Myths of the Realm relies upon players not recalling lore written as recently as a year ago while disregarding all the messaging put forth in 6.0.
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Myths of the Realm relies upon players not recalling lore written as recently as a year ago while disregarding all the messaging put forth in 6.0.
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Enjoy listening to me butcher the names of the Twelve. 😛
Thank you for mentioning Hythlodaeus. Yoshi mentioned he thought Hyth was the scariest and most irresponsible of the ancients and the comment about him during myths felt like spite writing straight from the producer's mouth.
Now that I think about it, this faith device that holds the world together, just makes venat look worse, because the ancient world never needed such a thing, or gods to maintain it. So did the sundering damage the world so much that the world now needs this thing to function normally? Thats quite horrifying if so, and now the gods are dead and its in essentially maintenance mode with nothing to defend it. Also I wonder if the gods were just creations that developed souls on their own instead of actually using the soul dead ones? Derek being able to have a debate with venat over what it means to be free means he ironically has the most agency of any living character in the game regarding hydaelyn somehow. I am starting to wonder if whoever is writing the msq is taking jabs at endwalker with all those blatantly hypocritical lines, but I know I am probably just imagining it. Now that you mention the dark knight quests, thinking back, I just can’t believe the same person wrote those quests and endwalker, there must have been an insane amount of interference somewhere. Also llymlaen stabbing someone for going near a specimen does make her seem like the type of person to be convinced by hydaelyns plan, so thats something I guess. Do the 12 just disobey orders and walk around and get spotted or something? Because I can’t see why else people would know what they look like, like you said. Also, excited to see the video on the 6.x msq, that one is sure to be interesting.
Very disappointing storyline, Hmmm, well time to make better gods, let’s see who to pick. Join me in the first church of Haurchefant.
It makes a lot more sense when you view this through the lens of lead developer wants to curb stomp all ties back to not just 2.0 to 6.0 but 1.0 as well.
So the writers are literally just taking out the trash. 🙂 Cause they don't care. And the FFXIV forced smiles community will eat whatever slop gets put out. Especially if it's a big tittie hippie saying she loves them.
It's cool. We're just gonna completely disregard the fact Venat's transformation into Hydaelyn completely used up the souls of her cultis–err, cohorts. I'm sure the players won't notice at all.
Thanks for making this, it put into words a lot of things that had been bugging me about post 6.0 content.
You really nailed it about the setting getting anemic, off the top of my head there are almost no lore threads left. I suspect the heart of sabik/ultima will be a major factor eventually, but I cant only imagine how many retcons that will involve.
I really miss the story telling style from ARR and heavensward, the current style is so different it's past the point of being hard to stay invested. Optimistically, now that they've killed everything old off, it may serve as a potential spot for starting anew, but I worry that won't be the case. I guess we'll see.
Once again, brilliantly stated. Every one of those is points I have made myself, and I am thankful that someone much more eloquent than me could put them out in a video format for others to see.
Thank you very much for your hard work.
Ah, you've been dragged out of your slumber…didn't last very long, did it?
As someone of a more religious bent myself, I find the whole "the Twelve have to pass on, but we'll leave a machine in our place!" element rang very hollow. I do believe in real life that, yes, humanity needs religion. We naturally gravitate towards religious fervor, whether we believe in the supernatural or mere ideology. To remove that invites nihilism, which is typically self-destructive. Add on to that the fact that G'raha and Krile are gung ho for just…keeping a lie alive and it comes across as bizarre. I don't even see, from a writing perspective, what the value of removing the Twelve from the world is. What purpose does it serve?
"We wish to return to the star."
Y tho? They're constructs and seemingly possessing the capacity for desires and wants. I'd figure they'd be more like Oschon, diminished, but wanting to see the world, maybe assess the need for their existence in the aftermath of the EW story. Leaving aside the writing team's many failures this expansion, they just made this storyline feel rushed when there was explorable potential here (or, at minimum, little cameos around the world like Alpha and Omega). Bare minimum, this all feels like a total waste. They just want to destroy the past of the game world for no conceivable reason, despite how interesting and engaging they made it in Shadowbringers. Such a let down.
The rest of the video is whatever but what you said at 16:25 is plainly wrong to anyone that's played the game. The Warrior of Light fights the important battles but they're constantly supported by the Scions, militaries from multiple city states, adventurer guilds, etc. Not to mention the people of the 8th Umbral Calamity timeline that poured centuries of resources into saving them using a methed that even the Ancients hadn't come up with. The Warrior of Light's achievements are not just their own, but is shared by everyone who helped them along the way.
I feared yet again my warrior of light will be out of character in the storyline so i keep putting it off and it seems watching this I was pretty correct on that. I don't have much to say other then yet again thank you for pointing out the obvious issues with the storyline. I think I will just elect to skip the cutscenes on this one when I do it and save myself the headache of yet again more of the older plots getting tied up in the most ridiculous means possible to push a dull narrative devoid of any conflict or thinking.
I think Azem agreed with neither side but also, if we assume that Venat and Elidibus both spoke with them about their experiences with the WOL, they probably assumed that the future will take its course and their contribution to either side wouldn't change that. Honestly, my headcanon is they focused on easing the suffering for the general populace until the sundering happened and put things in place so the WOL would eventually spawn from them… and at the end of the day I think our headcanons for the WOL is never going to be topped by the writers.
Honestly I've long since quit FFXIV but if I still played I'd almost certainly have skipped the cutscenes of this raid story (which is hilarious and tragic since I'd never done that; I too, had faith in this story and game once, fool that I was). How utterly insulting….. I have no words, frankly FFXIV just makes me wanna act like Fandaniel these days ahahahaha.
The heavens and hells and the gods would have made a great expansion in itself. Like you said, they should have been larger than life and their realms could have been new zones. I always wanted to visit the Halls of Halone, instead we got halls of baloney.