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My Review as a New Player to Final Fantasy XIV in 2021. With Square Enix’s MMO going from strength to strength, is it too late to start? Most importantly, Is It Good?
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As of review this is based on my first 46 hours in Final Fantasy XIV, playing a Bard and getting to the end of ARR's main story. I stream the game pretty often these days too on https://www.twitch.tv/Merchant so drop me a follow and come say hi 🙂
Can't remember which FF it was, but back when Ocarina of Time was out, I played it right after playing Zelda, and I was sure I'd be disappointed. Boy was I wrong. It was better than Zelda.
catgirl game explained by pure testosteronic voice, love the contrast
wow soundtrack just miles better. fact
ohh i see you never tried it. my bad
FFXIV is a single player mmo "RPG"
Just to note there are exp boost servers for beginners so some servers offer extra exp boost to help level up faster and if you top that with aerheryte earnings or exp boost jewellery that comes with expansions and purchasing versions of the game and further stack with exp boost outfits like Far East maiden outfits that you can buy from the mog station store you can easily reach lvl 80+ in no time before finishing the base game and moving onto the expansions
I've recently switched to FF from WoW because of this review, no regrets.
Imagine if Square ENIX was honest. "Complete edition" wouldn't exist
Is it worth starting this game on ps4/ps5
Started it today, put 3 hours in. Didn’t realize conjurer led to healing. I never play healing classes, but so far it’s refreshing, pun intended.
Ranger seems so slow by being limited to 3 sec global cooldown
Its boring. Linear game since it is RPG based and not open world based. Not my kind of game. But its well built.
it looks like a mobile game
Niche pvp community, weeb aesthetics, clunky menus….everything I don’t want to be playing, yet all my homies play this and tell me it’s amazing. I just can’t get myself into it! Oh wellz
Started playing it last week after having spent the last 16 odd years playing WoW on and off. I've had friends of mine in the past who had quit WoW, try to convince me to play FF14 with them but I always shrugged it off and had zero interest. It wasn't until these past few weeks with all the momentum and buzz the game has been getting, most of all some of WoW's biggest content creators like Bellular and Asmongold. Bellular talking about the game and Asmongold deciding to give it a try convinced me that there wasn't any harm in trying the game out, especially considering I love JRPGs and Final Fantasy games in general. You know how it goes though, if you've been playing WoW all these years, you sort of get into this "locked in" mentality regarding the genre, that nothing could possibly be better than WoW, despite it's glaring faults, so what's the point of trying one of it's competitors when it's just going to let me down inevitably? That's how I felt about it and other mmorpgs that have been popular over the last few years. Guild Wars 2 was another one I wanted to try, but just never could bring myself to do it.
Needless to say, I really, really regret not picking up XIV earlier. This game feels polished, it feels authentic in that it's not trying to be WoW or anything other than a Final Fantasy game. It feels like a true passion project. The story has been great so far and only gets better in the later expansions from everything I've read. The class/job system is absolutely incredible. Being able to perform any role, play any job, all on ONE character should you so desire, it's just fantastic. No bullshit with having to re-spec for each different kind of content, no struggling to find a raid spot if you play a non-optimal class/spec, or even a class that isn't FOTM at the time, etc. The combat system is far more responsive, intuitive and fun than I expected it was going to be, especially given the longer GCD when compared with WoW. It's absolutely one of the better mmorpg combat systems I've experienced so far, though WoW is still the king in that department I believe. The gearing system seems far more deterministic with clear BiS items that can be deterministically and legitimately chased by the player, rather than having to play the slot machine with regards to say getting the item out of a mythic+ cache at the start of the week, hoping it rolls the right secondary stats and that it's the right item level, etc. Or going weeks and weeks without seeing the items you need drop for YOU, thanks to the asinine decision to force personal loot in raids. There's so many things I can go on about, but I'll stop rambling.
Bottom line, I'm enjoying the shit out of this game. And the momentum and buzz this game is getting right now is unreal. Seeing someone like Asmongold stream FF14 to 200,000+ viewers, was something I thought I'd never see being he's a die-hard WOW player. I just think a lot of people in the community are reaching the point with Blizzard where enough is enough and something has to give. I mean, they've now released two objectively mediocre(some would even say outright terrible) expansions in a row, and that's never happened before over for WoW. Usually they release a bad expansion, and follow it up with one that's universally praised. They now just went 8+ months without a content patch in Shadowlands and there's zero hype at all surrounding this new patch and new raid release. It's really no wonder at all why FF14 is seeing such a huge influx of new players right now.
Just played till lvl 20. Boring as hell.
If the gameplay was like Black Desert, I’d play forever
So weird that people have to be warned about catgirls in this game, imagine a review of wow saying "be warned there are fox people, pandas and goat people in this game"
Anyways, I remember watching some gwent videos here before. Nice to see you reviewing ffxiv!
is P2W?
