FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn Opening Movie Now Live! (01/07/2013)

[Kirito]

I think it helps if you think of this as one movie, instead of 2 movies put together. We have a narrative - the end of an era section - that tells you the background premise of the game. All of the new footage is then meant to be very trailer-like, saying "Now that we're here in A Realm Reborn, all of this stuff is going to happen so go play the game!" If I only looked at the new footage as the opening I agree that I wish there were more narrative. It'd be even less than the original opening to the game, which had a narrative but wasn't very clear what was going on. I think some people were looking for an opening like FFXI which told a distinct story. But as I said, if you look at this as one movie, we do get this, it's just not the new parts.

The only thing is that all the 1.0 characters will need to get a design change... So it would make sense for them to show our 1.0 character for the first scene, then initiate the design process and then start the second scene...

Chocobo whistle, duh ....its a magical world. So don't think to much about those type of things. The chocobos even look a little dirty.

well they've been waiting for years...

[KaMuiSouZou]

The only thing is that all the 1.0 characters will need to get a design change... So it would make sense for them to show our 1.0 character for the first scene, then initiate the design process and then start the second scene...

Not sure I follow you here. We remain the same after being teleported as seen by how the midlander and his party haven't changed. If you choose to change your character via the character creator the game will just pretend it's how you always looked. (I guess RPers can say the aether changed them somehow?).

I don't think we'll be seeing our characters actually teleport into the world. We see the CG Midlander party do that for us as our representations. Following this logic, legacy characters may start the game where that party is headed to at the end of the movie (the giant orange aether thing in Coerthas), not where they initially teleported in the black shroud. That said I hope we do get an arriving teleport cutscene with our own characters.

It still wouldn't affect the cg movie though... we watch this movie, then teleport in with any design changes you may have made. I'm assuming the clothes you log in with is the same as your last log out before the deadline. IF you teleport in with different clothes, then yes something went wrong continuity wise. But the midlander party all teleported in wearing the same thing so I'd assume our characters will do the same.