Campfire Discussion: Opening Cinematic Theories

[Konachibi]

On the note of Bahamut dying right off the bat before the game starts, as Anonymoose said, it could have been planned for us adventurers to have to go on a "revive Bahamut" main story quest line at some point in the future to battle whatever awesome force of power we've yet to hear about. Also, as we don't really know anything about Primals, we can't even be sure if they can be killed. Maybe by "dying" they only go into a petrified slumber as we see Bahamut as now.



I like this idea, it's heavily reminiscent of the whole Espers and Magitek Factory with the Gestahlian Empire in FFVI and I always love throwbacks to FFVI. =D

To be honest I didn't even think the dragon was dead when I went into Mor Dhona, his head is still held aloft and usually when things die they tend to go limp,in which case he would have slipped off the ship into the lake.

Maybe he's just sort of... chilling out, hanging around thinking "Yeah, I'm bad-ass and you know it, you ain't crossing that lake any time soon."

[Anonymoose]

when things die they tend to go limp

I submit that he looks pretty dead to me, but I still say he's gonna wake the hell up one of these days. Otherwise, why would he even still be there? He'd have been eaten by scavengers and decomposed by now.

As they say, if there's a gun on the wall in a play, that gun better go off before the end of the play.

[Konachibi]

I submit that he looks pretty dead to me, but I still say he's gonna wake the hell up one of these days. Otherwise, why would he even still be there? He'd have been eaten by scavengers and decomposed by now.

As they say, if there's a gun on the wall in a play, that gun better go off before the end of the play.

He does look pretty messed up, but I still say he's alive. Though I wouldn't try and use the wings as an excuse to prove my theory, I use to breed canaries and if they died with their wings open that's how they'd stay (Rigore mortis eh?).

Also, congrats on a getting a picture of Mor Dhona when it's not purple (b'.')b

[Davorok]

With the Guildleve system it seems like we are in GroundHog Day every 10 levels. You kill a monster or capture a criminal and the next day it's like it never happened and you do it again.

So in the Opening Cinematic, did they kill Bahamut (or another Primal)? Does it matter since every Guildleve seems to be an "Echo" of something that already happened and we are doomed to repeat it till we "graduate" to a new set of Leves.

I guess I have not seen enough of the Main Story cutscenes to understand what's going on but by implying that the whole opening scene was just part of a Guildleve confuses me a great deal. Personally, I would like to see a brand new Opening Cutscene upon PS3 relaunch that focuses on an actual story rather than a Guildleve Tutorial.