It's basically a Rogue-Like dungeon crawl. You progress up the floors until you hit the top. It is mostly for leveling alts, but there are other rewards locked behind them.
The biggest thing is your progress is saved on a per-party basis, so it makes it nearly impossible to PUG (ie, if...
I agree they could have. One thing that stood out when I watched a brand new player stream their first time playing ARR is that there were still a lot of "let's recap what we literally just discussed 5 minutes ago" that existed because of the original gaps in MSQ story patches. I'm honestly...
You hit on another point: WoW both elevated and killed the MMO market, and now it is much harder to fund AAA mmos because the investment vs. return just isn't there. Part of FFXIV's success is no doubt people sick of WoW and wanting something on that same tier (it also helped that Yoshi P had...
Pretty much Mafia/Werewolf. It's basically The Thing. 1-2 players are The Thing and have to sabotage/kill other players, and the other players have to try to guess who The Thing is. Like if someone finds a dead body and reports it, then all players go into a lobby and discuss/vote. You can...
I fucking hate that. Korean dev houses always produce amazing beautiful games with interesting gameplay mechanics...then they pay2win the fuck out of it and make it so if you aren't paying hundreds of dollars a month, you'll never be top tier.
The MSQ pacing was them trimming out a lot of the "go here, talk to dude, pray return to the waking sands, talk, go here, repeat" crap that made the post-Ultima->Heavensward MSQ grind even more of a chore. I don't see how removing that is "bad".
I've always used the analogy that FFXIV is...
Butcher is more likable in the show, but he is definitely a "are you useful? do you forward my agenda/goal?" type of guy. He's shown that he has no issues dropping folks when they no longer suit his needs. This entire time, it has been revolving around his wife (be it revenge for her "death"...
She vanished pretty much right after the event, which implies Vought got their claws into her ASAP. Pretty easy to say “you abort, we tell Homelander and we throw you to him. Btw, did we mention he is a sadist and will take his time torturing you?”
Ddi you watch the show? Homelander was murdering people even as a kid.
Regardless as to the "he said, she said" dynamics, we can inference a few things based on character reactions and facts in the show
1) Becca clearly did not want Homelander to know about her and her kid. Vought...
there could be legal shit going on behind the scenes. Lawsuits only become public knowledge once they are filed with the court. If they are mediating or settling behind the scenes, you aren’t going to hear a peep outside of a leak.
It feels like they killed Carl off because their in-show time wasn’t matching with real time and they didn’t want to explain why a “kid” was suddenly an adult lol. They would run into the same issue with Judith.
My prediction
1) Half the episodes are heavily mando-baby yoda centric
2) We get Mandalore flashback episode that tells the story of the fall of Mandalore and how Moff got the Dark Saber
3) We get a Cara Dune + Carl Weathers centric episode
4) We get an Ashoka centric episode
So basically their plot line will get side tracked by other characters having their own plot lines. I mean that makes sense and it can be risk vs reward situation. If the new plots suck, then people will miss the main one even more. Kinda like GoT when a Bran heavy episode rolled along.
Hughie is supposed to be the grounded "everyman". Mother's Milk even has that scene where he tells Butcher that Hughie is their canary and supposed to be a warning for when they step over a line/go way too far.
Be interesting to know how that happened. The nose bleed before splat makes it seem like something that had to build up or got triggered vs. some invisible beam getting her, which makes me think possibly some piece of technology vs. a power. If it is tech, then that could be the deadman...