Quote Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams View Post
3 expansions worth of questlines is longer than 1 expansion's alliance raid series.
You severely underestimate just how quickly the Hildibrand questline goes by when you hit 'skip cutscene' on everything. I went from zero Hildibrand on an alt to the start of the EW one in effectively one evening. Just take the time to marathon a podcast/TV show/anime/whatever on another monitor.

There's also the fact that ivalice can take forever to pop or be wipeapalooza if you're unlucky, whereas everything in hildibrand can be unsynced super ez. (Kugane Ohashi would need a few people tho, but the rest can be solo'd.) When you factor in everything like queue times, possible wipes, etc. Hildibrand really isn't that much longer than doing all three ivalice raids + all the unlock quests between them (especially that long one between Rabanastre & Ridorona)

I'm also amused by the fact you just instantly assume that being tied to hildibrand means it won't take itself seriously. You do realize Godbert has actual serious lore behind him in the many instances he's appeared outside the Hildy quests right? No doubt there will be comedic elements, but there is literally no indicator the storyline won't be serious or explore the world's lore. The scholastic quest series has literally proven you can reference the Hildibrand quests and still tell a lore-building, serious story. Until this relic weapon series drops, doomposting its gonna be zanny hijinks and comedy 100% o the time is a waste of energy.