Thread: Our passive characters and why the 2.55 story fails (BIG SPOILERS) (rant warning)

Originally Posted by Hyrist

A well planned escape/rescue(gaolbreak) attempt would be better than to die in the heat of battle trying to escape being apprehended. Remember the cost of getting away successfully.

Well wouldn't that make us more guilty?

I'm saying this whole thing could have been done better, there are even games that have done this better.

Originally Posted by Kallera

Well wouldn't that make us more guilty?

Potentially. There's no doubting the fact that the Scions were completely outmaneuvered, physically and politically. There was no good answer for that situation, and the Warrior of Light is not the leader of the Scions. The Scions made moves to protect WoL because of his/her accomplishments and gifts.

But had they not escaped at that moment, it would have given them the ability to make political moves for their release. Most certainly the GC of the WoL would have made moves to protect them. There were many, sticky outcomes that could have came of that situation, the cards just fell the way they did because of Raubahn.

Originally Posted by Moqi

Please stop assuming things for me since you clearly aren't able. Just because I can kill stuff doesn't mean I want to, if I have the power to take down a Chimera I can resist her attacks, you bet I can resist some brass blades and get out of Ul'dah.

There were plenty of weapons everywhere, the Scions had theirs, the only reason I never held one is because I would've been too poweful for the story to make any sense, so they simply didn't give me one and called it a day. And obviously it ended up not making any sense anyway, but at least you can have your dramatic explosions and what not. It's nice to look at but it's dumb. You can enjoy it anyway, I did it, no need to defend SE at any cost lol.

Stop assuming for a character you don't own. It's that simple. Yours is an avatar filling a role, not a character you own being controlled. If you don't like the story, you don't like the story. But don't presume that it's 'yours' by any stretch of the imagination. Rare is the instance a Final Fantasy game gives you full agency over your characters, rarer still is an FF-MMO that does so.