It’s been a little while since we posted an update on Mike’s journey into FFXIV. Since the last video Mike has now finished ARR entirely – a full review on the ARR experience will be coming soon. In the meantime Mike has now gone into Heavensward and is around half way through the MSQ for the expansion. Let’s see what he has to say.
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Seen some folks asking in the comments; Mike doesn't use a reshade – I just happened to record all the cutscene footage when putting together the video. I personally am using the OMGEorzia preset for Stormshade.
P.S. to the person who mentioned the fix for AO showing over the UI, much love.
Mike on Dark Souls like area with political and social oppresion: Very nice
Mike on Moogles: This is terrifying and will haunt my waking dreams.
I'd love to see more videos like this going into more detail. I feel like you skip over some of your thoughts a bit to keep the video a manageable length
That urianger on screen was definitely uncanny valley
FFXIV is THE most beautiful videogame for: pet collectors, mount collectors, gamblers, pet battlers, PVE'rs, RP'ers & transmog collectors. For a PVP'er simply isn't
All this is still just the FREE TRIAL btw
Remember this is anime
When you have some more time, maybe a few months into Endwalker, you should definetly do what is known as "Ishgardian Restoration". It has some very nice payoffs and roundups for the Heavensward story.
Oh believe you me, Preach. I'm shipping those two characters too, but unfortunately characters in Heavensward don't have the same kind of plot armor that prominent characters in WoW do.
I have, almost from the beginning, had my audio set to Japanese. I like hearing the original voice actors for the characters as well as it seems to give a slight boost to how quickly you can get through Praetorium, when doing the MSQ duty roulette.
Have to agree on the Admirals voice, its the only VA from ARR that I still preferred, and its not even the new ones bad, she just sounded great in ARR
ARR Minfilia will always has special place in my heart.
And now can't stop hearing the admiral asking if want spam, egg and beans
For GoT fans, Sean Bean is not in the game but Joe Dempsie and Michael McElhatton in GoT are.
Sheep
These welcoming events, these player-created events are what make a community really a community, an alive thing. The most I've felt that I am in a community with other people over my last two years in WoW was about 20 people all mounting up in different variations of the pandaria serpents, circling the Sha of Anger spawn spot, until it spawned and everybody went home or to Oondasta . .
I don’t know why you find the accents so jarring, Preach. You’re more of a new age Brit, whereby you’ve spent so much of your time watching American shows, games, and culture that your accent is downright American-esque at times. I rather love the accents as it’s almost like mine own, just slightly more posh.
the cutest fight on extreme is the most fun i had 😀 especially those songs 😀
Just by your take here I can comfortably say Shadowbringer is going to be your favorite expansion.
Please consider enabling Japanese subtitles, even if it's auto-generated. Yoshi P specifically asked youtubers to enable Japanese subs so they can understand what the players are saying. And since this is essentially a feedback video, I think it would benefit a lot from having Japanese subs.
Black mage is probably the job that has changed the least out of all of them. The foundation was just so solid and each expansion only added things it was missing. The big thing that heavensward added was BEEF to the rotation, and management of your timers. ARR BLM was much closer to a WoW class with its primary mechanic being proc management, but with the addition of fire IV it becomes a beefy cannon boi.