Hello everyone, a new player here who has played lots of MMOs and all of the single player final fantasy games. Finally decided to try out FFXIV , even though online I was warned that ARR is not very good but the game"gets better" over time. Now, just to be completely honest here. I did watch the Jesse Cox videos about what the world and its history is about. Those videos have no spoilers but explain for example what the Allagan Empire was, what is am Umbral and what is an Astral era etc. Whether ARR does a good job explaining these things I don't know but I imagined the Allagan Empire like the Ancients in Stargate SG1 - you can come up with any technology and just say oh it's Allagan . Very neat concept. Another thing is that I played the game on a pretty good PC, all the visuals cranked up and I loved the graphics. Very vibrant and the lighting is top notch. I always play healer so played healer here as well, never had any issues waiting for dungeons. The players were very friendly and never complained about me watching the cutscenes. I focused completely on the MSQ, and did some duties to level up on the leveling roulette plus the class quests. The story of ARR os a typical FF story. Sci Fantasy at its best, ancient evil, lots of plot twists betrayals and heroism. I LOVED the music and was surprised it's not the composer who composed the music for the other FF games but a new one . Pretty talented composer I must say. The ending of ARR is so epic, loved all the speeches and what not. Only criticisms I have for the story and the MSQ are - we need more voice acting and perhaps more explanation about things. As I said earlier perhaps have Jesse or someone else make like a history video or someone explain things better for new players. So , I really have two questions . 1. What do people dislike about ARR's story? It seems to me this is your typical FF story it even has the mandatory kuppos, crystals, chocobos etc. It's like a love letter to the franchise. Am I looking at this too much as a fan or what? Am I wearing those rose tinted glasses? 2. Do you think it's fair to essentially tell people the game gets better after ARR? I have no idea what happens next though there are many plot threads in ARR the game can follow, but if you don't like the idea of Eorzea, if you don't like Papalymo ,Yda, Minfillia etc , how will you all of a sudden fall in love with the game? I'm a bit afraid that the game will change somehow into something I don't like. As I said earlier , i only hope for more voice acting and perhaps better explanation of certain concepts ( for example I have only a vague idea of who Louisioux is ). Well my rant is over, and I hope you won't take it as anything malicious , I'm genuinely perplexed by this myth? that ARR is a bad story but it "gets better" . ARR is a typical FF story and I hope it just becomes a better FF story. Thank you for reading this far and may the light be with you.
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