Alphascape Just Feels Out of Place (Spoilers)

[DubiousDisk]

It makes sense to me, Omega raids has been about paying homage to the series. So having the last part pay a bit of homage to the first Final Fantasy in atleast one fight seems fine.

2.0 is explained right in the story, Omega made a simulation of the one thing that managed to defeat it.

After that, since it's the last raid, of course we're just going to go for Omega right then and there.

[Quinaeats]

Honestly, both of the first turns were fan service to fans of the series. The actual encounters had nothing to do with the FFXIV story, or why they were there in the first place. It was pure fan service.

Sure, maybe the numerical was a coincidence, it was a short series of numbers, but why not do four bosses from VIII, IX, or X? Hell even four bosses from the original title would make sense given Omega was later added in re-releases. Everyone thought Chaos would be the final encounter from the promo materials because it just made sense given how the other two turns were constructed.

[thegreatonemal]

You were dumb to begin with if you thought the final raid teir was going to follow being themed like that.

[Vaiolette]

With respect, this complaint is needlessly petty. From what I understand, you are levelling criticism because they did not follow a numbering scheme??

I think it is better if you judge the quality of the battles and story itself versus being peeved that the update does not follow an arbitrary scheme which has zero impact on... Anything.

[LalafellDown]

I honestly have no idea what’s going on. The whole story of Omega made no sense to me. It’s worse then Alexander. It was too random.

[Ameela]

Why would they pull four bosses from some specific random FF game when they need to finish the story they've started already?

There's no way the Omega storyline would have had a satisfactory conclusion if it was just 3-4 encounters of fan service with no relation to what's happening outside, although I guess that's on the devs for taking that approach of making the story around the fights with Delta and Sigma then switching it up for Alpha, but I'd rather have one of the tiers have a good narrative than none of them.

[Nariel]

To be fair, the last boss IS low-budget Sephiroth.

[Sekkei]

If it helps, Gilgamesh is wielding Sephiroth's Masamune in Battle in the Big Keep if you're looking for nods to him.

[Fynlar]

To be fair, the last boss IS low-budget Sephiroth.

Never got that impression when fighting it. If anything it was more reminiscent of the T-1000 getting a hold of the Ark Angels from FFXI (well, two of them)

[Anarnee]

I completely disagree. I didn't want VII stuff shoe horned in here just to meet popular demand, I would like for VII to get it's own place in the game, and honestly I couldn't have imagined a more perfect ending to this raid. It really pulled it all together for me.

Also in reply to you saying that the bosses are random. Dude.

Tomes of Genesis. In the beginning there was Chaos! I think that's brilliant.

Middy made sense to me since he'd been a vital part of the first leg of the story, and then we fight Omega TWICE! (Or is it Three times? Because M/F... Or heck Four times if you consider the final savage boss)

I think that with us going to Garlemald, If they do some VII stuff I'd like to see it there, maybe the whole raid tier or even the 24mans. I don't want the stuff from VII to get the Kefka treatment, I want it to be real withing the world.