Riding Chocobos in town?

[Aveline]

I've seen up to the 39th or 40th cut-scene in the Ul'dah storyline. There's only one other cut-scene that "features" chocobos to any degree. They're not being ridden around the city. In fact, they're not being ridden at all. They're "parked" at the chocobo stable.

Back up your claim please. Link me to a video showing normal Ul'dah citizens/NPCs riding freely around the city streets on untethered chocobos.

Even if there is such a scene, it would be a far cry from seeing a few individual NPCs in a cutscene riding around, and seeing dozens of players milling around and cluttering up the place, blocking stairways, pathways, NPCs, doors, etc... something that *does* happen in games where mounts are allowed in towns.

If it was something that's considered "commonplace" and part of the city atmosphere, don't you think there'd be NPCs riding them around town? Mounted up? Heck, even leading them around, perhaps carrying goods to a market stand? You don't. You see them only at chocobo stables or otherwise outside the city.

I'd wager you don't see it for the same reason you don't see the horses talked about in a few La Noscea leves, or the homesteads and farmlands that NPCs talk about, or the crashed/blown up ferry that an NPC at an aetheryte goes on about, or any of the many other things that NPCs TALK about, but aren't actually implemented in the game: Because Square-Enix is still trying to catch up with their vision.

The comment I originally responded to was someone saying that we'd have to have cutscenes of chocobos in cities in order to state that there's lore to back up the idea. There is a cutscene in the Platinum Mirage where right outside the building, you see chocobos and chocobo-drawn carriages rolling past. You also see a much more crowded city street, filled with people and vendors. What we see in these cutscenes is what the cities would look like, if the designers had their way. The cutscenes also directly answer the commenter who was talking about cutscenes = proof of lore. If you are not that commenter, I don't know what you are getting worked up about.

Now, you are getting far, far too angry at someone you don't even know about something you obviously don't know much about, so calm down. <_< We're discussing giant chickens here. Giant. Chickens. Obviously if the (no less than) 3 videos of chocobos in cities aren't enough to convince you that they are there, then nothing will, in which case, I'm not sure why you're even bothering to type any words at anyone at all.