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FINAL FANTASY XIV – Flames of Truth
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So there are a lot of comments here explaining the story of what's happening, but a point on why you're confused can be linked to the real world purpose and origins of the trailer.
Lets take The Division trailer as our comparison. It had a simple, but very easily followable narrative that was shown in a unique sort of way. The function of the trailer was purely promotional – get people invested, give them an idea about the theme of the product, build hype.
FFXIV's trailer here however had a different purpose. It was first shown right when the original FFXIV was shut down with the intention to be the penultimate conclusion to what had been happening throughout the games troubled life. Watching it is sort of akin to reading the last four pages of a book, not even the final chapter, right before that book is thrown into a fire.
Funnily enough, the future FFXIV trailers were influenced by this in their design, giving them this almost vinaigrette snapshoty approach to storytelling. They are not a self contained story, they don't have a narrative structure really, they're more glimpses of things that are happening in the setting
Read the background story I created for my character in game: https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/character/5240675/blog/4011186/
Lots of game trailers will be deliberately vague in order to draw you in, as people theorising what this or that was that was only shown for a split second can help create hype for the game
I highly recommend the 3 part YouTube documentary fall and rise of ff14
https://youtu.be/Xs0yQKI7Yw4
Shadowbringers is my fav out of all of the FFXIV trailers followed by Heavensward, Endwalker then Stormblood
Edit: that thing you didn’t know what it was is the moon dalamud. Think of it as a Death Star that was used as a prison to drain the power from the dragon and it ended up breaking out. It was used as a way to reset the world because of how much of a disaster the original version of the game was. And it played in Narratively as there are locations that have been changed from the original but they are the same location. Just scarred by the calamity
Even though it was a second recording I think you summed it up pretty well. I've watched this a few dozen times and still get chills from it.
This trailer was for players of the original FF14 game. It failed miserably so Square decided to nuke their gameworld IN-LORE and showed this cinematic on the final seconds before permanent server shutdown.
A long time later, they rebooted the game which we now know as A Realm Reborn and it takes place 5 years after this cinematic
There's a companion video that gives more story and is presented with in-game graphics: https://youtu.be/dc5HY3KEqug
I emailed you a full FFXIV playlist a few weeks back, with a brief synopsies of the main videos. I've been playing for eight years now, and I love seeing strangers introduced to one of my favourite games! 😁
Totally get you with trying to work out how the game is from the trailer. It's a totally different media that has aspects of books and film yet also it's own thing; a lot of how the game plays/feels is dictated a lot by tropes that a lot of us don't even consider anymore. We also know what to expect from certain companies and the personality (or lack of) that they put into it. Like Naughty Dog, we assume an adventure with some humour. Square Enix we expect an epic fantasy role playing game with chocobos and unreasonably hot characters. Nintendo, we expect light hearted kid friendly action.
A game that I can't recommend enough is Nier Automata; the story line is just brilliant. Unique style, crazy characters and gut wrenching scenes that gives you massive questions to ask yourself.
Well, what I'd really love to suggest is a game series called Legacy of Kain. It's far too dated though, the gameplay itself was notoriously bad but the story blew most others away. It was pre-twilight vampires mixing shakespear, philosophy, magic and time travel. Loved those games.
Pls. React to PLAN 8 trailer and Crimson Desert trailer..
Why you still haven't reacted to the trailer for Metal Gear Solid 5 "Red Band Trailer" is beyond me. Especially when you love story driven trailers. I'm just shocked noone else is recommending it either.
Glad you could enjoy the cinematic the second time around which to me honestly is the best thing to do. If you do happen to do any more of these for the algorithm I would recommend skipping the heavensward cinematic because it contains plot spoilers for A Realm Reborn if you do decide to try out the game. Otherwise go nuts and enjoy them all! Though personally would love to see you enjoy the cinematic first and then break it down during the second viewing. Of course the videos would probably double in lengths if you did that.
We spent months fighting skirmishes with the Imperial ("Bad Guy") faction, trying to stop them from calling the moon. Every week you'd log in and see it looming larger in the sky. Once-safe cities were under attack constantly, ever spare bit of loot was donated to the resistance. The last thing that happened in game before the servers were shut down on version 1.0 was that ground battle under the moon. That's what they players were doing (except the servers couldn't handle it, and kept freezing and crashing). The trailer was our reward — and also a massive cliffhanger that didn't resolve for 2 years until "A Realm Reborn" released. Look close at my picture there and you'll see the red moon falling. I lost a ton of sleep playing that scenario. Good times.
