[suggestion] Can we have impactful Dialogue Choices?

[znushu]

There are already games with this feature for there mmos like Swtor and it's a feature that's praised by the community over there. So I'm suggesting to add impactful Dialogue Choices instead of the faux types we have now which changes nothing.

Dialogue Choices like this one which changes both the lore and how the world sees your character would be great to have.


so please can we have Impactful Dialogue Choices, yoshida? please?

[Jojoya]

You mean it's praised by what little community is left over there. I know a lot of people that drifted away from SWTOR because those choices kept them from playing with friends who wanted to make different choices. The only thing left they could do together was the occasional raid and they didn't find that satisfying.

I'll leave the impactful quest choices to the single player games that I also like to play. I'm fine with a static story in MMORPGs so I can play together with my family and friends, and have a discussion about the shared experience instead of spoilers about what happened for them instead of me.

[Remolia]

You mean it's praised by what little community is left over there. I know a lot of people that drifted away from SWTOR because those choices kept them from playing with friends who wanted to make different choices. The only thing left they could do together was the occasional raid and they didn't find that satisfying.

I'll leave the impactful quest choices to the single player games that I also like to play. I'm fine with a static story in MMORPGs so I can play together with my family and friends, and have a discussion about the shared experience instead of spoilers about what happened for them instead of me.

I thought people left SWTOR because game is awful in every other aspects. In FFXIV you cant even do MSQ with ur friends, because it has stupid solo events, and u don't share any cutscene.
But speaking of Main Quest, SWTOR is way better doing RPG part, with building ur character. Imperial Agent still my favorite MSQ.
In FFXIV u are bound to same characters, and ur character is just an empty avatar, who watching everything from the side, without own thoughts.
Maybe FFXIV MSQ does not need impactful Choices, but it would be nice to have different playthroughs of same expansion.
Like a classic one, and the one where you tell to Alphinaud and his friends to stay away from you, and proceed MSQ with Hildibrand, the real hero.

[Asari5]

by impactful you mean to be able to kill a npc who would disappear anyway?

i liked swtor, but the decisions werent really that impactful


i wouldnt say no to something like this but i dont see a lot to gain from it

[Evergrey]

by impactful you mean to be able to kill a npc who would disappear anyway?

i liked swtor, but the decisions werent really that impactful


i wouldnt say no to something like this but i dont see a lot to gain from it

I've killed potential companions whom I'll never be able to have in my team again since they're dead.
I've told others to get lost and they haven't come back yet.
So it's not only NPCs whom you'd never hear from again anyways.

Regardless, many of these "impactful" dialogue options simply gives you a different cutscene but in the end it's just the same, a quest that's now done and you'll never hear from it or its NPCs ever again.
At least the companions leaves a void once they're dead/gone.

[smashBG]

I'm not sure how much the game would actually benefit from dialogue trees and branching storylines. It's one of those features that you have to REALLY commit to, or else it just feels half-baked- and that's to say nothing of the technical work required to make it happen. Personally, I think a linear story with occasional dialogue options that exist purely for flavor is fine for an MMO.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Even games built around dialogue trees and choices can't always pull it off well. Shoehorning it into a ten-year-old game like this would never work out well.

[Supersnow845]

It would be nice if even if nothing changed the major story characters actually sorta responded to a set of choices you made

Like if you make it obvious you don’t really support wuk lamat or are uninteresting in the conflict she could become cold towards you, the story wouldn’t change though since wuk still needs you but she doesn’t have to like you so to speak

It would be a nice change over everyone agreeing you are an incredibly powerful and loveable if somewhat dopey dependable companion who’s always willing to help

It’s about the only thing good about garlemald, it was fantastic seeing how the garleans reacted to the WOL who they saw as an evil monster who crushed their empire by proxy and led to the current situation

[Fawkes]

It would be nice if even if nothing changed the major story characters actually sorta responded to a set of choices you made

They started doing this in Shadowbringers. It's mostly just the comic relief choice though, like saying Kupo to Thancred or getting mean looks from Y'shtola.

[Chasingstars]

The dialogue options is for the journey of your personal experience, not for the destination. The only way you would get that in ffxiv is if it was side content where that was the express purpose, a microcosm of something like fallout new vegas if you will.