Quote Originally Posted by Kazhar View Post
What I do take issue is when they take established characters who had their own stories like Golbez and copy paste them entirely into the MSQ. I think it's a step too far and I'm not even saying this as someone who liked FFIV.
Considering Golbez is probably only going to be relevant as a villain in less than a handful of patches, I think it’s fine.

He has a different story and motivations than his original counterpart (so far as we know), and the plot doesn’t even concentrate on him as much as it does the original character Zero. It wouldn’t have made it that much better if we had the same character with a different name and minions and the community probably got more out of him from nostalgia and trying to figure out who he was before his name drop than he otherwise would have received as a minor villain in the grand scheme of things.


Zodiark and Nidhogg aren’t original characters either. Zodiark was a summon in FF Tactics and in FFXII he was a dark-aligned god whose power was limited by light-aligned powers who were fearful of him, just like in FFXIV. Nidhogg was an HNM (sort of like a world boss) giant dragon from FFXI. Killing him even got you the same title in FFXIV as killing him in FFXI did.