4.4 Trailer!

[TheGrimace]

Dragons are like every other animal in that they have different stages of life. Further, Omega and Midgardsormr fought aeons ago, and he is also known to have several other forms we have seen. It makes sense that this could be a representation of Middy in his Prime.

[Rita1989]

Now we wait for the 3 jobs and 2 new races in 5.0.

I wouldn't count on that too soon, his only correct leaks have been about a month or so from a patch dropping he has never made a correct leak later then that so far so it's probably coming from a QA guy

[Aeliott]

It can't be midgardsormr, midgard in this game is big enough to where his original trial has us face only his head. He was larger than shinryu, large enough to completely wrap around a garlean battleship to bring it down. I'm surprised everyone has forgotten this.

Bahamut would like a word with you

[Rowde]

At the end of Sigmascape Omega is trying different things to trigger "our" (the protagonists) emotions. So bringing (a replik) of Midgardsormr does fit very well. I already did expect something like this. Also a battle again Omega itself as the final test.

Based on the leaked info, which thus far seems correct with the inclusion of a Chaos, Midgardsormr, and an Omega fight... don't be so sure about Omega being the "final test"

Someone needs to call the Spirit Detective Yusuke from Yu Yu Hakusho TO KILL THIS bastard again.

Oh gods he even has his flute..

I'm fairly certain that this version of Suzaku is female... the armor it wears in phoenix form looks like the breastguard has space for... well... breasts. And the voice actor sounds female to me too... but that could go either way since voice actors provide voices to characters of the opposite gender all the time.

My headcanon wants Suzaku to be female anyway so that I can rename patch 4.4 "Blazing Waifu Wars: Suzaku vs. Firezuzu"

[Merehm]

It can't be midgardsormr, midgard in this game is big enough to where his original trial has us face only his head. He was larger than shinryu, large enough to completely wrap around a garlean battleship to bring it down. I'm surprised everyone has forgotten this.

It's pretty obvious that it is Midgardsormr. The size can be explained because Omega recreates fights and beings by the memories he has stored. Knowing that he fought a long time ago against Midgardsormr, it is quite possible that he could choose the size and make it a miniature version. This is not the real Midgardsormr that we will face, but a memory recreated by Omega.

[Mejingjard]

I am amazed at how much some people are trying to refute Midgarsorm as a boss here.
It is as they don't even read the storyline while playing, I don't see any other explanation.

So far, Mid is the only being that managed to damage Omega, even not clearly said, it is pretty obvious with how they interact that Mid cause the damages that made Omega to land on Hydaelin and fell into slumber.
It is so far the strongest foe the machine ever encountered, and it is no surprise we face a recreation of how Mid was when they faced each other right before fighting against omega.

As for the size argument, it is mentionned that dragons keep growing the older they get. Midgardsorm wraped around the Agrius is way older than when Omega met him. Allag was around 5000 years before when we are playing, and they found Omega already here, stating that Omega have faced Mid more than 5000 years ago.
Based on the trailer, he looks like being the size of Niddhogr and Hraesvelgr, so they may faced each other when mid was around the age of his children.

We will face the true strengh of midgardsorm, when he was younger and hasn't sacrified his power by bonding with hydaelin.

[KaivaC]

It can't be midgardsormr, midgard in this game is big enough to where his original trial has us face only his head. He was larger than shinryu, large enough to completely wrap around a garlean battleship to bring it down. I'm surprised everyone has forgotten this.

Yes...the actual Midgardsormr is massive.

We haven't fought any of the actual characters - just creations that Omega made for its tournament. Do you really think that Kefka in his normal form is that huge? Nay, he would be closer to The Griffin's size in a fight. We just don't see that because, 1) a human-sized Kefka would be a pain to deal with in a raid and 2) this is Omega's design. So Midgardsormr being a fight is completely feasible in here, because it doesn't have to be scaled to his actual size - Omega can make Midgard as large or as small as it desires. Even if it is Midgardsormr himself, he has shown that he can create whatever avatar, and whatever size, that he desires.

[Corue]

I doubt it but I wonder if we'd get a new overworld area out of this. It'd feel a bit pointless to fly alllll the way over to The Burn and then come back after killing everything and pretend it never happened.

[RiyahArp]

I don't know about the size thing, Nidhogg is more than 1200 years old probably closer to 2000, and he's tiny. The point of midgardsomr in myth is that he is huge, he is large enough to encircle the world. He's literally the world-serpent. This one is smaller than vishap.

I guess I'm annoyed because the mid fight and his place in lore is something special, and that little snippet looked generic, right down to generic ahk morn. Literally downsizing an iconic fight doesn't sit well with me.

Do you really think that Kefka in his normal form is that huge?.

oh that...I mean, Hisui is the same size as Kurenai. Yet in Shisui she's three times as big as you are. I don't think there is any lore reasons for those.

[RiyahArp]

Hmm..about the trailer in general (editing).

* HOW MANY TIMES WILL THEY REUSE ASSETS? Jesus. The first boss there is an obvious reskin of the lava scorpion boss of one of the past dungeons. They armored up one of the road roller enemies from the SB dungeon.
* I sort of admit that I groaned when I saw the table. Hien and the ARR rulers are boring characters.
* okay, magnai and sadu. I need a waifu, stunted chuluu. Kind of out of left field, but hey you killed off the interesting characters, not many left.
* birb waifu is best waifu. They won't show her transition because it will be ten minutes long and a rhythm minigame.
* The burn looks pretty cool.
* Omega arenas seem much much bigger, closer to 24 man arenas.
* oh hey, eureka still exists, but we wont show much of the next area because we are frantically retooling it.

eh..not bad. I snark a bit, but its par for the course I guess.