Building a better Alphinaud

[Slatersev]

He's stated that he makes exceptions for East Asian cultures; apparently, he considers the cultural aesthetics of the Middle East, Africa, Oceania and South Asia uninteresting (in his own words, the middle two are "safaris"), but European and East Asian ones are supposedly the key to broad success.

Which is already ahistorical to the game and strange because reception to Thavnir and its major NPC's have been very positive.

[Theodric]

That's typically how personal tastes work, yes. Nor do I think anyone needs to put a disclaimer on each of their posts about their opinion being just that - an opinion. All people can do is put their thoughts out there and make it clear what they'd like to see more or less of which is...exactly the purpose of threads such as this.

[KariTheFox]

Aveyond hasn't claimed that those preferences are an opinion, he's claimed that it is an objective fact that the characters of ffxiv are worse than characters from other media, and challenged people to "disprove" him.

You can't hide behind "people are entilted to thier opinions and preferences" to defend someone when the person in question is asserting thier opinion as fact.

[CrownySuccubus]

Aveyond hasn't claimed that those preferences are an opinion, he's claimed that it is an objective fact that the characters of ffxiv are worse than characters from other media, and challenged people to "disprove" him.

You can't hide behind "people are entilted to thier opinions and preferences" to defend someone when the person in question is asserting thier opinion as fact.

And/or that their tastes are aligned or representative of the line between success and failure.

[aveyond-dreams]

I mean my tastes have been aligned with success and failure given how I've been proven right on exploratory content, the handling of gender-locked races, so on and so on. Me being proven right is a common trend. Am I supposed to retract this?

I do not trust the current writing direction to properly handle more exotic locales after how badly they dropped the ball in Ala Mhigo. I would rather they play it safe with the next expansion's location - which after how Endwalker turned out would be a massive improvement, but instead we are taking the 10 year old cast into...the Void. Lovely.

[Seera1024]

I mean my tastes have been aligned with success and failure given how I've been proven right on exploratory content, the handling of gender-locked races, so on and so on. Me being proven right is a common trend. Am I supposed to retract this?

I do not trust the current writing direction to properly handle more exotic locales after how badly they dropped the ball in Ala Mhigo. I would rather they play it safe with the next expansion's location - which after how Endwalker turned out would be a massive improvement, but instead we are taking the 10 year old cast into...the Void. Lovely.

Just because your opinions have aligned with how things have played out success/failure wise doesn't suddenly make your opinions facts.

[CrownySuccubus]

I mean my tastes have been aligned with success and failure given how I've been proven right on exploratory content, the handling of gender-locked races, so on and so on. Me being proven right is a common trend. Am I supposed to retract this?

"My tastes align with success" is an easy statement to make after-the-fact, in hindsight. Or if we assume that correlation and causation are the same things.

[Vahlnir]

I mean my tastes have been aligned with success and failure given how I've been proven right on exploratory content, the handling of gender-locked races, so on and so on. Me being proven right is a common trend. Am I supposed to retract this?

I do not trust the current writing direction to properly handle more exotic locales after how badly they dropped the ball in Ala Mhigo. I would rather they play it safe with the next expansion's location - which after how Endwalker turned out would be a massive improvement, but instead we are taking the 10 year old cast into...the Void. Lovely.

On a lot of things, I have agreed with you, but man, you should probably learn a little bit of modesty. This is not a good look. I might say things that I feel strongly about, and that I feel that they are the truth, but I'm not foolish enough to think that my truth is the only truth. My opinions are exactly what they are. Opinions. I can believe in them all I like, but that doesn't make them hard facts.

[KariTheFox]

Can you define "exotic"? Why is say; Ala Mhigo or Thavanair any more or less "exotic" than Ishgard?

[Iscah]

Can you define "exotic"? Why is say; Ala Mhigo or Thavanair any more or less "exotic" than Ishgard?

To be fair, grey medieval Europe is probably the farthest thing I can imagine from what "exotic" conjures up.

That said, the word doesn't feel right for Ala Mhigo either. The word is more specific than "foreign" and suggests a degree of liveliness and colour that Ala Mhigo is lacking.

Or in Endwalker terms, I'd sooner use exotic to describe Thavnair than the Moon.