New Dungeon preview : Could Omega be the final dungeon that was showed?

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Originally Posted by Nestama

Though you gotta wonder... why did the Allagan people imprison the winged Ixali (you can see them in the tubes for the first Allag looking dungeon)? Is that dungeon taking place on their native home? Is the imprisoned being an Elder Primal to the winged Ixali?

I have questions that are going to bother me for another month.

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It's possible Allag invaded Ayatlan at some point and unleashed the 'Lord of Snakes' on the Ixal before they summoned Garuda to defeat him and lost their wings in the process. Those imprisoned in what I assume to be a lab of some kind were likely taken for genetic experimentation.

There's another possibility though and that's that the Allagans actually created the Ixal. One of Midgardsormr's seven sons has a beak and horns identical to those of the Ixal and I would not be surprised to discover that they are the results of genetic experimentation on him. The dreadknights in the binding coil could very well be the culmination of that research and the Ixal we know in Eorzea escaped the Floating Continent at some point and fled to the ground below. If this were the case then the creature bound within that sphere may well be the dragon they were created from.

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Originally Posted by Belhi

Are we completely sure all the dungeons are in the new areas? Perhaps there are ones in the old areas too. They did say the Main Scenario would take us back to the old areas.

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I have been considering the possibility that the second of those Allagan dungeons actually is the ruin that Omega is held in under Cartenau. Again I'm not sure why he'd be held in some kind of prison but I suppose it's entirely possible. The architecture there matches what we've seen of the Floating Continent though so I'm leaning more to that being the likely location.

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Originally Posted by Nestama

Though you gotta wonder... why did the Allagan people imprison the winged Ixali?

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You ask that as if the Allagans ever needed a reason to hurt people. It was Firesday, and the thought that they might make it an entire week without inflicting widespread suffering on an entire culture was simply too much to bear.

I'm not sure the omega card will be played so quickly. Sure, Ultima was at the end of 2.0, but Omega is in a whole different league. And recycling the ending with a bigger robot would be cheap.

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Originally Posted by Balipu

I'm not sure the omega card will be played so quickly. Sure, Ultima was at the end of 2.0, but Omega is in a whole different league. And recycling the ending with a bigger robot would be cheap.

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I agree it would be cheap to end the 3.0 story on a fight with Omega but Yoshi did confirm Omega to be involved in the Heavensward story arc. It's possible he won't show up until the 3.x story patches though.

My personal expectation is that Omega will be involved in the story pertaining to our rescue of Raubahn and deposing Lolorito. If Lolorito was pulling Teledji's strings all along (as seems to be the case) then Lolorito was also seeking control of Omega. How better to hold power after a revolution than to wield the greatest weapon of mass destruction the planet has known? Of course I don't actually expect Lolorito to be able to control it... something is bound to go wrong.

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Originally Posted by Alberel

Of course I don't actually expect Lolorito to be able to control it... something is bound to go wrong.

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If the Allagans were consistent at all in their user interface design (granted, they sorta aren't) I suspect that there is precisely one living person we've met with both the knowledge and "compatibility" to pilot it in its original, unmodified form. Or, at the very least, he now carries the admin overrides in his very blood. Will they go there, though?

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Originally Posted by Fenral

If the Allagans were consistent at all in their user interface design (granted, they sorta aren't) I suspect that there is precisely one living person we've met with both the knowledge and "compatibility" to pilot it in its original, unmodified form. Or, at the very least, he now carries the admin overrides in his very blood. Will they go there, though?

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To be honest, they will have to recycle something. Either the Graha Tia plot. Maybe with Graha Tia himself. Or Alexander, and have us fight inside Omega, or the Cloud of Darkness, with us fighting a face from a platform.

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Originally Posted by Balipu

To be honest, they will have to recycle something. Either the Graha Tia plot. Maybe with Graha Tia himself. Or Alexander, and have us fight inside Omega, or the Cloud of Darkness, with us fighting a face from a platform.

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For some reason in my tired mind I first read that as fight Omega from inside Alexander. As in controlling Alexander to fight Omega in a giant robot battle.

...I do want that...

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Originally Posted by Dualblade

For some reason in my tired mind I first read that as fight Omega from inside Alexander. As in controlling Alexander to fight Omega in a giant robot battle.

...I do want that...

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Actually I would pay extra for that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuU8mxBTLEc

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Originally Posted by Balipu

To be honest, they will have to recycle something. Either the Graha Tia plot. Maybe with Graha Tia himself. Or Alexander, and have us fight inside Omega, or the Cloud of Darkness, with us fighting a face from a platform.

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They did go into an awful lot of detail on the Royal Allagan blood, and pointing out that he's the only one left who has it. Though I suppose there's nothing that said his father is dead, so we could be meeting him instead. Or one of Salina's own descendants, assuming she had any.

Still, there's no way someone with a glowing red eye or two can walk on now without the Ironworks crew going, "hey, wait a sec," so it may have to happen when they aren't around just so the WoL can fail to explain key plot points again. There's just too much Allag going on otherwise for Cid to credibly forget we have one in cold storage, waiting for his chance to help out.

When the theme between the allag dungeons change, also the music changes. That second music did some Dejá Vú feeling in my mind. But I don't remember in which FF and in which context I've heard this song.