ファイナルファンタジーXIV: 漆黒のヴィランズ

Mmmmm... nope.

What’s up with the algorithm on this site? It just feels wrong that a game with 155 ratings is above a game with 3,550 ratings just because the avg is 0.04 higher.

Scores like this reflect a self-selection bias as those playing / rating the expansion are already committed to the MMO. The expansion could only be moderately better than the base game, but because the people rating this already really enjoyed the base game, the score is exaggerated.

Another way to look at it is that there is no circumstance wherein someone who hated FF14 and gave it 0.5 would also play/rate this.

somebody used "redpilled" unironically lmao

The large number of zones in this and the aesthetic detail in each one make it worthy of at least a four on that alone. The story was the second-best of the game's expansions. It gave us bunny girls and 2B's "pants." Blue Mage challenges are almost as good as WoWs Mage Tower challenges and being almost as good as the best thing Blizzard ever did is a major accomplishment in and of itself. The first few hours of the expansion had no Alphinaud in them which undoubtedly made it the best part of the MSQ since that one part everyone cries over. Gunbreaker tanks are trash and a reference to the second-worst FF, but Dancer really gives us what the players always wanted out of the game.

In short, it's the second-best expansion of the current hype MMO and in my opinion, from a gameplay perspective, it is just the best expansion of the game. Almost everything it added was a win and the only thing the other expansions have over it for me is I like the general Nihon aesthetic of Stormblood more and the story of Heavensward slightly.

kinda shit pacing but i get they had to basically build up an entire new world, and they did that much better than ARR did in far less time. plus, this has actually great content and story beats. the tempest is one of my favorite areas in any game ever, it just does not get better than that

Rocky start (imo), Ranjit is a bad character, and the usual issues with pacing and predictable character death pump fakes. But, this builds into easily the most satisfying payoff of any arc in the game thus far