See all the story content and just the fact that it’s number 14 is intimidating like when I play games I don’t expect to be reading lord of the rings amounts of text and story. I want to play games not read them.
I’d be more enticing if they dropped the monthly subscription that payment method is a thing of the past.
tought of giving this a try but those low graphics are a big no no for me.
What are the recommended pc specs for this game?
MMOs like this…I've always wanted to like… but I can't. It's just… not a game in my opinion. It's a time wasting simulator.
i REALLY want to give ffxiv a chance, but the fact it has no real pvp just makes it impossible to wanna play it
i love mmo pvp and wow bgs and arenas, it has always been the reason i bother playing wow,
ranked ladder ingeneral and making a name for yourself has always been my thing, its pretty much my whole life
and pvp is pretty much my only reason to wanna live and lately wow have been pretty shit and you can clearly tell the legacy and reason to make a name for yourself in that game has died, tbc is pretty much the only thing left going for them and if it wasn't for the fact i knew tbc classic would come out after vanilla i would probably just done a reckful and killed myself already, but tbc wont probably last long then its back to a meaningless life
i pray ffxiv will focus the pvp soon for players like me, or that AoC will have good pvp
Is the game finished??
Didn’t this game come out like 10years ago?
This game is at best a free to play game. You are basicly picking which skin you want to play with as your character can end up becoming any class in the end. Not to mention there is apparently a potion that can make you a different race at the end of A Realm Reborn that can make you a different race, so even picking your race doesn't matter in the end. Everything about this game just screams nothing matters. Instead of remaining a free adventurer, you are forced into the military of one of the 3 governments. You have to choose one or you can't continue the story, and in the end it doesn't matter which one you choose because they are all the same. There is no choice in this game, there is no walking down a path and having your decisions mean something. There is no picking talents or playing as the character you choose to be. There is no point in paying a monthly fee for a game that has no depth in it's world, where you are forced to give up your class that you chose at the beginning for another, though it doesn't matter as you can be any class. Meaning your class has no value, your character has no value and as such, this game has value to it. This entire video was just one big promotion for the game.
I like your tone and pace and you hit all the things I needed to know. Great vid. Thanks!
That was a very good video ty
I do not worship Slaanesh, but I think that female body armor should be both impractical and sexy… Perfectly normal…
The game is junk, setting up an account is a nightmare, it does no recognised CODES IT SENDS. Avoid.
tried the game till level 51 and in my opinion it's one of the worst mmorpgs I have ever played. not to say that it is obviously appealing to some players since it does have fans. but I don't even know where to start with the faults. the combat system feels slow and unimpactful even at level 50. besides the music there's next to no sound in the world or voice acting (even during cut szenes). the system SE has with the login and servers seems unstable sometimes and confusing which can be easily seen from some comments in the steam community about their issues even puchasing it. quests are standard fetch quests, the story is slow and uninspired and the glam system needs a major overhaul. you can even pay to skip the story, which some even recommend especially after arr main story (since then you have to do about 100 pointless quests with next to no rewards or other progress to unlock heavensword and the proper level 50+ content)!
I'm happy for the people that can enjoy it, but I will stick with basically anything else. I really don't understand the recent hype. plus the community is so over protective of it's game, that any person / content creator voicing a different oppinion gets buried in dislikes and passive-aggressive comments. it just seems like some players in that community are a bit immature. so if you wanna try it use the free trial and see for yourself. everyones taste is thankfully different.
cheers.
3:24 like bellato union from rising force game. i might wanna try this game, miss MMORPG so much
Looks really boring honestly. Who wants to play an mmo to level lmao
I played one char to lvl 80, and I finally just can't get into it. The world looks very artificial, it's structures are unnaturally symmetrical and therefor quite boring, and the mobs in the world are just plastered all over the place with no real life to them. Way too many quests that have me running all over the map clicking stuff or npcs, without really having me do anything else.
Endgame you have so many hotkeys it gets quite convoluted.
This is a game for ppl that like long drawn out storylines they can get into.
Just want to say, I played a little FFX on PS2, never finished it, and that's my sum total experience with Final Fantasy. I've never felt that I'm missing anything while playing 14. I'm sure that, as you said, there's a lot of extra insight or easter eggs for people who have finished a FF game or two or ten. If you never have, though, you'll be just fine. It stands on its own perfectly well with no holes in the story or confusing references or anything like that. If you packaged FFXIV up with a different title and played it as a one-off non-franchise game, it would work just fine like that.
does FFXIV have raids and dungeons and stuff? With guilds and such things like that?
I'd play this game if it weren't for it's subscription-based montetization even AFTER I payed for DLC. Makes no sense to me.
Looks like a shitty game i must say