Quote Originally Posted by LolitaBansheeMeru View Post
Now this wouldn't be fundamentally diffrent it would just throw in a option to walk the path that characters like Emet open to you or help Gaius take over the savages of Eorzea and bring order what would be so bad about that other than "we don't want it empire bad we good free wild lands" really also Nidhogg would have just most likely wiped out ishgard and returned ... also Zenos could have been agreed upon similar to DBz Goku/vegeta thing with fighters just having random disagreements and beating each other up randomly through out the story just for the kicks.
If Gaius had won, Eorzea would be crushed under the heel of the Empire, fundamentally altering the entire course of the story.

Nidhogg was mad with rage to the point that even his father and brother eventually agreed he had to be put down. Even before that, he always hated mortals. He wouldn't have just burned Ishgard and then gone to take a nap. Genocide doesn't work that way.

Zenos doesn't have the warrior pride that allowed Vegeta to develop as a character. Zenos is a one-note psychopath with no motivation beyond fighting the strongest people he can find, for no reason beyond being bored otherwise. He couldn't turn out honorably because he doesn't want to.

Emet-Selch winning would've directly resulted in the WoL becoming a Lightwarden. If turning your character into a near-mindless monstrosity whose very existence is antithetical to all other life doesn't fundamentally alter the story, then I don't know what will.

Also, comparing a video game to D&D is highly unfair. D&D isn't a complete story, it's the framework to tell a story. It's like comparing a bag of flour to a finished cake.