MSQ Speculation

[Boblawblah]

I don't think the Gold Saucer sabotenders are mammets...

Wait, you think we have a five nights at freddy's situation going on??

[Iscah]

Wait, you think we have a five nights at freddy's situation going on??

Well, they claim to be Lalafells in suits, but can you picture fitting those big round heads into the tiny Sabotender shape without breaking anything?

[Elissar]

Fal'Cie and Coccoon inc.

[Silverquick]

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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[Silverquick]

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It is really hard to feel sorry for the Ala Migans at that point and not think of them as even worse than the Garleans. Hell at least the Garleans were straightforward in their sleezebaggery and didn't make any pretenses about it.

So... if you can forget that, then things start to get better when you get to Kugane with the Doma arc. Though that seriously lags in my mind while I'm doing that.

It's things like this where you just completely forget everything that happened in every other expansion up to this point that makes playing Endwalker like nails on a chalkboard. It was literally hard for me to enjoy the storyline in Endwalker because so far outside of the context of all the things that came before it, it's just not credible or believable EVEN in the context of your own world YOU created.

I was like... Alphinaud... why does this whole thing with the Garleans and their betrayal "shock" you. It's not like you haven't been betrayed over and over even WORSE than this in all the previous storylines. Worse... why did you fall for it. If this was betrayal #1 it would be different, but hell we're going on betrayal 5000 at this point. And it's the Garleans... who make no pretenses about having no respect for you. What in the hell made you even think this would work?

Alisae why in the hell does all this stuff going in Garlemald shock you? You JUST went through all this on an even worse scale back in Shadowbringers, yet your spirit is crushed over this?... what? What in the What???

The lack of context just makes the storylines of you expansions harder and harder to enjoy.

If the Devs have to... hell go play through them all again... and then look at the storyline in your new one and see if it still makes sense.

It's one thing to stretch it a little... its another to take it so far out of the context of the previous worldbuilding that YOU yourself wrote, that gets pretty hard to enjoy the current storylines.