The old introvert thing of enjoying being around other people, but without the pressure of being forced into actually maintaining some form of person-to-person interaction. I recently wrote a little about how much I’ve been enjoying story-driven MMOs and a big part of that is the feeling of still playing in a shared space, but being able to do stuff on my own and at my own pace. Okay, so this one isn’t terribly uncommon in modern MMOs, but the fact that there’s an ongoing effort to make the main story as soloable as possible is a major boon. Loved: Soloability With such a strong cast of supporting characters why would you need real people? In keeping with the moral of Endwalker‘s story though (don’t worry, no spoilers here), you can’t have the good without the bad, hence why this list weaves the things I loved with the things I didn’t. There are things I absolutely adored and things which frankly almost made me throw in the towel altogether at many points in my journey. So FFXIV is, in many ways a game of two extremes. This mostly coincided with the end of each of the game’s expansions and would subside when a new one began. Rather, the bulk of that playtime came in a handful of frenzied weeks, at moments where the story picked up enough momentum to have me desperate to log in. I didn’t play this game in such a steady manner though. Sure 300 hours is a considerable amount of time to spend in any single game but spread over 18 months that’s only about 16 hours a month. The very fact that it took me well over a year to get through the main story is revealing in and of itself. A game which genuinely made me reconsider what the genre, heck even the entire medium, could achieve in the realm of storytelling.īut it wasn’t a journey that was without its ups and downs. Watching the end credits scroll I realized that I had just wrapped up one of the great gaming experiences of my life. After 300 hours of playtime across 18 months, I’ve finally finished Final Fantasy XIV‘s MSQ.
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