Is there any wrong to come by picking mean dialogue options?

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12-09-2019, 07:09 AM
Siete

Is there any wrong to come by picking mean dialogue options?

Some of them are funny, would anything happen if I were to be a douche to everyone?
12-09-2019, 07:15 AM
Theodric

No. There aren't any consequences involved.
12-09-2019, 07:32 AM
Crushnight

Nope just get a few dirty looks, occasional i don't think you should've said that etc
12-09-2019, 07:48 AM
Siete

Awesome, now I can be mean to lil' Minfy
12-09-2019, 10:03 AM
BiddyBatnana

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Originally Posted by Crushnight

Nope just get a few dirty looks, occasional i don't think you should've said that etc

Which is annoying, there are so many NPC I wanna slap ! Alisaie, The Exarch, Minfilia.. @_@
12-09-2019, 10:37 AM
Siete

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Originally Posted by BiddyBatnana

Which is annoying, there are so many NPC I wanna slap ! Alisaie, The Exarch, Minfilia.. @_@

Oh I wanna slap Alisaie's cheeks as well.
12-09-2019, 10:40 AM
Vahlnir

You can, but by the next cutscene or set of dialogue you're everyone's best friend again. The Warrior of Light is apparently immune to consequences because we're awesome and stuff.
12-09-2019, 10:46 AM
RitsukoSonoda

It would be fun if you could behave the same way as a certain someone during the initial DRK questline when interacting with NPCs...
12-09-2019, 10:50 AM
Iscah

I don't think the game stores responses from one cutscene to the next. Things only vary based on quest completion and what you say right now.
12-09-2019, 10:50 AM
Anienai

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Originally Posted by BiddyBatnana

Which is annoying, there are so many NPC I wanna slap ! Alisaie, The Exarch, Minfilia.. @_@

I wanna push Alphinaud, Minfilia, Tataru, Nanamo, and Wedge into a wood chipper.
12-09-2019, 10:52 AM
Vahlnir

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Originally Posted by Anienai

and Wedge into a wood chipper.

Aw. Why Wedge?
12-09-2019, 10:58 AM
Anienai

They must be purged.
12-09-2019, 12:24 PM
Jybril

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Originally Posted by BiddyBatnana

The Exarch

https://i.imgur.com/HNf94DG.gif
Y-you...you take that back.
12-09-2019, 12:32 PM
Kusanagi7

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Originally Posted by Anienai

I wanna push Alphinaud, Minfilia, Tataru, Nanamo, and Wedge into a wood chipper.

you can have them but not tataru n wedge ._.
12-09-2019, 12:54 PM
Bonbori

Nope, no consequences. Whenever I'm given the option, I like to remind everyone that I don't care about their noble cause one bit and I'm in it just for the gil and experience points.

I'm not the mean one, they're the ones who treat me like hired muscle/menial labourer so I just play the part.
12-09-2019, 03:35 PM
hynaku

If there was you might become a true warrior of darkness then. It be cool if could become anti hero.
12-09-2019, 03:40 PM
MitsukiKimura

No consequences. Though I won't hesitate to pick mean options if I feel like I wanna punch them or toss them into the Limsa Ocean. Feel like every corner there's some NPC that wants a piece of me, can't I just give them the Luigi Death stare.
12-09-2019, 06:07 PM
Alleo

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

You can, but by the next cutscene or set of dialogue you're everyone's best friend again. The Warrior of Light is apparently immune to consequences because we're awesome and stuff.

Not only that but they also fully ignore it when you say no (why SE? Why let me say that I want no part in a war in stormblood but then ignore the choice anyway..) and the NPCs are outright insulting towards us while we are forced to act like an idiot. (Did a part of the ARR relic quest and the NPC talked about using adventurers for his own gain and that those are stupid..we stand there and listen..and still completely accept it)
12-09-2019, 09:07 PM
TheMightyMollusk

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-dOmu-X4AAS1ml.jpg
12-09-2019, 10:42 PM
Berteaux_Braumegain

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Originally Posted by RitsukoSonoda

It would be fun if you could behave the same way as a certain someone during the initial DRK questline when interacting with NPCs...

Well, I mean

that was you. You were the one saying all of that. Canonically, you yelled at some Limsans about how you should've let Leviathan murder all of them.
12-10-2019, 12:02 AM
MitsukiKimura

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Originally Posted by RitsukoSonoda

It would be fun if you could behave the same way as a certain someone during the initial DRK questline when interacting with NPCs...

Just give us the option to act like Fray and I'll throw even more money at SE
12-10-2019, 01:35 AM
Sated

I can't imagine picking some of the mean ones even out of curiosity - I'd need to go back into the cutscene viewer. Even on my alt characters I can't bring myself to pick them. How can I NOT call him by his name???

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Originally Posted by MitsukiKimura

Just give us the option to act like Fray and I'll throw even more money at SE

There are some quests where I read the dialog and I can feel Fray's teeth grinding. They say I got closure but I still feel it, lol.
12-10-2019, 02:13 AM
NessaWyvern

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Originally Posted by Sated

There are some quests where I read the dialog and I can feel Fray's teeth grinding. They say I got closure but I still feel it, lol.

