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Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood |OT| Y'all Need to Calm Down
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It's funny you say that, since
unlike most of the villains, they try to present a sympathetic side. Her life was absolutely terrible, and she was taken advantage of in every way possible, to the point where she hated everyone
But I know it doesn't take much for people to hate female villains.
But isn't that the backstory to every villain in FFXIV? It sure feels that way. Which is why YoshiP had to specifically say that Zenos would be refreshing as a "real" villain this time.
Maybe in some ways, but I thought this one was particularly dark.
I don't really understand
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Yotsuyu
Her dialogue is good and acting is good but her backstory is whuh? Her family was abusive and exploitative, and they were Doman, so she takes it out on all Domans? I thought she was like from a minority tribe or something, some kind of indigene that's been oppressed by the Domans like, say, the Uyghur or Ainu. That would've made more sense to me.
I haven't gotten far enough to tell yet. It'll be interesting to see how dark they go. There's this current of meanspiritedness in the backstories of XIV which I've always found fascinating. Also, I dunno if other players pick up on stuff like this, but I feel that even for non-major story NPCs in towns and so on, the narrative doesn't shy away from sexual violence being a thing that happens to almost all female characters caught in situations of war. It's often mentioned offhandedly in such a casual way that it really nails the tone. I found this really surprising for a FF game.
But she's completely evil. From what I've seen so far, she doesn't have any redeeming qualities like Ysayle had. She's almost comic book evil.
This is why I cant sympathize with her. Terrible character.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Most people probably haven't seen this, but Kugane's visual design reminds me of the anime film Fuse. It's the colors mostly - both Fuse's Edo and Kugane use very bright, bold, garish colors that can overwhelm the senses.
Revolutionary
Member
Did the servers just explode? Randomly lost connection and now I'm geting data center errors.
Edit: oh right it's technically release date now. That probably explains it.
Edit: oh right it's technically release date now. That probably explains it.
Same here. I can't log in.
Revolutionary
Member
Seems like it may have just been Leviathan, according to Reddit. Blah.. oh well I was going to go to sleep soon anyway.
As far as I can tell people are getting disconnected exiting instances trying to get back to the world server, and nobody can get back in. So, yeah, queue is only growing, not shrinking.
I'm not from EU but for NA I just got mine.
Managed to get in one dungeon @ level 64 MCH before the servers imploded. Still not sure what to make of the heat system, but at least the heated shot animations are nice and heated shots finally make me care about the gauge itself.
Whoever decided to have those only show up like halfway through leveling in SB should be sat in a corner to think about what they've done.
Nope; you're actually expected to finish your last job quest before doing the last main story dungeon.
Whoever decided to have those only show up like halfway through leveling in SB should be sat in a corner to think about what they've done.
Nope; you're actually expected to finish your last job quest before doing the last main story dungeon.
Did you get an email from the store with the code or did you have to check your account?
**Yotsuyu Complete Spoiler Stuff** -
You learn a bit about her backstory without her spilling her guts through that echo flashback. You see that her "parents" hated her and ignored her, you saw that she was tossed aside and treated like an outsider. She barely felt Doman, as she wasn't even good enough to serve the imperials as one. She also lost her mother at a young age, as she was under her aunts care who wanted nothing to do with her. We don't know how she lost her mother, but it may have played a part in her tragedy.
When she spills her guts about being beaten, abused, and sold - all by her very own Doman people, she began to despise them, feel like she wasn't one of them, not worthy of their gaze. Her upbringing was broken, she had nothing and therefore could feel nothing but negativity. She was full of hate, and the only way she felt anything was seeing people suffer, especially those who she believes wronged her because of their blood. Her spilling her guts at the last moment is her playing her part as the tragic villain, and she knows how cliche it is, but also buying herself some time to get one last one-up over you. She is evil, tragically evil. Even her shooting Gosetsu as he tried to save anyone was just enough to cement her in as this broken, lost cause of a woman. She had nothing, knew nothing other than pain and making people suffer. At the end, she starts to cry and you see that there was some human beneath all that hatred. Still, it wasn't enough and it was far too late, and she died being crushed under a castle she brought down on herself.
Reasons why she's one of my favorite characters - I have a real soft spot for tragic villains, especially ones who go off the deep end and have some clear psychological issue due to events that seem rather realistic. With her having all the ingredients to be a horrific villain, it's typically a recipe for faceplams, groans, and disaster. However, I think she was very well acted thanks to her voice actress, and well written. She was deliciously evil, her voice cracked and changed as emotion ran through her, as if she wasn't exactly sure how to feel or act when she wasn't hurting people. She makes you hate her, want to punch her face in and kill her in the most brutal way possible just to get back at her. She didn't want to take over the world or destroy it. She wanted her tower, she wanted her power over people and control, she wanted to continue ruling and hurting people as a means to get off, to feel anything. In the end, she got exactly what she deserved. I enjoyed her ending and how she was forced to come to terms with her own death seconds before it happened, as if she'd never considered it while making people kill themselves or others. I'm just glad there was no forgiveness, no sudden "I'm good now!", no redemption for her. She was a villain with her own reasons, as misguided and insane as they seem. It was just evil through and through for reasons that I could understand. While I don't agree with them, I see where she came from and why she did it, even if it was too damn far.
