I asked Final Fantasy 14 players which NPC in FFXIV they dislike or hate the most and the answers were positively unhinged!
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Post-Endwalker Patch Spoilers: (and also a huge rant)
Zero.
In fairness this is not the fault of the character herself but rather the dreadful, inconsistent writing. They introduced this really interesting, strong woman who came with a whole bunch of potential RPR lore and connections to the WoL because she was Zeno's avatar. She was kind and caring but dark and mysterious at the same time, she had a cool design and I was really interested to see what they were going to do with her.
Then the subsequent patches spat all over that and regressed her so badly that she became bland, generic and worst of all – ANNOYING. I did not care to hear Zero question 'what is love / what is friendship' over and over again especially when she already had a basic understanding of this concept and just mysteriously forgot it after the first patch and I swear if I could have torn that stupid hat off her head I would have so she wouldn't keep tipping it. Then there's the weird sexual 'jokes' they kept doing with her. She had more development in the first patch than she had for the rest of the post-Endwalker MSQ and is arguably one of the WORST written characters in the main story and I say this as someone who also really disliked Lyse for the reasons mentioned in this video.
I am so glad Zero went back to the Void and right now I hope she stays there.
"Kiuka", for sure
I know most won't know him, but he's an NPC in the Doman Enclave who can give you a Hien card. I had to beat him over 200 times before he gave me that card. Even if someone wants to destroy the universe, I can't hate them as much as this vile scumbag. When I got the Triple Triad mount, I did warp to the Doman Enclave, and while riding on said mount, I laughed in the face of that disgusting dork!
Mr. Unskippable Dialogue Gaius Baelsar. I don't care that they tried to "redeem" him, I EVER get the chance to end him once and for all I will do so with malicious glee.
I hate Alpha, if one of my retainers brings me one more Alpha doll, I’m gonna snap.
I don't like Alphinaud. They should finally put him out of his misery :3 Also those damn moogles in HW… if I have to find another moogle again, it will be the end of them all. I swear!
asahi is the only one that come to mind i dislike lol. I do get very annoyed with lyse in stormblood but that might be the writing haha i dont hate the her as a character haha. i totally agree what you say lyse … and how could they hate graha. i love him soo much haha.and zenos i find his personality very interesting for his comparison of wol. i so far don;t really hate any character in the game even the villain they either likeable or ehh.
Zenos was pretty bland from the start. He comes off as FFXIVs we have FFVIIs Sephiroth at home. I would have had more respect for the character had he stayed dead from his suicide but since they brought him back and did nothing to justify it Shadowbringers and Endwalker work just fine without him only a few scenes would need some small changes which is sad. I went into Endwalker expecting them to do something with a character that was on the key art but it seems he was just there to give us the RPG "this is the real final boss" duty fight.
Graha tried to commit omnicide because he wanted the world back the way it was before, he did the same thing as the ascians and yet he is praised for it.
Asahi and Zenos.
Zenos felt shoehorned into the overall story of EW, and served only to be a distraction and annoyance. imo the entire climactic finish that had been building up over the course of the entire games lifespan was interrupted by zenos just being there for some reason because he wanted to fight you?
Lyse is one of my favorite characters, I will never understand other people’s hatred for her. She goes to extremes to help her people, and if she didn’t step up to lead the resistance, it would all be on M’naago and I don’t think that would be sustainable.
people say Shtola and Zenos have too much plotarmor and always come back but then say Graha is such a great character….yeaaah the guy who "died" on two occasions too? i dunno if i have an character i realy hate…maybe Hermes?
Ya know… I oddly feel the same about the loporrits but not the same way toward the moogles. (spoilers of course) I feel like they subtracted from a lot of the tone EW could've had on the moon. You have half the map dedicated to the birth and end of Zodiark, the Amaurotians, the place we've been meme'ing about going to in patch 10.0… That's all disrupted by these cute lil creatures being there as some form of refuge for the WoL and party. I understand the reference and I'm sure people were delighted to see them, but I would've liked them farther away from one of the most pivotal plot points in the whole game. Also I'm surprised to show up in this one XD thank you! <3 I just need Y'shtola to go through something to give us a sense of her actual mortality at this point.
To be honest, people would like some npcs a lot more if they wouldn't write SHORT STORIES in the deepest corner of the Lodestone! There are so many IMPORTANT informations about characters, it's actually unbelievable!! Did you know Lyse's sister died PROTECTING young Fordola who ran away from the Imperial city??? And they NEVER said ANYTHING in the msq!?
Its Tataru for me… she's sus and keeps bringing tourists to my island sanctuary and she ends up everywhere – hell we don't know where we'll end up but somehow … she's there, it is very very sus. (that and being the only one to walk away from the waking sands thing.)
Emmanellain…. my hate for this one NPC is so great its unhealthy. I have on more then one occasion become irrationally angry when he is included in ANYTHING.
I enjoy hating on the cat boi just because it makes his horde of fangirls livid.
I never HATED Lyse… but I have to admit, when she announced she was leaving the Scions, I just went… “Yeah. That’s probably for the best.”
You’re going to hate me for this, but Haurchefaunt. I can’t stand how everyone simps for him when he was a bigger simp for the Warrior of Light than G’raha Tia. His death was also so forgettable to me that I forgot he existed until Shadowbringers and a friend reminded me he existed. His death makes even less sense when you do that scene as a healer. Just fix the freaking knife wound! He’ll be fine!
I will agree to a degree about Y’shtola. I like her and all, but Square will never kill her off because she’s too marketable. Gotta sell those creepy looking $1000 ball joint dolls somehow.
Tataru is the evil mastermind of ffxiv
ngl, thancred started to suck after a while, especially in shb, he treated Ryne really badly and it seemed like he was turning into this dean winchester type "dude" character just, "cool guy, gets girls, shoots gun, sad about fridged woman character," i cant help but roll my eyes whenever he shows up
For me it was Zenos, don't get me wrong he was a good character but I don't like how he came back and I really don't like his stalker persona that came with him when he came back.
Yotsuyu…I hate her, i hate what they did to her in the post SB missions, and i was HAPPY when she went out.
Y'shtola. Ever since ShB, I cant stand her and EW made it worse.
Ilberd. Flatout. Zenos isn't my fav but he did not fill me with the same level of volatile emotion as Ilberd did. Not even Teledji Adeledji or Arch Bishop Thordan or even Asahi.
Is it wrong to say I like Athena because she is a deranged egomaniac?
Anyways, thanks again for another great video Avy!
I can't really say that the moogles deserve the hate because they have always been the mascots of the franchise and never once they have been straight up annoying to the main characters, they are like living plushies and helpful on top of that. The moon rabbits on the other hand… they were wayyyyy better in final fantasy 4 because THEY WERE PRESENT ONLY IF WE FOUND THEM AND HAD 1 UTILITY WHICH WAS RENAMING OUR CHARACTERS but in 14 my god… Everytime they appeared in the story it just broke the immersion (like that one scene in Garlemald where we finally get a reason why Zenos act the way he does even tho it is pretty lame) and boy was it unbearable.