Oh yes, if Fray had her way, those darn twins in the Nier raid would have had a large sword to their faces.
12-10-2019, 02:28 AM
Sated

I recently started the post-moogle quests and boy oh boy did that first quest involve a lot of patience for incompetence and trivialities; I can't imagine Fray would have been okay with it had they been involved.
12-10-2019, 02:28 AM
MrKusakabe

No, the "detour" just takes like one line or two until it merges back to it.
When Alphinaud asked me something in the beginning of Stormblood, I said: "No, I don't want to deal with that anymore. Good bye!" and he was just like "Aww, man. But we'd like to have you there. If you change your mind, we wait over there".
This was literally 2 months ago... Last time I checked, he still waits there. Is he thinking I am joking??
12-10-2019, 02:35 AM
Gula

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

You can, but by the next cutscene or set of dialogue you're everyone's best friend again. The Warrior of Light is apparently immune to consequences because we're awesome and stuff.

Alphinaud was upset with me for exactly 6 seconds before going back to calling my WoL his friend and doting as he usually does after I picked an A-hole choice.

I really would like to be a massive jerk and have someone remember it, but this isn't a Telltale or Bioware game. Otherwise the Scions would be incredibly worried their champion keeps leaning in favor of the Imperials and Ascians.
12-10-2019, 02:51 AM
Theodric

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Originally Posted by Gula

Otherwise the Scions would be incredibly worried their champion keeps leaning in favor of the Imperials and Ascians.

At this point they're both more interesting to me since the stakes for them are actually pretty high, whereas for the protagonists everything works out in a way that lets them wrap everything up in a neat little bow at almost every turn. With the illusion of bad things happening in the form of the occasional secondary character being put up on the chopping block every now and then.

Given how unhinged fans can be, I'm not surprised that the development team are reluctant to kill off any major characters but it'd be pretty cool if we could see someone on the level of Nanamo, Alisae or Cid bite it on a permanent basis.
12-10-2019, 03:06 AM
Lauront

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Originally Posted by Gula

Alphinaud was upset with me for exactly 6 seconds before going back to calling my WoL his friend and doting as he usually does after I picked an A-hole choice.

I really would like to be a massive jerk and have someone remember it, but this isn't a Telltale or Bioware game. Otherwise the Scions would be incredibly worried their champion keeps leaning in favor of the Imperials and Ascians.

Well, sometimes life is full of little surprises. ;) It's not even a case of being a jerk - I think they've written the Ascians at the least as a faction I would find sympathetic in the context of a video game and would choose to side with. Sometimes I like playing factions like the Sith, whose moral perspective is even more openly at odds with my own, but with the Ascians they brought in a manner of moral relativism and a reclamation narrative that essentially put them in conflict with the protagonists from a different vantage point to that of the Sith or, say, Chaos in WH40k. There are plenty of NPCs - Scions included - which I find annoying and/or demanding and would like for my character to be flippant towards.

The Imperials of course are being used in their chess game and many often forget that. Perhaps SE will make this clearer later on, as the civil war unfolds, since many innocent Garleans are at risk - something which might motivate Gaius and/or the Populares to enlist your aid.

It's a shame, really, because of all the MMO settings out there, the "dark" side in this MMO is playing on one of my favourite arcs - an ancient race's reclamation arc. One I particularly liked with the high elves in Age of Wonders III. I care much less for the Hydaelyn side of it but I'll endure it until the story moves on.
12-10-2019, 03:57 AM
SenorPatty

I like how when you pick the most a-holish option in the game, people think I'm joking and everyone just goes on like nothing happened.

Like, idk about you guys but if the WoL told me they would like to execute Fordola gangland style: they'd never find her head, after asking what should we do with her, I wouldn't pass it off as a joke.
12-10-2019, 06:52 AM
Gula

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Originally Posted by SenorPatty

I like how when you pick the most a-holish option in the game, people think I'm joking and everyone just goes on like nothing happened.

Like, idk about you guys but if the WoL told me they would like to execute Fordola gangland style: they'd never find her head, after asking what should we do with her, I wouldn't pass it off as a joke.

If only there was a DRK specific campaign.

That sword would never be sheathed and I suspect we'd just be Hero(?) Zenos.
12-10-2019, 08:28 AM
Vahlnir

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Originally Posted by SenorPatty

I like how when you pick the most a-holish option in the game, people think I'm joking and everyone just goes on like nothing happened.

Like, idk about you guys but if the WoL told me they would like to execute Fordola gangland style: they'd never find her head, after asking what should we do with her, I wouldn't pass it off as a joke.

The Scions:

"Oh, you're such a rascal!"

The Warrior of Light: "....? *stoic nods* No one gets me... :confused:"

But yeah, my head canon for my character would probably consist of some questionable decisions at points which the Scions would disagree with. Nothing too crazy, mind you, but probably unconventional/unorthodox. I'd love to have the ability to make such choices and have them actually, you know, matter.
12-10-2019, 10:19 AM
RitsukoSonoda

Well... I mean if biting people's head off doesn't phase people or make them look at the warrior of light in a different way... Maybe we should just start lewding them... >.>

That should at least do something.
12-10-2019, 02:52 PM
purgatori

I never really craved this until ShB.

I was really wishing that I could laugh in Emet-Sulk's face when he uttered his pitiful request at the end.

I also wanted to urge Graha'Tia to go ahead and kill himself so my *actual* friends could go home. On other occasions, I wanted to shut down his creepy advances towards my WoL with a mite more force.