Comment on (Spoilers for new patch) feeling disconnected from my character
DreamySweet@ani.social 7 months ago
I have felt this way since HoT. We don’t get to play as our own character, we play as the commander.
I mean, that’s just the way an MMO needs to be with its story. Choice, if present at all, needs to be extremely limited to make open world design possible and to keep the scope doable.
In GW2, the tradeoff is that we get awesome meta-events, raids, etc. all because all of our characters making mostly the same choices.
It’s possible to make choices not matter while still keeping the feeling of playing your own character. Final Fantasy XIV does a pretty good job at it.
Possibly, I haven’t tried ff14, but I personally always feel more frustrated when I feel like my choices don’t matter than I do being railroaded through a mostly good (and sometimes great) story.
You get railroaded in FFXIV, but you get choices where you make your character say something to give them a bit of a personality. It doesn’t actually affect much other than a line or two immediately after but it feels much better than when GW2 makes your character say something that you have no control over.
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 7 months ago
That’s true, though normally I actually like the commander (especially during PoF era). There’s been ups and downs with it I think.