So as my friend asked me to have a look at these trailers (and it didn’t take a lot of convincing not going to lie lol) today I delve into one of my favourite franchises – the final fantasy franchise and take a deeper look into the world of FF14! A game I have briefly dabbled but not fully invested in…yet! Should I take the dive, is the game worth playing? Lets find out! Let me know down the comments below if YOU think this game is worth playing and if so what is your favourite class and game expansion?
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Yea been playing for almost a year now and cant stop, if asked is it worth playing, i would say very very much soo, sure there is some bad things and some over complicated things, but most of game is just amazing, played many RPGMMOs in my time, but only FF 14 i can say that s amazing game.
The new expansion is taking a bit longer because the game is getting a big graphical update and lots of quality of life improvements on top of the usual stuff we get.
If it helps to sell you on this game you get to have a chocobo, and you can buy different things for them to wear and change their colours. 😛
The big dragon you saw was the father of Bahamut. The story does start off slow but it is worth going through that part cause it get good after you get through it. If you love stories than its a really good game for that.
Final Fantasy 14 is the ultimate final fantasy game
Just letting you know. theres ZERO pressure to play this game:
You can play with NPCS if your scared.
Players are EXTREMELY understanding to new players.
Gunbreaker is a playable class. Its a tank. Meaning you'll be pack pulling. Least its easier than healing…
ONE TIP: PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. *DO NOT* feel like "im behind in content" THE WHOLE GAME IS CURRENT CONTENT due to the roulette system. SOMETHINGS maybe WAY longer or harder to get into. And I mean… hours unless you do party finder for specific raids. But, dont let that discourage you as ALL of that. Is SIDE content. Just MORE flavor text lore can be done anytime.
Also just letting you know. If you like the "Neir" series. We have a cross over IN THE GAME as raids. Have fun.
I greeeeatly recomend watch JoeCat Crap guide by Final fantasy 14.
It will help you decide what class would you like to start)))
Or not)
It's unfortunate with the amount of ffxiv spoilers in the trailers, because imo the "optimal" way of enjoying the trailers is to watch them as you make it to each of the expansions. And I can almost promise, people will watch you play through the story
The Dragoon with the white hair is a major character in the story, and if you want to meet him as soon as possible, you should pick up the Lancer job class when you are able, get it to level 30, and advance to Dragoon.
you can start off with any job you want from the main beginner jobs, and which one you pick decides your starting city:
Pugilist (Hand to Hand melee), Thaumaturge (Offensive elemental Magic), and Gladiator (Defensive sword and shield melee) start in Ul'dah, a desert city.
Marauder (Defensive Axe melee), Arcanist (offensive non-elemental pet-based mage with light healing) and there is also a "secret" starter class of Rogue (melee, daggers, available at level 10) which start in Limsa Lominsa, an ocean/island city.
Conjurer (healing and some earth/wind magic), Archer (Ranged bow DPS), and Lancer (spear melee dps) all start in Gridania, a forest city.
Once you hit level 15 or so, and advance the main story you can freely travel to every city and change jobs whenever you want.
If you didn't play it long enough to get a Chocobo I'm more inclined to recommend you play through the trial first? I mean the Chocobo is given VERY early in the game at this point and if you got bored of it before getting a Chocobo I don't know if you'll be able to get through the rest of the game if that's the case. Granted A Realm Reborn was probably the most tedious of the leveling experiences from what I heard (I played when it was new so I wouldn't know what it's like now) however I believe each expansion has been an improvement upon the previous one and if you can make it through "A Realm Reborn" i think you'll enjoy it greatly.
the video could just be a single picture that says YES. it would take about 5 secs to answer the question in the title.
If you will be playing it as an MMO then you really need to invest time. But you can also play this game like a solo game and complete the story only with some online aspect to complete it. With the addtions of duty support to many dungeons, you can complete the story without getting into party finder. I think you just need probably 1 month subscription to complete Stormblood up to Endwalker. That's what some of my friends did. ARR and Heavensward are part of the free trial anyway, just those two as a play for free is huge.
Heya 😊
As a ffxiv player since heavensward, I say give it a try.
It's free up to level 60 (soon up to level 70) so you can check if you like it or not.
The worst that can happen is wasted time.
I for one love the game. ❤ The story up until now is amazing. The expansions are not for nothing named feelsbringers and feelswalker 😂
The game play is fun and gets more complex when you gain levels, you can play everything with just one character and, of course, most members of the community are awesome. I felt and feel very welcome when I play, back then as a young sprout (new player) and now as a mentor to the new players myself. 🥰
Even though it's an MMO, it doesn't have to be a large time investment. You can play a few hours a month and still be perfectly fine. This isn't like other MMOs where you have to play multiple hours every day just to stay at your current power level.
Major updates happen every 4 months or so and are as big as expansions from other MMOs. Actual expansions for this game are absolutely HUGE which is why they are years apart.
You CAN use a gunblade, but not until level 70 and it's a tank class.
