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runner up for worst game is 16 if we're talking purely single-player. Story was alright (if you ignore the whole Ultima plot...would have been a 10/10 story if it'd just stuck to the whole war of Valisthea with the eikons and mothercrystals & the way bearers were treated), gameplay was shit and felt like all the worst parts of 14 melded into a single player experience. SOMEONE FIRE NAOKI YOSHIDA FROM CBU3 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.
I nearly died in my chair playing 16 when I went to go turn in a fetch quest and the button prompts to hand over items were the EXACT SAME as they are in 14. YoshiP why are you like this
I love how you hate some of my favorite Final Fantasies
Me saying " people are allowed to dislike the things I love" like a mantra while I cry.
But in seriousness I don't like being called out lol. Me and my wife have a blog where we put up our character stories that we write and she is very good at the modding pictures. Honestly surprised she hasn't forced herself to learn blender yet.
As far as the house parties stuff. Yeah I avoid that stuff though to my understanding most venues are very strickly no Lala for that shit or they kick you. So its always pretty big red flag if they do that shit. Run to the fucking hills.
On the positive side, there is some awesome RP venues. Like Someone made their house a restaurant where they basically do RP cooking stuff for themselves while you engage with whatever scene you are doing. Then there are the Museums. Like holy shit. We went to a FC who's entire thing was being a Muesem. Every room in the house was a region dedicated to fishing and I think they were working on something for plants?
I can't speak to the raiding cause I haven't tried to be any type of serious since SB. Mostly because I raided in WoW from like Wrath, to first bit of Legion. And you want to talk about dude bro gamer culture. I've been burned out for years.
I did farm for the birds before SB came out and holy shit got to 95 totems for Equilibrium asshole. Voice lines are in my head as much as any wow fucker.
"Prepare yourself the bells have tolled. Shelter your weak, your young and your old. Each of you shall pay the final sum. CRY for mercy! The reckoning has come! MUHHAHAHA!" if I forget this, probably time to take me to a home.
As far as 16. I actually enjoyed the campness of the ff14 stuff. (Shocking I know). But I found myself enjoying the combat. Though it did get repetitive at times. My biggest issue is the lack of world map. Like give me a fucking world to EXPLORE dammit! And I still would prefer it to be turn based. I miss my then base final fantasy. Now I got to go elsewhere for people to do neat stuff with it like expedition 33.
I also enjoyed the story despite some of it's weak points because I was glad to see it return to form with a focus on hope in the face of adversary and "no gods, no master" which was pointed out to me is the actual thing that ties Final Fantasy together.
However big caveot is that I pirated it. So that probably helps me a LOT for my opinion. I try to give big corporations as little of my money anymore. And a interesting side effect means I enjoy the games more.
Still not touching 15 though. I live in a age where I don't have to walk through cis man mid life crisis stories anymore. And I am going to relish in that. (Someone out there, 15 is very important to them and they are also going to give me the
(Disclaimer I legitimately think its fine you like something different and mostly joking on my autistic first gut reactions everything else is me just shooting the shit)
And yeah, I didn't mean to denigrate the roleplay scene of 14 in general; I know there are cool housing instances and people - my lala is actually named after a politician so historically whenever someone ran up to me trying to roleplay in a non weird way I'd play along for a bit!
This is like the ideal kind of roleplay in FF14 to me. Or even people who theme their FC around some sort of joke or style. All great. I was mainly shitting on the players who just mod the everliving fuck out of their characters so they are even more sexualized than they are in the base game (because let's be honest, 4/5 of the playable races are extremely sexualized). At the end of the day, thankfully I don't have to see any of it outside of social media with the nuking of Mare and whatnot - but it just rubs me the wrong way that a large portion of the playerbase is treating the game like it is interactive porn!!!
I miss mount farming old content tbh. I still need to finish the dragons & do the wings but wings are all the Dawntrail trials
Oh yeah I figured you didn't mean all RP. Just figured I'd mentioned some of the cooler ones if you hadn't been lucky to find stuff. It can be Russian Roulette sometimes and some FC peeps I knew had some weird horror stories to the point where I have no idea how they find themselves in those situations sometimes.
It can be hard to find ground RPers at times because of mods and stuff but I run into this problem when I DM too. So figure its more issue of western style protagonist syndrome then anything. Not to mention the ironic pilled individuals.
But you make the most at what you can find.
But yeah I truly didn't take any offense or anything like that. It just struck me as hilarious how your worst is some of my favs like back to back. Its amazing how that works sometimes.