Our passive characters and why the 2.55 story fails (BIG SPOILERS) (rant warning)

[kyuven]

My major problem was...

The ESCAPE scene. OK I can buy being captured. It's stupid but OK.
I can buy no one stepping in to help. It's actually pragmatic since there ARE innocents in the room.
I CANNOT buy all the scions needing to do that "hold the line!" thing. We're stronger than they are. That's why they turn to us to kill Primals. To kill MASSIVE UBER DRAGONS like the one we JUST KILLED. You know...the REASON we're there in the first place.
WE should be the ones holding the line so THEY can escape. It's even the heroic thing to do.
Not even getting into the fact that we're basically immortal while they aren't.

[ziddyt]

My major problem was...

The ESCAPE scene. OK I can buy being captured. It's stupid but OK.
I can buy no one stepping in to help. It's actually pragmatic since there ARE innocents in the room.
I CANNOT buy all the scions needing to do that "hold the line!" thing. We're stronger than they are. That's why they turn to us to kill Primals. To kill MASSIVE UBER DRAGONS like the one we JUST KILLED. You know...the REASON we're there in the first place.
WE should be the ones holding the line so THEY can escape. It's even the heroic thing to do.
Not even getting into the fact that we're basically immortal while they aren't.

This is what bugged me most when iw as going through, but I agree with pretty much all of the complaints so far

[Vaer]

My major problem was...

The ESCAPE scene. OK I can buy being captured.

Think it was just an excuse to make them seem useful. The player character(s) always slay the big baddies and save everyone so I guess they figured they needed to make the scions seem useful so they thought up some kind of "go out in a blaze of glory" scene for each of them and threw it in there at the end. Not that they're actually dead or anything. (doubt it)

This entire collection of scenes reminds me of when the Waking Sands gets attacked and afterwards how the player character slowly rebuilds the Scions with Alphinaud and Cid. Same kind of feeling. I guess this time it will just be in Ishgard instead.

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[kyuven]

This entire collection of scenes reminds me of when the Waking Sands gets attacked and afterwards how the player character slowly rebuilds the Scions with Alphinaud and Cid. Same kind of feeling. I guess this time it will just be in Ishgard instead.

Big difference, though: We weren't there for that.