Final Fantasy 16 Side Quests are DARK 

this is the same problem i have with house elves in harry potter. why does a super powerful race of magic masters who can decimate armies...listen to your weak ass?

*Arthas has entered the chat*

Exactly what I'm thinking

*Angry Uther noises

Sickness must be purged

She probably wouldn't change much and her parents would ask her to disregard a stranger's words and then give her a new Chloe

@@user-ig3oq7ty7m Could happen yes. But could also be the other way

@@AerysTMD She said dad, so I just assumed parents, I've never really played any of the main line FF games, so I'm also ignorant myself

uhm no this is whole shtick of empire.

@@wiziek Right over my head, never played a main line FF game :)

They're not event treated as animals, they're treated less than toys.

Waloed was feeding a behemont with bearers even children and old people. I was like "wow this scaled even more"😅

Goes to show just how kind and good of a ruler Elwin really was, doesn't it? He was the only ruler who actually tried to improve the lives of Bearers and do away with the widespread prejudice against them. Elwin was trying to give Bearers a place where they could truly have a home, and where they would be treated as equals just like anyone else. And then Anabella ruined it all. But at least his ideals still live on in Clive, Joshua, Jill, and our band of outcasts & outlaws. I'm sure had they ever had a chance to meet, Elwin would have gotten along very well with Cid, and vice-versa.

no, your only best hope are the asian companies doesnt turn like those

Shit, i wish. Our quest would be a joke about reddit or a "what are those meme"

Nope, only battle passes and unfinished games for us westies

Sorry, but no. However, we are bringing in a lot of exciting new content along our new Premium Gold Season Pass that you will surely enjoy!

no, those twitter journalist and 'gamer' will cry about how offensive the game is

Honestly, I was thinking to myself "If I was Maleficent I would curse the kids father to be torn apart by wolves and hex the kid giving him magical abilities so that he would become a branded" ... That's not to messed up of a punishment is it?

ive never hated a child as much as i hated that kid. good thing he got his just desserts

@@crystalpeaches7825Did you play Danganronpa Another Episode?

@@pn2294 i havent!! i havent played danganronpa yet but im planning!

I think it would've been better if the kid had died and the dad had survived, and Clive could've said 'You can always get another kid'. Clive is way too nice for this setting.

The thing is that the first sidequests were quite useless to do as they didn't bring anything to the story But oh boy do I highly recommend to do the "Payback" quest. Hits you in the guts if you like Cid

@@jbt.395 when is it available? I just defeated Bahamut and I'm scared I might've missed it

@@kuranhelix278 I think it's a little before Bahamut fight when doing the "Letting Off Steam" main quest

"find a pet" "jokes on you a human being is the pet" "oh yeah the human pet is literally dead from overworking"

Yeah, just a few lines from Clive where enough to let the truth sink in.

loved that 1 2

After the end of that quest, there's blood where the dad and son were standing. Thought that was a nice touch.

@@datfatpug I wasn't sure if that was there before or not, but that is a nice touch. I'm glad that quest had a satisfying end.

Same

@@datfatpug that wolf is very hungry that it didn't leave any pieces of the body.

The problem with that is... why the fuck would I WANT to save the world then?

@@DmonHiroThe main purpose of the story is to create a world there’s no slavery

@@DmonHiro Thing is, Clive pretty much wanted to "destroy" the current world where Bearers are being used as mere objects, so he can hopefully rebuild it without the classism and slavery.

​@@ShindenizeYes

@@DmonHiro You're not trying to save the world, you're trying to start a new one.

She will but she'll convince herself that she's not because she's nicer to her slaves than most.

Not knowing the full lore of Final Fantasy, and only going off context in the clip, is it fair to assume with the knowledge clive gave her, she has a chance to grow up into another chloe now as well?

​@@bullstrode5875 no, you're born with the magic using ability, usually found out when they're still a baby

@@corwinchapman8270 alright so something unrelated. Thank you, will have to get some kind of deep dive on all this at some point.

Did he?

Not all games have backbones...good ones anyway.

Tbf a lot of them in the first half of the game are pretty bad lol

@@chrismoore4724 fair and most of them looks like story/lore heavy, the they write them just feel 10x worse

They are still too basic and the ones before this weren't shocking or interesting.

Gameplay wise, Yes. Story-lore atmosphere wise, its a bomb.

I mean… I never played this game but it does seem basic, it took 5 minutes of talking to npcs, judging by the environment around tem he didn’t have to walk much at all

@@waefawawrgaw2835 Yea, Women are the stronger ones.

​@@waefawawrgaw2835Bro what? Get some help

That's one metal guilt trip.

@@syressx9098 Silence feminist

@@waefawawrgaw2835 Species? And I suppose the earth is flat too?

Clive: "Little girl, that woman was not your pet, that was a human being! She was practically your sister, and you... you refused to show her a minimum of dignity. Dignity that would have kept her alive." Also Clive: "I'm just gonna... put her ashes in this jar. And scatter them over the ocean. Not going to imbue them in a soldier's blade and use her remains to slaughter hundreds. Nope, not at all."

