Warrior of Lazy, Loser, Lame, Lethargy, Light weight.. Carry me (MSQ Spoiler)

[Rubieus]

I started the Main story quest today and got to the part where you, Krile, Alphinaud and Y'shtola go and rescue "Thancred" from Ravana. Once you arrive, you encounter another party consisting of a WAR,PLD,WHM,BLM,BRD (Which correct me if I am wrong, but these jobs were restricted as you are the "last"), The Warriors of Darkness as they call themselves proceed to beat on your party like nobody's business.

Then just when all hope is lost, Thancred comes to save the day. What's this? Where is the legendary Warrior of Light? You know, the one who defeated the White Raven, The Black Wolf, Ultima, Bahamut and every extreme primal including Ravana? Oh there he is.. way in the back, crapping his pants and sucking his thumb.. This looks familiar..

Go back a few months.. Raubahn is fighting all by himself! Someone should do something! Where is the Warrior of Light? Oh thats right, he is sitting this one out.. Crapping his pants and sucking his thumb...

TL;DR
Dear SE, if you want to portray my character as some weakling who needs other people rescue him. Don't bother calling me a Warrior of Light ok? just have everyone refer to me as "The poopy pants guy" Thanks. For ruining my immersion again.

Super Rant

[Tint]

as a white mage myself this fight looks exactly like i beat all the other primals and bosses x)

[Laerune]

This sadly a very common thing in JRPG games and shounen anime. New bad guys, they show off their power, you start to lose, a ally comes out of nowhere *insert battle cutscene* they say who they are and they leave. In 3.5 we will meet them again and kick their ass.

But yeah this happended in 2.55 and it happened again. I think if our avatar had a voice actor, then maybe he or she would interact more during cutscenes, like with SWTOR.

[Kassiekane]

Your character can't fight in a cutscene, all that really happens is you pulling out your weapon. So the devs have to find workarounds for it, so that's how we end up with these kinds of cutscenes. You see, the only way they can show our character fighting them is if its an actual fight where you control your character. They didn't want us fighting the warrior of darkness just yet.

Though I'm not justifying the fact that it does in fact make the cutscene kind of lame.

[Dualblade]

I wish they did here what the did for the Vault fight later on: Have it as a Duty where we fight. Y'shtola, Alpy, and Krile fighting the Edge'qote,Edgadyne, and Edglezen while our character fights Edgelander while Edgelafell does healing. Either after doing a good bit of damage or our character getting to low health, que cutscene of Tancred comin in to help (maybe have it where, if by enough damage done our character is still ready for more, while if by low health we end up being knocked down or something right before he comes in).

But eh, we'll fight em later on.

[Seoulstar]

Well it's a bit understandable when it was the story quest in Ul'dah. I mean you already were in trouble. Fighting would have just worsened the situation for you and would given them "evidence" to go against you. Maybe eventually they will show cutscenes with our characters actually fighting. But also I like it when things like this happen. Would get worn out pretty quickly if we just owned everything that's in our paths in my opinion.

[Evangela]

I always don't like how they make our characters look like a nobody. Always getting overshadowed by those weakling NPCs. We're the protagonist of the game. Why we're so weak in the story and also can't talk.

and Thancred, really? the guy isn't even a ninja and dress like my rogue when I was level 5.

[FallenArisen0990]

Super Rant

You sir are playing the wrong game. The only game I played that your created character was badass, was God Eater. This is a very common reoccurring theme in JRPGs. With the way the game is, it's impossible to create fighting animations for our characters with their current staff. It would take waaaay too much time to program the game to using X amount of auto-attacks with X amount of skills.

Also he's Mr. Original. It makes perfect sense that Mr. Derplander would kick our butts. Everything we done, he has done it as well.

[Niqote]

Your character can't fight in a cutscene, all that really happens is you pulling out your weapon. So the devs have to find workarounds for it, so that's how we end up with these kinds of cutscenes. You see, the only way they can show our character fighting them is if its an actual fight where you control your character. They didn't want us fighting the warrior of darkness just yet.

Though I'm not justifying the fact that it does in fact make the cutscene kind of lame.

I can understand the restrictions of needing to keep the scene flowing, but let's face it. They can have us do whatever they so please in a cutscene. I really enjoy the MSQ, but I have to agree that we are a rather stale character at times.

Motions that are universal by job:
We can block paths, block weapons, order people to do things with motions, push people out of the way, drag allies out of the way, call our mounts. Now, that's just a couple of little suggestions for alternatives to 'doing nothing'

There was a really good chunk of plot in this scene, the focus was not just on a returned ally but the appearance of a new foe - that's where the problem is. A threat emerged and we did nothing, an option to 'talk it out' or 'defend your party' would be nice!

I think its worthwhile to talk about because it would be lovely to see our characters be a little more animated ^^

[Blood-Aki]

I'll see where this story goes.. but so far it just feels very cliche, in may ways. i am interested to know what happend exactly as they are the exact same NPCS in the ARR CSs but "darkend"

If i know these types of stories, however. in the end we may see some kind of 11th hour super power theme from our character, but speculation, etc. Thnacred was pretty uninteresting, but it may be the voices.