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00:00 Intro
02:30 Final Fantasy 14
08:06 THE GOLDEN SAUCER
11:02 Multiplayer
13:45 Coming Clean
14:58 Closing Thoughts
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LET'S GO MIKAN, Happy to see you getting into the game :')
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There is another Fast travel to Waking sand through Limsa Lominsa, just walk past Arcanist Guild and use the Ferry, it goes to straight to the Waking sand.
i enjoy the story of ffxiv, but skipping cutscenes is fine lol. Enjoy it how you wish to enjoy it.
Fun thing. The guy that created all of the early FF music from 1-12 and beyond, is Nobuo Uematsu. His band that has played everywhere in japan from small venues to large stadiums is called The Black Mages.
Welcome to Eorzea buddy! I have about 10k hours in this game and still play daily, love it to death xD
I gotta agree that ARR does get quite boring, but the payoff later makes it really good. I skipped parts of ARR myself, and have later returned to rewatched cutscenes. So no shame in doing it that way.
Hope you enjoy your time with my favorite game! Love from Twintania on Light ❤
I’m on the same boat as you! I play 100% alone in this game so I rely mostly on npcs when I do dungeons. I have anxiety as well doing stuff with real people lol. It’s like, you want to be alone and yet you love seeing people running around in your game. It’s like, do not look at my character to please can I have some friends in this game… kinda thing lol
Escape while you can.
Don't skip the cut scenes in Heavensward. The story is much better and worth watching. And….the story just gets better in the next expansions. I JUST finished Shadowbringers and holy hell do it surprise me.
Welcome to the game! As someone who also struggled at first, both because I feared that style of raiding I had never played before, and because the story wasn't getting to me, it gets better. People really mind their own business, but are largely understanding and take the time to explain mechanics if you say you're new. There are jerks, but in my experience, they're a minority (thankfully).
The story only really started picking up my attention in by the end of ARR patches. Before that, I was really sure I wouldn't be sticking to the game. It's no joke that it does get better. And the side content is where the game really shines, with thousands of possibilities. Don't be afraid of taking breaks in the story and doing other stuff in between.
You get tickets now? Tickets?! I walked every single time. Or took the chocobo.
The fact that SB is completely ignored is crazy. Its much better than the tropey overly cliched HW
Love that this community will always yell at you for skipping cutscenes. Play how you want to play, I skip them too. Nothing against people that love the story, but I've just never been able to get into it.
Minfiilia after every 2 quest objectives: "Great job!
n o w s p e n d 4 1 0 9 t e l e p o r t i n g b a c k"
As someone who played Genshin last year and just finished ARR. ARR is 100 times better than anything I experienced in Genshin story wise. That’s one boring ass story but to each their own.
Funnily enough, I started to enjoy the game more when I tempered my expectations. My friend had been hyping it as the best story he'd ever played, but I found myself burned out and underwhelmed at the start. It wasn't until I started to take my time more and take the breaks I needed that I started to pick up the story events that were happening, and before I knew it I realized I was enjoying myself a lot more.
Now looking back at it, after catching up to msq when I finished EW, I do agree with my friend's sentiment on it being one of the best stories he'd ever played. And I enjoy my fair share of JRPG's a lot. It's a slowburn, but please enjoy the journey as you go! Remember, there's absolutely no rush, and you only ever experience the story once. I think it took me almost two years to finally finish, and even then occassionally I'd take month long breaks between expansions. But when it finally clicked, there was no going back. Enjoy your stay in Eorzea!
After trying the game 3 times in the past, I never got into it. Last week I started a new character from the start and read everything. Altough I'm still lower level than I previously was on past account, I find this playtrough way more enjoyable why you ask ? I take the time to read most of the MSQ dialog, I have a reason to do every small quest. And it makes it a lot more easy to immerse myself in the world
ah dont worry skipping cutscenes is fine people are just salty people with the story
people really let people play games how they like it dont press ur opinion on everyone
If I see one more meme of my wife asking people to return to some place, I'm gonna flip the table…
"caused me to get into my first car accident" no, we DO talk about that. talk about that right now how does that happen
Yeahh fair for the cutscene skip, I went to replay the game ans skipped every cutscene until the last few ones of Arr? And the postgame is doing decent about keeping me from skipping, because of some plot stuff that ties in later (and my fav boi in the crystal tower). Plus skipping most cutscenes helped me jump through the early game real quick! (Although personally I only did this cause it was a replay). But I can't blame you at all.
ARR feels like a tutorial for the rest of the game and I'm ok with that. After playing through it again recently it's bearable. A solid tutorial and beginning to a legendary game
There are vesper bay tickets you get early on in the game that teleports you directly since there's no aetheryte. I felt your pain.
im glad i wasnt the only one who found out about the vesper tickets until after ARR
I feel like The Golden Saucer hooks so many people 😂
I played through ARR when it first came out, and again 2 years ago, and it's definitely a much improved experience, especially the post-expac msq. HW was a revelation though, with an actually compelling story and dungeon content, and I really enjoyed it.
So the reason the eight man and twenty four man battle content isn’t soloable with npcs isn’t due to laziness but is just a technical reason. Basically the devs had issues getting the npc ai to work properly in these larger number duties. There are some later eight man duties that have this feature but they were designed with the feature in mind.
Also the duty support (solo) feature only applies to MSQ duties. Any duty that is not required for MSQ does not have this duty support and may never get it just due to the game being an mmo and the devs wanting players to engage with other players.
Generally other players are very friendly in dungeons and battle content and will help out if you ask them for advice. I’ve played for 5000-6000 hours can count the bad experiences I’ve had on my hand.
10:10 no way you just spoiled me the msq
Welcome to Eorzea! I hope you enjoy your adventure with your friends and make a lot of great new memories! ARR is a real tough nut to crack as 14 being an MMORPG makes the learning curve quite steep. The game is SO large and SO expansive that entering it with these high expectations set by other players makes the gap of what enfranchised players experience vs new players really wide. That being said, I'm proud of you for sticking with it and really exploring! and here's to more fun moments to come!
welcome to hydaleyn love and if you want someone to help with anything ive been playing since 1.0 beta
the story was kinda boring for me, and except everyone tells you the game has a lot more content than msq grinding, is a very social game and you have acess to most of things even before completing msq so is not a rush to do a run away to get to the end game
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0:27 well if you didn't skip & paid attention to the story you would know.
Thank you for not being a SIMP for the story. You just earned a new follower for that. I get sick and tired of people constantly trying to gaslight me into thinking that the story is some Magnum opus. It's not, it's basic at the very best. And for all the people who say it gets good in hw, or gets good in stb, or gets good in Shadow bringers, I shouldn't have to play for expansions and hundreds of hours worth of content to get to the "good stuff." keep being an open-minded MMO player and you'll have a new viewer.
i skipped the cut scenes to.
I am sorry but I skipped the video after you said you skipped the story. As you have boundaries, I do too.
No one ever forcing you to read everything at once, you can go at your pace and take your time. The same goes for "yapfest" or whatever you called genshin. I guess not many people have the patience or attention span enough to handle it
"The fear of being yelled at for skipping cutscenes."
Play the game however you want. You're paying (or not, if free trial) your subscription, you decide how to enjoy or spend your time.
I stopped playing the game 4x before I stuck with it, the reason I finally managed to stick with XIV was by buying a story and level skip back in Shadowbringers and I haven't regretted that decision since.
Your gameplay and enjoyment matters more than what random people on the internet think of you. Play for yourself, not for others.