cleretic.bsky.social
FFXIV lore and story dork, political tragic. She/her, trans woman! Check out #ffxivlorevids for most of my FFXIV lore and story videos!
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I still stand by my idea of 'Star Trek RPG where everyone plays as a starship and their core crew'.
We're doing a Klingon episode? Everyone crack out your security captains!
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I'm too 'on the other side of the world' to benefit, but you are reminding me I need to upgrade my processor and motherboard!
Finally make my PC a full Ship of Theseus, replace the last parts of the original.
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Sadly I feel like the ending is just a culmination of something the game was always doing, of making situations with 'no right answer', but always giving the ultimately justified stances to the men.
Once you notice them doing that, it damns a lot more of the story than the ending.
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I need to put forward that I think Krieg was a kid who found 80s comedies on cable. This is a guy whose formative experiences were, like, Police Academy and Airplane.
He tried to share some with Lucas and it mostly didn't work, but like, ONE really landed.
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I think a lot of the charm of FFXIV comes from it going from worldbuilding-centric storytelling to character-centric, so it has the emotive and deep characters people like, but ALSO a world that feels like it was actually thought out.
You lose so much of that worldbuilding without ARR.
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Yeah, probably!
And as for Hraesvelgr, while he hasn't turned up since Heavensward, Vidofnir did turn up as the more personable face of his brood in Stormblood Black Mage!
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Yeah, Tiamat doesn't have a 'the writers forgot about her' situation, she's got a 'we just haven't gotten back to her yet' situation. There hasn't been a point between Paglth'an and now would really call for Tiamat's presence.
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It only ever really worked with Cyberpunk Edgerunners, and I think that's equal parts 'slavish devotion to Studio Trigger' and 'both Cyberpunk as a game and cyberpunk as a genre and aesthetic is shamelessly glued to Asian aesthetics anyway'.
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Even that I'd argue is as big a problem as it is BECAUSE of clearsky.
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It genuinely just shouldn't exist, there is NOT a positive use case for it
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I refuse to check clearsky, but I remember I'm on that list.
At least for me I went 'oh yeah that makes some sense', I am more inclined to talk up 2 than the other Xenoblades.
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Yeah, I don't feel like Estelle actively wants to hate people, it's more like 'it's easier to simplify this relationship into a form I recognize, and that form is usually that we have some kinda beef'.
I used to play a similar character, and it's actually REALLY hard to get right!
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This is a reason why I've occasionally thought it'd be fun to introduce Estelle to Ein. I feel like Estelle just WANTS to have strong negative feelings about a lot of people, and Ein's such a friendly and kind, but also typically nonchalant person that'd it'd be hard to reflexively hate her.
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Meanwhile, as a healer I love seeing a DRK, because it means I get to actually do my job instead of being Budget DPS.
It's not that DRK is too weak, it's that every other tank is too strong.
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Also it's be an ABSOLUTE implementation nightmare.
Remember how mad people still are about viera and hrothgar not getting hats? Imagine the sheer magnitude of cost-cutting needed to get an Amal'jaa to be playable in-budget.
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Which itself is much bigger over in Europe. In the UK I know the home computer game market was the real juggernaut of 80s gaming.
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There is itself interesting parts to the story of how Nintendo swung making the NES succeed, but it's squarely an America-centric one. The industry was perfectly healthy everywhere else, it was only really in America that Atari fucked things.
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It clearly wants to be a roughly PS2-era RPG.
Sadly, this choice is perfectly in-keeping with that. Of course a game that idolizes PS2 RPGs pulls some Zodiac Spear bullshit.
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Meanwhile magic isn't great in PvP or PvE, especially later in the series, but because it gets to skip the melee combat they value so much it's branded as cheap.
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Especially since that community's idea of 'broken' is itself broken, informed not by actual results and more by how good or bad it is at what they arbitrarily decided is 'the right way to play'.
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I genuinely don't think I've ever played an MMO that didn't do this at some point.
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Balancing the entire game around a small subset of players.
Your game REALLY shouldn't be balanced exclusively around an activity that <5% of the playerbase actually does.
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When they're owned by the exact same company it wouldn't even feel special.
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I wasn't sold on Spongebob until I saw that the track has Squidward staring unimpressed into space partway through the track.
That's the exact thing Sonic was missing, someone who's just kind of quietly annoyed by all this.
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I first saw someone in-game using it while using the drill in Stellar Exploration.
In THAT SPECIFIC SCENARIO is looks great. Anywhere else it looks really silly, even moreso if they're not moving.
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I don't think 'she forgot' is the most likely answer here, girl!
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Everyone is incidentally good at sports and/or card games.
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It's also a 4-drop removal-plus-ramp in white now
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I bought it after Yoshi-P came to Melbourne to tell me in person to play it.
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You know what series had the same lifetime sales as Persona until about last year or so?
Gex.
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Oh, it's A LOT of fun, especially when Y'shtola's on the field and all the triggers are going off.
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She looks like she knows exactly where to find the arcane secret you need to undo the curse, but you can never quite trust because that information can't possibly come cheap
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I'll begrudgingly give Clair Obscur credit that I was able to pick a thematically consistent fighting style without even knowing it.
Who'd have thought 'Whole Bunch Of Burn Stacks' being a good strategy had narrative reasoning!
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Uh-huh, I see, San d'Oria is the fantasy equivalent of the name Xander, I get it
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Even there, you're assuming a second Ultimate was ever coming, and that was never said.
If there ever was a second planned it's absolutely just THE content to bump down in the priority list, though. Ultimate fans don't realize that it's the literal most niche content in the game.
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Hell yeah! I do think the deck's got some issues--it doesn't really have a way to swing for game, and at least one card (Crux of Fate) is basically worthless--but the core of the deck is SO FUN.
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And even that assumes that 'the Ultimate' is coming, which, again, was never actually promised.
The deep dungeon was, on the other hand. And going by achievement stats, is much more popular!
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The worst arguments of the day are the people mad they didn't announce an Ultimate.
You know, the thing that they didn't ever say they were doing, and is verifiably the most niche content type in the game anyway.
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Meanwhile, I will eternally respect FFX for realizing that the way better angle is killing Jesus.
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Why did they even think there would be one? This seriously just feels like they convinced themselves of nothing, based on nothing, and then got mad that their imagination was wrong.
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That'd work a little better, but only if it had... y'know, art that evoked the stories inside it.
The Three Stooges are at least in this book, even if I wish they weren't and their designs are intentionally bland as hell.
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...also, it's not just me, there's something off about Venat's face, right? That doesn't look like her.
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The Ancient-centrism isn't just killing my interest as someone who doesn't care for them, it's that they're by far the least interesting designs on this cover, and yet they DOMINATE it.
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The normal raids are just straight-up in a secret Elpis lab. The alliance raids pretend not to be about the Ancients and then reveal themselves to have been about the Ancients at the last moment.