I genuinely feel like if you only watched the voiced cutscenes and just skipped all the other, unvoiced dialogue, you would still know exactly what was going on in the story and not really miss anything. It's so predictable and repeats itself so much that it was just straight up boring by the end of it. It feels like a World of Warcraft tier story written for people who don't want to read any of the quest text and just want to watch the cutscenes and nothing else. And I quit WoW for FFXIV specifically because I hated that.
I feel like Stormblood suffered from the same problem for some of the story, we knew what Lyse and Hien were going to do and they did it, but we just didn't know how they were going to achieve those goals so it was at least still interesting in that regard. Other expansions like Heavensward, Shadowbringers, and especially Endwalker were not predictable at all, I genuinely had no idea where the story was going for all of those expansions and they kept me on the edge of my seat wanting to play more to find out. Wanting to play the follow up patch story, too, to find out more.
I just never got the same feeling with Dawntrail at any point. The only parts that were unpredictable were with Krile and Erenville and we did not get enough at all of them, I wish we had got more, especially Krile.
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I feel like Stormblood suffered from the same problem for some of the story, we knew what Lyse and Hien were going to do and they did it, but we just didn't know how they were going to achieve those goals so it was at least still interesting in that regard. Other expansions like Heavensward, Shadowbringers, and especially Endwalker were not predictable at all, I genuinely had no idea where the story was going for all of those expansions and they kept me on the edge of my seat wanting to play more to find out. Wanting to play the follow up patch story, too, to find out more.
I just never got the same feeling with Dawntrail at any point. The only parts that were unpredictable were with Krile and Erenville and we did not get enough at all of them, I wish we had got more, especially Krile.
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