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Well... They aren't wrong, but that's not why I thought the expansion was the worst one so far.
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Thancred is my favorite NPC character and I really wish he did die during that segment that they baited it, it just felt like the right time for him and worked with his character arc / realisations he had through out the expansion...I knew they wouldn't be ballsy enough to do it though.
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- 17 de Sep, 2020
Dang are there really that many SB stans? Point me to my people please. Since I've gotten back I've literally seen nothing but hate for the expac. I get ShB is objectively better, but you can like something without constantly shitting on something else.
As for fujoshikawa, I think she just gets that rep because the games story since HW has had a reputation of being gay as fuck. This is also why there are lgbtrannies under every nook and cranny since they love to latch onto that shit. Ishikawa gets blamed because shes the only big name writer basic bitches would know, and the nail that sticks out gets the hammer.
As for fujoshikawa, I think she just gets that rep because the games story since HW has had a reputation of being gay as fuck. This is also why there are lgbtrannies under every nook and cranny since they love to latch onto that shit. Ishikawa gets blamed because shes the only big name writer basic bitches would know, and the nail that sticks out gets the hammer.
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- 21 de Abr, 2019
SB is still the most unpopular expansion by a large margin, but some people apply current year politics to it and from that perspective SB is the best at representing lefty politics like "REVOLUTION GOOD". The amount of mouthbreathers I hear tell me "SAM'S SB STORY IS BAD BECAUSE IT SAYS REVOLUTION BAD, BUT MSQ SAYS REVOLUTION GOOD! THIS DUMB" because they don't know what the hell nuance is tells me a lot about how despite people reading the text, they actually don't know how to read. Most SB stans seem to be on a spectrum of very to ultra lefty to my knowledge, so if you're on this website you'd probably not fit in very well with them.
A lot of these sorts of people despise Shadowbringers in particular because it dared to not just make its antagonist a laughing dark wizard piece of flashy cardboard for us to beat up to own the fash and stop dark wizard hitler or whatever. I've actually had people tell me "I don't want a sympathetic or empathetic antagonist, I just want to kill them" which tells me just about everything I need to know. Say anything even remotely positive about those antagonists and suddenly you support RL eugenics and nazism.
On an entirely different topic Xenosys Vex now says his RMT bought gear was him buying his gear "from a friend" and the money was to show "appreciation". He also states that he only reuploaded the video because apparently meanie mean people sent him threats and hatemail or something. Not because he, you know, said something that could get him banned (again), so he wants to scrub the evidence.
Also the absolute irony of his twitter profile saying "Become the change you wish to see" then his timeline is full of "Everyone RMTs anyway, so I don't care about it, but also getting rid of RMT posts is good anyway and I don't like RMT" right now.
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- 11 de Dic, 2019
Counterpoint: Lyna and Ryne
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- 11 de Dic, 2019
I don't think Thancred should have died in that scene, what I do think is that you should have beaten Ran'jit in the first confrontation with him and from then on out everytime you meet him you see him twisting and changing himself into a Sin-eater to get enough power to get Minfillia back, this would have been paralleled nicely in the one on one fight with Thancred destroying his body to kill Ran'jit. I think he should survive as you could take that and then have him use that experience against someone like Zenos someone who also changed themselves to become stronger just to fight you.
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- 17 de Sep, 2020
lol I've seen this quite a bit.
Liking a mmojrpg expansion just because it sorta kinda maybe aligns with you politically is a level of sad I didnt know existed.
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- 27 de Ene, 2021
What I personally think about stromblood is that it isn't that bad, but there are really big stupid things in the plot, that really take away from the experience. For example one of the biggest problems is that we try to start a war in two fronts to have less troops available to be against us in ala mhigo. Only to win at doma and technically make that trip basically worthless. Also they fucking ruined Yda. Like I don't know how they fucking accomplished that.
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It is even more pathetic and stupid because Ugetsu is a typical "Strong survive, weak serve/die/whatever" sort of leader. So assuming Ugetsu didn't just make a power vacuum that spirals into anarchy or some sort of shitty big wig capitalist merchant takes the reigns, he'd just devolve into another Gaius which these sorts of "BASH FASH, REBELS GOOD" sort of retards also tend to despise him too.
Also from what I was explained Ugetsu's whole rebellion idea is based around a point in Japanese history where said rebellion actually worked, I believe it was the Sengoku period, which was a total absolute trash fire period of history from what I understand. So if that is true (someone with better history knowledge feel free to correct me), this is a case of Japan using NotJapan to talk about real Japanese history within a fictional world, and then westerns come in and go "WHY YOU SO DUMB JAPAN, DEFEAT TYRANNY ALWAYS GOOD",
The reason the other liberations are good is because they had some semblance of a plan of what to do next, or at least immediately took action to establish leadership, form a list of rights, laws, and etc to actually change a nation instead of just liberating it and calling it a day. Hell Bozja for example actually takes some of Garlean's policy because they know parts of it are better then their old government policy. Ugetsu has no plan, he just wants change because the status quo sucks and that's as far as his brain goes.
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- 23 de Ene, 2019
It wouldn't surprise me one bit if these people hate Bozja for that reason after their story ended with their reasoning being "The garleans are bad, you are bad for mimicking them they are a fascist paramilitary organization that is objectively evil" even though the whole theme of that story was coming to understand your enemies and learning from your past failures to grow even stronger. Then again this is the same community that obnoxiously praised the shit out of Shadowbringer's storyline which don't get me wrong was good, but it felt to me like a souped-up disney film that took a wrong turn to Square Enix's desk with little to no morally grey shaded areas to be found other than the emet-selch character arc and the theme of pining for home. It goes to show you that every psuedo-intellectual millennial or gen z gamer these days who happen to play FFXIV has the reading and literacy comprehension of a ten year old because movies like Avengers: Endgame get high praise and movies like Se7en or Gone Girl are called problematic.
