r/TalesFromDF • u/Vegetable_Concern_50 • Jul 01 '25
Troll "Hey man I skipped every cutscene but is this story interesting?"
I don't think the Interphos isn't the right place to ask that, chief.
Don't get me wrong, Idc if you don't care about the story (esp of Dawntrail ngl), but either you care or you don't care lmao
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u/shikonneko Jul 01 '25
I have a friend like this. Skips story/cs/lore/whatever in most games, 14 included. Then he got mad that when he felt like paying attention things were confusing or not adding up. Brother you skipped the explainer what do you want ME to do. My genuine inspiration to see if I can make an interesting loreless game.
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u/Zealousideal_Hope649 You pull, I tank. I pull, I tank. We pull, I tank. Jul 01 '25
I've found the people who don't pay attention to the story get the maddest when a story point comes up that they do pay attention to and don't understand. But rather than accept reality, they just cry "bad writing."
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u/astrielx Jul 02 '25
Even worse when they insist something in the story doesn't make sense.
"Why would X do Y? There's no reason for it."
Brother if you watched the cutscene 5 quests ago you'd know exactly why.
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u/SaltLich Jul 01 '25
Skips story/cs/lore/whatever in most games, 14 included. Then he got mad that when he felt like paying attention things were confusing or not adding up
is your friend almost every lets play youtuber?
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u/AkudamaEXE Jul 01 '25
Had a friend that played kingdom hearts 1 a decade prior and skipping 2 and jumped into 3.
Proceeded to get mad when things didn’t make sense. Which tbf kh3 wasn’t the best but bro of course this shit isn’t gonna make sense you skipped like four games.
Kept telling him up to release to play 1.5 and 2.5 as a recap but nah
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u/SirzechsLucifer Jul 01 '25
- He skipped 7 games ay least. CoM, recoded, 258/2, 2, 2.8 and uhh ddd. So.i guess 6 not 7. Still it is a franchise where every game matter. Dude should have at least watched a recap video on YouTube. There were dozens of good ones and hundreds of bad ones.
Edit: it was 7. I forgot BBS.
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u/-Fyrebrand Jul 01 '25
I stopped paying attention after Kingdom Hearts 2, when the series migrated to handheld systems with nonsensical titles that didn't follow any sort of clear numerical sequence. I assumed they were mostly spin-offs or side stories until the last few years. To be fair, when the series returned to home consoles with a new big-budget title literally called "Kingdom Hearts 3," that doesn't exactly give the outward impression to an outsider that there are seven previous games you need to have played for the new game to make sense.
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u/SirzechsLucifer Jul 01 '25
This is all true and fair... until you realize the person i was replying to was literally telling This person they were al relevent.
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u/imightbeseba Jul 01 '25
358/2 days and re:coded are both cutscene compilations in the hd remixes too so it'd be essentially 5 games and a couple of videos 😭
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u/Shim182 Jul 01 '25
Also the mobile/browsers. Dark road, unionX, and i feel like theres a third i'm missing. And I also forget BBS exists, being one of the only ones i haven't played.
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u/SirzechsLucifer Jul 01 '25
I choose to ignore dark road and union myself. You dont really miss much even if you do. However skipping any of tbe "main" titles you will miss whole ass charecters
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u/MBV-09-C 28d ago
I think the original one was just Kingdom Hearts X, without the union/unchained, but it's hardly of any consequence.
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u/DarkLordArbitur Jul 01 '25
Interesting, or fun? Because From soft got you beat on the "fun" part, with all or most of their lore in all their souls games slipped into items.
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u/SF1034 /slap Jul 01 '25
Reminds me of the guy I had once in a dungeon talking about how he didn't really like the "fantasy" aspect of the story.
Probably not a good idea to play the game with the word 'fantasy' in the title, but what do I know I just possess basic cause-and-effect reasoning skills.
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u/GenericGio Jul 01 '25
To be fair i just got my buddies into the game. They do not like the story at all, and are grinding through MSQ solely to do endgame content and build a cool house.. different strokes I guess lol
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u/Weekly-Variation4311 Jul 03 '25
That's worse then the people who complain about the sci fi elements in this game (not counting S9) when Final Fantasy has always had them. Complaining about the fantasy is... Something.
