At this point, we can't say much more that doesn't start to sound like the demented ravings of a schoolchild playing with water guns. I'll risk it once more (fills squirt gun).
But this is an inherent narrative weakness in this type of story anyway:
1) Declare the protagonist to be the Powerful Chosen One
2) Have Protagonist win every fight against opponents of Demigod-level power.
3) Force Protagonist to conveniently forget this fact so that half-arsed, weak villain with scrubs not fit to wipe the Protagonist's boots can create artificial tension in a weakly written narrative, to which Protagonist, like a 7-year-old's Rage Comic, says, "Okay."
"Hey, Player! Guess what - your protagonist doesn't get to fight our scrubs, so we can stop you from being heroic when everything THAT YOU HAVE DONE AS A PLAYER becomes inconvenient to our narrative!"
![[Image: Okay_(rage_face).jpg]](http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130127222310/random-ness/images/0/0f/Okay_(rage_face).jpg)
FFXIV's plot has Joker Immunity, sometimes, and I no longer accept that I'm just spoiled. Other media have had to deal with this contradiction - I mentioned Superman, earlier, as an example, and a LOT of Superhero and fantasy stories have addressed the problem of how to handle an uberpowerful character. SE hasn't been reading, or heeding, any of these, so far as I can see in this game.
I get that the WoL is supposed to be an "Everyman", to risk the gendered term, for any sort of human player, but who CAN get behind this character, acting the way he/she does? Even if we say that the WoL doesn't want to kill, and wants to make people happy, how in the heck does it excuse...
Warning - 2.55 Spoiler
....ahem.
This really had stopped bothering me for awhile. I was content to let the bad writing be bad writing and go on with having my game. But SE says that no one gets into Ishgard without sitting through this story, and there are already hints that our protagonist is going to be the same SuperSheep that put up with all this.
I take it personally because it's bad writing, bad writing that we have no choice but to endure to get to the actual new, fun content that we're all waiting for, in which we all can write better, more intelligent stories than the one we're being made to endure.
By the way, this is the same kind of thing that made the movie Alien3 flop, and deservedly so.
But this is an inherent narrative weakness in this type of story anyway:
1) Declare the protagonist to be the Powerful Chosen One
2) Have Protagonist win every fight against opponents of Demigod-level power.
3) Force Protagonist to conveniently forget this fact so that half-arsed, weak villain with scrubs not fit to wipe the Protagonist's boots can create artificial tension in a weakly written narrative, to which Protagonist, like a 7-year-old's Rage Comic, says, "Okay."
"Hey, Player! Guess what - your protagonist doesn't get to fight our scrubs, so we can stop you from being heroic when everything THAT YOU HAVE DONE AS A PLAYER becomes inconvenient to our narrative!"
FFXIV's plot has Joker Immunity, sometimes, and I no longer accept that I'm just spoiled. Other media have had to deal with this contradiction - I mentioned Superman, earlier, as an example, and a LOT of Superhero and fantasy stories have addressed the problem of how to handle an uberpowerful character. SE hasn't been reading, or heeding, any of these, so far as I can see in this game.
I get that the WoL is supposed to be an "Everyman", to risk the gendered term, for any sort of human player, but who CAN get behind this character, acting the way he/she does? Even if we say that the WoL doesn't want to kill, and wants to make people happy, how in the heck does it excuse...
Warning - 2.55 Spoiler
....ahem.
This really had stopped bothering me for awhile. I was content to let the bad writing be bad writing and go on with having my game. But SE says that no one gets into Ishgard without sitting through this story, and there are already hints that our protagonist is going to be the same SuperSheep that put up with all this.
I take it personally because it's bad writing, bad writing that we have no choice but to endure to get to the actual new, fun content that we're all waiting for, in which we all can write better, more intelligent stories than the one we're being made to endure.
By the way, this is the same kind of thing that made the movie Alien3 flop, and deservedly so.
"But in the laugh there was another voice. A clearer laugh, an ironic laugh. A laugh which laughs because it chooses not to weep."
![[Image: 3610850.jpg]](http://assets-cloud.enjin.com/users/1266293/pics/original/3610850.jpg)