@@kome360 Why waste a good tragedy though?

Especially since the quest ends with the guy and his kid getting killed all cause the dad taught his kid how to be a privileged c*nt which he most likely learned from his parents and so on and so forth.

They really wanted us to know how awful the people in Sambreque really were

Yeah right after he finishes Genshin Impact

shadowbringers is awful though. story is good but its told so badly.

@@ronuss Ayo? You ok? We talking about the same expansion?

@@ronuss "told so badly" ??? If the story is good but its "told badly" then how is it good?

@@kubasliwa204 Yeah after he also finishes Gta V

The father and son in the all bark side quest are the Celestial dragon characters. The father tricks you into “ helping” his son who is being “ attacked” by a wolf. When you kill the wolf the son get’s angry and tells you that the wolf was meant to kill you. You see the bodies of other branded who had tried to help and were killed. They both get what they deserve when their new wolf turns on them and kills them.

@@BIGFELLAH26 And if you go back to where they were after completing the quest there's even a pool of blood where they once stood.

@@c.s.6792 oh, darn I missed that. I did go back but I didn’t see the blood.

@@c.s.6792serves them right. No good bastards treating branded like they’re nothing. Sure they have powers but they’re still just as human as they are

Even the dirt quest had a point in showing the mindset of people.

i dont like the design mostly. i m just after the "pivotal point" in the story (~50% of the mainstory), so maybe it gets better now. But the overall design is "take quest" => "go to next area" => instant resolved after a quick fight or finding a dead body. I like the theme of the quests, but not how fast/shallow they are resolved. Whats getting on my nerve especially are the "find someone"-quests, in which you get to a dead body and conviniently someone arrives that buries the body for you. There are others, but mostly its along those lines and its even less compelling since the ingame rewards are really bad. So all its got going for itself are the dark themes. I would really like to have chained quests with a decent reward at the end that tell a coherent sidestory. For now all it does is setting the current area into context which itself is good. But as i said, the mechanical side is to shallow.

@@terfio Finally someone that adresses this point eloquently and coherently. What the sidequests do for worldbuilding and narrative are great (some of them) but mechanically/gameplay wise there isn't much. It's too shallow. They're relying too heavily on the narrative to keep the sidequests compelling.

@@askiia8713 Well it certainly works well enough if people are defending it. This seems to be more of a taste thing.

@@pillarmenn1936 most of the sidequests so far are the equivalent of a footnote in an essay. Quick context that doesnt distract you from the main aspect. Its ok to have these as micro breather. If you dont want to get distracted from the main story be my guest. But then the pacing of the main story should be on point (which is sadly not always the case). Some of the main story beats (pre and post timeskip) would have been awesome sidequests. The game is awesome in alot of ways. Sidequest design is not one of its strong points.

Let's see, the only other time there was a major amount of blood I can recall in the older games is 7 with the snake corpse. Most blood we'd get from FF since is Squall getting slashed in the face (FF8 intro). 14 is more and more doing whatever to get bloody while staying within the age rating, like painting the blood black in a particular scene in Endwalker.

don't forget type 0

​@hiddenmaster6062 I think shadowbringers really pushed how actually dark ffxiv could get even more than endwalker i'd argue.

@@Foogi9000 i can never look at white bread buns the same ever again

@@cygnusereve4779 Same

If it's the one involving a nobleman, his son and a wolf, Asmon did it too.

U realize they got killed right?

@@sanghelio Yes but we missed to pleasure of doing it ourselves

@@Zimzky91 I felt the way they did go was far more poetic and appropriate considering what they had been doing.

Yes, off screen. I wanted to just chop their heads off myself.

@@Zimzky91 then we would have lowered ourselves to their level and become murderers. The way they died was satisfying.

bro this game are M rated wtf XD

Kids shouldn't be playing final fantasy. You literally just watched a video about a girl grieving her friend and that's where your brain went?

r/whoosh

@@fohhee oh I understood your sentiment, it's just dumb and nonsensical

Saying their kids in this case implies they could be any age. Unless there is a different way to refer to peoples children when they become adults that I wasn't aware of.

facts

​@@nickpurdy69Why would people who can and want to play the game even be here

Appreciate the info., Truly Please add spoiler warnings next time for those who don't want to be spoiled

​@@Vugtis_El_VillaVODS If people don't want to get spoiled they shouldn't look at asmongold clips where he reacts to stuff in the game. If it was a major spoiler than yeah sure, but this is a tiny side questline and i didnt even spoil anything lol

Its funny to see a Spoiler Andy malding about someone sharing story related stuff in a gameplay video like this. No one in their right mind who doesn't want to be spoil, will actually watch videos like this and while reading the comments too.

I dare say this game is on par with the Witcher, combat is insanely good

LUL don't do it for the sidequests. You will be disappointed. Do it if you genuinely like the combat mech, Eikon battles or the Main story.

