(04-30-2014, 04:00 PM)Ignacius Wrote:This all over. FFT had a far darker political landscape than XIV did. I think its the best representation of a darker world in the FF universe, if we're making a list.(04-30-2014, 03:55 PM)thesunalsorises Wrote:(04-30-2014, 12:29 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: Little Ala Mhigo has some rather disturbing quests, for instance, and the city-states are definitely not unambiguously good. In fact, most of them engage in some pretty ugly realpolitik.
XIV's politics reminds me of the politics in Ivalice games, mainly XII and Tactics. Those two games had some brutal politics where the mode of operation was the ends justifying the means. I find that XIV's politics isn't as complicated as Ivalice's, in XII there's multiple factions and everyone has their own agenda and Tactics is well... even more complicated.
I don't want to spoil it for anyone, as for my money it's the best story in the FF world and everyone should play it for themselves. But the literature telling the tales between combat is some of the most interesting lore I've come across in the realm of FF games.
And the politics are twisting all over the place with shifting alliances, classicism, blood rivalries, open hostilities, quiet coups... your feet are never on solid ground during the entirety of it, and you find yourself questioning your closest friends and allies as much as you do your enemies. That game is the king of moral grey areas within the series. Love it.
