We have the final Fan Fest Keynote! Here is a review of the main points and my thoughts! And hoo boy do I have some thoughts for some of this.
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As a sprout playing Summoner? Dude, you said the exact same thing as me! That damn horn! We can't escape it! XD
I was pretty surprised with the lion moms. I just never bothered to imagine them, so seeing them presented as athletic and upbeat was way more positive than I would have guessed. Overall, this is now the most exciting release for Summer that I have.
The Jerseys were already on sale with the London Fanfest 🤫
Definitely going to play pictomancer since I'm a mage main.
I think they're probably delaying stromblood msq ultimate so they can include endwalker zenos in some way, giving 4 enemies to fight, samurai zenos, tsukuyomi, shinryu and reaper zenos, maybe even a phase just against pactbound zero.
Baby Mamool Ja wants to know if you got any games on your tomestone
I am probably going to get shotgunned for this, but honestly I think bringing Zenos back after that ending is a mistake. I think his story is done, and if they're going to bring him back, it has to done extremely carefully. Otherwise, lolGanonBanned anyone?
I mean, I get it, he's the dark mirror, the Vegita, the Rival. But, I think it ended perfectly, and bringing him back for fan pop might just cheapen his character arc.
Hopefully I'm talking complete bollocks, but… Ehh…
As for the rest, WHY ARE WE COMMITING PAINT MURDER?
Already guessed pictomancer and a duel wielding before the second trailer.
I’m not a massive fan of the 2D style animations for picto, but they’re growing on me. I was sold the moment I saw the moogle nuke lol as for bst… I’ll take what we get, but I was really hoping for pup. Actually, I’m more annoyed we didn’t get more elaboration on blu. It is literally from the new world, the exact continent we are going to, is a practiced art of the mamool ja and we just got the usual “blu will get more content.” After the last update I was really hoping for at least something to tide me over for the year-two year wait. That last update was a mean joke. Overall I am beyond hyped. Seriously though if they want me to remain a smn main they better give us something obscenely awesome like Odin.
I'm just glad that we got faces that had different levels of beast to them for Hrothgals. If you look at the race trailer, near the end, 3 of them are standing side by side: middle if the first, left is the second one we saw, and third was revealed only at that part. I'm glad they made faces that compromised on the looks since, to me, the first face and trailer Hrothgal has that kinda uncanny look.
Face one looks like they just stuck an actual cheetah head on a human body.
But the other faces are great, I've been hearing sighs of relief across the board when those two faces showed up. I hope they work on the first face to get it to fit as a head better, because right now, it looks like a head that has a much smaller brain than the other two. We'll see though.
Also can't wait to see tail variations.
As for the rest of the fest: I'm very excited, can't wait to see how it will all unfold. Hope we see the benchmark tests soon.
nice vid
After everything that happens on the last part of ultimas thulei dont belive zenos is dead mayb thats why they dont want to make an ultimate with him
im not super optimistic about the plot of dawntrail but if they put a kuja expy in it im gonna like it no matter what
Finally, someone else mentions PSO immediately instead of just cyberpunk.
Pictomancer looks amazing, and I look forward to maybe making it my secondary DPS class, replacing SMN (unless it surpasses my primary love of playing SAM). One of these days I'd love to get into ultimates, but time… scheduling and all that be hard when you're a salaryman…
I love the sleepytime pajama style of Astro! It's minimalist too so I dig. Hahaha <3
Hope we see El Dorado/Golden City and Terra maybe. With Viper and the drop of Solution Nine, can't help but be hopeful, but if not, it's gonna be alright. XD That GPU raid tho lol. Maybe battling data entities? Sounds very FFIX-ish with the lore on some bits and pieces there.
Also, please give us a paint bomb LB3. Maybe that full trailer Spriggan divebombing into squishy goodness? Star Prism to go with the OG Relm? Or painting something like Selphie's The End? XDDDDD
Thank god there's a graphics card raid because I feel my old build is going to struggle with the new requirements
It's a simple thing, but I really like the Viper sheathing his weapons across his back; I thought they were going to be on his hips like a Ninja.
Dear lord no lower jaw on that Fem roth
I bet Arcadion's raids will take place in a virtual reality game.
cool and useful commentary, good stuff
I honestly was kind of bummed with Pictomancer, it looks flashy yeah, but the colors look way too bright for the game as it stand, maybeit will be better when the graphic update drop, not sure.
Another thing I didn't really like is how childish it looks (Especially because it will be playable in EW) in comparison to all the other jobs, but that's really it.
I like to imagine that my WoL who is pretty much a paragon at combat chooses to go for viper's chuuni energy and pictomancer's pretty colors because after EW they just wanna have fun.
There was also an Alisaie cosplayer wearing a baseball jersey. Iunno I just like spreading the word on that
I think they are skipping zenos because he will return in some form. He is without a minion which means his story isn't over. I also know DTs final boss if you played Final fantasy 9, you do too.
Also seeing the shadowl ord as the new 8 man has be hyped! The new 24 man looks like we are in Terra from FF9.
I can't wait for the new mods they will make though! As FF fans we are eating good!!!!❤❤😂😂😂
Coincidentally, FRU is also the word for wife in swedish. Perfect for the adorable lovebirds.
