Quote Originally Posted by CaesarCV View Post
Man. I never knew that people had such rough feelings on Shadowbringers and 5.3. I conversely consider them to be some of the heights of the game's storytelling. They have a level of thematic coherence and resonance that no other expansion comes close to matching. Each side plot, each main event (even those stupid trolly boyz) all feed back into the same themes, motifs, and core concepts. It's a level of cohesion that you don't see very often in video games in general, let alone a mass-market MMORPG. Granted, I care a lot more about thematic concerns than 'realism in the setting' or what have you. I felt that Elidibus got one hell of a send-off, even if I understand why some people disagree.
Elidibus was a character from 2.0, that was built up to be essentially the “leader” if you will of the ascians. He’s the heart of zodiark, he’s regarded as the emissary etc etc. The problem i have with the ShB patches is that for starters, the man got two patches before being killed off, whereas we have some random guy who’s only motivation us to fight us, who’s had 3 expansions now and killed off a character with far more potential than him. As for Elidibus himself in 5.3, there were just so many plot holes that they created in making him out to be this primal. For starters why didn’t he just feed off of peoples faith in garlemald as zenos to beat us. We would’ve been dead. Why did Emet go against him? He would’ve won and their goal would’ve succeeded. Not to mention the dropped plot line of the crystarium WoL’s, Elidibus whole random memory issue which came out of absolutely nowhere, the whole plot with him “forging the final key” that was brought up in ARR and then never spoke of again. He deserved far more than to be butchered in two patches and not even given a unique form or trial. Instead it’s, here’s ff1 WoL for haha fanservice and the dissociate model with the dissidia move set. There was so much more they could’ve done with him but instead they chose to completely rush that storyline and in the end, Emet was more of an Emissary than Elidibus was, and despite him being the heart of Zodiark we were shown basically nothing of that relation at all.