Can we get choices that really matter and have a effect?

[LolitaBansheeMeru]

If Gaius had won, Eorzea would be crushed under the heel of the Empire, fundamentally altering the entire course of the story.

Nidhogg was mad with rage to the point that even his father and brother eventually agreed he had to be put down. Even before that, he always hated mortals. He wouldn't have just burned Ishgard and then gone to take a nap. Genocide doesn't work that way.

Zenos doesn't have the warrior pride that allowed Vegeta to develop as a character. Zenos is a one-note psychopath with no motivation beyond fighting the strongest people he can find, for no reason beyond being bored otherwise. He couldn't turn out honorably because he doesn't want to.

Emet-Selch winning would've directly resulted in the WoL becoming a Lightwarden. If turning your character into a near-mindless monstrosity whose very existence is antithetical to all other life doesn't fundamentally alter the story, then I don't know what will.

Also, comparing a video game to D&D is highly unfair. D&D isn't a complete story, it's the framework to tell a story. It's like comparing a bag of flour to a finished cake.

Zenos was basicly kenpachi which doesn't need honor as long as the character is feed fighting battle chances they willbe fine

And hogs rage could have been stablized if we helped him destory ishgard

Gaius could have took over yes but you would still have rebel factions for the goodys

also its not really unfair the story isn't complete until the last word is written ever so its still fair lol and all it is framework with story parts written in.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Zenos was basicly kenpachi which doesn't need honor as long as the character is feed fighting battle chances they willbe fine

Kenpachi, the character who deliberately handicaps himself in multiple ways to ensure he doesn't kill his opponents too fast? Note that that's canon; he ties bells in his hair so opponents can hear him moving, wears an eye patch that devours his excess spiritual energy to weaken him, uses a dull, rusted sword, etc. Compare to Zenos, who, upon finding out that we've leveled up enough to pose a challenge at Ala Mhigo, merges with Shinryu just to make the fight bigger for no real reason other than his own entertainment. And now he wants to merge with a god and make the WoL merge with another......just to make a bigger fight, for his own entertainment. Zenos is an incredibly flat character.

And hogs rage could have been stablized if we helped him destory ishgard

Leaving aside that it's kind of nauseating how quick you are to propose the annihilation of a city full of innocents, Nidhogg always held mortals in contempt. The idea of taking help from a mortal would've never worked, because he only ever saw them as pawns or slightly-smarter-than-average food.

Gaius could have took over yes but you would still have rebel factions for the goodys

Which would mean writing an entire separate story, which doubles the writing and production time to get it going. And that would mean that we'd still have Lahabrea and the Ultima Weapon around.

also its not really unfair the story isn't complete until the last word is written ever so its still fair lol and all it is framework with story parts written in.

It really is unfair, though. D&D is a tool for you to write your own story; a video game is a story that's already written. It's like if I handed you a pen and paper and told you it was a novel. I like D&D, don't get me wrong, but it's not at all the same as a video game.