Happy Alternatives

[Syln]

Now that i think about it, there is Black myth wukong that is about to be release in 9 days and it does look pretty good.

Armored core 6 if you're into mecha game or want to try one even though the tutorial is kind of brutal.

[missTori]

I switch between genshin impact and ffxiv.

If i'm not playing games i am quite the asian drama addict.
Let me just info dump some good ones from my all time favorites:
Love between fairy and devil
Love like the galaxy
Legend of shen li, THE DOUBLE!
The k2, Mr sunshine,
Move to heaven (great drama about an autistic boy who starts a cleaning job...though not the kind of cleaning job you'd expect)

[Sivante]

I switch between genshin impact and ffxiv.

If i'm not playing games i am quite the asian drama addict.
Let me just info dump some good ones from my all time favorites:
Love between fairy and devil
Love like the galaxy
Legend of shen li, THE DOUBLE!
The k2, Mr sunshine,
Move to heaven (great drama about an autistic boy who starts a cleaning job...though not the kind of cleaning job you'd expect)

I have a friend that swears by some of those, particularly 'Love between fairy and devil.' But to be honest I opted to reply to you because of your quote. Colin Robinson alway needs highlighting.

[OdinelStarrei]

I'm going back to Monster Hunter. The trailers for Wilds and how excited everyone is made me realize that that series, not FF, is truly one of my ride or dies. I have never, not once been screwed over or lied to by the MH team, and even when they try new and kind of insane controversial things like in 3U or Rise or Generations or super late endgame Iceborne, they never forget their roots, and they never forget their fans.

We are just happy there. The people there are just willing to help, teach and discuss things, see cool plays, compliment each other. And I don't have to see the primary ways I play and enjoy the game (Switch Axe/Gunlance) ruined or dumbed down. Do things change game to game? Yes! But the core game has remained mostly intact for over twenty years and has GROWN with it's players in tandem. So much ambition, and there are no excuses, just a lot of love from the players and the developers alike. MH is like a reliable best friend who I've known and trusted my whole life, and XIV is like a long time relationship that has turned sour and toxic, but we have too much tied up together to split up.

Going back to Iceborne for a few weeks has really reinforced just how much I love being in the Monster Hunter community, and that I truly hate what has happened to Final Fantasy XIV. There is no joy here, only spite for the game, talking down to other people, hating other people, hating the developers/writers, and being hated in turn. The polarization is exhausting. Can't even go into a hunt train nowadays without some kind of argument or fight breaking out, can't even remember the last time I even talked to someone in XIV or about XIV and have it be a positive experience.

Every time I come back to Monster Hunter, that's where my friends are, that's where my passions feel respected, I feel like I'm coming home.

[MoofiaBossVal]

I'm going through my backlog of visual novels. Need to finish World End Economica.

Will play the new WoW expansion when it launches in a couple weeks.

[Aurumis]

Gonna try bringing the positive junk out again

Yoshida has commented about playing other games, and encourages players to step away from FFXIV and return later as necessary. We also know Yoshi tried Elden Ring, WoW, EQ, and others. I've seen it said on these forums, often in fact, 'go play something else then.' It's a popular dismissal. I've seen people say that for the quality of content received at the pace we get it we 'might as well' play Genshin Impact, which has no sub by comparison but provides comparable (apparently?) experience and enjoyment.


Please, as always, try to be civil: this isn't an invitation to start flaming other games out of FFXIV pride or vice versa. We have enough friction in the other threads to fuel a fusion reactor as it is.

I know you try to make it positive but, If the dev of the game, aka Yoshi-P, comes from the shadows, to say to his players: "if you don't like it, play other games." ................. it's not making it sound good, we all pay for a subscription, we all dedicated enough hours of our lives to the game to just... be given that as an answer of why the expansion is so bad. The best thing he can say is: "while we fix the problem we ourselves made, I can only ask for your patience and meanwhile I hope you can enjoy other games as much as I do when I am unhappy by the mistakes the devs from one of the games I'm paying every month and that I love dear are adknowledge and working on it, this time, listening"

Any way...

I enjoy playing many games, I went back to Genshin, yes, it's free and even with it's flaws, it's better than what we got in DT. Playing Wuwa and also Love and Deepspace.

Also played lately:

Trails into Reverie
Hades 2
Yakuza like a Dragon
Burnhouse Lane
Unicorn Overlord
Fear and Hunger

[lolnotacat]

Been playing lots of Crusader Kings 3 lately. I even somehow found myself on an RP mod team as a writer.

GW2 or WoW is def a better choice. Unless you can snag ESO for free to try it out for yourself, I would not recommend.

GW2 has pretty fun gameplay but the story is bad. Like the entire thing is Dawntrail tier or worse aside from a few moments. *Salute to Demmi and Tybalt*

[AnimaAnimus]

GW2 has pretty fun gameplay but the story is bad. Like the entire thing is Dawntrail tier or worse aside from a few moments. *Salute to Demmi and Tybalt*

This is just blatantly wrong lol. GW2 writing and story telling isn't great, that I will give you. But comparing it to and saying its even worse than Dawntrail is hilarious and makes me think you are def looking at FFXIV through some sort of tinted lens.

[Astrus]

This is just blatantly wrong lol. GW2 writing and story telling isn't great, that I will give you. But comparing it to and saying its even worse than Dawntrail is hilarious and makes me think you are def looking at FFXIV through some sort of tinted lens.

How good a story is, technical writing mistakes aside, has always been subjective as even the threads about Dawntrail demonstrate.
The story of GW2's core game isn't exactly great in my opinion but picks up in HoT, peaks in PoF and then falls off again with IBS. I haven't finished SotO yet so won't say anything about that but I liked what I saw in the first half of it. EoD intentionally omitted as I'll admit a lot of my views on that expansion are tinted by the series veteran's disappointment of it just not feeling like Factions' Cantha even if it is hundreds of years later.

I also wouldn't say the story is as bad as Dawntrail's MSQ at any point but that might just be recency bias.

[Shinku_Tachi]

I know you try to make it positive but, If the dev of the game, aka Yoshi-P, comes from the shadows, to say to his players: "if you don't like it, play other games." ................. it's not making it sound good, we all pay for a subscription, we all dedicated enough hours of our lives to the game to just... be given that as an answer of why the expansion is so bad. The best thing he can say is: "while we fix the problem we ourselves made, I can only ask for your patience and meanwhile I hope you can enjoy other games as much as I do when I am unhappy by the mistakes the devs from one of the games I'm paying every month and that I love dear are adknowledge and working on it, this time, listening"

Any way...

I enjoy playing many games, I went back to Genshin, yes, it's free and even with it's flaws, it's better than what we got in DT. Playing Wuwa and also Love and Deepspace.

Also played lately:

Trails into Reverie
Hades 2
Yakuza like a Dragon
Burnhouse Lane
Unicorn Overlord
Fear and Hunger

Yakuza (RGG Studio) and Trails love, I love to see it <3