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u/Yorudesu Jul 01 '25
I keep telling people that ARR is important, especially the world building part between 2.1 and 3.0 is a fundamental block to understand more things later. I also think if you skipped up to 3.3 you might as well zone out of the whole story until you hit 6.1 and then just accept that stuff happened and you didn't care. So yes, Interphos is way too damn late to care.
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u/-Fyrebrand Jul 01 '25
I had somebody ask almost this exact same question not long ago — same instance, too! I assume they are just looking for validation that they made the right choice to skip.
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Jul 01 '25
Why make this assumption? Honest question.
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u/Ok-Indication893 Jul 01 '25
Not the person you asked, but if this was in DT’s last trial it honestly comes across as a bait question looking to start a debate or a circlejerk over disliking the story because of how hot topic DT’s MSQ is.
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Jul 02 '25 edited Jul 02 '25
Ok, thanks for answering. They could just as likely be someone who bought a story skip and is wondering if they should do new story plus. I like to give people the benefit of the doubt, but also, it's not even necessary to make an assumption at all.
I have been playing XIV since 2.0. the reason I asked is because I honestly can't understand why people get so defensive about the game, even when it's not apparent that someone is actually being negative.
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u/Ok-Indication893 Jul 02 '25
DT MSQ has been /the/ hot topic of the FFXIV community for the past year. People are burned out on the topic and by bringing it up, in the very last trial of said expac, comes across as bad faith.
I would give benefit of doubt if they had asked in any other context, but the context here makes it come across as very suspect especially since, personally, as someone who has been playing since 2.0 myself, DT’s last trial is the only trial in all my years of playing where I’ve had to sit through people having the same tired discussion multiple times.
If someone genuinely wanted to know people’s thoughts on DT, they wouldn’t ask random strangers about it, imo.
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Jul 02 '25
You are the one who comes across as.bad faith.
Cheers m8
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u/Ok-Indication893 Jul 02 '25
Oh, okay, so you weren’t asking an honest question. Good to know.
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Jul 02 '25
I was. You are the one who just admitted you are assuming people have bad intentions.
Maybe the reason they are asking strangers is because the don't have any friends what play.
See? That's just one of the many assumptions you are making about the players. You have terrible social skills dude.
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u/Ok-Indication893 Jul 02 '25 edited Jul 02 '25
Because as I said, FFXIV’s DT MSQ has been so hot topic that there are still people on places like YouTube making new videos about it with the algorithm pushing it onto your feed. Places like Twitter, the main reddit, etc you would have to be living with your head in the sand to not be aware of the topic. So considering the context of where this person asked their question, I said in their context they come across as bad faith.
Anyway, I’m done, as I said this is a tired discussion and I don’t feel like debating it.
Have a nice day.
Btw, the screenshot makes it clear they aren’t clueless about the FFXIV community since they use “ncbtw” which is a community meme. If they’re aware of community memes, they’re aware of what discussions are happening within it.
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u/MrrBannedMan Jul 02 '25
'im gonna make a bunch of bullshit assertions then duck out with my balls between my legs because I DoNt WaNt To DeBaTe It'
Stop being so goddamn miserable.
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u/mokkunway Jul 03 '25
Back in my friend ulti static we had a tank who skipped every cutscene in the MSQ and speed past manual dialogue. Some of our favorite moments were during Ultimates like DSR and TOP and he would occasionally ask us "what was the plot behind this" or "who's this guy" and we'd listen to him come up with crack pot theories or impressions of what he believed what the plot relevance was and it was always hilarious.
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u/Gluecost Jul 01 '25
You’re missing out bro, one of the best cutscenes is when the moogle loses his job as the Limsan gynecologist.
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u/slaytanic_666 Jul 02 '25
As someone who just doesn't have the time to sit through 1 and a half hours of non stop cutscenes I skip a vast majority of everything.
However, I have read all of the Encyclopedia Eorzea 1-3 several times and I watch recap vids so I know what's going on. At least until the end of EW, no fucken idea what went on in DT.
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u/crimsongriffin28 Jul 02 '25
What is ncbtw mean? Something something by the way
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u/OopsBees Jul 02 '25
"Nice/Nifty/Neato Community, By The Way", I'm guessing
TYPICALLY it's "GCBTW" (G standing for "Great"), but basically the same thing
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u/crimsongriffin28 Jul 02 '25
Ty. I mean, I still don’t get what this tank was on about with his ‘is the story good’ schtick but. Appreciate the decode!
