are we still gonna travel with alphinaud in 4.0?

[ErzaScarlet77]

we spent so much time with him already, we know all about him. i kinda want either other scion with small screentime like thancred /ysthola or more new character instead

[Arua]

While I don't mind other scion tagging along and dwelling more into their stories, I quite like Alphinaud and hope he will be part of the story in 4.0.
Well I know at least he will follow us from the Revolutions video, but still hope that we will seem him all along 4.x.

[Capriana]

Yes, of course he is the main character to the plot.
He will be with us through the very end, and he will sacrifice himself for Eorzea and have a bloody death.

I do hope that somewhere along the expansions he should 'age' up and get older.

[KageTokage]

I'm not really surprised Alphinaud is tagging along again after all he went through with us in Stormblood. I get the impression our little group is going to being acting as a diplomatic party for Eorzea in this particular conflict.

I do hope that somewhere along the expansions he should 'age' up and get older.

I like to think I'm making him feel more secure about being the shortest non-Lalafell Scion (Though I'm pretty sure I'm still slightly taller even as a minimum height female Au Ra), so the thought of him hitting his growth spurt and suddenly towering over me is rather amusing.

[ErzaScarlet77]

i thought we're the main character? is it because hes the grandson of louisoix?

[Voltyblast]

i thought we're the main character? is it because hes the grandson of louisoix?

Can't disagree that I hate when stories are around a secondary character rather the one you're in control: just feels detached and it's even one of the reasons why i don't even follow it.

I mean sure it can work sometimes, but this is no Sherlock Holmes!

[DamianFatale]

Can't disagree that I hate when stories are around a secondary character rather the one you're in control: just feels detached and it's even one of the reasons why i don't even follow it.

I mean sure it can work sometimes, but this is no Sherlock Holmes!

I feel the opposite. There are too many stories where the main character is conveniently the savior in the plot. I like that supporting characters count in this game too. This isn't just about the Warriors of Light, this is the world.

[Alleo]

Can't disagree that I hate when stories are around a secondary character rather the one you're in control: just feels detached and it's even one of the reasons why i don't even follow it.

I understand that it might be annoying if you at the same time dont even like that character but the problem is that our character cant talk. Without a character like Alphinaud that is in a way our voice we would just stand there completely silent. In single player games with a silent protagonist you can kinda forge your own way through different kind of choices and talk options. But in FF14 there are no different ways (other than flavor text that changes nothing) to react and SE does not want to put too much reaction onto our characters since not everyone sees him/her like that. So they have someone else react and talk for us.

If we dont want this we would have to accept that the WoL would turn into SEs character with answers and emotion that might not be how we would have reacted. Sometimes this already happened and I hope that they will keep some of the emotions and reactions for further stories since it felt more like my character was alive and not some puppet that nods along. But there is a really fine line between it being fine or overdoing it and thus taking away the aspect of the WoL being our character.

[Voltyblast]

Fair enough, but don't forget that "I'm" the main character and not to sound greedy, the story should revolve around "me", the one in control, and not some secondary character that I really feel no sympathy for.

White Knight Chronicles did this mistake too, forcing you to make an avatar who follows the MC, and while I could control him as well...why didn't they just make the MC customizable or just drop the idea? And that game wasn't really an mmorpg either, so it made even less sense to that regard. I can give it some slack here but, I thought this was an epic story about the warrior of light, and not the transporter!

And on the regard about the "world", I got 3 words that describe my take on this: "Show, don't tell". Oh, and drop the instancing already: it's hard to feel in a world where I get loading screens every 3 nanoseconds!

[Belhi]

Both the twins will be along for the ride but I get the feeling Lyse will play a more central role in our travels. We have seen cutscenes with us with both Twins but literally every scene shown with the WoL also had Lyse in it. By the look of it most of the Scions will be staying in Ala Mhigo though. We only take a few with us to Doma.