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The algorithm worked because I'm here! Lol, but it is interesting to see someone who doesn't normally play games interpret a game trailer. This trailer actually is what got me to pick up my own copy of the game and play it again. For me it was an easy enough story visually to follow enough to buy it.
But for you it was confusing. So maybe it has to do with people who usually game have gotten into a habit of interpreting game trailers the way other interpret movie trailers. Interesting food for thought! Thank you for sharing your second time watching this.
The large sphere coming down was thought it be a minor moon, which was being brought down on Eorzea (the good guys) by the Garlean Empire (the bad guys, led by the dude wearing the Darth Vader mask). Dalamud, the moon, was actually the prison of a super strong like being called a Primal named Bahamut. As Bahamut began to lay waste to the land, the old Elezen (elf) man, who was named Loisoix, attemptedto bind Bahamut back into a prison using the gathered power of the Scions (the praying people). Unfortunately, Bahamut proved too strong to be bound, and broke free. Using the last of his power (at the time) Loisoix did the only thing he could think if to do, which was to teleport the Warriors of Light (who are actually stand ins for the character you play in A Realm Reborn) 5 years into the future, and away from certain death.
That "sorry" was so Canadian that you can tell she is REALLY sorry.
I love this game so much. Please react to the others final fantasy 14 trailers: Heavensward, Stormblood, Shadowbringers and Endwalker. The more you dive in the story more you gonna be hoked <3 I love your react videos <3 love from Brasil <3
The game is free up to level 60, give it a go and learn the story
Yay! I just got into this game and I'm loving every moment of it! If you ever have time check out the lyric video of this song called Answers. It describes the ppl of this world praying to the god for salvation.
You should definitely watch more FF14 expansion story trailers, they’re all absolutely gorgeous! Especially FF14: Shadowbringer’s trailer.
Okay so:
When FFIV first came out it was a total failure to the point where they refunded subscriptions and publicly apologised.
Unwilling to give up on the game, Square Enix (the producers of FFIV) brought on a new director, Naoki Yoshida, to fix the game.
He did his best, fixed a few more egregious problems but he concluded that the only way he could really do anything was to pull the plug on the 1.0 version of FFIV and start over.
In-game this was explained by a calamity occurring between the Garlean Empire (the guys with those big walkers) and the forces of Eorzea (the good guys and the faction the players are sided with, that's the war you see happening.
Now the meteor, the meteor is called Dalamud and it was being brought down by Nael Van Darnus, the then leader of the Garlean Empire as a super weapon to be used against Eorzea and was a constant presence in the original iteration of the game.
So Louisoix (the old elf guy with the staff) and several of the best magic users in Eorzea devise a ritual to banish Dalamud back into space, invoking the power of The Twelve (Eorzea's pantheon of gods) to give them the power.
So they start the ritual directly beneath Dalamud with the Eorzean Alliance and the player characters defending them against the Garlean onslaught, this was the Battle of Carteneau and is the war you see in the trailer.
As the two forces battle it out, Dalamud suddenly roars, revealing that it isn't a meteor at all but a prison for Bahamut (basically a god), Bahamut breaks free and starts unleashing hell on anything and everything within his reach, killing Eorzean and Garlean alike.
Louisoix shields the players from Bahamut's power and tries to redirect the power of the ritual into recontaining Bahamut, Bahamut however is too strong and breaks free.
Realising it could all be over, Louisoix sends all the players into a time rift, keeping them in stasis, the Eorzean Alliance eventually defeats Bahamut and cripples the Garlean army, but suffer heavy losses, including Louisoix.
FFIV: A Realm Reborn (the second iteration of FFIV) begins with the players Louisoix sent into a time rift emerging 5 years later, one one else can remember the names or faces of the players who assisted in the Battle of Carteneau, only their silhouettes, leading them to be referred to as "The Warriors of Light."
There's a series of videos you can watch if you want/have the time to, that explain the story behind what happened with FFXIV. There are actually 2 different groups of people that have made them. One on the youtube channel called "Speakers Network". Their video is called "The Fall & Rise of FFXIV". The other channel is "No Clip – Video Game Documentaries".
Both are good, but the Speakers Network ones are broken up into shorter chunks. <15 min chunks. While the No Clip ones are 30-60 minutes long.
