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I think Bahamut is a bit anxty cause he has been in lockdown for a while 🙂
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The sign of a true Final Fantasy fan – you can identify the Cid without playing the game, lol
I know this is an old video, but for some backstory about this (spoilers for anyone concerned):
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The Garlean Empire (the magitek guys) found an ancient technological device that attracts the Red Moon Dalamud, and intended to use it in the war against the allied nation stats of Eorzea. What they didn't know was, that Bahamut was prisoned inside, and the process of drawing Dalamud down released Bahamut to wreak havoc on the world.
You just watched the worst case scenario. The bad end. The game over. Badguy won. One of the coolest things to me about ARR was that it put the writers in a rare and unique position where they could absolutely write an ending where the bad guys lost, and get away with it lol. Very cool, and horrifying to watch Bahamut bring about such destructions as to make nuclear weapons blush in embarrassment.
ff14 is def story driven. get in there!!
As I've heard from others, this is an RPG first, an MMO second. You can mostly play this game as if its single player except for dungeons. Even then, I'm sure the community here would love to join and help you through those dungeons.
FFXIV is actually a single player game with some MMO parts. It's story driven. It's the type of MMORPG that puts the RPG, the story ahead of it all.
That moment when it cuts to them looking up at dalamud and wings have sprouted from it's back always gives me chills. That's the moment these characters are trying to comprehend what they're seeing because no one was aware that dalamud wasn't a moon but was actually a prison holding an ancient primal.
Yoshida is a madlad.
Gotta say I just found this video and Chris, if you haven't tried FFXIV play a free account… I have been playing for the past few weeks after having stopped playing World of Warcraft… FFXIV seriously feels like the core part of A Realm Reborn is a love story for the world and paying honor to those who played XIV prior to the game relaunched. The game is tremendously story driven with wonderful mini cinematics sprinkled throughout the game.
FF14 is a full singleplayer RPG and an MMO 2nd. You can experience a full Final Fantasy experience, the MMO is just cream of the crop. You can def play it at your own pace.
It's funny to me that the questions you have about the cinematic are actual story beats in the game itself! "Who summoned him, the good or the bad?" is one of the hardest questions to answer in FFXIV as most of the people who do the summoning's aren't portrayed as completely evil!
you need all and full trailers
This whole cinematic takes on an entirely new meaning for me when I view it through Bahamut's perspective. You were once a great wyrm, eldest son of Midgardsomr, betrothed to Tiamat, and you led a grand life full of honor and wisdom as well as patience and kindness. Faced with the greed of mankind, you stood and fell valiantly in battle to protect your kind against the ancient Allagan empire, only to be brought back to life via your spouse's and children's call of grief. Not only are you no longer yourself but a husk summoned via the dark arts by the sufferings of your kin, you are now captured and your life force is used to power the enemy's ambitions. They put your children into eternal captivity and misery to force you into existence and they bind that existence for all time via mechanical chains inside a giant ball of steel, sapping away your endless powers for millennia. Then all of a sudden the shackles break loose, you put more and more pressure into the jail until it finally falls apart into a million pieces.
After thousands and thousands of years with only hatred and anger to call company, you are now once again spreading your wings in the open skies and crying out a primal roar of grief. What would you do, then, if not destroy everything in sight.
This dude says its not a mmo lol 🤦🏻♂️ 💀💀
27.56 the sister of the red dressed girl from Stormblood
28.00 the same Yshtola from Shadowbringer with black dress
As a longtime FF player (I played my first FF in 1987 on the Famicom) I loved the FF games, and have played them all, tried FF XI when it came out, and decided online FF's were not for me, FF XIV came out, in 2010, and after the beta, and seeing nothing had changed, I swore off Online FF's, getting a Beta Invite for ARR I gave it a try again, and enjoyed it enough that I bought it when it released, and played it on and off in 2013, 2015, and 2017, as each expansion released, when Shadowbringers Released in 2019, I played through it, and realized, that FF XIV, has gone from being a flop, to what is quite honestly, the best Final Fantasy they've ever made. The Story and Characters, are deeper and better realized than any Final Fantasy game, especially Shadowbringers, who's Antagonist might go down in history as one of the greatest video-game villains of all time.
Basically, what I'm saying is, the reason you haven't played FF XIV for it being an MMO, and you prefer RPG's isn't really a good reason, because FF XIV is RPG first, MMO second, and the Single Player Story Driven RPG aspect of the game, is what is the core and drives FF XIV. 🙂
honestly, even though i am biased as hell to blizzard cinematics, this one gave me fucking CHILLS the first time i watched it, so much story telling with literally no dialog, i know exactly what is happening by just looking at the screen, and BRUH the scene where Bahamut just…floats over the battle field…MENECINGLY is just…''SHEFS KISS''
I'd love to see a big time filmmaker react to this. That would be neat.
