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1 think I don't agree wtih is when people say "but they're just the memories" without anything else.
yet we have Graha, sure the current Graha is alive and well, but we act like he's still the same person from the 1st, he isn't, he has his memories but we somehow act like the crystal exarch is our graha, he really isn't.
But in relation to "erasing" the endless, at this point in the story I was more in "let's just get this over with" kind of mood, I was tired of the constant "LeT's LeArN aBoUt ThEiR cUlTuRe" theme we had the entire expansion, on top of obviously Wuk being there as well.
I didn't skip anything until we got to the 4th area there and we go "flower picking" and i'm like "WHY ARE WE EVEN DOING THIS?!"
Erenville's "sad" moment with his mom was also just bad and didn't make me feel anything, I was more annoyed than anything that we had this gloomy bunny boy with us and the camera made damn sure to make sure that Erenville is brooding, while nobody can do anything for him and he's just pouting in the corner over there like a little kid, till he finally snaps at the end, but it's too late for me to remotely care.
But her "honest" review doesn't seem honest.
she mentions she had fun in DT, yet then also mentions that DT's surroundings and story is immersion breaking. (this review was the story thing as she said she didn't even mention the gameplay)
I hope that they course correct in the patch MSQ, but 7.1 doesn't have me being hopeful, they NEED to remove Wuk entirely, we're sick and tired of her, what's the 1st scene we see? fucking Wuk.
sure she shuts up more often now, thank fuck for that, but the fact that she's there just makes me go "when is she gonna open her yapping mouth again and ruin everything?" (also, the whole "Wuk can't fail" angle doesn't stop in 7.1 either, even if she "fails" to convince the kid about the issues on mortality (something she has no struggle with, but these people for the 1st time in their lives feel grief, they for the 1st time know that if they die, they won't come back, that safety net has been taken away) Wuk just goes back to her cheery self near instantly)
I don't know if anyone has mentioned it but the giants' (trolls) models are from FFXI. I don't remember much about the Pelu from FFX, but I wouldn't be surprised if they reused their models from FFX too or at least the HD version. I know they reuse a lot of the monsters from XII and the XIII trilogy so I wouldn't be surprised if they did the same for these two groups of people.
Let WoL explore steps of Azem, time skip, make us made new character that isn't WoL, and see how world progressed.
Was bad, I don't see the point of dragging this, the negatives outshine the positives, everyone tries to sweet talk ff 14, end was crap, and so we move on, Endwalkers is pure ass, I'm not going to lower my standards or expectations just because these god danm content creators are afraid to PROPERLY criticize the game.
The tubers voice is too light and powdery, I can't 😂 We need Zepla's to the point, blunt voice 😅
I dont love the reviewers take of " the msq is still better than other MMOs though" because I feel like that is the attitude the dev team is expecting us to have as they slip into complacency.
This video is 6 months old and was only a little after the launch of the expansion.
And I totally agree with time this expansion becomes worse not just thinking back of the MSQ but even the dungeons so cool in the beginning now with allthe classes I need to level up they become all the same all plain and linear something to power through to get to the end and then there is nothing to do at the end for months.
I think with all three siblings it was an attempt to show that while it’s stated with equal affection with their father there were obvious parental gaps(this is normal with children). Wuk, it’s that she knows nothing about her society. For Koana… its probably something that’s inbetween the two, he gained appreciation for the culture but he sees how they’re “behind” the outside world and never learned anything beyond the surface level. But then you have Zoraal who is supposed to be special since his birth is an impossibility and he seemingly does know and understand the culture. He probably felt someway in having adopted siblings as if he’s being told he’s not enough and then tack on the contest for something he probably felt was his birthright. I think under normal thought processes, no clue why he would want to invade the outside world, but if you look at it as corrupted values of his father in gathering the tribes, it makes sense.
The comment on the endless… i think it’s too early to comment given the patch cycle appears to have more focus on solution9 and Alexandria. It’s very much like completing HW msq and being like “we didn’t resolve the nidhogg subplot” before the patch cycle concludes. I mean… what? At least wait until it finishes before we assume it’s never being explored.
