I for one just hope they keep everything in perspective of the previous expansions.

That is actually what causes the malaise over the storyline.

I am doing a NewGame+ and you can just see it really bad. ARR I remembered what it was a liked and didn't like. I actually enjoyed it up until about the time you take on the Garlean Empire in the end and some of the afterstories which really get a little overly drawn out. The quests and storyline prior are surprisingly fun and feels very free. I feel like an adventurer who is really outside of the system and it is very fascinating with the wide variety of things you end up in.

HW once I got to it, still remains just the best and most powerful expansion storylines I've played, even the after stories. Then you follow it with Stormblood which was probably one of the worst. But now that I am going through them again I can really see why I felt that way. You go through Heavensward and are immediately drawn in, the characters are real, with real emotions that make sense. And by the end even the Ascians are saying you're getting too powerful to control.

It was like the next storyline they just completely forgot everything that happened in ARR and HW.

It's 180 degrees in the opposite direction, the overland trash mobs are damn near a frigging boss mob fight each time for the level you're at, way worse than it was in previous expansions. So completely out of context even imagining the creatures being somewhat stronger it still is way out of context for the point of the story you're at. Secondly... here we are, as if you had a complete brain fart and casually forgot about all the sleezebag things the Ala Migans have done in the first two storylines and you're treating it like its some great thing to be "freeing them". I think i was constantly throwing up in my mouth for almost all the conversations up until we get to Doma. That's just how bad the Ala Migans were throughout ARR and HW. And you even meet some serious sleezebag Ala Migans right there in that segment too.

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