Revelations from Patch 5.3

[Gula]

Well he should do better to get people invested from the beginning, because a plot twist at the end won't matter if I'm so uninterested before then that I'm skipping cutscenes.

This story so far has absolutely nothing to do with Norvrandt or Eorzea. It's all extremely out of place and they're not even slightly attempting to mesh it with XIV's setting. I don't see why I should care about anything that's going on.

Weep. I am so very sorry for you.

[RyuDragnier]

Well he should do better to get people invested from the beginning, because a plot twist at the end won't matter if I'm so uninterested before then that I'm skipping cutscenes.

This story so far has absolutely nothing to do with Norvrandt or Eorzea. It's all extremely out of place and they're not even slightly attempting to mesh it with XIV's setting. I don't see why I should care about anything that's going on.

His games draw you in during the beginning due to their unique gameplay and bizarre world. Look up the starting part of Nier Automata to get a good look at his MO. As for how it meshes...I have a sneaking suspicion they're going to reference Ending D of Nier Automata in the finale. And if that is what they use, those of us who have finished the game already have a thought on how they're going to do it.

[Hikari_Kishimoto]

I get the sense that the lore is of secondary importance to writing an emotionally engaging story to them...

Very much this.

Although I don't understand, why they would go for that now.
ShB was the most successful expansion BECAUSE the writing was so exceptionally good.
(And at almost no point did they try to force feelings; feelings came naturally)

[Gula]

His games draw you in during the beginning due to their unique gameplay and bizarre world. Look up the starting part of Nier Automata to get a good look at his MO. As for how it meshes...I have a sneaking suspicion they're going to reference Ending D of Nier Automata in the finale. And if that is what they use, those of us who have finished the game already have a thought on how they're going to do it.

I got PTSD at those rings. I want him to go full on Ending E. Or have a way to repeat the quest for the opposite choice for a bonus.

If someone doesn't want to be sold on Taro, then there's no selling to them. His games are weird, he knows they're weird and considering what your party members consist of, it's a niche taste far from it to be enjoyed by a majority.

[Alleluia]

So, regarding the MSQ, does anyone else now have hope that the postmoogle quests will be making a return after this patch? Cus we're basically one of two beings that can traverse the shards at will and now we have parties interested in correspondence on both sides.

I'd love it. I want to be an interdimensional postmoogle. "Neither rain, nor sleet, nor the Rift itself, will keep the postmoogle from their appointed rounds, kupo."

[RyuDragnier]

So, regarding the MSQ, does anyone else now have hope that the postmoogle quests will be making a return after this patch? Cus we're basically one of two beings that can traverse the shards at will and now we have parties interested in correspondence on both sides.

Not to mention...

The option of acting like a moogle when handing over the Archon bread. It's especially funny if you've done all the postmoogle quests, since you're an honorary one.

[Alleluia]

Not to mention...

The option of acting like a moogle when handing over the Archon bread. It's especially funny if you've done all the postmoogle quests, since you're an honorary one.

Yeah. Thancred's deadpan response to that was rather amusing, too.

More MSQ thoughts:

I couldn't be happier with how the Exarch situation resolved itself. It was what I considered the best possible outcome going in to all this, and I am kinda over the moon still that it actually happened. lol Can't wait to take him along on every trust. And I hope there's a questline where we take him around to attune to aaetherytes or something. I want him to meet the fam in Ishgard really badly. And the Doma crew.

Maybe make it a group trip to Tamamizu so he and the rest who can't waterbreath get to learn how. Two birds, one stone.

[Gula]

Yeah. Thancred's deadpan response to that was rather amusing, too.

More MSQ thoughts:

I couldn't be happier with how the Exarch situation resolved itself. It was what I considered the best possible outcome going in to all this, and I am kinda over the moon still that it actually happened. lol Can't wait to take him along on every trust. And I hope there's a questline where we take him around to attune to aaetherytes or something. I want him to meet the fam in Ishgard really badly. And the Doma crew.

Maybe make it a group trip to Tamamizu so he and the rest who can't waterbreath get to learn how. Two birds, one stone.

The most biggest fangirl sqee-ing inside. This patch made me feel young again. So very, stupidly young.

I've watched too much anime because as far as I know he basically proposed based on his wording and that ear perk Ah! /swoon I want to take him everywhere

[EdwinLi]

Well he should do better to get people invested from the beginning, because a plot twist at the end won't matter if I'm so uninterested before then that I'm skipping cutscenes.

This story so far has absolutely nothing to do with Norvrandt or Eorzea. It's all extremely out of place and they're not even slightly attempting to mesh it with XIV's setting. I don't see why I should care about anything that's going on.

I believe the issue you're having is that the answer is not being presented to you from the beginning.

The thing about the Drakengard/Nier series is that the story is never presented to the play upfront until near the ending of the game. This game series is known for starting the story as something that appears very predictable but then as players get closer to the end they learn there has always been far more than what it seems and everything they have known was never what it was.

This is a staple of the series many people who follow the Drakengard/Nier series love and hate at the sametime.

[Slatersev]

I have seen people say Y'shtola theorized Emet-Selch's last words were also meant for Elidibus. I don't remember that. Is it in a cutscene that I missed or is it something she says if you talk to her at a certain point?