Sadly the problem won't be fixed because society is too immature to suggest people involved with the writing should be fired.
People assume management is to blame or that there was a miscommunication or that a worker wasn't motivated.
Sometimes a writer is just not an interesting person and shouldn't have a career in writing. Many of the plot points make it very clear that at least one writer is a very immature person that doesn't think in an insightful way. Writing is incredibly difficult and a small # of people are capable of doing it. They need to set way higher standards. Only exceptional and incredibly mature/insightful people should have a career in writing. Getting a degree doesn't make you any good.
Ffxiv has the pokemon issue where they need it to be squares most profitable game so their budget is significantly reduced so they make as much money as possible and the game is suffering so much because of it
the tuliyollal music is so weird. like why am I hearing jazz in an ancient mayan/south american city? we fell so far down from old sharlayan lmfao
Zepla lived long enough to become the villian in her ff14 journey. Asmon would be proud
Another person who dislikes/doesn't think Tulyolal ost fits. That confirmation bias feels good.
4:00 A fundamental issue with this is how she fails to understand when it is about you and when it isn't. It's not about you in Stormblood, ARR's post game until your blessing is undone, and during the Endwalker's post game. Especially Stormblood. We have no stake in the war at all. We're only in it because we want to help Lyse. Lyse, who gets sidelined by the ONE TRUE LORD for the rest of the expansion. At least it gave us Zenos. A tangible villain who totally isn't going to die the first and often only time he fights us. Actual staying power. Dawntrail is such a nothing ride. We have no moment because there is no moment. It's never that it wasn't about us. It's that the devs gave us a Monopoly board and allowed only reading how we help Princess Sheltered walk her dumbass from point A to B just to talk to her for more learning the 'lore'.
Dat moment when you realize Wut Lamat is the only feature complete hrothgar in the entire game and yet somehow even she is incomplete. I so want off this ride.
4:55 Um….. No? First why is Stormblood suspiciously missing from this addled summary? And second. No. It got political more than once, and the WoL was a victim of politics.
I’m going to say this, and it’s my personal feelings on ffxiv since playing since 1.0. Outside of 1.0, dawntrail to me is easily the worst expansion/narrative in all of ffxiv
Living memory should have been a long debate on the ethics only for one of the characters namely Wuk without any warning to shut it down to everyone's surprise.
It’s very clear to me on the cultural context side that the intention of the authors was to tell the triforce story. Each of the claimants represent one piece with the two head guy representing Ganon. The problem is that it’s super hamfisted and badly executed.
The issue the real main issue(other than Wuk Lamat never shutting up) is the fact the trials to become dawnservant drags on way too long. The story of Sphene and all the other stuff should have been the main focus and they should have devoted more time to getting us to actually care about the "mass murder" of the last zone.
I silenced the voice lines after a while, because I just couldn't listen to wuk anymore. There was more wrong with them like Tancred and Y'shtola atrocious implementation, but wuk was just so… pointless… a lot…. idk
DT MSQ was maddening. Literally felt like we weren't really doing anything, other than chaperoning Wuk on her press tour cuz we really were NOT mentoring her at all; nor was mentoring her our job either. Everything in the first half of the MSQ felt very much: we need these things to happen to hit a quota or a plot point and nothing felt organic. Even the first trial, Valigarmanda, didnt feel like a natural progression point, it just fell at that point where a Trial was needed. Everything was so superficial and contrived.
We get to the second half of the MSQ, after the intermission with Erenville, and again, we are treated not like the protagonist, but like Wuk's weapon. We are following her, nodding and smiling and doing the battling for her while we don't have nay actual stakes ourselves in anything that happens.
DT felt more like a boring transition into something better (cuz we have all been intrigued by the other reflections sinces ShB) rather than an amazing new beginning.
Living Memory… my hesitation on turning off the servers and committing AI genocide was based more on wanting to hang out in this beautifully designed map rather than the moral/ethical questions of "what constitutes life?"
the soul thing I was under the impression that the "backup" souls are normally taken from the beasts in the wilderness while only being taken from people every so often and that is why people were getting their memories erased when someone's soul was used.