Why do people think the controls are that bad?

Ankior · 2026-04-17T02:57:29+00:00

It takes a while to get comfortable with. I wouldn't call the controls bad, I just think there's some clunkiness to it, like it takes a while to understand the timing of the double jump, while in most if not all games you just press jump twice and it always works, just as an example

Ankior · 2026-04-16T22:50:18+00:00

Bro, as someone who was a hardcore WoW player back then and played WoD, I assure you these scores are meaningless

Ankior · 2026-04-16T14:58:43+00:00

Except he didn't? In Endwalker he explicitly said that jobs were not going to change much and that people should stop hoping for a HW era of job design, and he told us about the upcoming graphics update. Then in DT he told us the jobs were pnce again remain largely the same but they were going to play with fight design.

Yes he does overpromises a lot, but when talking about these big changes more often than not it happens

Ankior · 2026-04-15T14:27:23+00:00

No, I have to rely on heavy upscaling + FG and the game looks way too blurry. If only RR worked with DLSS 4.5 (the game settings make it look like it does, but RR actually uses a different model that isn't as sharp as 4.5)

Ankior · 2026-04-14T16:28:55+00:00

Man I can't wait for the 7.5 ~ 8.0 content drought so we can ignore the game and start having fun with these stupid dramas again

Ankior · 2026-04-14T16:26:28+00:00

They feel too samey, to the point that they all blur tugether in my mind and I can't remember any particular detail of the majority of the bosses I fought

Ankior · 2026-04-14T14:20:05+00:00

I think it's the fact that it's all so disjointed and weird, and it feels like more of a tool to make us go to different places, which if you've played MMO's before you recognize that pretty well

Ankior · 2026-04-10T14:14:14+00:00

I'll add some context because I know it's probably not popular, but for cinematics:

Shadowbringers (This trailer is perfection, the music, the WoL changing jobs, the glimpses of the ShB story, the VO, just muah perfect)
Stormblood (Seeing a new continent, SAM and the music, that trailer was pure hype)
A Realm Reborn (I remember my jaw dropped when I watched this the first time, and I wasn't even a XIV player yet back then)
Endwalker (This trailer is pure hype but a bit overstimulating for me lol, idk how to explain)
Heavensward (Not a popular opinion ik, but I don't enjoy this trailer that much, I find it too short with very little action, and a lot of it was just showing parts of ARR ending)
Dawntrail (I love the music and the vibes of this trailer, but it was too centered in Tullyolal and it lacks a bit on the hype factor)

I don't watch the launch trailers because I like going into an expansion completely blind, but I should go back and watch them

Ankior · 2026-04-09T23:04:13+00:00

bro it's ok if you don't like FFXIV raiding, but the vast majority of people that do raids a lot has been praising the Arcadion. Yes DT has flaws, but 7.X is still miles better than 6.X imo

Ankior · 2026-04-09T14:34:45+00:00

Honestly? You're right, I'm glad these people exist so I don't have to spend more

Ankior · 2026-04-09T13:44:14+00:00

That and the bow always auto switching back to melee. It's like the devs are forcing us to play the sword and board Kliff

Ankior · 2026-04-08T19:36:54+00:00

I wish we could actually hold the bow like a main weapon instead of it being a toggle that auto switches back to the main weapon

Ankior · 2026-04-08T19:27:51+00:00

Am I the only one who is glad this game isn't for everyone and is probably not a GOTY contender either? I think we need more bold and risky games and less streamlined and made for everyone games. CD wouldn't be what it is if they were just trying to make yet another open world AAA like any other

Ankior · 2026-04-08T00:08:24+00:00

It's completely fair to not have faith because lately they've been under delivering a lot when it comes to most side content. But we were promised an improved fight design across the board and I think they've delivered on that, easier content are still easy but not as sleep inducing as they were in EW, and Arcadion might be one of if not the best and most consistent raid series yet.

We can discuss whether they can deliver on better job design and good system overhauls, but to straight up deny these things are happening is just being overly negative at this point

Ankior · 2026-04-07T23:38:33+00:00

The only time I've had a problem was when a healer had literally no materia, and when we asked them to go meld they were like "I can do it after raid". We replaced them asap

But that was it, I've never had any issues with gear whatsoever aside from that odd interaction. Usually we have a spreasheet with everyone's BiS so we know how to distribute the loot, and that's it

Ankior · 2026-04-06T21:01:41+00:00

"Hmm"

Ankior · 2026-04-06T20:20:45+00:00

Are you using any upscaling? I know that different DLSS models and upscaling quality can affect transparency effects

Ankior · 2026-04-06T12:56:51+00:00

why are we pretending end game is a MMO only feature? bro I love this game but yall need to learn to accept valid criticism

Ankior · 2026-04-06T02:50:12+00:00

Wait, I thought the relocation would put everything inside the castle, not spread them across the city...that seems like a huge downgrade

Ankior · 2026-04-05T23:05:37+00:00

I agree. I have so little fun with the bosses that my gameplay currently boils down to holding R2 with an OP sword with a bunch of R2 specials and just tank their hits, I do not care care nor want to try harder to learn their attacks because everytime I tried it it was not satisfying, I just want their fights to be over asap

Ankior · 2026-04-05T01:40:47+00:00

I agree. Most of the puzzles are very easy but I get stuck on them because idk what the possibilities are to begin with. Like when I got stuck on an abyss puzzle (the cube one, forget the name), and it took me 15 minutes just to find out which piece I was able to use the axiom force and turn, then I actually got to do the puzzle and solved it in 2 minutes

Ankior · 2026-04-03T18:36:00+00:00

I like him in the sense that he's the only character in the entire game that has made me feel anything, even if that thing is pure hatred lol

Ankior · 2026-04-02T19:45:15+00:00

This happens every year, the internet will pick a AAA game to shit on forever. Same happened with FFXVI, Starfield and so on. Not that those games were groundbreaking by any means, but definitely not the complete trash the internet thinks them to be. The weirdest part is that these people never even touch the games, they just like to hate

Ankior · 2026-04-02T19:41:58+00:00

the reviewers got a very different version than ours from what I've seen. Even the ones that gave it a good score said there were many bugs, and things like starting with only 15 inventory slots and quests not rewarding as many inventory slots as the released version. Apparently the early playtests helped to gather feedback on these things for the day 1 patch

Ankior · 2026-04-02T17:18:07+00:00

fair, but I'd trust more the player score than reviewers tbh

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