#ffxiv things

[ghostace]

apparently he's existed for a year and i missed his birthday so here's some of the glams i've been enjoying lately as photographed lazily in my own front yard

[house-fortemptations]

i mean cmon the lil guy’s right there beaudefoin

[fyx-ation]

FFXIV hot-takes:

The voice actors for ARR were not bad. Every one of them were very talented people. The voice direction, however, was utter shite. I mean, I wasn't in the booth or anything, but you can just tell. And some of the takes they had... woof. I doubt the actors were even given thorough notes on what was going on in what scene or how their character should be feeling.

Once they switched to European (mostly British) voice actors from HW onward, the voice direction feels so much better. And the script feels more natural, too.

And yettttttt... some really crappy takes still get through. I feel like even terrible takes from a British VA get a pass because there's a weird bias toward their accents sounding more sophisticated. So, even if the delivery is awkward as hell, the director's just like "Cut, print! Wonderful!"

The greatest example I can think of (because I just got it for my trial roulette and it made my brain zip off to write this thought down) is the Sphene fight.

This is a bit funny to me since they only had the VA for Wuk Lamat re-record her lines. The original version was pretty stinky. I mean, it was so bad that it sucked the wind right out of my sails, which is a very bad thing to happen during the final boss fight of an expansion that starts with you on a boat. If you were there for it, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Spheeeeene. It was like we were back in ARR and no one was on the other side of the glass saying, "Now you're being crushed by a gigantic robotic hand! Your words have to be grunted out because you're fighting the weight of it!"

So, they had her re-record her lines and they are 5,000,000,000% better.

And yet.

Sphene's lines were not re-recorded. They still sound dull. And awkward. As did much of her delivery through Dawntrail. But I guess no one was complaining about it? Maybe SE just saw people shitting all over Wuk Lamat and thought changing her script/recording was all that was necessary.

"How can you say that to me now?" sounds particularly blasé to my ears.

I would have asked her to emphasize part of it.

disbelief, anguish:

"How can you say that to me now?" (after everything I've put you through, put your people through...?)

or

rage, determination:

"How can you say that to me NOW?" (after you know what my people have been through and how badly I want to save them!)

or maybe even a mix between the two

anguish and rage:

"How can YOU say that to ME now?!" (you, who know what we've been through. After the lengths I have gone to! There is no turning back!)

IDK. The next time you do the fight, pay attention to her line delivery and tell me what you think. Just a few tweaks here and there could have greatly changed how I feel about Sphene as a whole. I know people compare her to Emet Selch a lot, but I think the gulf between them is immeasurable. Goals are similar, but passion is null and void.

And I think it's because she got a big, fat pass because British.

While I'm in the mood of being nitpicky, there was a whole ass patch back in EW where Y'shtola's VA had a cold. I'm assuming they could only get her for that one day and were on a deadline. It is very noticeable. lol

And Honey B. Lovely's "southern"/"midwestern/"i have no idea" accent is absolutely grating to my ears. Every time I get that fight in roulettes, I'm just like, "Yeehaw and shucks howdy, y'all. Let's tussle with this big ol' bee. Bless her heart!"

There're a few accents in Shaaloani that are very obviously trying for "cowboy" but come off as "I'm British, but I saw a western once."

End rant. :D

[anneapocalypse]

weird realization that RvB10's "Forever" (which is not a bad song, just wildly inappropriate for the character it was written for) works way better as a Haurchefant/WoL song than it did for CT/Pill Guy.

sad realization that I still can't really stand to put it on a playlist because the vocals just... aren't great.

[landprince]

I don't even have anything to do in FFXIV rn I'm just taking my little catgirl for a walk every day for her mental health

[jamesbarnez]

raid lead approved party finder tips

[lena-in-a-red-dress]

Been watching a bunch of FFXIV youtube videos and I've noticed that it's mostly guys. That, coupled with my motto of 'write what you wanna read', is making me want to start a youtube channel of my own to go over the basics of leveling up in the game and answer the questions I had when I was starting out.

Of course, I don't have the means to find game footage to fill in the background as I talk/demonstrate, so it'll never happen, but still.

[thefirstpromise-zoraalja]

There was much hate on twitter regarding Zephirin being alive by some hateful people, who hurt a lovely person very much.

She's doing a good job of trying to bring ward lore towards other players too and she adores Zephirin as much as I do.

No matter where the story leads to in the near future, what happens and who appears, everyone should remember to be nice to others.

We all have things we love.

So please let people enjoy what they adore. Even if you dislike it, there is no need to hurt or harrass another player.

Thanks for reading. Have a nice day/night! :)