Thread: Can 7.0 focus on a storyline without the philosophizing

OP is a known Negative Nancy. Unless you hate the game like they do...don't expect a meaningful discussion. They want an echo chamber and that is all.

The story is great but your opinion isn't

Originally Posted by sagacious

The story is great but your opinion isn't

Translation: "Don't insult my favorite game!!! REEEEEE!!!"


Gonna be real tough if they go for a story about the US and it's beginnings and try to have us be the unsung good guys. Unless we are the sailors at first and then join the Wala... somethings like in Pocahontas / Avatar.

While we're at it, we're a touch hyper-intelligent wizard heavy. I love me a good wizard paired with some theorizing, but the main cast of characters are all Sharlayan PhDs hosting grad student exposition dumps every other quest and I'm kiiiiinda sick of it.

More to the topic, I don't mind philosophy so long as it's grounded and has stakes. I didn't dislike Endwalker's story like several people in General do, but the flattest parts for me were where it showed off its lack of stakes. Y'shtola is nearly becoming genre savvy self-aware of her invincibility and is using it to her advantage. For all of the talk about death and sacrifice, we've had to give nothing up for a really long time.

I think the reason for it is because this is what Final Fantasy games often try to do. Through their adventure they enter doubts and depressions and question the meaning of life and what they are fighting for, and Yoshi-P wanted to take that from the Final Fantasy games and do it in all this game's expansions as well.

Apparently EW resonated a lot with people suffering from depression who had not benefitted from any other sort of therapies, so it was a good thing for that reason alone.

The expansions can do this sort of thing whilst still having proper character development because it happened in some of the old final fantasy games. If they tackle depression, they can just do it in a way where the depression affects a particular character such as Thancred and watching him go through this whole period of depression and then come out of it and overcome the last boss with you.

Originally Posted by Jeeqbit

I think the reason for it is because this is what Final Fantasy games often try to do. Through their adventure they enter doubts and depressions and question the meaning of life and what they are fighting for, and Yoshi-P wanted to take that from the Final Fantasy games and do it in all this game's expansions as well.

Apparently EW resonated a lot with people suffering from depression who had not benefitted from any other sort of therapies, so it was a good thing for that reason alone.

The expansions can do this sort of thing whilst still having proper character development because it happened in some of the old final fantasy games. If they tackle depression, they can just do it in a way where the depression affects a particular character such as Thancred and watching him go through this whole period of depression and then come out of it and overcome the last boss with you.

That is also a big problem. None of the main cast is suffering which makes the whole ordeal feel quite unrelated to us.