Both explain basically the same thing.
Hey Hanna! That dragon is Bahamut a sort of deidity for dragonkind, sealed in the moon called Dalamund in antiquity. This is the end of the first iteration of FFXIV, there is another trailer same as this one showing you where the characters are teleported.
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I think it is important to know that this is kind of the extended version of that whole scene. The initial one ends at the Heroes beeing teleported away to safety, basically reapearing 5 years after the ctaclysmic events and exploring the world. The Warrior with the big Axe is the stand-in for the player character in all the FF14 cinematics as you play and experience this as a character of your own design, race, look, class etc. . The group of heroes you watch on the battlefield is representing a party of players, a Paladin, a Bard (the archer) a White mage (the little one, a short race, think likoe halflings), The Black Mage hurling fireballs and the Warrior. In the game you play a character and battle and hopefully defeat enemies like monsters or imperial soldiers on a story journey through this world, either alone or in groups of different sizes. With the goal of ending the conflicts and bringing the world together in order to stand united against tose who would harm the world and the people living in it.
This extended version of the cinematic you only get later when you find the one you referred to as Elf-Gandalf ("Louisoix Leveilleur") accompanying his grandchildren who seek to unravel what happened back then and what became of The elder Dragon Bahamut and of course the fate of their Grandfather. Louisoix explaines what has happened back then and what he had done.
The Dragon is thousands of years old and basically a god. But an ancient race referred to as Allagan had found ways to control powerful beeings like him and use them as weapons. They imprisioned him in this artificial moon a long time ago and during the war that you see going on the Empire found means to crack the moon Dalamud, pulling it towards the world and unleashing the dragon god Bahamut.
The Blue weapon like things as well as the symbols appearing in the circle represent the 12 Gods that contemporary prople believe in and tried to invoke in order to re-imprison Bahamut. The characters you see in prayer at shrines around the world to do this are members of an organization that you as player also join during the games story and they journey alongside you through the story of the game.
Gods in this world are basically creations of free magical energy combined with enough will and/or desperation. In his last ditch effort Louisoix basically became a god himself, a representation of Phoenix, by his desire and desperation to save the world from destruction, backed by the desperate thoughts and prayers of many and powerd by the immense energies set free by the whole cataclysm. But after punching a whole through bahamut believing the Dragon defeated he let go of all his newly begotten power, hoping to give it back to the world to allow it to heal, thus basically evaporating.
Needless to say no all went as he hoped and thus the heroes have to step in five years later to finish what he started, using his ground work and hios sacrifice to put and end to that part of the story.
sorry for the long post but there is a lot in there. I hope that answeres some of your questions
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Hi HannaH! Great channel as always!! Always fun to watch the reactions. Much of the narrative is given out through the game via cutscenes and the interactions of a character you create with its world. (and its one of the best narratives the final fantasy franchise has weaved) The trailers for the games often highlight intense moments, and tease elements to come and have never really been a focus on a crafted narrative in and of themself. That said! from a comment you made earlier in this video where you spoke with your friend about game development. What you might like is a documentary about the turmoil and rebirth this game went through. The Documentary is by NoClip (Final Fantasy XIV Documentary) and its a 3 part series going over the hardships of development and what it took to rebuild a failure into a global success. The story behind that is incredible and to quote a line from thedocumentary "A wonderful reminder of something we come across so often in life: The idea that the reality can be more amazing than the fantasy."
Cheers! Have a good one
the visuals do fine telling a story.
I'm a sucker for emotionally flavored music. It tells a story without you "having" to watch the video. The idea that I can be taken on an emotional roller-coaster by the music alone shows so much talent by the composer. So glad you finally watched this!
one thing you could have done is played the original reaction and just talked over it letting us know what was going through your mind at the moment
If you want to know what happened to the people he whisked away, watch FFXIV A Realm Reborn Cinematic. You can fast forward it to when he does that parting smile where the first one you watched cut out. As it cuts in to show where those adventurers ended up.
As for how gamers figure out what kind of a game it is from a trailer like this one? Well quite frankly, we don't. If its a sequel we kind of have an idea, but if its a brand new game then we need to see an actual gameplay trailer, or know what kind of games the company usually makes to have any idea of what kind of game it'd be, which can be a wrong guess if we don't have any info from the Devs beyond the 'Trailer'
Like take this trailer Flames of Truth for example. If say this had been the Reveal Trailer FOR Final Fantasy XIV when it was being developed. People familiar with the Final Fantasy Franchise would have assumed, "Oh its a Singleplayer Japanese Roleplaying Game like the other Final Fantasies!" When FFXIV actually is a Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game.
