(09-30-2015, 07:51 AM)Warren Castille Wrote:(09-30-2015, 06:47 AM)Eses Fafa Wrote: While I have quite a degree of respect for people who play their characters as these 'normals' as they remind others that Eorzea is not full of superheroes, I'm not one of those people and neither was this fellow most likely. For all we know, he could very well be capable of mauling a fully-armoured roegadyn all Beowulf style.
This actually leads me to wonder why we haven't had super villains yet. If the level of power is really so drastic when jumping from "normal" Eorzeans to "special" Eorzeans, are we really to believe that no one has ever gone full Doctor Doom yet? The fall of Ala Mhigo displaced huge swaths of desperate, angry people. Not a one of them came into their gifts and decided to take it out on Ul'dah? Or the Empire? If there really are people out there capable of decimating platoons how come we don't have record of these terrifying supermen laying waste to the population? There's not a chance that the Monetarists would be content just sitting around waiting for someone they've financially ruined to develop mega-strength and come hunting them.
Makes me curious if we're all getting it "wrong" and the overall level of power is just a game mechanic to make the WoL looks awesome.
We do, kinda. Â A lot of the mythos in FF actually tracks people like that. Â Like the Zodiac Braves. Â Ironeater was a Zodiac and Mythril Heart from the WAR quest, notably, were said to rip the arms off behemoths and destroy formations of 'normie' soldiers. Â
They're out there. Â Part of me more wonders if the shift from "Aw shit, it's THAT motherfucker. Â We should get the hell out before we all die" to "This guy was legendary and Dr. Doomy" is the sort of thing time instills into a telling of something.
As for Dr. Doom? Â Crystal Tower has lots of that sort of thing. Â We don't know MUCH about the Allegan empire, but they had the potential for that sort of thing, and it even -actually happened- in terms of Big Evil Plan Time. (I'm looking at you Dalamud)
Looking at the 6'th age we -just left- you have an empire bringing a literal moon down on a continent, a dude that turned into a pheonix and helped BLOW UP THE MOON, "godly intervention" to save the Twelvesblade, Padjals, The Ultima Fucking Weapon, Cid the Incredible Deus Ex Machina, city states slaying Primals, secret goblin organizations raising God Machines, Ancient Wyrms returning, people becoming literal Gods Among Men and, of course, Our Favorite Ascians Back in the Fray.
There's a LOT of legendary stuff happening. Â There IS A LOT OF POWER floating around in FF.
The question is more "why are we not doing that" Â and the answer is, almost universally "Because blowing the planet up kind of makes the game unplayable for other people".
RPers can't control all other RPers. Â We will never have a full sized server-wide plot or Dr. Doom or Darkseid, or the like, and we as RPers will never have a unified pantheon of acknowledged heroes. Â Because no one is telling out story for us, we're doing it ourselves, with others, but ultimately self guided.
Which means restraint and compromise. Â Which means less Dr. Doom and more street-level personal stuff.
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