So... About that ending... [SPOILERS]

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Posted by: Raurix.9473

Raurix.9473

WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD


I just finished the HoT story, and it was… well… abrupt? unrewarding? not quite sure what yet, but it definitely didn’t feel like I accomplished anything significant.

First off, I have to question why the steps leading up to the final fight were so long with checkpoints so far between each other. I’ve died a few times and my armor was shot, and there was no repair anywhere to be found. It was at a point where I had to leave the instance because I had to repair. Doing this made the whole instance reset, forcing me to watch (unskippable) cut scenes, listen to (unskippable) dialouge, and kill the same mobs over and over, wasting a large amount of time.

The fights of the Illusion themselves were okay, I did Eir three times (died the first, killed the second, and third because the next boss bugged), Canach once (died to Mordy that round), and the Pale Tree twice (Bugged the first time, killed the second).

After finally getting to the big bad Dragon, I watched the cut scene introducing him, only to be met by… well… something I wasn’t expecting. It felt very “Wizard of Oz” with the little man behind the curtain. anyway, fighting him was okay, way too many things going on needing to dodge. After the first time I died to him, I went back in, only to have part of then floor be blown apart, and guess where the rift spawned. You guessed it, floating in the air, with Braham sitting there wondering why his commander can’t float in thin air like he can. Needless to say, I had to die and start over (this is where my armor started getting bad, so I had to leave, repair, fight illusions again, and back to Mordy).

So after a long, salt-infused way back, I get to the stumpy Napoleon-Dragon and get him down. Woo-hoo. Watch the cut scenes, and go back to get Trahearne, but wait! I can’t save him. so I shank my Marshal with his own broken sword, and for some reason, his head explodes. Okay, I’ll accept it. Moving on.

I get my rewards, and am sent to the spinning tree corkscrew. I make my way back up, and talk to my guild, everyone slaps hands, wants to fight more Dragons but I tell them to rest first. I look at my story tracker, and it just tells me there’s an undiscovered POI somewhere. I figure out that I have to talk to the copter pilot, talk to him, and get sent on my merry way to the camp.

Load into the camp, I expect some sort of… welcome? celebration? pulse? anything. I get nothing but a “Mordremoth’s mouth will clear the camp in X seconds” message. Wait, I thought he was dead? Okay, lets see what happens. BOOM dead. Move to the nearest waypoint, and I guess that ends the story?

So… I’m wondering. Am I missing something? Is there someone I have to talk to? Is there any parade like there was for Zhaitan? Do people not like me anymore? Where did Zojja and Logan go? Kass? Is Taimi still at Rata Novus? Will Scruffy 2.0 ever be made? Where do I go now? Did it really just end like that? I thought Zhaitan’s defeat was fulfilling, but this one is even worse…

Sorry for the long, and probably salty story, but any info on where I need to go to get some sort of closure to the story or anything please let me know, After all the headache that went into killing the Napoleon-Dragon, I’d like to know what is going on.

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Posted by: zenleto.6179

zenleto.6179

Abrupt is a good word.

Fire up the Hyperbowl ma, we’re going to town!

Would you like some hard cheeze with your sad whine?

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Posted by: Randulf.7614

Randulf.7614

No, many of us have been scratching our heads on this one. They elected to go on a headline charge after our friends for the spine of the story ans suddenly it ends with little fanfare. There were so many options they could have gone with, many are documented by equally baffled players in the lore subforums.

To have a story that felt shorter than season 2 in a paid expac, with lots of subthreads not explored (Mallyck..?) and no epilogue….it is no wonder players felt ahort changed.

It was enjoyable and with decent dialogue and gameplay….but yes abrupt sums it up perfectly.

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Posted by: Raurix.9473

Raurix.9473

Ah okay, so I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who thought so. I thought the story was done well, it was just all that hard work didn’t seem to end up to anything. Sure, we killed him, but it’s like nobody noticed, there were a ton of character stories that needed their loose ends tied up. Odd.

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Posted by: Rauderi.8706

Rauderi.8706

It’s abrupt because they’ll be leaking the consequences over the next several weeks/months. A smart MMO does not lay all its content out during an expansion.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the “yay, we killed the dragon’s brain” isn’t anywhere near what we thought it was, and the focus on Glint’s egg is going to cause some huge problems.

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it seems many like them better than the games they comment on.” -Horrorscope.7632

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Posted by: Gomoratoad.9867

Gomoratoad.9867

Yeah, it was really underwhelming and disappointing, especially after the celebration we got for killing Zhaitan. Unless there’s something else nobody has found yet, the only thing you can do after getting spit back out to Dragon’s Stand (somehow unharmed by the massive explosion) is talk to the NPCs at the top of the spiral, who don’t even say a word about the canonically devastating thing you were forced to do. You can also fight Mord’s body if you do the whole Dragon’s Stand event. It still doesn’t give you a proper epilogue or closure, but it lets you see what was happening outside while you were fighting Mord’s mind in the story instance.

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Posted by: Celestina.2894

Celestina.2894

It’s abrupt because they’ll be leaking the consequences over the next several weeks/months. A smart MMO does not lay all its content out during an expansion.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the “yay, we killed the dragon’s brain” isn’t anywhere near what we thought it was, and the focus on Glint’s egg is going to cause some huge problems.

Yeah, I’m sorry but I don’t buy that excuse.
Let’s look at FF14 2.0 (AKA A Realm Reborn)

There was a VERY clear ending to that, and yet they were still able to set up the next plot without feeling extremely anti-climatic. The Realm Reborn story was very clearly wrapped up and rather cleanly at that, it FELT like the ending and yet they still gave you hints at what was to come.

Hell, let’s look at the expansion

Once again, the Heavensward 3.0 story line is wrapped. Again though, IT FEELS LIKE A COMPLETE ENDING, and yet it gives you a hint as to what is to come.

Hell, why don’t we look at the “death” of the original Final Fantasy 14 while we’re at it?

AGAIN, this is a very clear ending and yet also a very clear beginning of the A Realm Reborn story. What did we get with HoT? It just ends, there’s no epilogue, there’s nothing. It just ends. Imagine if Mass Effect 2 ended after killing the Human Reaper with a cutscene of the Collector Base blowing up from a distance and nothing else then just faded to black, without even a single credit. That’s what we got with HoT. For as bad as the Personal Story was at the end, it STILL had what passed as an ending unlike HoT.

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