Crackpot Theory/Idea

[Renalt]

You know how we've and a certain best cat boi have been messing around with time travel for the last two expansions? Well, what if this all leads to the consequence of Ultimecia, FF8 main antagonist and ruler of all time within that game' story to appear in FFXIV?

Obviously, not the version directly from FF8, but A VERSION exclusive to FFXIV that takes advantage of us messing with time to try and compress all of time and space using the Crystal Tower on the First in an attempt to rule all existing timelines all at once.

And in so doing, our world,G'raha's old timeline ravaged by the Eighth Umbral Calamity and the World of the Unsundered inhabited by the Ancients are all set on a collision course to collide and fuse with one another. And so, it falls to us and the heroes of the other two respective world's to stop Ultimecia before its too late!

Also, would be a prime opportunity to brinf back Gigi from the HW Mandraville quests and bring in Time Mage as a possible job class. :3

Thoughts?

With how 7 Remake is going and how 8 HAD very interesting elements that was held back with game mechanics that worked against each other...I could see an 8 Remake being done in the same vein as 7. Time Compression just makes it work in its favor story wise. So perhaps getting in an 8 story quest even if it isn't a full expansion worth of story would probably help with creating a full on 8 Remake.

[Soge01]

With how 7 Remake is going and how 8 HAD very interesting elements that was held back with game mechanics that worked against each other...I could see an 8 Remake being done in the same vein as 7. Time Compression just makes it work in its favor story wise. So perhaps getting in an 8 story quest even if it isn't a full expansion worth of story would probably help with creating a full on 8 Remake.

While I love FF7's story, the whole time ghosts thing and going against fate should have been something used kn a game like FF8, 9 or 10.

I'd love to see a prequel, sequel and an actual remake of FF8.

A promotion event in FFXIV would be great. I'd love to see Squall react to our version of the Gunblade. xD

Time travel can be a difficult theme to handle as it can easily be done poorly.

World of Warcraft handled it so poorly in Cataclym and then based an entire expansion on it just to bring back old characters that were killed off. "Hey, how do we defeat this powerful dragon aspect that's infused with the blood of the Old Gods? I know, lets go back in time and take the item that has made him so powerful and use it against him in the present!" I preferred it when we were simply trying to stop some mysterious dragons from changing the past in order to destroy existence.

I much prefer how its done in FF14. Even though we don't know what we're doing, we're actually doing exactly what we're supposed to to complete the timeline.

I mean, they could introduce Ultimecia and have a time travel based storyline, but it needs to be done well. And as much as I love the little guy as Vivi was my favourite character in FF9, I don't think bringing back Gigi would be a good idea. People are already complaining about having to do Hildibrand for the relic, they'd be fuming if they needed to do it for the MSQ.

Yeah, I wouldn't want to see FFXIV fall into the same kind of trouble WoW had with time travel. I also would just like this to be used as an excuse for us to be able to travel and fully explore both the World of the Unsundered and G'raha's timeline.

With the way Endwalker ended, the story has left the door to almost anything being able to happen now. So I hope we can eventually figure out a way to traverse time and space fully so we can visit those two worlds in full. :3

Plus, Ultimecia has yet to appear in the game as a boss yet. So far, we've seen Chaos from FF1, Gabranth (sort of) from FF12, Golbez from FF4, Exdeath from FF5, Cloud of Darkness (twice) from FF3 and Kefka from FF6. So having some sort of consequence for frequent time traveling, even though it was just to complete the timeline loop we and G'raha caused would be interesting. And I think Ultimecia appearing as a result could be a good idea.

And with the whole Gigi thing, olayers are already being forced to do all the Hildy quests anyways. So I kinda don't see Gigi coming back as a problem.

[Thaciscokidd]

I'd love to see Squall react to our version of the Gunblade. xD

[Reimmi]

If we ever get a ff8 crossover, this should be all he says the entire quest, leading to the WOL and squall having a brooding contest