The male character, officially named Meteor Survivor, more commonly known in the community as Derplander, is our in-game character so he represents us in the trailer. He starts from Archer (1.0), Warrior (A Realm Reborn), Dragoon (Heavensward), Monk and Samurai (Stormblood), all the jobs he represent until he changed to Dark Knight (Heavensward) and Paladin (Endwalker). For Dawntrail, he uses a new job for that expansion so until the next two FanFest, we don't know its official job name or if he even uses the new job.
Starting from Shadowbringers onwards, you see the other cast members (party members essentially). The one using the gunblade (Gunbreaker) is Thancred, the one that was always with him in the last 2 expansions is Urianger (Astrologian). 2 cats, the Miqotes, the male is G'raha (he's an All-Rounder, uses Paladin, White Mage and I think Black Mage), while the female one is Y'shtola (Black Mage but hers is called Sorceress). The Dragoon is Estinien (one can argue he already appear in Heavensward but that's up to debate), and the twins whom you saw in Endwalker is Alisaie (Red Mage) and Alphinaud (Sage).
Whether is it worth to play this game, I'd say yes. Been around since A Realm Reborn 2013, the story gets better.
I really don't know why people always hand out flames of truth instead of the normal trailer ._. bloody spoilers
Dont feel bad for us – we eat good constantly 😛 In between expansions the patch cycle gets us something to do all the time 🙂
since you play genshin the easiest to explain ff14 lifecycle is the same as with genshin, you get a big update like a realm reborn, heavensward etc which are 2.0, 3.0 etc like when they add new big cities in genshin and between those big numbered patches you get extra story, sidequeste and other stuff patches which are 2.1, 2.2,… like with genshin ^^
asking a FF14 Fan if you should play the game is biased 😀
The most neutral answer I can give is: If you are tempted I highly recommend that you stick with the free trial (if you didn't upgrade the game already) and take your time enjoying the story and doing all sorts of content in between (if you feel like you would burn out on MSQ alone) because it is A LOT of text and emotions. Since your Character can play every single job it is easy to tip your toes into another Job or even another role without loosing anything you have earned or the connection that you will most likely form with your own character.
Of course I can't speak for how you will experience it so I can't say that you will like it – but it would honestly surprise me if you don't – especially if you like the FF franchise since there are quiet a few references to older games.
My biased/honest/personal answer: Yes. I played WoW for 15 years of my life and never felt such an emotional connection to the game than I did after even 1 year of FF14 (now it has been 3 years and I don't regret a single second and never looked back)
A Realm Reborn can be the toughest part since they had to develop the game alongside 1.0, practically working on 2 games at the same time and it shows. I still enjoyed the base game despite that since I'm a huge Fan of Lore and Story and the game provided me enough to keep me engaged.
From Heavensward onwards I fell more and more in Love with the world, the characters and the game as a whole.
If you stick with it you will laugh and cry in equal measure.
I would maybe even recommend you to have a look at the NoClip Documentary about FFXIV but I'm not sure right now how much spoiler are in it.
It would certainly give you a perspective of the transformation the game went through (and why people love Yoshi-P so much) 😀
Saying that.. I can't say what my favourite expansion is. Since it is one big story from ARR to Endwalker and everything builds on top of each other .. it would not be fair to say the end is strong and the beginning was weak, since the beginning is what set the foundation for what I enjoyed the most. I think it is a given that over the span of 10 years the game improved in pretty much all aspects. I would have to rank them in order of release because it just kept getting better shrug (<— personal opinion and you are free to disagree HW/ShB Fans :D)
I think that's enough for my 2 cents
Welcome to Eorzea if you decide to try it out and enjoy your journey <3
And if you end up don't liking it – that's okay too 🙂 Some games click with you and some don't 😀
After playing all the expansions, seeing the first trailer always makes me tear up. Such an amazing story.
I'd definitely suggest trying it out. I try other MMOs but i always come back to FFXIV because it has a better story than anything else in the genre. The new unlimited free trial update lets you play from 2.0 to 4.5 (i think 4.5 was the end of Syormblood, someone correct me if i'm wrong). Unfortunately Gunblade is in 5.0 so you cant play it in the free trial.
Yes, play FF14. Hands down the best Final Fantasy game ever made, and something every FF fan owes themselves to play.
Also I recommend revisiting playing through all of the FF games (especially now that the pixel remasters are out) to get the most bang for your buck because the game is literally a love letter to the franchise and is chock full of references to past games. The core story actually heavily references FF12's lore of all things, and even has an alternate universe version of Ivalice in the game, hence Vieras like in the ShB trailer.
If I could play through FF14 again, I would go through each Pixel Remaster, plus 7-12, for the full experience. A lot of the monster designs and even the races are directly inspired by 11 so there isn't too much lore reference to that game outside of special limited time events in the game. Endwalker is a big FF4 reference. Stormblood has FF6 references. Shadowbringers has FF3 and FF8 references.
