Are we really the good guys?

[LionKing]

Here is my answer:
Be it Warrior of light or not, till the end of an era, we are all Human. And being a Human, one simply can not escape the evil grasp within..

[DarkStar]

I'd like to see a dungeon where one of the boss fights is literally us fighting our own inner darkness, just so I can then say in threads like this "I punched out my own inner darkness. Pretty sure that makes me a good guy."

[Ashkendor]

So there we are, Hydaelyn imbues us with the power of a warrior of light, we are Eorzeas champions and yet...are we?

Wherever I look, all I see are players more interested in raiding and farming gear than in being civil.

While I agree with you that there are a lot of jerks in the playerbase, we really shouldn't confuse the character (the Warrior of Light that goes through the main story quest) with the player (the person behind the keyboard). I mean, some games have options for you to make your character act like a complete asshole. Does that make you one in real life? I really don't think that SE's script (which I really do love btw, don't get me wrong) should necessarily impact my behavior as a player. I am not the Warrior of Light. My character is.

Does this mean that I think people don't have to be nice to one another? Of course not. It'd be great if there weren't so many people that, cloaked behind the anonymity of the internet, feel like they can treat other people like utter crap with no consequences whatsoever. But we should be nice to each other because it's the right way to treat other people rather than because the main story quest of a fantasy game tells us to.

[ChazNatlo]

I'd like to see a dungeon where one of the boss fights is literally us fighting our own inner darkness, just so I can then say in threads like this "I punched out my own inner darkness. Pretty sure that makes me a good guy."

"Sheath your Sword."

[Seiryuukishi]

Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all.

Pray for peace, prepare for war.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I'd like to see a dungeon where one of the boss fights is literally us fighting our own inner darkness, just so I can then say in threads like this "I punched out my own inner darkness. Pretty sure that makes me a good guy."

"Hurry up and speed run punching my inner demons so I can get my 40 poetics plz"

[SekhmetM]

I thought this thread was going to be about the recent story quests having the protagonist as a moron who never thinks before acting. It's been getting worse recently. Why do people still consider this "warrior or light" a person more honorable than Raubahn when all this person does is follow orders like an idiot? Why does the protagonist KILL Ramuh? TWICE? (counting extreme mode)

But I digress. It's just lazy writing to make up for this game's senseless content, really.

[KizunaBlade]

I thought this thread was going to be about the recent story quests having the protagonist as a moron who never thinks before acting. It's been getting worse recently. Why do people still consider this "warrior or light" a person more honorable than Raubahn when all this person does is follow orders like an idiot? Why does the protagonist KILL Ramuh? TWICE? (counting extreme mode)

But I digress. It's just lazy writing to make up for this game's senseless content, really.

To be fair...we did not really KILL Ramuh....He challenged us to a fight, he WANTED a serious battle. He wanted us to prove ourselves worthy of changing the world by defeating him in battle. So he expected to either lose or to kill us and afterwords he was even happy about the outcome and impressed with us. he returned to the aether, but he is not dead.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Not to mention Ramuh HAD to be beaten or his presence alone would have kept consuming aether.

[KizunaBlade]

Not to mention Ramuh HAD to be beaten or his presence alone would have kept consuming aether.

That to XD.