Which Final Fantasy World Will We Visit Next

[Nalien]

(did they really have to make the endboss of the Burn the Mist Dragon?)

My biggest issue with this is that the Burn felt a whole lot more like VIIIs Salt Lake... Esthar foolery transformed that area, Allag foolery transformed the Burn... In VIII we travelled through it on the way to Esthar (the techno city), while we're not travelling through it on our way to Garlemald (the techno city), Alphinaud and Gaius did... Abadon felt like a more logical final boss for the Burn than Mist Dragon IMO, if we're going to have a reference... It just doesn't fit as a reference IMO, well not as anything more than a superficial one, only reason I can perhaps see the Mist Dragon being there is for a hint that Alphinaud is going to be doing a Rydia, given he is effectively the Scions Summoner, perhaps Mist Dragon being there is a "Hey, get ready for some IV style developments". Rydia returning to the party was quite a nice moment in IV, having Alphinaud recreate that would be fairly epic (Zenos' body controlled by Elidibus filling the role of Golbez?), and as always I'd like Cid to go down with his Airship just because Nero is the far better character... I'd rather have Nero sass me when we need tech support, than deus ex Cid...

Those kind of references are very much what I just expect from XIV. I mean 2.0 basically happened because of Sephiroth using the Black Materia to summon Meteor... Or was it Nael van Darnus using the Lunar Transmitter to summon Dalamud/Bahamut? I forget...