@@flipskaterdave Nah, still too much unnecessary pathos, Witcher is much more down-to-earth and serious

welcome to final fantasy. this isnt even the darkest the franchise got... not by a long shot...

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The ones writing are all older than 25

Most game writers for the big companies are millennials, not zoomers.

That saints row quest line from Angry Joe's review still got me PTSD lol

This can’t be a real comment

They aren't zoomers. They're typically woke, incompetent millennials trying desperately to appeal to zoomers.

Lol imagine a betty quest where you need to find all the cats but you find each of them lying dead in a gruesome way.

just gotta wait for those 😀 definitely in here.

Yep, they are 5 miles of traveling for 5$ and worldbuilding (which isnt bad but average player wont like)

Hell even the fetch quests often help flesh out characters or part of the world.

this game has nothing from 15. combat is completely diferent in every way. also the "dark theme" is nothing new. why do people think FF is some sappy stuff? if anything, this would be set along side 1 or the tactics advance games for the lightest in the franchise.

@@marcosdheleno To be fair, they didn't declare that this was the first FF to have this "theme". Also there are plenty of players that haven't played the old FFs so give them some slack.

@@HeyG_im not really blaming them or anything. there are alot of players who did play older games but also didnt realized how dark they were. i mean, FF2(and im talking nes FF2), has around half of the playable cast die in horrific ways. all im saying is, FF has always been dark.

@@HeyG_ yeah, because im telling others about how the series always had dark themes, and they are discussing about how this has more gruesome visuals. which is hilarious because i dont disagree that this one makes it much more visual. what i do disagree is that sense that the series only became dark recentrly. which is wrong. and that's my point.

"If a game has dark themes it's the witcher 3" This is like Game journos thinking any game with rolling or a stamina meter is dark souls

It's because (gameplaywise) they do not add to the game. They are just random encounters which you can already have while roaming the zones and then TP back. They do add substance to the world but some people already have enough with what they've seen for that or they fill in the blanks themselves.

in a sense they did it in XIV Shadowbringers.

Have you tried rhe critically acclaimed FFXIV Shadowbringers etc etc Oh. Spoilers

@@ygnizemcenia6059 😉 I know

@@autumneagle 😉

gotta love people who played 14 and think thats the first time the series got dark... or even that its the darkest... so cute...

Just buy a ps5 and stop being poor

​@@CanYouResistClick1ngA PS5 is a lot cheaper than a gaming PC so I don't see how they are playing games in the first place if they can't afford a console, I guess on their phone...

Hell a new phone is more expensive than a console

@@emiami458 You can own a PC that you invested in prior to a console's release and still not have the money to buy a console. Plus it'd be an extremely stupid financial decision to sink half a thousand dollars into hardware for a single game that doesn't even run that well on it. Best to wait for the PC release in half a year or so.

@@emiami458 My only point is the service that PS5 offers me, is one week of fun in ONE game, for 770 buck. Doesent it sounds ridiculous? I never intended for PC vs PS convo, but just for comparison: While the console would cost me 70% of a PC (yes its less), PC is an absloute multi-tool of current age. While PS5 only function is games. For me, ONE GAME to be precise. 1 is near 0. Yes, it is affordable but isnt worth for alot of people, therefore not accesible. I want FFXVI but bying console for gazzilion dollares i would use for 1 week would be plainly retarded. I never intended for PC vs PS convo, but replies always go like that when you mention that PS5 doesnt offers shit to do with it for a price it asks for. I love dialogue in comment sections, but jesust crist sometimes people are two-dimentional: 🗿OONGA BOONGA PC VS CONSOLES *screesching noises* 🗿 🗿Just buy it LUOOOL 🗿 🗿Throw your money to the wind, i did it, so should you! 🗿 And about phones, it's mostly western side of the globe thing to suck on those costly apples brands. Nobody asks you to buy the most expensive one, especially immediately upon release. Overhere everyone uses whats good enough. Now that i think about, even new phones nowadays offer more funcion than a current PS5 state. For a same-ish price as you say.

you do realize this doesnt even come close to how dark the franchise has been in the past, right?

YoshiP reminding us that this is medieval Europe where slaves were a comodity and treated as less than humans .

@harrysliyoko8809 Yeah, so dark and edgy. Like a teenager who discovered the word "fuck", and decided to add it to every paragraph of his fanfic. 🙄

to be fair, the franchise has always been pretty dark. even back in FF2 on the nes.

@@marcosdheleno Yup. People seem to forget what kefka did just because it was 16bit. Then theres also tactics and even Vagrant story. Thats why im hoping for a tactics remake. Just so more people can appreciate its story and its world.

translation of the jap version or where to find a translation of some of the dark(er) stuff, like this for us english players. Thank you!

elaborate.

It’s really not, stop being dramatic. Clive saying don’t you forget what you did to her in Japanese isn’t *much more harsher and darker* god you people are annoying.