Heavensward - Opening Movie (warning contains spoilers)

[Durthane]

Anyone incredibly irritated at the options we are given here in regards to Ul'dah? Beyond railroading, there is no way my character would leave allies in a life or death situation like this to go off and help Ishgard. Seeing Raubahn in such a state just pisses me off worse, the man would have your back against hell itself and we leave him to rot at the mercy of the murderers of his Empress.

I know they want the PC to be a bit lacking in detail to allow our own storytelling and they need to get us to Ishgard but making my character a cut fairweather ally at best and a coward at worst is not a good way to allow me to write my own story.

[LystAP]

We got to see her die in high resolution.

[Brianmj]

Diving into the back of a dragon, then back-flipping into its mouth. The Dragoon population is going to skyrocket.

[Laerune]

That music duriing the fight between the dragon and WoL <3. Overall the trailer was epic, to bad no sign of the Au Ra or Derplanders friends.

[SpookyGhost]

Anyone incredibly irritated at the options we are given here in regards to Ul'dah?

For some reason, I don't think we'd stand a chance against an entire army of Brass Blades and Crystal Braves. Internal politics need to play out, things will be settled in due time. We don't have the blessing of light anymore, can't communicate with Hyd, we'd basically be trying to fight an army or muck around in political affairs we won't do too well in. Better that we're in Ishgard where we can actually help and prove ourselves to Midgardsormr while things play out in Ul'dah how they're meant to. A lot of people have forgotten very quickly that we're not in a very good situation at the moment, probably because the entire rest of the story has built us up as impossible to defeat but right now we're not really in those shoes.

[Gemma]

I swear I'm the only one who hasn't jumped on the stupid "derplander" train.
I hate that made up word its so dumb. Other then people insisting on making that stick, I loved that opening movie & am just even more pumped for Heavensward.

Or at least the Benchmark, give me something SE I'm dying here!!

[Eul]

We got to see her die in high resolution.

at least not the the strangled version

[LystAP]

Diving into the back of a dragon, then back-flipping into its mouth. The Dragoon population is going to skyrocket.

The entire second half of it is a glorification of Dragoons.

[Fenral]

Anyone else disappointed we didn't get CGI Minfillia in the flashbacks?

[Durthane]

For some reason, I don't think we'd stand a chance against an entire army of Brass Blades and Crystal Braves. Internal politics need to play out, things will be settled in due time. We don't have the blessing of light anymore, can't communicate with Hyd, we'd basically be trying to fight an army or muck around in political affairs we won't do too well in. Better that we're in Ishgard where we can actually help and prove ourselves to Midgardsormr while things play out in Ul'dah how they're meant to. A lot of people have forgotten very quickly that we're not in a very good situation at the moment, probably because the entire rest of the story has built us up as impossible to defeat but right now we're not really in those shoes.

I don't mind the fact that we can be forced to retreat. But the way they do it is horrible storytelling. As it is my fist responce once out of the city is to begin working towards freeing my allies and getting the monetarists out of power. SE has given no decent story reason why I would not. And this is disregarding the fact that the whole assasination plot forced the idiot ball into my hands when there where easy methods to get the same result without making Remedia a moronic coward that is apparently terrified of some Brass blades when earlier that day she was willing to tank a frickin dragon.

It's elementary school level storytelling. Or at least no one stopped and proof read this from the perspective of the player.