Roleplay Solo Dungeons - Can we just stop Square?

[AphraelAmarantha]

Because it's who you play as for the other 99% of the game? Even if "all you do is MSQ", it's five or ten minutes out of a story that takes hours to clear.

I would rather it be 100%. I liek the characters yes but I dont want to play as them. I want to play as my character. I don't think you get it though so I am probably wasting my time here as usual.

I honestly don't understand the degree of dislike some people have for playing as predefined characters. The vast majority of game I play only have a predefined player-character and I don't see anything strange about it. As soon as you're in the game and controlling their movements, that character is your character.

I disagree. I don't feel immersed in the story if I am playing a predefined main character that I cant control the appearance of(especially if its white guy skinhead number 538 or white guy with dark haired beard #236, give me a female main protagonist thank you video game industry), so I avoid games like Risen, most jrpgs, that new EA game Fallen Order, Uncharted, and on and on. It's not that its strange, its just its not my character that I customized, so I have no investment in them and thus I get bored and zone out and ask why am I playing this and I just go to a different game. I used to have a lot more fun with the msq in this game until they started this role quest bs.

The most potent emotional moments in games for me have nothing to do with whether the character is 'mine' but when I can empathise with the character's situation.

Why is playing as the other character a worse option than watching them do the same thing in a long cutscene? Either way you're "away from" your character and not playing as them.

I dont emphasize with a character's situation unless they are a really well written character and tbh, I dont really think most of the characters are, so I dont emphasize with them. Plus I'm more of a self insert kind of person, I imagine myself as the WoL/D and that more than anything gets me invested. However, as soon as suddenly, SE doesn't want you to play as your character and gets you stuck in a role quest for 30 minutes that could have been done in just a 1 to 2 minute cutscene, its jarring and very annoying and irritating, to the point that I may just end my sub and just wait for 6.0.

[SendohJin]

However, as soon as suddenly, SE doesn't want you to play as your character and gets you stuck in a role quest for 30 minutes that could have been done in just a 1 to 2 minute cutscene, its jarring and very annoying and irritating, to the point that I may just end my sub and just wait for 6.0.

That's unlikely to change in 6.0 since most people seem to either like it or don't mind it.

As long as it's not very long, I don't care (Thancred fight is too long imo).