiding hasn't ever felt quite as fulfilling as it did during ARR and ARR 2.1 to 2.55. So maybe I mean, I want more raids like Binding Coil. Higher difficulty, no savage / normal dichotomy(except for the inception of Savage during Second Coil because Devs were salty about those super fast Second Coil clear groups).

As it is now, due to the divorce of difficulty from story progress, you do the harder fights simply for the sake of doing them. The reward structure is actually non-reward once you actually git gud at XIV. The entry level gear is all that's required.

There's a greater Ludo-narrative dissonance too, ever since Heavensward. With there being one form of the fight that's pure fiction, and the real form of the fight that's no real challenge, it makes the WoLs that do, do Savage seem kind of insane. "I'm an extra hard bad ass because I beat the Minstrel's imagination! Yeehaw!"