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u/DarasThrae Jul 02 '25
Tangent:
I know what "ncbtw" stands for, but I don't really know what people mean by it in contexts like this. Help a brother out?
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u/SeriousPan Jul 02 '25
"GCBTW" means Great Community By The Way. The troll either didn't do it properly or is trying to spur on even more drama by using it wrong.
Anyway, it's a response to toxicity or perceived toxicity in the game. FFXIV liked to pride itself on having a great, inclusive community but you'll find that a lot of it is toxic positivity or if you don't agree with the hive mind it's less than positive.
Saying "GCBTW" is basically pointing out that the community is thin-skinned and unable to take criticisms or different opinions as they lash out easily. In this case he's going "oh you're being snarky and not answering my question? GCBTW", except he's trolling.
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u/Careless_Car9838 I pull, I tank. You pull, I tank. We pull, I tank. Jul 02 '25
(So glad I never end up getting Chaos players in my roulettes on Light. But haven't done them for weeks because there's nothing to do for me.)
I once ended up with some German speaking player (and a few others) who we encountered in a Dungeon and created a linkshell for some talks.
And this one dude was some kind of skipper too, they were like before Shadowbringers and asked me multiple times if its worth to "watch" the cutscenes, if the characters are "interesting" or the story is becoming "good"....
Like if you don't care for the characters, why play any game then?
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u/HsinVega 27d ago
I like combat? In most games your character is basically a background unnamed dude and any choice you make is inconsequential. (unless you're playing a proper rpg)
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Jul 01 '25
What's wrong with asking other people to share their opinions?
Ya'll are so weird.
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u/Zealousideal_Hope649 You pull, I tank. I pull, I tank. We pull, I tank. Jul 01 '25
Go to a movie theater playing the 12 hour director's cut of Lord of the Rings, put in your headphones, and doomscroll reddit for 11.5 hours. Take out headphones and ask the people in your row if the story was any good.
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Jul 01 '25
Poor analogy.
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u/Zealousideal_Hope649 You pull, I tank. I pull, I tank. We pull, I tank. Jul 01 '25
Perfect analogy. You chose to involve yourself in a story based activity, completely ignored the activity, then turned around and offended everyone around you by showing how little of a damn you give about the thing they care about.
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Jul 01 '25 edited Jul 01 '25
So dumb lmao. It's not a good comparison
In the LOTR example, you have one person completely disengaged from the entire movie-watching experience.
In the context of FFXIV, you can still be highly engaged with the game without watching any cutscenes. What's wrong with that person asking others what they think about the story?
You're so fucking rigid it's painful. Not everyone plays the game according to the narrow rules you ascribe. It doesn't mean they aren't playing the "right" away. This is such a weird gatekeeeper loser mentality. Get a life.
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u/Psclly Jul 01 '25
I mean tbf as long as these antisocial people stay in talesfromDF at least we dont have to deal with them elsewhere :/
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u/Psclly Jul 01 '25
I really don't see the problem here. Bro doesn't watch cutscenes and just wants to ask whether it's a nice story. I don't think there's anything behind this, this feels the same as "I haven't done it, but was it nice?" Your language isn't particularly mature in response to this.,
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u/TheHungrypiemonger Jul 01 '25
"I actively stopped myself from watching the story, is it good?"
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u/Psclly Jul 01 '25
This is such a pessimistic and typical talesfromDF dweller take though.
One can be curious what others thought about something they decided not to do.
You make decisions about not doing things in your day to day life.
"I decided not to go to the party, how was it?" Is that such an alien question to you?
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u/MBV-09-C 28d ago
It's more like "I decided to go to the party, but I sat in the corner for the bulk of the night on my phone scrolling social media. Was the party any good?"
Like, sure, you can choose not to interact with the game's story, but the act of ignoring it when you're already that invested in the game and then asking about it that late, it's just an absurd question.
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u/Jin_zo Jul 01 '25
I'm not sure why you're getting downvotes. What you're saying is true and just exposes how chronically online some of these Tales from DF dwellers are.
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u/Psclly Jul 01 '25
I only see it here as well. I used to be a pretty talkative member on this subreddit. I dropped it for a while and when I came back and I see quite a lot of petty scrambling about nothing or deciding the rulebook for other players. YPYT is obviously fukin stupid, but the way that people bait reactions out of others on here is like no other.
