Final Fantasy 14 is known for its ups and downs but this latest journey is not one that I expected.. Quite literally it came out of left field even as I am picking up the pieces from our Waking Sands incident. Wait there are dragons?
0:00 What Do You Do?
0:33 Picking Up The Pieces
5:23 A Cold Welcome
8:43 The Legend Himself
11:44 Uncovering The Truth
16:28 Day Of The Dragon
18:29 What I Didn’t Expect…
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I love these videos, they fill me up with so much nostalgia, i had the exact same reactions as you to most of these things my first time (including killing that mob without the item while thinking he just had an amazing defense and i was just a tank with low attack).
I both do and do not appreciate you showing a clip of Boxxy.
What I love about the Ishgard section of base ARR is that it's basically the first taste of what FFXIV does well. You come in with a reputation, but no standing, you don't need to prove your martial strength, you need to demonstrate your intentions. I personally see Ishgard as the warrior of light's first real friends, since you owe each other debts, and you took turns going out on a limb for each other. At first it was the assistant at the observatory showing an alternate path, then the guard captain reluctantly coming around to introduce you. Finally you get Francel and Haurchephant, who take one solid look at you and realize "Oh shit you're not supposed to be here, let's get this all sorted" and in doing so you save them.
You can say "Well they should have just let us have the ship" but let's not forget this is contested territory in a war zone.
It's also nice that it comes at a time where there is no back up. Yes you're not here alone, but it's not the weight of the Scions saving the day, it is the warrior of light.
“the ixal have summoned garuda!”
cdg: 🗿
Yeah… most Ishgardians are jerks. Thankfully, you met the two biggest exceptions as both Haurcefaunt and Francell are total bros (as are their families, believe it or not)
0:18 — Okay, I really love that clip there XD
1:50 — We have Koji Fox to thank for that masterpiece ^.^
18:26 — Five years ^^
Not long now and you'll be freed of that tin can XD
SUCH DEVASTATION, WAS NOT MY INTENTION!… this will make sense later, as I’m sure once you get to there, chat will be spamming it like crazy
I'm almost tempted to make another crossword puzzle, using the butchered names you use.
rawring 20's XD
1:39 Ah yes, the first Thal's Balls (among other similar lines) in the game. Thal's Balls is actually a swear (like the F bomb) phase in the world of Eorzea. I love when MMOs or games in general add canon swear words or phases that isn't from our own or has different meanings in our world. Really adds to rp and making the world feel lived in
Ah yes the arrival of brochefaunt.
I super hope you make it to the end of endwalker. Your video format is nice to listen to and it's a great way to get your deeper thoughts on what's going on rather then just the usual stream.
Great content, great memes! Keep it up! You're almost past the slow stuff for a little while.
Thal's balls does not reffers to gods tescicles but his orbs.
Not his falt you call your tescticles "balls" instead of, i don't know, wrinkly beans? 🙂
4:25 Airplane! (1980) Leslie Nielson wearing stethoscope "why yes I'm a doctor"
Can't wait to see their reaction to Ishgardian's relationship with salt
13:34 Ridiculously jacked grandpa? Cid is only like 34..
Level 60 bois!!!
Thal's a commerce God, so a stack of Gil might just be appropriately exclaimed at.😅
"Thal's balls" is up there with "Nophica's tits" for lore.
Apparently, being a smug mfer seems to run in the blood of Elezen no matter where they're from. Alphinaud is from Sharlayan, for example.
Ah yes, Ishgardian bureaucracy… you won't like it, but that's fine because they don't like you either.
caffeinated Dad is into Axe Play confirmed
My best friend is a bartender and that actually makes them a very reasonable person when it comes to alcohol because they've seen what alcohol can do if not drunk safely/reasonably
The witch drop methodic, as cruel as it sounds, is actually very close to how accused witches got trialed in the real world dark ages. They got drowned in a cage for instance, if they swam away and survived they are witches, if they drowned they were innocent. So historically accurate kinda….sadly
Save the side quests for leveling up other jobs! The exp will be useless to you once you're even a couple levels beyond but it'll at least be relevant for lower level secondary jobs.
fun fact: the localization head at the time, koji fox, was also on the lore team. he convinced the devs to split the guardian deity of ul'dah into two and make them twins (nald and thal) instead of just one (nald'thal), JUST so he can make the Thal's balls joke. and in one of the beta runs of the game, side NPC dialogues were all Thal's balls.
Of course they have hair gel in Eorzea. How else do you think Alphinaud gets his hair to stick up like that? 😛
Watching you relentlessly dump on him before he gets better has bee quite entertaining. It almost makes me his when he was a stuck-up, better-than-everyone-around-me little shit. Almost.
6:54
Pls don't remind me how old I am 🙁
Thal's balls are going to be in your face on and off throughout your journey.
Back in the day, before flight was added in these early zones, and you were running around on the ground doing the end game content, it wasn't uncommon to see half a dozen max level players fall into Bitch Drop and die while running between events.
I'm sure someone's already told you this, but the entire reason the deity is named Thal is because it rhymes with balls so they could make that joke. No seriously.
If you'd played FF12, you might have gotten the Cid reference from "Marquis". If you'd played 1.0, you recognized him immediately and said to yourself, "Hello again my old friend." This was one of those moments in the community that made the spoiler culture what it is. If you knew, you got to smirk as your friends figured it out.
I feel like making a video series of just pronouncing FFXIV names correctly, lol
You dont really need to do side quests they dont really give much unless they have a plus sign on them that mean it unlocks something or has some better story behind it
I'm so glad the upgrade to the chonk armour is an MSQ reward
If it's any consolation, I've played this game twice over and didn't learn about the item to kill the mudpuppy until today lmfao
Aquanaut lol
I really hope you like it enough to play through to endwalker. But also a lot of people skip the side stuff and it's a crime cos there's some really really good ones. That said I barely remember any of the non blue marked side quests from arr, except for one lady in uldah who has like a level 5 quest, and I only remember her because her dialogue never changes after you complete her quest and it only becomes more and more funny with time.
The Waking Sands through Ishgard is the strongest part of ARR and a taste of what's coming in Heavensward.
Haurchefant is the best character. <3
"Don't listen to this fire hydrant and his ridiculously jacked grandpa" had me CACKLING! 😂
Coerethas is when I started to really like this games story back when I was going through it for the first time.
Love these recaps 🙂
Alphinaud is smort, and he gets us out of our misery. He's okay in my books!
As someone with over 13,000 hours in Eozera, I looooove watching you exploring the game as a first time player. Keep it going <3
Glad you are enjoying the game 🙂
going through that part of the quest was so annnoying~ i wanted to axe down most of the npcs for being jerks XD