Patch 3.4 - Soul Surrender

[Theodric]

Honestly I'd like to see more Cid's and Lucia's than just straight up doom music background, fire shots to kill beast tribe standing near main character and or dragon kick to their face and some sort of sephiroth like quote involving ridding the planet of some sort of cancer and ill be back, warrior of light, after ganking this important item/friend from you and somehow managing to escape(again)

Eh, I think we need more Garleans like Drace, General Leo and Gabranth. We don't need more defectors - we need Garleans who are loyal to their homeland and people whilst still being fairly sympathetic. Neither Cid or Lucia give much insight into their homeland or former culture anyway.

As I've said in the past, though, 3.0 was a huge improvement over 2.0 so hopefully 4.0 will be an even bigger improvement and will actually start showing us more depth where the antagonists are concerned. Perhaps 3.4 will be the start of that - especially since we're due some insight into what, exactly, Elidibus, the WoD and the Garleans are doing.

FF7 and FF12 were brilliant in that regard since a lot of scenes gave insight into what the antagonists were doing, planning, made them seem competent and even added depth and reasons to sympathise with them at times. In 3.0 I feel that it was a missed opportunity not to flesh out the likes of Thordan and Varis much more - both had very little screen-time despite being major players in the overall story.