FFXIV’s raid storylines are consistently excellent… and Alexander is wonderful.
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illuminati-goblins made my day! btw did you tried the skypirate raidquestline from heavensward yet? :3
About raiding in other MMOs, I think the main difference is that other MMOs have sort of abandoned the idea of having complex and satisfying storytelling. They've realized that most of their players are perfectly fine with an average story if the raids/combat are fun, so they focus on raids and combat, rather than story. FFXIV on the other hand focuses on what makes the FF franchise popular: Stories. And on top of great stories, they've learned what makes raids and combat fun from other MMOs.
A lot of my friends really didn’t like the story of this raid and didn’t like Mide but I for one absolutely loved it and thought she was a fun character. Lots of back and forth with the time shenanigans and amazing boss fights. Alexander was a fun raid series.
We need some Bellular lore investigation. It has to do with the Time Travel. When you get to Shadowbringers, you’ll be enlightened on how one such method is achieved. This is actually the second method. The first, being Alexander. They do not properly explain whether the two are connected, or, why they weren’t connected. This is an important thing.
What’s MOST IMPORTANT, is that the oldest civilization that we know of, the Ascians, had not discovered either.
Wow, I actually hadnt thought about the repercussions and the small tie ins Alexander has with Endwalker until now!
Great video!!
I'm surprised you didn't mention that Alex seems to be bigger on the inside. What with the whole city in there you see at A7. Just before you learn its true capabilities. Maybe it was a deliberate hint
Eric the Echidna is probably Lahabrea since Lahabrea is the job, not the person; and internment magics may explain how Emet-Selch and Lahabrea survived the sundering along with a post-sacrificed Elidibus (assuming Themis is Elidibus because of the VA and that Elidibus "saw you in Elpis"). That might mean that Pandemonium will be both pre and post-Final Days, and we might be left with gaps of time as we travel to and from Pandemonium and the Present).
It will certain be an interesting Stage 8 raid… My wild guess it that Stage 9 – Stage 12 will be Pandemonium Ruins in the present.
I'm not surprised Bellular missed the bit where they explain that Emet-Selch (and Hythlodaeus) regain their memories of their time in Elpis after returning to the Aetherial Sea, not when they were summoned with the Azem Crystal. He did rush through ShB and Endwalker like hella.
Also he needs to unlock the Twinning, stat :)))
I’m wondering how you’ll feel going through the Dun Scaith Alliance raids. I know you had to do crystal tower so you got the feel for the exploration and combat but if you’ve ever wanted to know more about the ancients of Mhach and the denizens of the 13th shard it’s full of information about them. (Still not enough though)
Sadge. No friends, no FC to play with. Sadge.
The Twinning is so amazing. It cant be overstated. One of the best musical mixes in the game, Gorgeous set pieces, and its literally a lynch pin of some of the biggest content in the game. All in an optional dungeon. Mind blowing.
Wonder if he will do videos on Shadows of Mhach and Return to Ivalice in this format, Great videos.
I reall love these videos from you, and it would be really interesting to hear about the Alliance raids as well.
This was a lot different if you played back in HW during release. Because the first 2 wings felt really bare bones story wise, and the fact that Gordias' encounters were…. not great (Except Pepsiman), and thats not even getting into the shitshow that was Savage Gordias.
I really looked forward to Alexander because he's a recurring summon I like from other FFs. On top of that, Cruise Chaser is based on my favourite summon from FF9 that was a namesake of mine for the last 22 years. So it was really cool to battle it, then Alexander Prime just blew me away.
You can solo all of Alexander, even without being a tank, if you know what you're doing. The Tank busters won't kill you and you don't need a LB3.
Oh also a fun fact you can unsync solo or at most duo the Savage fights to get the mounts if you’re level 90 now. I almost solo’d a12s (Alexander Prime Savage) as a White Mage a few weeks ago. Brought my friend Summoner and the two of us killed it easy on Savage to get the weapons for glam and the mount!
The amazing thing is that we don't know who created the Enigma Codex. My headcanon includes the story of The Twinning and the Eighth Calamity. In the Twinning we see the artificial Enigma: The Tycoon which Biggs Descendant created in the likeness of Alexander to control the time-space of the crystal tower. I'd like to think that somewhere in the far future someone found those notes and used them to create the Enigma Codex which included the blue prints for the Tycoon or, the new name, Alexander. Somehow that codex ended up in the past.
Basically Alexander was created to look and work like the Tycoon which was created to look and work like Alexander. I love time travel!
Any chance of trial series vids from each expansion?
