Hildibrand for relic? Really?

[Youkulm]

a pity that any associated content won't be of much interest to me.

that's how a lot of people felt about eureka and bozja (like myself), so this is fair and makes perfect sense.

[Theodric]

that's how a lot of people felt about eureka and bozja (like myself), so this is fair and makes perfect sense.

Many people enjoyed Eureka and Bozja. The latter was cut short artificially despite being planned to be meatier - so I don't think that qualifies as 'fair'. Especially not when more and more of the game is increasingly steeped in inoffensive, wacky humour.

It's a matter of balance and I hope they can manage to maintain it.

[Youkulm]

Many people enjoyed Eureka and Bozja. The latter was cut short artificially despite being planned to be meatier - so I don't think that qualifies as 'fair'. Especially not when more and more of the game is increasingly steeped in inoffensive, wacky humour.

It's a matter of balance and I hope they can manage to maintain it.

And many people enjoy Hildebrand, its ok you don't like it. Again, that's fair, its your opinion. The ARR Relic Quest was just as silly (still love my relic kettles for monk!) so I think it'll be fun to go back to that.

I agree there needs to be a balance. It's a "wait and see thing", no point in speculating I suppose.

[Lauront]

Many people enjoyed Eureka and Bozja. The latter was cut short artificially despite being planned to be meatier - so I don't think that qualifies as 'fair'. Especially not when more and more of the game is increasingly steeped in inoffensive, wacky humour.

It's a matter of balance and I hope they can manage to maintain it.

Agreed. I'm also concerned we will see more of this seep over into the MSQ again, because I am not entirely sure Yoshi is going to scale back from 6.1 when he thought that was the "limit" of what they can take it to. At the end of the day it means the expansion will involve less world-building of interest to me, if it adheres to the usual Hildibrand tone.

All I'm seeing is 10 pages that demonstrate how the target audience and playerbase has shifted away from what originally brought me to this game. This is just disappointing.

Never forget, "tiny minority".

[RyuDragnier]

Just so we all know how those kettle quests work: you do relic first, learn some lore for Zodiark Braves, and only after the relic is done you have a meme quest about a kettle.

What we have now though, you have 4 DLCs of not-every-one's-cup-'o-tea humor to get to the start of relic quest.

Ahem, 4 DLCS of skippable cutscenes. Most of Hildibrand is cutscenes, so catching up is quick and easy if you're not a fan of the humor.

[Youkulm]

Ahem, 4 DLCS of skippable cutscenes. Most of Hildibrand is cutscenes, so catching up is quick and easy if you're not a fan of the humor.

Not to mention you get some pretty fun trials skipping through the story.