As the title states, this conversation will include spoilers. Please don't read ahead if you haven't finished the MSQ. This will also be a bit lengthy so please bear with me.
I'd just like to start by saying that I've been playing FFXIV for 5 years now and what seems to keep me invested 80% of the time is the story. I often look forward to that over most of the content if I'm being completely honest. After playing through 5.0, I was blown away by the story-telling considering Shb to be not only one of the best RPGs I've played in a LONG time but one of the best FF stories as well. I was looking forward to what would come next.
After finishing 5.2, I was extremely disappointed though. It was a complete slow burn that I struggled to get through:
And I get that this is only 5.2 but man after such a strong start at 5.0, this just feels like a letdown. I really hope the future MSQ stuff lives up to what 5.0 started.
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I'd just like to start by saying that I've been playing FFXIV for 5 years now and what seems to keep me invested 80% of the time is the story. I often look forward to that over most of the content if I'm being completely honest. After playing through 5.0, I was blown away by the story-telling considering Shb to be not only one of the best RPGs I've played in a LONG time but one of the best FF stories as well. I was looking forward to what would come next.
After finishing 5.2, I was extremely disappointed though. It was a complete slow burn that I struggled to get through:
- SE desperately needs to get rid of making the PC run these annoying errands. There is no need for us to come along with Ystola to clean her home. Why couldn't she have returned on her own shown through a cutscene? Go gather people in the Crystarium so we can tell them the truth about the Warriors of Light. Go talk to the soldiers to boost morale. At what point do we actually become the Warrior of Darkness and not the Scion's errand boy/girl?
- Not much happened and most of this felt like filler. With what I mentioned above, we sat around only to be interrupted by a group of thieves that were taken down by NPCs, ventured back to Qitana to solve riddles, briefly went back to the Source to check in with Raubhan only to return back to the First. The story on the First is much more interesting to me but it seems like it's becoming side content with the main focus getting the Scions back home. Some of the story involving the Acians and the people of Amaurot is kind of hard to follow. We already knew Elidibus was in Ardbert's body and is the vessel for Zodiark. And the cloaked Ascian in white STILL hasn't been revealed yet...and nothing interesting involving him has happened. These anticlimactic cliff-hanger endings are getting really old.
And I get that this is only 5.2 but man after such a strong start at 5.0, this just feels like a letdown. I really hope the future MSQ stuff lives up to what 5.0 started.
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