Information sleuth turn_a_blind_eye/Rise Narukami has simply compiled some extra info on Closing Fantasy 14’s mammoth script—with the assistance of chronicler Eriyu, who began trying to digitally bind the sport’s hundreds upon hundreds of phrases again in Might 2023, and has clearly made sterling progress since then. The outcomes are attention-grabbing, to say the least.
I Analyzed All The Dialogue from ARR 2.0 to Dawntrail 7.1 from r/ffxiv
In a remark explaining their methodology, Narukami states that they used a custom-compiled python script to tug the main points out of Eriyu’s mammoth doc: “A good portion of this effort was within the data-cleansing portion and deciding what edge circumstances represent a phrase.
“For instance, if I did not choose up ‘Bakool Ja Ja’ as a single phrase, then ‘Ja’ could be thought of a phrase, and would muddy the evaluation by turning into probably the most frequent phrases. That is equally true for titles like ‘Lord’ … There are some cases within the information I did not catch as this requires handbook evaluation; however, I imagine I caught most of them.” Narukami then proceeded to snip commonest phrases “corresponding to ‘It’, ‘You are’, ‘They’ve’, ‘Which’ … since they’d in any other case simply dominate the phrase depend and are uninteresting.”
As for what the numbers turned up, shocking no-one, Alphinaud is the reigning king of yappers. From patches 2.0 to 7.1 (FF14 basically “begins” at 2.0, as a result of 1.0 was ill-fated and needed to be rebooted), Alphinaud accounts for 7.4% of all phrases over the principle state of affairs quest’s 1,259,754 phrases of dialogue. That is 93,649 phrases complete, 45,245 greater than Alisaie, who follows behind at second place.
What drives the purpose house about a few of Dawntrail’s problem in prioritising its characters is how Wuk Lamat is in third place after only one enlargement and two patches. Regardless of journeying with us because the patch quests of Heavensward, Alisaie has solely 0.1% extra strains within the sport’s script, and he or she’s already extra verbose than the remainder of the sport’s ensemble solid.
As at all times once I deliver up FF14’s most controversial lion queen, I contemplate Wuk Lamat to be a symptom of Dawntrail’s main scripting points, not the trigger. Wuk Lamat hogs the highlight not as a result of she’s a horrible character, however as a result of the story leads struggled with characterisation on the entire, with a number of missed alternatives, corresponding to Zoraal Ja confronting his father’s shade and Krile uncovering the thriller behind her start, occurring offscreen for causes I’ll by no means be capable to fathom. Channelling all critiques in the direction of a single character, although, quite than the writing room, strikes me as counterproductive and just a little foolish—and clearly, directing any type of hate in the direction of anyone is inexcusable.
On a lighter notice, there are another enjoyable stat factors this exhaustive evaluation turns up. Urianger’s most-spoken phrases are “tis”, “thou”, and “loporrits”, which is lovely. Estinien is reliably Nidhogg-brained, and Thancred can not shut up about his totally-not-husband Urianger.
The general stats are attention-grabbing, too. FF14’s important quest is the same as 1.4 mixed complete works of Shakespeare and has over 2,491 distinctive characters. Additionally, Stormblood is longer than The Odyssey—so when you’ve performed all the MSQ, you have obtained no excuses to stint in your classics like I’ve. It actually does hammer house the epic scale of the MMO’s story when taken as a complete—and, whereas I’ve loads of criticisms of Dawntrail’s total narrative, these stats do give me a complete new appreciation for the way gargantuan of a job it’s to place a narrative this large collectively.
