The trailer says nothing about time travel.

[Etheos]

I am trying to get an answer on this as well. Where is everyone getting the idea that we are time traveling now!? I realize that the narration from the trailer says something about time but why? Why would we see screen shots with dialouge talking about rebuilding and such?

So Dalamud hits, yes. I would speculate that it is a controlled hit contained by Louis and a team of NPC's. Maybe contained the blast? So we see a city (Ul'dah) getting hit pretty hard from the cinematic. OK. The Dalamud area, where is that hitting? And what is the structure behind the Behemoth in the trailer? Someone mentioned an act from FF13 where with the Cocoon incident...That structure looks awfully similar, maybe Dalamud is frozen? And the destruction we are cleaning up is from the Meteor attack?

Just food for thought and completely just from my point of view. (Meaning of course, I can be wrong and understand it)

[Elexia]

I am trying to get an answer on this as well. Where is everyone getting the idea that we are time traveling now!?

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Cavernous_Maw

Pretty Much.

[Etheos]

http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Cavernous_Maw

Pretty Much.

Ok, that is from Final Fantasy XI. How does that pertain to Final Fantasy XIV?

[AsterBarnivere]

Ok, that is from Final Fantasy XI. How does that pertain to Final Fantasy XIV?

It's in FFXIV's DAT files, so it will somehow be used later on in the game (Much like Titan)

[Elexia]

It's in FFXIV's DAT files, so it will somehow be used later on in the game (Much like Titan)

Yep. So unless Atomos/Cavernous maws will have a wildly different concept (unlikely) there's one explanation.

The echo never allowed you to time travel, it only allowed you to witness events that already passed, or showed you a glimpse of the future, in no scenario where you able to time travel, and what that flashy trailer implied, is that #1 Out of the blue, you can time travel and #2 SE has the nole Syndrome where explosions >>> Story.

Gotta appeal to a certain audience that doesn't care for story after all, remember we're still in a generation of gamers who think graphics make the game.

[Endless]

Gotta appeal to a certain audience that doesn't care for story after all, remember we're still in a generation of gamers who think graphics make the game.

Wait, graphics don't make the game? (Mind = Blown!)

But in all honesty I love story strong heart pounding, suspense milking, plot twist hurling, Inception mind fucking story. Its why I love the Final Fantasy games to begin with. Its why I played FFXI for 5+ years. I just hope they don't disappoint with the ARR when it comes to story. I hope my lesser-primal imperial magitek summoner speculation is true god I want it to be true, if it is call 911 cause my heart will explode.

[XxOstiaxX]

Wait, graphics don't make the game? (Mind = Blown!)

But in all honesty I love story strong heart pounding, suspense milking, plot twist hurling, Inception mind fucking story. Its why I love the Final Fantasy games to begin with. Its why I played FFXI for 5+ years. I just hope they don't disappoint with the ARR when it comes to story. I hope my lesser-primal imperial magitek summoner speculation is true god I want it to be true, if it is call 911 cause my heart will explode.

There has never been a mind blowing suspense killing, inception like plot twisting storyline in any FF. There have been storylines that have come close to that(FFVIII,FFXIII-2) but they both where poorly written. As far as XI goes, their storyline was not xeno quality or anything along those lines, but it was extremely well written and presented, it was a well worked script, and the execution of it was almost flawless.

[XxOstiaxX]

The echo never allowed you to time travel, it only allowed you to witness events that already passed, or showed you a glimpse of the future, in no scenario where you able to time travel, and what that flashy trailer implied, is that #1 Out of the blue, you can time travel and #2 SE has the nole Syndrome where explosions >>> Story.