XIV story telling is just chef's kiss
Judgement has been made. The verdict of history is
Most insanely overrated and crappy MMO atm
The writing team have a specific talent: making optional content fit into the narrative of the MSQ without being information that's needed to progress or understand the main story. They are standalone objectives that at the same time give further context which only enhances the lore that you've already gotten through the MSQ. It's fantastic writing especially as you work backwards and see the threads of future content that you either missed or never would have thought ties into the larger narrative as a whole. And that goes for the yellow side quests as well… they have quest chains assigned to some of them that are so rich for little addendums to the story or, at times, even gives you a reward (check out the 'Great Serpent of Ronka' quests on The Rak'tika Greatwood some time).
So quick note note that was potentially missed and a fun theory in regards to your endwalker comments. During the track locus one of the lines is "celestial noise detected" almost like a certain song of oblivion. Obviously nothing concrete, but if true it really shows how good ishikawa is at pulling things together from all sorts of different sources and potentially how yes, Alexander knew about the endsinger.
Sorrow of Werlyt is something you definitely have to check out, it's the Shadowbringers trial series and the story there is fantastic.
…. I blew through this for the blue mage spell Jade Kick? Jump Kick one of those. Someday I'll finish it.
gotta learn how to use that party finder to make groups instead of the duty one. a lot of people like myself look at party finder to help others clear content from time to time. makes for a shorter queue and people that more often than not know the fights and can help with mechs in it.
Damn bro, you skipped Alexander and Omega before hitting EW? That's rough. Should have took your time lol.
One of the lyrics to Brute Justice's theme (this part of the song is from Alexander's POV): "Celestial Noise Detected."
At the time of writing HW the writers probably intended that to mean that Alexander could detect Zodiark, because we're pretty sure the writers already had planned for him to be in the moon.
That said, looking back at it now with Endwalker knowledge, it's probably safe to assume that current lore implies that Alexander could detect the Endsinger's song, even if he didn't quite understand what it was (or else I imagine he would have warned us).
changing the pronunciation of Mide here and there lololol
I'm only into SB patches now but just went back and did FotF just this past weekend with a few friends and it was a great time. The effects in some of their fights are amazing. Like the time stop in this one or the glass breaking in Thordan. This team nails the spectacle aspect and it always has amazing music. I love it.
The best thing about Alexander is the music that you'd otherwise hear in a freezing warehouse rave somewhere in Frankfurt.
During Alex Prime, if you go into the black orbs and look to the bottom platform, you can see yourself standing there frozen with Alex readying to shoot the laser at you, if you clear it, you can see yourself dodge the beam
I want to see Bell's reaction to 'The Twinning'. Because it was 'Brain go SPLODE' time for me.
Then it is time to also do Eden, because Eden also have a bonkers story
And another interesting story for you: just check out what these narrative pieces mean for the Epic of Alexander Ultimate fight.
I’d encourage everyone newly introduced to Alexander in Final Fantasy 14 to look up the history of the summon in other Final Fantasy games. The entire idea of fighting or getting help from a “living machine” summon with ultimate power usually hits levels of awesome the other summons don’t often get to hit.
While I’m personally not as familiar with Alexander’s introduction in Final Fantasy 9, I can confirm that the summoning of Alexander in Final Fantasy Type-0 is the equivalent of a nuclear deterrent. Just like Alexander in Final Fantasy 14 is dangerous because it has it’s own sentience, the cost of successfully summoning Alexander in other Final Fantasy games and having it rampage would mean major destruction.
Hope you all enjoyed the story of Alexander!
Be warned there's soft Endwalker SPOILERS in this video!
It's "mee-day" by the way
i'm enjoying the video bellular but you might wanna put on the title that this also has endwalker spoilerss on it, people might stumble on this video thinking its a alexander only contained take and get some stuff they weren't expecting
If you don't wanna wait too long you can try hosting a partyfinder and point out first time bonus, people gladly tag along for it for an easy extra reroll chance for their Wondrous Tails. And don't feel too bad for unsynching it, because you will get it from normal raid roulette quite frequently from personal experience so you will do the fights properly at some point or another lol. Alexander synched is mega fun.
I wiped many times on the Alexander raids and still do when I go in there for roulettes. Every time it's a pleasure because of that banger soundtrack.
My friends and I unsynched the Binding Coils, then went back for Alexander as well the same way. We were there for the story (minions and mounts, but mostly story) so I totally do not blame you.
Absolutely do it synched/no echo if you want more of a challenge, but the music slaps either way. Just helped a friend through it (normal synched) and we had a couple wipes, but it was fine. We were grooving to the music and discussing where we went wrong. There's still a couple mechanics I'm pretty sure we didn't realize how they worked, but we muscled through and had fun doing it.
How this ties in with everything else? Well then… Also fun note, Do the Twinning… Yes. Definitely. It may explain some stuff.