Question on Npc relations

[bswpayton]

Now that I know where to post in the right section ha , I have a question. So I think I started playing ff games in the middle somewhere. I've played 8, 9, and 10, and I may have played seven but I really don't rem but I do recall the main npc of the game. Also I even played 10.2. But this my return to the franchise really loving the game but Im actually curious I guess its a lore question. Is this the only one without that main npc , character relationship like couple wise, because I recall that in all the others ones I've played before. And if it is the case do you think that's because its an mmo? Just a curious question, that I really don't know the answer to but would like feed back.

[Averax]

This post jumped all over the place i have no idea what you're actually asking.

[Cinno]

So you're asking if our characters in this game ever gets sortof into a relationship with an npc, story wise?

I mean not really, there's no romantic relationships, but you have the little group of friends that your characters gets really close to. After all the stuff that happens in heavensward, Alphinaud ends up feeling almost like a brother to our WoL, at least to me.. And Alphinaud is arguably closer to the WoL than any of the other scions, so i think that's the closest you're going to get currently.

I dont think they would ever add a true love interest into the game, partly because yeah its an mmo. The WoL we play as is sortof a representation of ourselves. If they decide for the story that they want to pair us up with a particular character, this could cause problems as there's guaranteed to be a handful of players that despise that character and are greatly upset by that choice, and for good reason.. It'd rip the immersion away in an instant. The only way they could -possibly- set it up, is if they had multiple potential love interests, and it was decided based on conversation choices we make and stuff. But that would honestly be waaay too much work, they wouldnt do something like that.

So brotherly love with Alphinaud is as close as you're going to ever get, imo. :P

[bswpayton]

This post jumped all over the place i have no idea what you're actually asking.

Sorry ha What Im asking is in the ones I played 8,9, and ten your character was in a relationship with an npc if I remember correctly so , I was just curious if it was something se stopped puttin in their games.

[VanilleFang]

your character was in a relationship with an npc

Rinoa, Garnet, and Yuna aren't NPCs though. I would argue that they are just as, if not more, important as Squall, Zidane, and Titus in the over all story. But I understand what you are asking.

No, there are no romantic relationships on this game between your character and any NPCs. There are important NPCs that are your characters close friends and allies, but no romance.

[Alleo]

Well its kinda canon that Haurchefant had a thing for the WoL. If this was only one-sided is left to the imagination and choice of the player. But they were never truly together..there is no other character right now that is truly interested in the WoL in a romantic way. One could say Aymeric but this is even more left for speculation (thankfully since my WoL's heart belongs to our dear knight)

FF14 is different from 8 or 9 since the WoL is not truly a established character with their own history, believe and so on but more of a "insert" of our own wishes so they could never truly have a canon relationship since not everyone would want their character with XY. We do show a little bit more emotion in HW but in the end we will probably stay a blank character.

So in the end there is a difference between games like FF8 were you play a character that is already there with his own story and games like FF14 were you can create your own character and thus having more of a blank character.

[Legion88]

The difference between XIV and the singleplayer Final Fantasies is, this is an MMO.
In the singleplayers you are controlling a premade character/party with all relationships and bindings etc., while in a MMO you are controlling the charater which represents yourself in this world.
The Dev team will never enforce more closeness then friendship or trust, just like you don't want to fell in love for someone just cause i as the Dev decided so...

[ManuelBravo]

FFXIV has reference to past FF games. they have held special events were characters from other series have appeared, FFXI , Lightning, and collaboration. As for personal relationships some tie in if you were part of 1.0 every now and then there is a hint of a past connection. Warriors of light are reference to one of the FF were the hero of light was no longer remembered in his time line. See FF lore. You are referenced as if you were him/her , reality is you are, but your image was erased from their memories.

[bswpayton]

Well I guess it was more so that I knew it was in other games that wernt ff mmos, but Ive played an mmo that it was in that was also a blank slate. My first mmo was swtor and you had several options there not that I actually want this for myself , it was more of a question of is this something that they are stepping away from in their games in general. Like will it be missing in 15 as well , from previews Ive seen it looks like there want be any in that game either.

[MisterLucie]

I'm in a relationship with Ser Aymeric. We're getting married.