The guy in the blue armor with silver hair is Estinien. If you play Dragoon you will meet him early but he mostly shows up for the first time in Heavensward the first major expansion. The second guy that looks kinda evil as you put it is Zenos. You meet him in Stormblood and he is your best friend. When you do start the game just keep in mind that ARR is (imo) the slowest part of the game. It really shows its age but they have been working on it and it really was the base of everything that was to come. IMO the game really picks up in Heavensward and once you get to Shadowbringers your beyond hooked.
I love the she was already simping Estinien the moment she saw him lmao
The composer for the game, Masayoshi Soken, is an absolute beast with the music, it's all so good. He even wrote the climactic song for Shadowbringers while in the hospital for 6~7 months undergoing chemotherapy for cancer, a situation that he had kept secret from most of the rest of the development team because he didn't want to impact their performance worrying for him. They only found out when he announced at a Fan Fest, live on stage, that the treatment was successful and he's doing better. He's a total legend.
So yeah, the general course of FFXIV updates, we get a teaser trailer first and then the full trailer is dropped later on. We'll probably be getting it in January 2024, to tempt us for a June-ish release, the full trailers are more or less twice the length of the teasers and expand some scenes and add more that would reveal some other hidden info of the expansion. There's one scene here that looks like it'll be expanded in the full trailer when the white haired catgirl is looking down at something and seems surprised, we'll likely be seeing what's going on in the full trailer.
Many of the characters shown in these trailers have been with us from the start but they didn't start getting screen time until Shadowbringers, when the story is well and good getting settled in on you and them as the main cast of the story. While the 'main guy' the trailers follow does generally make for a stand-in character for the players, he's also got an in-universe representation of his own. That elf dragoon dude too, Estinien, is a pretty major character and a proper badass.
There's a ton of references and callbacks to other games in the series, if you're a longtime fan of the series there's just so much for you to see and experience. There's bosses, raid battles and extra content that is all themed around different games, it's easier to list the titles that haven't gotten a ton of representation than those that have been covered. As much of a treat as the main story and experience that 14 is, the extra content and additions along the way are an even greater prize for fans that know the rest of the games. My own brother was so invested in the post-story plot introduced in the post-launch content of Endwalker that he went and bought the whole 1-6 pixel remaster set so he could play through the entirety of FF4 just to have better context for what it entails.
I will always recommend the FFXIV story. TAKE YOUR TIME. Shadowbringers and Endwalker are only as good as they are because they build on ALL that came before. Patch content in between expansions are huge in some cases. It's all very good. Stormblood suffers from some pacing issues, but still comes out strong.
Heavensward story really broke me when certain scenes played, you get the back story of the characters and understand the motivations on what that individual character wants and needs. Also note the age of the main character that supposed to represent you grows from fresh faced adventurer to war hardened warrior of light and so on. he grows alongside you as progressions takes you to a new level.
I'd like to point out that Endwalker is the end of an arc. Dawntrail is the start of the next arc. As for my favourite expansion, I'm in the minority in saying that Endwalker is my favourite expansion. Most people prefer Shadowbringers, but Shadowbringers is a very close second. The game's story is incredible.
You'll probably find this is a theme, but there's room for taking in almost every sort of boss character, enemy, and model from the FF series in this game by the time there are 5 expansions worth of story and side content. Everything from Leviathan to Shiva & Ramuh to the Phantom Train. You do need some patience for a long story that's slower in the base expansion than anywhere else, and early gameplay is similarly slow.
XIV isnt like some other MMO's where theres a rush to get to the end or anything, the important thing is to experience the story in its totality and you should do that at whatever pace you feel comfortable so you can enjoy it to its fullest. It wouldnt be worth it if you were buring yourself out trying to rush through it.
I would recommend checking out Jesse Cox's video on XIV vs WoW as it kind of explains a lot of what sort of game it is vs WoW which is more in line with how MMOs typically are.
😂😂 just play it lol its like any other game if you enjoy it you'll put time into it. Tbh it one of the least time demanding MMO there is lol
short answer is yes, the long answer yessssssssssssss
50:40 Yep it is playable. Yet can obtain it after lvl 70.
Final Fantasy XIV from A Realm Reborn to Endwalker is probably one of the best fantasy stories ever told. So if you love good story, that I can't recommend enough. If you love good social communities, it has that in abundance. The gameplay isn't half bad either. Enjoy.
To answer your questions at the end.
I am not as big a final fantasy fan as you are. I only played FFIX before XIV. But i love this game. I started to play when Endwalker was getting ready to launch and it was just a great journey. I played it mostly solo too, which is wild to me that that was possible in an mmo. The community i did talk with were all great, there was lots of fun side stuff to do and just chat with others.
I play as a Summoner and it is visually just beautiful summoning these big creatures.
My favorite expansion was Shadowbringers. It was just so perfectly paced and layed out. Like a heros journey story. Not to mention the main theme song from the trailer is just the cherry on top.
It was so fun watching you react to the trailers! The ARR one still gives me goosebumps after all this time!
Really hope you pick it up, and if you do decide to pick up FF14 again I recommend picking a job that starts you in Uldah ;D