Thread: 2.2 preview video is here!!!

Originally Posted by Eight

I put this together as at the end of the trailer with Gilgamesh it looks like the bridge to Ishgard. I wonder if this is where it shows in the trailer.

While the area he's on definitely looks like a Coerthas zone, it's not the Steps of Faith (bridge shown in trailer has multiple pillars. Steps of Faith only has three per bridge). I honestly have no idea where that big bridge is O_o

Originally Posted by Duelle

It's probably one of then other two bridges in Coerthas. That said, that fadeout at the end tells me he's being introduced as a trial-type fight. Guess we aren't good enough to take on a duelist (a guy that does one-on-one fights) in a one-on-one fight. =/

You've never taken Gilgamesh on one-on-one in gameplay unless you did "challenges". Every FF game that I've played to date you've always fought him in a party, even in Type 0.

Originally Posted by Duelle

Context is what matters in this case. Gilgamesh has pretty much just been there in prior FF games. Here he's introduced as a duelist that's challenging people and taking their weapons.

It stands to reason that the player character, being a cut above the average adventurer, blessed with the power of the echo and so on would single-handedly end Gilgamesh's pseudo-undefeated streak. The set up is definitely there.

To be fair, that's pretty much the exact same as he was in FF12. And honestly, I can't think of an exciting 1-on-1 fight in this game, or one of any length or depth. The only way to do justice to Gilgamesh demands a fight that requires a party. Especially when you account for Enkido, who they hopefully remembered to include.

Originally Posted by Melithea

To be fair, that's pretty much the exact same as he was in FF12. And honestly, I can't think of an exciting 1-on-1 fight in this game, or one of any length or depth. The only way to do justice to Gilgamesh demands a fight that requires a party. Especially when you account for Enkido, who they hopefully remembered to include.

This. He's essentially the same way in Type 0 as well.

Originally Posted by Melithea

Especially when you account for Enkido, who they hopefully remembered to include.

Enkidu is there. Didn't you notice he is that Green Chicken

Also, not much has changed for Gilgamesh lore wise since this is Pre-excalibur Gilgamesh so he is still challenging people in hopes one day he will find Excalibur and his journey through the Void to find Excalibur has brought him and his partner Enkidu into the world of Final Fantasy 14.

Originally Posted by Duelle

To my knowledge (FFXII's terrible english voice acting made my ears bleed, so I couldn't make it past the first half-hour), aside from Ashe and maybe Basch, the FFXII cast was your run of the mill group. No special fate, no blessings from stuff way outside the norm, no prophesies or anything along those lines. All they had was plot armor.

What she means is, it's the same as in FFXIV - He's a 'duelist' there as well but you still fight with a party. You're pretty damn special in FFV as well, which is his original appearance, and it was still fought in a party even if he was purely "buddy buddy" with Bartz so in context, it should have been him and Bartz only but you still fought in a party.


He has always been a party based fight. Changing that now is like changing Omega to being a mount reward instead of fighting him and/or Shinryu.

After all the trouble the writers went through to build up the player character in the story between whatever abilites they have, the power of the echo, the backing of Hydaelin and so on, having 4/8 people gang up on a guy that's been introduced as a duelist simply doesn't make much sense.

Yeah...so um, remember in FF how 3-8+ (if you think about the story) gangs up on 1 person, numerous times? If we're talking about XIV specifically, there's a lot of story points where it should be "one on one" but it's not, especially if you bring up the echo, we should be technically soloing Bahamut's Coil.