When she spills her guts about being beaten, abused, and sold - all by her very own Doman people, she began to despise them, feel like she wasn't one of them, not worthy of their gaze. Her upbringing was broken, she had nothing and therefore could feel nothing but negativity. She was full of hate, and the only way she felt anything was seeing people suffer, especially those who she believes wronged her because of their blood. Her spilling her guts at the last moment is her playing her part as the tragic villain, and she knows how cliche it is, but also buying herself some time to get one last one-up over you. She is evil, tragically evil. Even her shooting Gosetsu as he tried to save anyone was just enough to cement her in as this broken, lost cause of a woman. She had nothing, knew nothing other than pain and making people suffer. At the end, she starts to cry and you see that there was some human beneath all that hatred. Still, it wasn't enough and it was far too late, and she died being crushed under a castle she brought down on herself.
Reasons why she's one of my favorite characters - I have a real soft spot for tragic villains, especially ones who go off the deep end and have some clear psychological issue due to events that seem rather realistic. With her having all the ingredients to be a horrific villain, it's typically a recipe for faceplams, groans, and disaster. However, I think she was very well acted thanks to her voice actress, and well written. She was deliciously evil, her voice cracked and changed as emotion ran through her, as if she wasn't exactly sure how to feel or act when she wasn't hurting people. She makes you hate her, want to punch her face in and kill her in the most brutal way possible just to get back at her. She didn't want to take over the world or destroy it. She wanted her tower, she wanted her power over people and control, she wanted to continue ruling and hurting people as a means to get off, to feel anything. In the end, she got exactly what she deserved. I enjoyed her ending and how she was forced to come to terms with her own death seconds before it happened, as if she'd never considered it while making people kill themselves or others. I'm just glad there was no forgiveness, no sudden "I'm good now!", no redemption for her. She was a villain with her own reasons, as misguided and insane as they seem. It was just evil through and through for reasons that I could understand. While I don't agree with them, I see where she came from and why she did it, even if it was too damn far.
I don't expect people to have the same feelings that I do regarding it all, but I'm glad this expansion had such a great story that I could enjoy every party involved on all sides.
So completed the MSQ of Stormblood yesterday
I assume after completing MSQ, job quest lv70 the next thing is to just get gear to 300 through dungeons and what then? Susano EX? What can I get with the centurio seals from hunts? Is it worth it? What about A/S ranks?
Shinryu was amazing, my PUG wiped on it about 4 times and once wiped on 2%
and the kill happened when everyone except 1 healer died on 1% and she somehow managed to kill Shinryu as she died which cleared the fight for us.
As someone who has never done EX primals except unsynced, overleveled, overgeared it was one of the best fights I've done in the game so far.
and the kill happened when everyone except 1 healer died on 1% and she somehow managed to kill Shinryu as she died which cleared the fight for us.
As someone who has never done EX primals except unsynced, overleveled, overgeared it was one of the best fights I've done in the game so far.
I assume after completing MSQ, job quest lv70 the next thing is to just get gear to 300 through dungeons and what then? Susano EX? What can I get with the centurio seals from hunts? Is it worth it? What about A/S ranks?
I would love to but I can't find the fucking final quest for drg, it's not in any of the usual places
Edit:nvm found it
Checked my account from the square enix site, redeem code button should show up.
Thanks, will keep doing that then.
SynthFetish
Member
I'm loving SAM, much less complex then NIN.
If only Miyaji could tell a story as well as the FFXIV team. His visual direction is so good! T_T
Thanks my friend.
SoundPulse
Banned
I'm also loving SAM. First DPS I've really cared to level with so far.
Four SAMs in PoTD is pretty funny, though.
Four SAMs in PoTD is pretty funny, though.
BossDarkseid
Member
Is there any sort of hotbar/early rotation guides for rdm and sam yet
The level curve is much better.
Evil Monkey DTT
Banned
Funny I'm at the same spot and I feel the exact opposite. Something about the story here so far feels focused in a way I wasn't expecting. It feels like stormblood has 1 goal and we are slowly but surely working towards that goal.
Super crazy. Tops HW imo.
Easily i'd say. Insane how satisfactory it was as well.
DrForester
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Second primal fight music is absolutely incredible.