[3.4 SPOILERS] Cutscene Praise and a totally selfish Dev Request

[swiss_Momo]

The spiked drink PTSD is very real for our WoL. All that is missing at this point is a 1000 yalm stare emote

[Naria]

Real for the WoL? When Aymeric and my character were toasting I was thinking "I know I'm being paranoid, but if one of us keels over I'm going to scream."

. . . perhaps a crafting recipe for a hipflask? I'm impressed the WoL even takes drinks others offer.

[Ametrine]

Although I did think my character's wide eyed expression at the sheer about of sweetner/birch syrup Aymeric takes in his tea was cute. That was a bit more than a "dash".

Oh lord, I didn't see that! Gotta rewatch when I get home.

[Airias]

Reading through all the cutscene-praise, I think it was not only overdue we got our drink with Aymeric, but also that we get the NPC dating system that was teased with in april fools twice already; some way to get to know our objects of desire ( ) better and make choices when answering their questions.

I, for one, would love to read more about Aymeric's upbringing and his true beliefs and I'm right there with Fatestorm and ZhaneX that I would like my character to confess her love to him, and see him react. I'm sure there is a wide variety of characters people would love to go through somthing similar with.

edit: I want to add another selfish request: Can we get a dance scene with Aymeric?

[Remasa]

Perhaps an option to choose a "favorite" NPC that shows up more often in cutscenes and they can get chosen to help out the WoL on their adventures.

[Grayve]

Perhaps an option to choose a "favorite" NPC that shows up more often in cutscenes and they can get chosen to help out the WoL on their adventures.

I would like this more. I mean, I see much love for Aymeric and Haurchefant, but I never was a fan. They are fine, I just didnt feel a deeper connection to them that so many seem to.

[Alberel]

Perhaps an option to choose a "favorite" NPC that shows up more often in cutscenes and they can get chosen to help out the WoL on their adventures.

I fear if they did this we'd actually end up losing the very interactions that made many of us fall in love with Haurchefant, Aymeric, etc. in the first place.

[Lambdafish]

For some reason, the first thing that comes to mind with your dialogue request/the 3.4 dialogue is the opening of kingdom hearts:

[Remasa]

I fear if they did this we'd actually end up losing the very interactions that made many of us fall in love with Haurchefant, Aymeric, etc. in the first place.

Ah, this is true, but I was thinking more along the lines of the companions they had in 1.0 that tagged along with you and participated in the Duties and various battles. We could select a relevant NPC to tag along with us. We would still have the cutscenes with the main players, and the larger duties with multiple NPCs assisting in battles, but just having that ONE NPC that is more like your "buddy" would be nice.

Edit: I just couldn't help but be both super excited to offer Aymeric a spot adventuring with me and utterly disappointed it would never come to fruition. Flavor dialogue is nice during cutscenes, but sometimes I just wish maybe we would act on some of the options presented to us :P

[princefruit]

No opinion on the confession request but I too want to express how much I have enjoyed the dialogue options and cutscene quality/details. It finally feels that we, the WoL are starting to find our own voice and our own way. I know that getting too custom is dangerous and limited in an MMO but I've been very happy at seeing out own characters get to develop alongside our companions. Storywise Patches 3.3 and especially 3.4 we're simply perfect and I hope that way continue to get this level of writing and quality.

Great job dev teams, please keep up the great work!