(05-26-2015, 01:26 PM)Gegenji Wrote: I'm... ambivalent on the whole situation, myself. FFXIV is very much trying to tell a character-based story and be an MMO at the same time, which is indeed quite a different tack from WoW.
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And in that vein, I'll be that guy, because my shame reserves are low:
If I didn't find the MSQ so despicably irritiating. I'd care less. I don't dislike the STORY as much as I loathe the NPCs and, even more, that I'm forced to play the Woobie/idiot savant/ "Evil always triumphs because good is dumb" character.
Nathan himself is a good enough guy that I can swallow it, but Magma... Mags would have bludgeoned at least a dozen NPCs into paste (Trachtoum, rest in pieces), and told Minfilia where she could stick her linkpearl.
Yeah, I know, Rper problems. I know, as I have said a dozen times, I got spoiled for stories by other games. But that video in the spoiler link says plenty.
"But in the laugh there was another voice. A clearer laugh, an ironic laugh. A laugh which laughs because it chooses not to weep."