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[FFXIV] I can’t believe Rhitahtyn keeps swearing to ‘strike you all down’ instead of ‘knock you all down’
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What a missed opportunity
Awe
Wait until you actually get to fight the guy
Awe
he's... difficult
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Really? We just kind of all bum rushed him. The cut scene was longer than the fight.
Awe
oh you ARE there already
Awe
He was talked up for me, but yeah he's actually a pushover
Awe
I think he didn't even last thirty seconds
Awe
please keep in mind that future 8-man content will not fold so easily
Awe
That's not the way it was for me since the people I ran the final dungeon with had us all unequip everything for the last phase and that was still a joke
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fuck this
fuck this
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Honestly I probably come across as way more negative about the game on plurk than I actually am it's just...
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you were doing so well
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the game had finally started doing the sort of things it should have been doing all along
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There are clear stakes! My character is a part of a much larger effort! Mood-appropriate setpieces!
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And then right in the middle let's bring all that grinding to a halt to make a goddamn stew
Awe
it is way easier to come off negative about something
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The game is trying to backfill a lot of sympathetic backgrounds for these Garlean goons
Awe
They're not goons exactly, but I don't think the Garlean middle name signifier thing is explained in game
Awe
basically it's also a social marker and the closer you are to the end of the alphabet the better your rank is
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Gains is blathering about the gods and the will to power and my girl is skits standing there like ‘please finish talking so I can stab you many times’
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*is just
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Ah, THERE’S the title drop.
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“Meteor Survivors” haha, Okay, that’s nice of them to do
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I feel like the Garleans and the Ascians could both do with watching this sketch. 
'Are we the Baddies?' Mitchell and Webb Funny Nazi S...
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You may meet someone later that did
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I hope they’re just as committed to their cause as the rest, but they lounge around in beachwear or something instead of lurking in skull armor
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Anyway, now that 2.0 is safely behind me, I can look back and say...that story wasn’t great, but honestly, given the circumstances under which 2.0 was made...you know what, fair enough.
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There are definite improvements that could have been made after the fact, largely in the service of pacing
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But under the circumstances it was created in, it could have been a LOT worse.
Awe
And will be made after the fact