Hildibrand for relic? Really?

[Imora]

That's most comedy, even if it's not slapstick.
You don't like comedy ?

Anyways, I dunno why you'd HATE Hildibrand just because the comedy doesn't land with you tho.
Why does not being into something or someone needs to equivalate to '' HATE ''?
What happened to being indifferent?
Hate is a pretty strong and dramatic emotion.

I don't like slapstick.

My humor tastes range from dark to political. See: George Carlin. He never made himself to be an idiot for laughs. The whole comedic value of hildibrand is that he's an idiot. I don't find that funny.

[Kolsykol]

I don't like slapstick.

My humor tastes range from dark to political. See: George Carlin. He never made himself to be an idiot for laughs. The whole comedic value of hildibrand is that he's an idiot. I don't find that funny.

I was actually thinking of George Carlin too, his comedy revolves mostly around pointing out dumb and illogical things in society, in other words stupidity.
Regardless tho I don't think this is something worth getting worked up about lol ( not directed at you ).

I understood what you said hence why I said '' even if it's not slapstick ''.

Edit: Revolved* around, I know that he's dead.
But yes I acknowledge that you like comedy xD......
I was being a bit snarky in jest.

[Zaredth]

No, we can't

We complain about a stale and rigid formula, wherein the developers are too afraid to bother deviating from the said content formula. When they elect to deviate from it and try something different. We then subsequently complain and throw our toys out of the pram because it cost us a dungeon or an exploration zone for them to deviate.

That is so accurate xD

[RyuDragnier]

I'm just going to leave this here:

I liked being able to do relic quests while those who enjoyed Hildibrand got to have their questline and I could ignore it. I don't understand why you're forcing me to do both.

I don't find his content funny and no I don't think its fair to say "skip the cutscenes if you don't like it" when to be completely honest, they shouldn't have been combined to begin with. I get wanting people to try out his questline, but those who wanted to HAVE.

This same complaint could be used for Eureka, for Bozja, for having to do the Ivalice raids for the ShB relics (and thus unlocking Bozja), for having to do the Void Ark alliance raids for the newest Tataru quest (which y'all are VERY silent on, btw, you damned hypocrites) etc etc. The devs do this all the time, and the fact that people are complaining about the EASIEST content to get through this time is beyond stupid to me. I'm really starting to wonder if y'all are just complaining for the sake of complaining at this point.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Idk, can we not be happy

I see you're new here, welcome to the forums!

[Ursa_Vonfiebryd]

Not sure whether they were being actually serious about this or not, but either way it's bad form to require such an absurdly long questline to be completed before we can do this expansion’s relic. I don’t even think Ivalice is as time consuming, and at least acts as a skill check on the playerbase.

Just why?

Because relic weapons are always a pain in the ass. ALWAYS. They teased us last expac; making the first two to three steps faceroll easy before essentially locking it behind Bozja, which I refuse to play more than casually (or at all really) due to it being the terrible stepchild of Diadem and Eureka and honestly, just no.

This is likely the devs getting back at the large portion of the community who has demanded Hildibrand to be in each expansion (to my delight--this isn't me complaining).

Considering I've only completed one Zodiac weapon (50), two relics from HW (60), one partial relic from Stormblood, and about 6 partial from ShB, well... Hopefully there's no instanced content tied to these. Because it'll just be more content I skip. Hopefully they are not hideous like the final form relics from last expac or I'll likely be passing them entirely.

[RyuDragnier]

If they do joke weapons this time, I hope it's done like this guy on reddit said.

I'll accept joke weapons if they're done right. Example, first stage for SGE weapons are paper airplanes. Final stage end up being models (like the kind you make with model kits) of a fighter plane of some kind. You know, goes from low class to high class joke weapons (that look kind of cool as a result).

Or another example, a normal sign you'd find on any road as the starting WAR weapon. Final result is a neon sign saying "Manderville".

[TheMightyMollusk]

Let machinists just do a finger-gun to shoot people and it'll all be worthwhile.

[Vahlnir]

Idk, can we not be happy they are trying something different? I personally miss Hildy. I see players complain they are homogenizing the game but they don't want to let them try anything different when they do. Can we pick a lane?

What is this "happy" you speak of?

[cactusbees]

There is a difference between a light hearted story/aesthetics vs a lolsorandom story/aesthetics. Who am I kidding though, i'm just fighting against the current at this point in the game's life, lol.

I'd personally rather attempt a goofy plotline instead of peering into a dead, bot-filled wasteland that has infinite queue times, because peak interest has passed. I love Bozja, but it's not really that feasible when there's no one to help with Castrum.

Edit: Heck, I'd love to have the Manderville group as a Trust run. It would be godly.