But I have watched many game trailers that are cinematics where I watch it and my response is, "Okay this looks awesome but….what kind of game is it going to be?"
Final fantasy is not popular with the algorithm lol. The game trailers that would be popular right now would be halo infinite battlefield 2042 and TWWH3 ( total war warhammer 3). The games listed above are all extremely anticipated and are currently going through their viral marketing campaign, meaning the excitement around them is IMMENSE.
Have you ever considered watching movie trailers on this channel? Movies such as dune, the tomorrow war, and the new fast and furious are currently extremely popular.
^ chasing the algorithm is not a good time, but if your going to do it, the key is to know what people are excited for and or something that’s new ( they usually go hand in hand ). Best of luck 🙂
I absolutely appreciate your honesty and upfront nature about the truth of the little mistake. So many others would push forward and put on an act that it was their genuine first watch.
I personally think that some of the points you made about how you don't have to try to figure out what it going on allows you to just ABSORB more of the video as they intended might make for good content as well, I really enjoyed seeing more emotion than confusion!
First: Big red "planet" is a moon/ prison called Dalamud. A long time ago there was an empire called Allag. It was a hyper technological empire. The Allag empire trapped a dragon inside Dalamud. The dragon is Bahamut. He is an extremely strong dragon because he is one of the first brood. (baby of first dragon). Allag wanted his power but eventually Allag fell.
Zoom to before cinematic a new empire is trying to take control. Hence the Darth vader lookin guy in the floating ship. You the player are considered the axe weilding guy. You fight for the freedom of 3 city-states being invaded. While this is happening, certain imperials are messing with Dalamud making it fall. The rest you can kinda pick up until the gandelf guy shows up. Also guy on hill is cid. hes kind of irrelevant to understanding more so don't worry about him.
Gandelf guy's name is Louisoix Leveilleur or as ff14 players call him grandpa phinaud. gramps is trying to imprison Bahamut again but fails. So he sends the warrior of light (you. axe wielder) to the future 5 years to save you. The game starts off there.
The next part is shown later in game because you were sent to the future. You think gramps died in the fiery ball. Instead he absorbed the energy from the broken prison and goku punched him. If you look closely he doesnt destroy bahamut's core failing to kill him. You kill him later on.
I can imagine that without a lot of the context that is given in game, it can be hard to understand. Especially for FFXIV these are meant to complement the in game story. A lot of those characters you would have previously met in the (now defunct) first version of the game 😀
Oh and for the question "where they disappeared" that's in the other "New Era" cinematic :p
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The Realm was destroyed once, and now its Reborn a new.
you can also watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWIrju3F6nU
it's a short and funny version of how the 1.0 came to the state it was in and why the Realm Reborn was needed to fix it.
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1) confusion and Final Fantasy go hand in hand. Their stories tend to be convoluted.
2) this is the trailer for the relaunch of the game, since the original was so poorly recieved they blew up the world and rebuilt it. This trailer is depicting the final moments of the old game.
To get the whole story Hannah… you're just gonna have to play the game 😀
Seriously though, FF14 is an RPGMMO, in that it's an RPG first, and an MMO second. The story that you play through is excellent and deep, I just finished the first story arc to the end of A Realm Reborn and let me tell you, it was heart-wrenching indeed. HIGHLY recommend 😀
The cinematic trailers for Star Wars: The Old Republic have some solid story stealing in them, especially the later ones! Here’s a link to the a full compilation https://youtu.be/M7WSYyK4Zgc
https://youtu.be/QdBwKce8nvg
Destiny 2, dreaming city gameplay. Going off what you said about seeing movie trailer quality content but no gameplay. Here's some to give you an idear.
P.S: the reason so much of the destiny content comes from the Forsaken expansion is because, at least in my opinion it's the best. And it was also the biggest, so plenty of stuff to pull from.
I'm really, really, really looking forward to you reacting to the rest of the FFXIV expansion cinematics, particularly the ones for the latest one and the one scheduled to release in November. ♥
The one thing if find annoying in your reactions is you pausing the videos to talk ruins the vibe of a reaction
Most other reactors wait till the end of the video and will go back and review but thats just my take. .
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