Well that and also Louisoix is an old-ass man who's been on the road for most of his life. He's supposed to be pretty tanned.
Looking forward to Ultima's Bane (Unreal). I don't like many of the ARR extremes (especially hyper gimmicky ones like Thornmarch and Whorleater) so I skipped the mode, but Ultima's Bane will be cool.
Out of curiosity, at what point in a given fight's design does its mechanics distinguish itself as being gimmicky or not?
As a general rule, yeah, and there's a lot of fights in the game with those mechanics.
FFXIV's community feels like absolute shit to play the game with on average because these people don't value anyone's enjoyment but their own, these people practically enjoy wasting your time because "you don't pay my sub" tier arguments. It is just exhausting, I should want to enjoy playing with people in an MMO but I hate how coddled this community is and I wish Yoshi-P would just slap these retards. even though he never will for obvious reasons and while I understand his perspective I hate dealing with these people.
I've been taking a break too but personally I never had any issues with the community to begin with cause I just block or mute anyone on social media who's annoying and don't socialize ingame.
If you're going to interact with the social media part of the community, you have to be able to not internalize tumblr mind poison. That goes for any fandom really, but FFXIV is particularly severe in this aspect because it's been running for so long and the game actually supports people projecting themselves and their social circles into the world itself.
Weirdly enough, I find that people who aren't NEETs want to raid at these ass-backwards times. I was the only one unemployed in my old static during the pandemic and I still didn't want to raid 9 PM to midnight on Saturday and Sunday.
yee i was thinking of the niggas who expect you to raid either on the 5pm ish timeslots (for many wagies in the US, barely enough time to get home from wagecucking if traffic is autistic), or early morning weekdays, granted i havent been part of a group with schedules since i got a job, so im just talking about what ive seen than what ive experienced
Yeah, the story is extremely confusing and the pace rushes by. It does a pretty poor job of exploring themes that become prominent in latter content, particularly the relationships between the various nations and the personalities of the scions themselves. But beyond that, the gameplay is also extremely slow and boring - most of the jobs have very little to do at 50, much less before it. A lot of capstone abilities and traits come in the 50-70 stretch, before which you rarely have anything to manage or think about.
It is about 30-40 hours of almost brainless combat if you've ever played an MMO in your life, a story that doesn't feel like its going anywhere for most of those hours, and the classes/jobs are really badly put together at those levels due to skill pruning to add newer skills at higher levels without overly excessive button bloat. If you can get into the sort of DnD early levels tier story for the first 20-40 levels its okay at best, but ARR basically does mostly set up and only has two major pay offs after a couple dozen hours of ehhhhh stuff going on. I think it works well enough in retrospect, but it takes far too much time to get there for the average person unless you're a no life who can just smash through ARR in a week.
it's not even the combat, it's the utter feeling of not progressing at all because everything's tied to the MSQ. the quests being post-arr launch filler content doesn't help either.
I think the combat is extremely bad because it is literal 1 > 2 spam for the first 15 hours, then it is 1 > 2 > 3 spam, then after maybe 15 more hours you get a few off gcd weaves and an actual mechanic maybe. Considering people like to pitch FFXIV as having good gameplay, dealing with this for the next 60+ something hours probably makes that claim feel like a lie alongside the actual combat being a joke due to bad number scaling making easy fights even easier. So you are reading a questionable writing quality novel that feels like it goes nowhere, then you do a joke boss fight that dies in 2 minutes, then you go back to reading until you fight 3 dudes who die in 5 seconds then back to the novel.