Quote Originally Posted by Duskane View Post
i would be alright with it
but i definitely would like raids to be there own thing and not "remember this" like most the game is
I feel like XIV largely does a good job of avoiding this.

I don't think there's anything wrong with including iconic entities from throughout the series like Ruby Weapon and Quetzlcotl (To name some more recent examples) or re-using the names of iconic characters/locales as long they're altered enough to feel like their own thing as opposed to feeling as though they were literally just copy-pasted in.

The Ivalice raids were the most guilty of this overall. I didn't really mind the Omega raids being 90% fanservice because it was largely detached from the rest of the world/story, whereas they basically just dumped entire locales from FFT/XII into the setting for the sake of telling a story that seems to be almost entirely irrelevant to the greater scheme of things (Only the stinger at the end seems liable to matter going into the future) on top of doing little to build on any established lore.