So I Finally Completed Coils and Alexander in FFXIV and I have some thoughts. These two raids are from A Realm Reborn and Heavensward, so their quality are quite different.
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I did the coils during its relevancy. Back then, having a crucial part of the story walled behind the most difficult content at the time was controversial. As far as I remember, there was less than 3% of the population was able to see the entire story and have bare the title. I was fortunate enough to be that minority then. It was hard not to spoil the story to others then but I wanted to talk about it.
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I agree man, I wish HeavensWard raids had some voice lines.
Yes, in my opinion ARR Alisae voice is worse than ARR Minfilia
I have just finished up Omega, for the 2nd time, on an Alt. There's not quite the same amount of critical story in Omega as was in Coils or Alex, but there's IS some interesting info that is relevant to Endwalker. In anycase, the fights are very fun and they change things up quite often.
I like show the Perfect Alexander as picture before video started.
I disagree. To me Coils is my favorite raid story with Omega in 2nd place. Yeah voices are bad but Alisaie & Alphinaud saying their goodbyes to their grandpa was really emotional for me. Also loved the Meracydia/Allagan lore. Along with that amazing cutscene. Alexander was great too but Coils & Omega are special.
It always urks me to see former WoW players come over and complain about how little voice acting is in the game. You have to realize that voice work is very expensive (prohibitively so in many cases) and Square Enix allocates their funds in vastly different ways than Blizzard. Let's also not forget the difference in budget between the companies, particularly at the time these two raids were released. Blizzard had ridiculous coffers to pull from, while SE did what they could with what they had (and hit home runs with it).
And I should warn you now that there is very little voice work in any raid past Coils. There are a few random bits here and there, certainly not as much as ShB or EW story cutscenes.