After finishing Dawntrails MSQ i just noticed something, up to the last moment the story of Dawntrail wasn't really about us. It was about Wuk Lamat from the start to the finish, which in my opinion is the main reason why many people don't like the story.
Stormblood had a similar approach, we followed Lyse around as she (very rapidly...too rapidly!) grew into the leader of an entire nation. (Without any knowledge or experience!) Stormblood was also not well received, i always felt the pacing was off and the story was too much about Lyse. At least in Stormblood though we had some personal stakes in the matter.
Now back to Dawntrail, in Dawntrail we have little to no stakes, other than our "we need to save them all" complex, in Turals affairs. Which gives us little to no reason to actually care about it on a personal level like many did with Ishgard.
Dawntrails Story reminds me of the way World of Warcraft usually writes the story, the player character is just an extra. Which makes the player not care about the story at all. We are treated like a bystander or well a mercenary. (Just that we aren't getting paid by Wuk Wuk at all lol)
The best received expansions were those that had the player character as the focus. So that, as far as i can tell, is the biggest problem with Dawntrail. It's still a interesting story, just nothing players came to expect after all those years. I liked XIV cause it put the player in the spotlight, because the player character was a person of importance.
Sadly we are now just Wuk Lamats universal problem solver in her story. I do hope the focus will shift a bit more towards the WoL again in the patches to come.
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Stormblood had a similar approach, we followed Lyse around as she (very rapidly...too rapidly!) grew into the leader of an entire nation. (Without any knowledge or experience!) Stormblood was also not well received, i always felt the pacing was off and the story was too much about Lyse. At least in Stormblood though we had some personal stakes in the matter.
Now back to Dawntrail, in Dawntrail we have little to no stakes, other than our "we need to save them all" complex, in Turals affairs. Which gives us little to no reason to actually care about it on a personal level like many did with Ishgard.
Dawntrails Story reminds me of the way World of Warcraft usually writes the story, the player character is just an extra. Which makes the player not care about the story at all. We are treated like a bystander or well a mercenary. (Just that we aren't getting paid by Wuk Wuk at all lol)
The best received expansions were those that had the player character as the focus. So that, as far as i can tell, is the biggest problem with Dawntrail. It's still a interesting story, just nothing players came to expect after all those years. I liked XIV cause it put the player in the spotlight, because the player character was a person of importance.
Sadly we are now just Wuk Lamats universal problem solver in her story. I do hope the focus will shift a bit more towards the WoL again in the patches to come.
Continue reading...