Pity, FFXIV has one of, if not the best stories in any game I've ever played. On top of that it's apparently the best Final Fantasy story… You're doing yourself a disservice by not playing it
There is one frame right before Louisoix Leveilleur enters the Teraflare that he becomes Phoenix. You see the Aether wings spread out and then punch through the attack.
Ya essentially at the end of 1.0 (the original bad game) there was an in game event where you see dalamud (the big moon seal around bahamut in the beginning) is sitting in the sky menacingly and then when the servers shut down for the last time it automatically logged everyone out and played this cinematic for everyone that was there, which was brand new to everyone in that moment (not even datamined ahead of time either) and then in 2.0 (the current base game without expansions) the story goes off of this event actually having happened. You start off as a adventurer five years after the calamity depicted by this cinematic (the dude with the axe that it kept showing is the representation of the playable character). In the cinematic it the playable character and his party get teleported away and i believe the lore is that they got teleported 5 years into the future after things had been rebuilt a bit and memories of who exactly the main character and his group were are blank to everyone and so you go to your starting city as a simple adventurer and learn that all the cities are still recovering from the calamity. So they used this massive event to quite literally burn the old game to the ground and use it to carve a path to the new game
Dude you look like Anthony Padildo
I love how Louisoix protects the party with a barrier, and Bahamut stops destroying everything to approach Louisoix directly. It's like Bahamut was personally offended by Louisoix doing that.
Yeah. It's one of those cutscenes where you feel like you need a nap after watching it.
"Okay, how do we fix FFXIV?"
"Remember how the US fixed us? Yeah, do that"
All of that emotion from this cinematic and there is ZERO dialogue throughout the entire thing. Amazing.
Best line: "Oh! I think it's the bad!" <3
I loved 13, it even changed me to a better person, which was amazing. If I had never played it, I feel I’d be hated by literally everyone as I was an absolute bitch. I’m so happy at the person it made me become instead. That anger isn’t completely gone obviously, it doesn’t work that way, but it’s a lot harder to trigger it now.
Since I don't see anyone mentioning this in the comments: This video is actually a montage of the trailer and an ingame cutscene. The original trailer ends with the porting scene that cuts to the group finding themselves in a new green land where they summon their chocobos and go exploring. The part with the transformation and Bahamut's defeat is from the first 8-man raid and a huge spoiler.
When you start the game, the NPCs reference the "Calamity" 5 years ago and it's woven into the main storyline of the whole MMO beautifully
you skipping the cinematics just like i skip ur videos omegalul so deserved
Knowing the story leading to this scene, I think this is one of the greatest pieces of digital art. The direction and design are just perfect and it never fails to get an emotional response. Even while the battle rages, the music is subdued and somber, because this is not an exciting battle, it's knowing that the end is here and that nothing can be done to stop it. That's what I like most about the direction behind this, it's not about the people on the ground; it's about Bahamut and the Calamity. It must have been incredible to experience it happening in real time. I wonder what it must have been like to work on something like this.
I love the way it demonstrates the scale of Dalamud because it can be hard to relate something the size of a moon to a battle between people down on the ground. At first it looks like the 'seal' might be like the size and shape of a greatsword, then it shoots down to the ground and the shockwave from a few hundred feet of metal blasts people away, the dust cloud portrays the scale so well. Same for when Bahamut dives and destroys Limsa Lominsa (I think that's the city in the scene?) to show that he isn't just big, he is as big as the city and levelled it just by flying over.
FWIW I consider FF14 a multiplayer game, but MMO-optional. I've been playing it for several years with a group of 7 IRL friends to enjoy the story and play the 8-player content together rather than joining with randoms.
Seeing Old Man kill Bahamut then die right after always brings a tear to my eyes.
You should give ffxiv a shot, its an RPG first and an MMO second
It's funny that he says he doesn't really like MMO's and is more into story driven games yet FFXIV is largely story driven. It's RPG first and MMO second so he should give it a try.
So a moment just clicked with me as well. at 10:11, you can see he looks a little different, and at 10:15, you can just see the aether around him "flow" in a specific way. After learning what happens to louisoix, I think this is super epic!
one does not simply summon the god of dragons
This cinematic was one of the main reasons I got sold and am now an avid player 🙂 what a move to just burn down everything and start fresh! Also FFXIV’s main story, the characters, the music… everything is amazing to me I truly can’t remember the last time I had a blast with a game!
can't wait for this to blow up with the new surge of players lol
I wonder what the people in the Far East is doing while that happened.
He pretty much send them to 5 year later in the future
I love how final fantasy fans can immediately spot Cid without knowing it's him lol