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- 21 de Abr, 2019
That's nothing compared to how those types see Sorrow of Werlyt, because how dare we let an antagonist actually develop and learn anything from their mistakes?
FFXIV has a very general theme against extremes, as every extremist character is dead or in sight to be killed if they don't shape up. You can have the worst sob story ever (Yotsuyu) and still die because you let your emotions get the best of you and compel you to take the most extreme answer you can find. It is through overcoming your plights, being aware of yourself, and taking in your experiences that make you stronger. That's why the WoL is so strong, while their heroic stoicism is obviously just a narrative limitation of them being a PC, the writers use that to convey that for all the WoL feels, for how much shit they go through, and how much ptsd, survivor's guilt, and who knows what else they can still be the hero. In fact because they can go through all of this and still hold strong, is precisely why they're the hero. That's why just about everyone gets a chance at redemption or to rethink their actions in this story, even if they basically tell you to go fuck yourself later.
So this extremist "bash the fash"/"punch a nazi" types don't actually get that by FFXIV's themes, they'd be on the chopping block eventually because they let their emotions control them to think in only extremes.
It is why Redditor Alphinaud royally screws up literally everything in ARR and he has to get his head out of his ass if he wants to truly help people.
It is why Alisaie's emotionally driven tantrums and inability to work with people at the start has to be overcome through acceptance of her reality in Coil.
It is why Thancred has to learn to let go of his problems, as him holding onto them is negatively affecting everyone around him and himself.
It is why Urianger has to learn to see past his loss when he loses someone important and remember that he still has things to do here.
It is why Y'shtola...uh...okay she has kind of nothing going on really, she's 2cool4school best waifu pls step on my little sun uwu. But 4/5 is a good ratio okay?
The entire story is basically telling everyone "I understand you plight, I feel for you, and I wish you well, but you must move on" and those that don't are doomed to fail.
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I would argue that's a problem, too. Her and Alphinaud have been incredibly obnoxious, although it seems Alphinaud got a serving of humble pie at the end of ARR, which was a welcome relief. But like 5 seconds later he's back to being an insufferable cunt.
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Alphinaud's development is mostly in Heavensward and you get bits and pieces more in the other expansions as he slowly has to come to terms with his mistakes. He pretty much goes from "Insufferable redditor who thinks he's in charge" to "Idealist who takes action alongside people". It isn't the most original thing on the planet, but I like his arc a lot and at least he's willing to get his little hands dirty and actually fight in HW instead of telling the WoL to do literally everything. It also doesn't help that Sam Riegel is doing some fake posh brit thing in ARR, while his HW voice isn't faking an accent to my knowledge.
Y'shtola is probably one of the most static main characters in the plot and it is really boring. I think the only character I can think of who's more static is Gridania's leader Kan-E-Senna who has done jack all and Gridania hasn't been really relevant since...2.1?-ish so about 8 years ago. Y'shtola is sort of okay in ARR and then just...nothing.
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I wonder if Y'shtola will get chewed out really hard at Old Sharlayan?
She got a lot of whoops almost die in cutscene and she always get away with it (except in HW she become blind)
She got a lot of whoops almost die in cutscene and she always get away with it (except in HW she become blind)
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Come to think of it, it's mentioned ingame that her new way of seeing is supposed to put a strain on her body but in practice it doesn't seem like it.
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The only thing I feel they're missing is a female villain that doesn't die or defect within 1 expansion. The villains get to chew the scenery the most, and the two in Stormblood never really got to spread their wings.
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When you think about it; narratively, Endwalker is the perfect time for Y'shtola's turn to "die" so to speak. She had her arc of narrowly surviving multiple gotchas, but each one apparently takes a toll. Endwalker would be a good time to whip that toll out.
Which also means that'd never happen because Scions.
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For anyone that doesn't play FFXIV and understand how autistic this is, let me try and explain.
This guy was paying real money on day 1 to prepare for a raid that wouldn't release in another 28 days.
That's 4 entire weeks of unlocked dungeons (430 gear) with 0 lockdown. You also get a free entire set of 430 gear from the story.
Two weeks of Normal Raid (during which time you will get 8 tokens worth of 450 gear)
4 entire weeks of hunting (450 gear)
4 weeks for the entire server's crafters to catch up and sell crafted ** gear for a normal amount of gil (450 gear).
Completely unnecessary. The game is expressly designed to give everyone plenty of time and several unrestricted avenues to gear up before the Savage raid tier is released. Of course you would have to pay crafters RMT for a full set of max level gear on day 1, because at that point the crafter would have.
- Cleared the entire story
- Leveled (via grinding) all gatherers or know someone who has to get day 1 rare resources
- Leveled (via grinding/leves) all crafters, including grinding scrip to unlock all recipies.
- Fully geared a fully or partially melded (and extremely expensive) set of gear.
No shit this person is going to want a fuckton of gil. Just wait a few weeks when everyone else catches up. Jesus christ.
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- 21 de Abr, 2019
I'm pretty sure this is for the 4.2/4.4/5.2/5.4 etc blitz that always happens with new tiers when the new crafted set comes out.
So this would be auto buying i480/i510 pentamelded gear back in 5.2/5.4 within the first hour so they can clear the tier week 1, which is the only reason to rush grab crafted pentamelded shit. It is autistic, but not THAT autistic.