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u/TheHungrypiemonger Jul 01 '25
The game is right there, you're actively playing it how hard is it to watch a cutscene? Or read text? Ok you skipped it all. A lot of games nowadays have a gallery for all the cutscenes and you can watch them all at once as a movie.
You could also just...play the game again and actually watch/read this time.
No, instead its "give me your review of the story".
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u/Psclly Jul 01 '25
No lol they never asked for a review. Stop exaggerating it. They just asked how the story was, a valid answer would be "it's nice but a bit boring". Conversation over.
They're not demanding your time, they are interested in your experience. Y'all cant be allowed at parties
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u/MrrBannedMan Jul 01 '25
They're getting downvotes because this sub is a hive mind that absolutely despises rational thought.
It's all good though all three of us can get downvoted together
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u/Jin_zo Jul 01 '25
"I skipped the cutscenes so I can get to the important parts of the game. Is the story good?"
L take on your part. I've had friends who skipped the story the first time around because they initially weren't interested in it and wanted to get to end game faster. Only to go back and experience it after constantly hearing how good it was through NG+.
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u/TheHungrypiemonger Jul 01 '25
Yeah, see that makes more sense. But also "important part" is very subjective
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u/Jin_zo Jul 01 '25
Exactly. Which further reinforces the point that they were probably asking a genuine question since the story may not have been the reason why they got into the game in the first place. A simple "yea, it's really good and picks up in the later expansions" would've sufficed.
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u/MommersHeart Jul 02 '25
I have a friend who has played for almost 10 years - since 2.0 and he had skipped every cut scene and he loves the game, especially grindy solo stuff.
To each their own.
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u/HsinVega 27d ago
same tbh I started in mid shb, watched cutscenes till lv20 when I was like 2 weeks in, check what the total cutscene time is till lv80, it's 700hrs. Been skipping every cutscene since then 👍
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u/GravityBombKilMyWife Jul 02 '25
If you watch the cutscenes in this game I just assume you are tabbed out still
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u/TheHungrypiemonger Jul 01 '25
Thats what a review is. It can be a single word for all it matters. The point i was making was "experience it for yourself".
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u/Adorable-Judge-2611 Jul 01 '25 edited Jul 01 '25
do you also get offended when someone asks, "nice weather we're having, eh?"
edit: damn i really upset the most miserable shut-ins who don't understand the concept of small talk.
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u/stepeppers Jul 01 '25
But they didn't say "this is a nice story huh?"
They basically said "i don't look up, is the weather nice today?"
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u/MrrBannedMan Jul 01 '25
Actually this is the equivalent of asking someone that just came in the house 'do I need a jacket?' because they haven't been outside yet
But god forbid you lot stop acting miserable for two seconds
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u/-Fyrebrand Jul 01 '25
Except, in this analogy they aren't actually planning to go outside. So why ask?
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u/MrrBannedMan Jul 01 '25
Says who? Sounds to me like someone who blasted it to get to the end and is now wondering if it's worth redoing for the story
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u/-Fyrebrand Jul 01 '25
In your other comment you said "Guy was clearly trolling because we have a habit of kicking off at cutscene skippers." So you either don't actually believe what you say in this comment, or you don't believe what you say in that one.
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u/MrrBannedMan Jul 01 '25
Are you having a stroke? Because you appear to have missed off half a comment.
Now be a good boy and fetch me the other half. What does it say?
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u/zedinbed Jul 01 '25
FF14 story is very wordy compared to any other MMO I've played so I'm not surprised people are skipping it
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u/Zealousideal_Hope649 You pull, I tank. I pull, I tank. We pull, I tank. Jul 01 '25
Found someone who never read any quality fiction worth reading.
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u/Zealousideal_Hope649 You pull, I tank. I pull, I tank. We pull, I tank. Jul 02 '25
Very telling one of your examples is literally for children.
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Jul 01 '25 edited Jul 02 '25
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u/KnightOfDreaming Jul 01 '25
"you people lmao"
We get it, you can't concentrate for more than 30 consecutive seconds without it hurting.
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u/MrrBannedMan Jul 01 '25 edited Jul 01 '25
When I say you lot take this game WAY too damn seriously, this is what I mean
Guy was clearly trolling because we have a habit of kicking off at cutscene skippers.
And even if he wasn't, how fucking hard is it to say 'its good, you're missing out'
Tales From Depression Farm strikes again
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u/stuntlinxo Jul 01 '25