Comments by "Miriam Weller" (@miriamweller812) on "Asmongold Reacts to Dragonflight New Cinematic | Alexstrasza vs Raszageth" video.
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@lunaticmode638 It's even worse than that. Shone anime at least have a main character with a motivation.
FF14 is like you take all th NPC protagonists of WoW from both sides, mash all this together into the player character, then delete all free will, personality and motivation from that monstrocities, then throw antagonists and them and them alone who are all without any chance and overall mainly brainless, never doing anything of worth and even if they try, it's just ignored.
When you take the plot of Legion for example, what overall is pretty much the story of FF14, someone who destroyed planets also wants to destroy all life in general, then Sargeras would SOLELY be focussed on you, the player character, who would be the only important character to save or not save life, Sargeras would talk about killing you, but never even try the whole time, while the player character wouldn't care who Sargeras even is, who he is himself, how to figh Sargeras, prepare for it by any means, just go in and punch him to death.
That's literally how FF14 tells the story. They never care to generate any kind of struggle or build up. You are invincible. And everyone around you, too. And that while being the focus of all the attention - while fighting against some bandits is the same as fighting an Empire or planet eating gods (and that even in the story itself).
One big antagonists is a continent sized empire, bigger than the USA and techologically more advanced, while the player character is on the side of three towns, which don't even have know what a radiator is. The empire got hypersonic aircrafs, not just missiles, but flying castles, which got cannons with the destructive power of mini nukes, while the best the player side got are sword and arrows and low level magic (what isn't even an argument bacause while the leading empire race is bad at magic, they got hundredthousands of other race soldiers, who are just as fine with magic a you are - and they got univisities and alike to educate their people).
Guess who easily wins the whole war without a single town even being attacked and without ever having any kind of plan beside: let's storm in and beat them.
The one plan we see in all the war is: let's destroy the wall of that occupied city part of that castle we want to storm and flood the whole civil sector. Killing a hell lot of civilians should make it easier for us to storm the castle. - What is by the way seen as heroic and completel fine with no aftermath at all.
If the FF14 player character would do what Sylvanas did, everyone would cheer for him. And hell, the 'goddess' the player character blindly follows, even though she does shit for him all the time and lied 100%, is actually Ultra Hitler who genocided a whole planet, then took all the souls of the slaughter people, ripped tham apart and tortured them for 10000 years. What NEVER plays any role in the game, it's just fine to do that.
Sylvanas is an angle of mercy and kindess in comparison to that fuck, but, yeah, nothing shit writing can't just ignore and whitewash.
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@Zantetsudex FF14 robs and rapes of other FF and Square games. There is close to nothing they came up with themselves and they do this on purpose to give that "oh, look, I've seen that in another FF game" feeling, while not even caring to a) make it fit and b) try to use the possibility of an MMORPG to build up somethign to hold it together and c) at least not distort it to something worse than the original.
Main back bone of FF14 setting for example is delivered by FF12: big high tech Empire as a potential threat next to you, while your side are more some pesants (even the FF14 kingdowm, while far too weak, had at least quite some magical power on their side). Problem is, while FF12 makes a strong point, how devastating a war would be, especially for the weak people, FF14 just goes full braindead anime: yeah, that's a high tech empire that could just obliteate you in an hour, but you got plot armor, lol, so this won't happen. And it's literally just that. There is never any explanation. You got ZERO chance to win, you got ZERO plan how to reach anything, you just win, because the writers want you to win, so the antagonsits do nothign and you just run in, punch some people to death, victory.
And that's the level of FF14 story in general. Without exaggeration. That's literally it.
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