2.0 website and trailer...

**Alkar** · 2012-07-27 17:22

Yeah but the trailer also implies that the adventurers were there anyway so even new characters will be treated as heroes of sorts. That's assuming someone that knows us survived.

**Raldo** · 2012-07-27 17:25

You sure were bad ass to stop Dalamud, but daaaaayum the years in stasis really took their toll on you. Sorry, but you're level 1 now bro.

**miokomioko** · 2012-07-27 17:29

Not saying that's not possible, but I think that it's always a bad idea to force any sort of backstory onto someone's mmorpg character. I think we'll all be blank slates for the most part... aside from whatever quests/NPCs actually remain... with the story that some brave adventurers fought the Garleans (which may or may not include yourself).

At most, they should explain to old players how they ended up in 2.0 via a cutscene or something while new players obviously just arrive in 2.0.

That, or they open the game up for everyone straight into an introductory battle sequence as seen in the trailer, like FFX, then everyone experiences the battle > calamity > 2.0 transition.

**Thiefami** · 2012-07-27 17:50

depending how much time has passed most npcs will be dead, and will not remember you anyway

**Alkar** · 2012-07-27 18:17

Originally Posted by miokomioko

Not saying that's not possible, but I think that it's always a bad idea to force any sort of backstory onto someone's mmorpg character. I think we'll all be blank slates for the most part... aside from whatever quests/NPCs actually remain... with the story that some brave adventurers fought the Garleans (which may or may not include yourself).

At most, they should explain to old players how they ended up in 2.0 via a cutscene or something while new players obviously just arrive in 2.0.

That, or they open the game up for everyone straight into an introductory battle sequence as seen in the trailer, like FFX, then everyone experiences the battle > calamity > 2.0 transition.

There's no point in this new intro then. It shows the adventurers fighting against the Empire and getting warped somewhere else. This'll be the same intro for everyone come 2.0 so it's unlikely that we'll be treated as newbies. Then again if all NPCs die no one would remember us but that's just stupid and won't happen.
I just wonder if we'll actually get to play the intro scenes in the coming months or not.

**miokomioko** · 2012-07-27 18:33

Originally Posted by Alkar

There's no point in this new intro then. It shows the adventurers fighting against the Empire and getting warped somewhere else. This'll be the same intro for everyone come 2.0 so it's unlikely that we'll be treated as newbies.

If they open the game up with playing through some parts of this calamitous final battle (perhaps alongside the featured cgi characters), they have no need to discern between old and new players, problem solved.

However, if that is not the case, this cgi intro will simply be a "this is what happened in the past" recap. Old players can simply think to themselves "I was there" while new players just look at it as backstory. There's no real need to have some NPCs speak to us differently. They can easily write around that by having them disregard past accomplishments (unless they are still active/repeatable tasks).

My point being is that they have no real reason to outright acknowledge your race/gender/clan in the first place. It's would just be an awkward "uh yeah, when some adventurers were temporarily drawn into the abyss, they came out looking different, with wieners instead of vaginas, 8 feet taller, etc."

The easy way out would be to have any carried-over NPCs that have a reason to remember you just have foggy memory issues due to whatever happened.

**vadre** · 2012-07-27 19:12

Originally Posted by miokomioko

However, if that is not the case, this cgi intro will simply be a "this is what happened in the past" recap. Old players can simply think to themselves "I was there" while new players just look at it as backstory. There's no real need to have some NPCs speak to us differently. They can easily write around that by having them disregard past accomplishments (unless they are still active/repeatable tasks)..

Pretty much I expect this is how it'll go down. The opening CS will have a voiceover explaining how the heroes of the time disappeared from the world and how they wonder whether they'll ever return or whatever. Your character as a newbie can be one of the adventurers helping vs. the garlean occupation etc. It really doesn't have to be that complicated.

**solracht** · 2012-07-27 19:14

Originally Posted by vadre

voiceover

I hope this is done by a different guy

**Rocl** · 2012-07-27 19:17

Originally Posted by solracht

I hope this is done by a different guy

hope they keep this intern, he's doing god's work

and by god's work i mean killing me softly with his words

**Ambrosia** · 2012-07-27 19:18

Originally Posted by Takiwaki

Create a build and show it at conventions. It worked well for GW2 a couple years before beta started. I duno SE coulda done the same deal in showcasing a small playable section of the game at conventions worldwide this year. It would have been the best marketing tool also. If the game is supposed to be that great and that much of a change then whats the risk in showing it off at an early stage to the public?

GamePlay™

**Lordender** · 2012-07-27 21:27

Eh, I can see the trailer perspective from both sides of the coin. The CGI trailer isn't all bad, some questions were answered, some new questions are being asked. I never really expected anything mind blowing to come out until TGS which is sept 20th regarding 2.0. We'll get some tidbits all throughout August, but the real holy shit stuff isn't going to come before TGS.

**xopher** · 2012-07-27 21:35

You people won't be happy unless they dump every bit of information they have in your lap.

**Insanecyclone** · 2012-07-27 21:42

Originally Posted by xopher

You people won't be happy unless they dump every bit of information they have in your lap.

Finally someone says it

**Rocl** · 2012-07-27 21:43

That would make me very happy actually

**Lordender** · 2012-07-27 21:50

Originally Posted by xopher

You people won't be happy unless they dump every bit of information they have in your lap.

Yeah but the thing is this is status-quo from SE, while I'm in the camp of not being sold on anything until I see some gameplay footage. I expected it to be played out like this, there is no reason to unveil anything awesome when they got this major gaming conference in about 2 months in Japan. The reason why I'm glad they didn't show this @E3 is because the press they would have got would be mostly negative.

Hell, some negative articles have already surfaced from this teaser alone. The info we all want to see is coming, they can't delay it much longer, 2.0 is entering the home stretch as we begin to creep into the 3rd quarter of the year.

**Manako** · 2012-07-27 21:53

Originally Posted by Rocl

hope they keep this intern, he's doing god's work

and by god's work i mean killing me softly with his words

This is exactly what I imagined... getting the "manliest" intern at the office in a closet to record his voice for the trailer lol!

**miokomioko** · 2012-07-27 21:59

How much could it possibly cost to get Patrick Stewart or Ian McKellen to phone in the 6 lines for that trailer?

**Shade** · 2012-07-27 22:49

Originally Posted by miokomioko

How much could it possibly cost to get Patrick Stewart or Ian McKellen to phone in the 6 lines for that trailer?

Probably a lot, lol.

**Therin** · 2012-07-27 23:08

Another dumb WOTG question:

What was the meteorite that was always in the sky in the past? Did they ever reveal that?

**Pooke** · 2012-07-27 23:53

Atomos

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