Comments by "Miriam Weller" (@miriamweller812) on "Asmongold introduces Lost Ark Veteran to FFXIV" video.
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@Rayhaku808 HW was okay, it was nothing specaial but okay.
Stormblood main plot was terrible. Overall the whole idea to bring in a high tech empire that would have to constantly rofl stomp you, then just letting it do nothing and even start a war against it, that goes like fighting some bandits, it's just dumb.
One of the big problems of whole FF14 is, that it is writetn like a very, very shallow and cheap powerfantasy, only driven by plot armor. Even worse: The PC is the absolute center of the whole story, but got no voice, no mind, no will, no interests. So it's a powerfantasy written around a dressed up rock.
When it starts to whitewash war, warcrimes and genocide, the story was not acceptable anymore at all, being shit AND disgusting.
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@duerf5826 Music is okay. It often does not fit at all to the atmosphere, what is bad. It's like watching Lord of the Rings but with heavy metal - or pop music - what of course got a massive up to destructive impact on the scenario.
When you got a fight for survival, but instead you get some easy jam, well, it does not feel like a fight for survival anymore.
What high points of the story? Even the better parts in HW are very standard. Ascians are a total waste, nothing they do makes any sense ever, especially when you know the end of it. The three main guys: one is an absolute cartoon villain, the other one is just completely ignored, while partly all over the place from muahahaahh cartoon villan to "let me explain" to now I'm an idiotk, so you can kill me to and now I'm the good guy - what does not fit together and in the end he just gets stomped like any other creep. And the last one got one retareded plan after the other and dies like an idiot in the end, while his actual backgruond creates a plot hole bigger than the whole story, what is simply thrown away.
Garlemald? Complete desasters. Whole Garlemald is like the character Zenos, even worse, it just randomly pops up just to be defeated, while an 'evil empire' with such power and high tech would just obliterate you every single time. Overall the game never shows, that it is evil and the empire part - your own side are just despots, criminals and terrible people who suck so much that they can't even bring together their small towns.
There was never a given reason to be against Gaius. That guy wanted to a) Unite Eorza to create an actual country that can feed and help its people, not like the terrible mess those city 'states' are and end the primal threat. Hooray - I mean, game pretty much over.
Intead everything you do in the game is absolute horrible and just brings more death and pain and suffering. A whole continent is burning down and per se the whole planet and that all for your being the willing slave of a moinster that genocided a whole planet plus torturing all murdered souls on it for all eternity.
When you look at WoW, people get mad at someone like Sylvanas, who had done MUCH less for actual reasons, and still being called a monster for it, while in FF14 Ultra Hitler herself, who just slaughtered all life, because she saw it as subhumans is whitewashed the whole time, just like the endless raw of war crimes you commit.
It's just disgusting. It's a disgusting story. It's also badly written, because you more and more only win by plot armor, the antagonists get worse every time, just being dumb, doing shit. The world building is a catastrophee, when even something like Garlemald is just completely ignored and then destroyed offscreen, so the don't have to ever create anything for it, after being around since the very first start of the failure that was FF14 1.0.
Square ruined the game with their laziness and greed. It could have become more. Intead they just milked it and abused streamer to lure in newbies with PR lies - what of course already died down again.
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