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>How do you feel about the current storyline
it's fine. it's a much better start than ARR was by far. This is essentially chapter 1 of a potentially 5 chapter story, so I was expecting exactly what we got: a very simple story without a lot of explosions that we will look back on in 5 years and say "look how far we have come"

I also think a lot of people are struggling to comprehend the reality that the warrior of light is not and never was the focus of the story. Dawntrail had a very explicit protagonist that is 1) not the warrior of light 2) a woman 3) played by a trans woman, and as a result people are looking or every reason they can to act like letting a character drive the story is a bad thing suddenly.

>and what are your hopes for the next chapter once 7.3 is over?
I want the game to take a firm step away from sci-fi aesthetics and back to the classic/simple fantasy aesthetics. No more computers. More magic crystals.

>/vg/ dies
>make thread on /games/
>abandon thread

i swear half the people on 4chan were only on 4chan because they didnt know how to grow up. had nothing to do with the enjoyment of using an image board.

>>41533
/vg/ were pretty much chatrooms very loosely related to the thread subject.

>>41527
I liked the first half of 7.0, but I don't really like where it went after that and in the patches. I hate Solution Nine and all the soul dissection/commodification bullshit, and the fact that every single Scion (and now even Sphene herself) constantly reiterate that "while it's very foreign and offputting to us it's their culture and we must respect it". It feels like a fucking parody of all the messaging about diversity in the first half.
>>41533
Sorry anon I was quite literally playing the video game.

>Occult Crescent
>back to Eureka-style internal leveling system, instead of arbitrary mettle gates
>the aggressive focus on grouping up is back but now you can sync with your friends
>NMs with built-in pull times
>new War of the Magi lore for the first time since Heavensward
>instance-within-an-instance dungeon with overcomplicated mechanics for getting in like BA
I genuinely don't think I've ever been more excited for anything in this game

>>41533
*grabs you by the throat* Knock it off bro

>>41527
>I want the game to take a firm step away from sci-fi aesthetics
I don't mind the sci-fi stuff when it's coated in either the garlean or the allagan aesthetic.

Like we have the big evil magitek/steampunk look with the garleans that sometimes stray into slightly contemporary stuff, and then the more magic sci-fi thing that the allagans had going on, even if it was incredibly inconsistent, ranging from how it looked in ARR/HW up to straight up gundam shit like in Werlyt.
Even then, I don't mind handwaving that, since it's got the hole justification of taking ancient allagan bullshit and infusing it with "modern" garlean magitek.

But Solution 9 being straight up cyberpunk simulation is over the line, for sure. Especially now that all the raid gear looks like shitty bootleg taobao techwear circa 2019.

>>41541
>"while it's very foreign and offputting to us it's their culture and we must respect it". It feels like a fucking parody of all the messaging about diversity in the first half.
i'd argue that it's exactly the opposite. in the first half we meet a bunch of cultures that have very foreign ideas of normalcy, and this required everyone to be more open with what they can be accepting of. In the second half when we learn about Alexandria's soul stealing shit, it challenged the ideas of accepting things we do not normally accept even further by introducing something that the scions don't just find strange or off-putting, but find as actually morally problematic, and have to reckon with that and re-adjust their views.

I saw it more as a final reiteration and even a test of the point of "accept other cultures as they come" by asking the question of what do you do when a culture is doing something you have been taught is not just strange, but potentially evil.