I haven't touched Ultimates yet but I still wish the new Ult was instead Four Lords. I would've loved to see the Four Lord bosses getting combined in weird ways, as well as being more puzzle oriented ala Ultima Weapon. Also, Koryu getting a Unique model would be nice, since it just sharing a model with the Kirin mount was pretty underwhelming.
I have to disagree with the idea of making the free fantasia a reward for finishing Dawntrail, not because i think there's no possibility that they could distribute it that way, but because i think it could possibly harm people's experiences with both Dawntrail and the game at large.
Let's say you're a sprout who has already used their free fantasia, you got to stormblood and then Dawntrail hit with the graphics update. The changes in the update leaves your character different enough to where it's actively bothering you, and how would you fix that for free? "Oh just grind through the 3 expansions you have left to get to the endgame with a character whose looks you don't like! that certainly won't sour you on the game at all!"
and even for the best case for someone who really doesn't like how the update left their character looking, someone who's ready to jump into dawntrail content the moment it launches. it would still require to go through the whole expansion having to look at your wol in every cutscene not looking like you want, and on top of that it might make those people feel like they need to rush through the msq to get that fantasia as quick as possible and the last thing you want in your story based game is for people to feel like they're being rushed through the story.
This isn't attack or anything i think it's very possible that's how they end up distributing it but i just think it would be a pretty bad idea lmao
Great summary Wesk, thank you. You are wrong about summoner armor, though—it looks incredible and I have never even played the job! Andean/peruvian dress looks beautiful and I bet they will be able to summon Quetzalcoatl or another Incan deity 😃
I need someone to redo the 90s show intro for Art Attack with Pictomancer moves.
Man I so hope to get some ff9 love in DT! EW was pretty much an ff4 love letter, gemme more ff9 besides the Almighty vore orb!
The best guess I have seen re Solution 9 is that it might be a post-Ancient or Allagan analog from one of the Reflections, given that a big EW theme was Y'Shtola working out cross rift travel and Emet talking about civilisations on the Reflections. Also loving the aestherics of Pictomancer, 100% playing this at launch.
Now that sakaguchi is binging ff14 right now. Using ff9 references is a direct target to him xD
My absolute highlight was all the updates to lighting and characters – but specifically for the skin tone fixes. I've had to use hyper-specific shaders for pretty much my entire time playing just to be able to slightly see my WoL even a TINY bit better in the dark (male keeper miqo'te with dark blueish-grey skin), but even with them it isn't… perfect. Them finally showing off some examples of non-pale characters at this fan fest for the graphics update, and saying they'd fix it make me veeeery relieved. The skin highlights and lighting looks fantastic too!
I was watching with friends (a number of them aren't pasty like me IRL too, I know I don't have to deal with it quite in the same way as they do) and we all popped off with that because its seriously about time! But largely I'm just glad they took the steps to recognize and (hopefully) fix their past mistakes for good. And looking forward to maybe even making a fem hrothgar alt too, who knows!
My crackpot insane theory behind them skipping Shinryu is that they just haven't fully figured out what to do with it yet, whereas there was a more concrete idea for Futures Rewritten.
I really, really, really, want GNB artifact gear for my MCH main, somebody please tell me if there is an Irvine Kinneas(ffviii) style gear for ranged DPS…. Bare in mind though, I'm only just hitting Storm blood 😅
I'm kind of glad for a later release date. I'm a latecomer to the game, so I'm still moving my way through the MSQ. I took a break just before Endwalker to handle 2023's absolutely massive glut of awesome single-player games.
My theory is that Zenos is getting his own ultimate, the rush of bosses is Zenos, Shinryu, elidibus, Reaper Zenos, and then his final being burning the whole candle.
Nvidia Savage looks great
I think the only thing that made me feel the sads was it wasn't Green Mage as the new mage job. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy for Pictomancer cause I want more weird things but Green Mage is my favorite of all the mage colors
Pictomancer and Viper haven't really appealed to me as I dont really enjoy the DPS role – I left the game after endwalker patch 6.0 and I dont see anything that will draw me back in from the reveals so far. What will be of interest to me is what they do with tanks and healers. Beastmaster was a nice surprise and one of my favourite classes in FF11 but I'm not sure I could re-sub solely for beast master. I get beach vacation filler episode vibes when I watch the trailer…but there is nothing that surprises me with the reveals so far (the early ultimate is nice but I cannot dedicate time to progging this anyway). I will watch and see what they have in store closer to the expansions release.
Looking forward to the Job Guides. Rather curious with what they cook up with the Job Actions, as well as what awaits in the story.
Loved catching your stream for this! Great vibes!
Thanks for your take on it all, 6 to 8 months out and it's already exciting 🙂
why is nobody saying its a jactuar? it's right there – the perfect joke
Also, I happy to hear you feeling hype about this <3
I mean, they keep saying "hrothgar have fur" but it looks exactly the same to me lmao. Besides that, very happy with everything announced.
Solution Nine undeniably reminded me of Xenoblade X and Xenosaga.
As for the jobs, I'm still undecided on whether or not I'll make levelling either of them at the start of the expansion a priority instead of other jobs in those roles (RDM for Caster; RPR/SAM for Melee), but I expect that to be the case until the Job Action Trailer releases.