Quote Originally Posted by Hayden View Post
Anyone else kind of OVER Square Enix lazy writing? Namely, battles that mean nothing.

Scripted fights that force you to lose, and serious boss battles where winning means nothing.


Winning the battle, and losing in the cut scene is a favourite trope of Square Enix and I'm kind of over it?

Like, give the villian a back up plan, make something else happen. Make my win feel like it mattered.

Quit letting villian's shake off asskickings.
This is a general disease infecting many games, not just FF14. WoW was notorious for this, you finish some giant raid and the cutscene would play, the NPCs would run in and whack the boss pretending they beat him and then he'd run away. This happened constantly at some points it was almost every single fight and was infuriating. They don't do it anywhere near as much in FF14 but it really gives me the shits when they do. The latest instances of this happening was SUPER egregious and didn't even need to happen for the story to continue, they just wanted to introduce a FF trope character.