Thanks @rathgames for helping improve the thumbnail to become beyond glorious.
Music:
Arashi no Saxophone 2 – (KOF XIII)
Icefield White Knight II – (UNI 2)
Next Force – (BBCF)
Pillars of The Underworld – (GGXX #Reload – Korean OST)
Loose Genius – (Garou MOTW)
Holy Orders (Be Just Or Be Dead) – (GGXX)
Dancing Mad (Movement 4) – (FFXIV)
Sands of Amber – (FFXIV)
From The Heavens – (FFXIV)
Dragonsong – (FFXIV)
Under the Weight – (FFXIV)
Torn from the Heavens/The Dark Colossus Destroys All (Medley) – (FFXIV)
Theme of Vergil – (UMVC3)
Gathers Under Night – (UNIB)
Killing Moon – (SF3: 3rd Strike)
Beatin’ My Soul – (GGXXAC+R)
I love fighting games and I love FFXIV. I’m on a break from playing fighting games right now to prepare myself for the release of Akuma/Gouki in SF6 so that I don’t burn out before I’m satisfied, so I had some time to put together a video and decided this was what I wanted to make. The fighting game to FFXIV pipeline is something I hear come up pretty often in the FGC, and I’ve even seen quite a few player tags I recognize just wandering about Eorzea on my own adventure. The retirement home is real, there are quite a few draws for fighting game players here. FFXIV requires significantly less “prep work” than other MMOs and as a result, it’s an extremely convenient game to play alongside fighters. You can just boot up and do whatever you want whenever you feel like it! The raiding is definitely worth it.
If you are reading this description and haven’t tried FFXIV, c’mon go try FFXIV!
If you are reading this description and you don’t play fighting games, go play one! They aren’t that scary.
Chapters:
0:00 – Intro
1:10 – Muscle Memory
2:59 – Characters
5:17 – Challenge
7:52 – A Vacation Away From Fighting Games Competitive Nature
9:44 – OST
12:46 – Story
14:23 – Class Recommendations
17:15 – PVP
18:12 – Closing
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What a masterpiece.
Except you pronounced machinist wrong you fiend.
Always wondered about the correlation, since me and a lot of other FG players are simply drawn to this game. I think all of your points make a lot of sense for me personally, and you explained them extremely well. One thing that makes me specifically drawn to it more than other MMOs is the art style and visual design. XIV looks and feels very anime, and it's closer to a lot of fighting games than the other MMOs. I find it simply way more fun to look at and customize your character than in WoW or ESO, for example. This would be a fun topic to discuss this with other FG players, hope this video does very well.
Rath sent me
Great video Snicker! I really liked your part about it being almost like a co-operative fighting game, and I'd like to add that it scratches a very similar itch for me as a speedrunner of other games. I've only recently made it to the end of EW and starting trying to clear Extremes/Unreal while they're still current, and I have been loving trying to optimize my rotation while on the move and solving mechanics all at the same time, plus I get to pseudo-speedrun with friends!
Omg I had no idea this pipeline existed and I’m a prime example of one 🤣
FINALLY SOMEONE GETS IT
I always tell people I play FFXIV like it's a fighting game
I also came from fighting games back at the start of 2020 cause for obv reasons locals werent viable to attend so I wanted a mmo to pick up
I really like how you connected classes to fighting game archetypes while still only covering the ones people would start the game on 😀 if we're not counting starting classes Gunbreaker is my shoto vote, it has enough APM to be enjoyable to a fighting game player but not so much its difficult at all, pretty straightforward to play, and has alot of tools for alot or scenarios
Do you PF on LPDU? if so I guess I'll see you in DSR or TOP someday 😀
I'm in this video (figuratively) and i love it. Even though I have a main, i still lab other characters a bit just for fun. In ff14 i learned the rotations/mechanics of all the classes even though i have a main. I agree with the muscle memory too. It makes it so much easier to do rotations compared to the long combos im used to.
2 other things I noticed that carry over is reaction time and where my eyes are on the screen. Reacting to an overhead is alot harder than anything in ff14. And I never look at my character because I aware what my buttons are doing. I just analyze the mechanic, or stare at my party life if i'm a healer/tank.
I feel called out… from Tekken to FFXIV back to Tekken and then FFXIV… hides behind my retainers
Playing Yakuza as my gateway drug for playing monk tbh.
I was on and off ff14 for a while till I got to pvp and man lemme tell ya it's fun af currently top100 in dynamis rn too (Tusk Amethyst)
my man completed DSR in 3 weeks on PF while I have been 3 months stuck on TOP and just recently having seen P6 😢
wish i had a friend group for this
never heard of fighting games being compared to ff14, for me I came from smite myself.
superb video
Amazed that he can play with his inventory so full…………. he’s just like me
I'd also like to point out that content in FFXIV is ever green. Meaning that even though the game is over a decade old you can still find parties for all the content. Of course harder to find group for older content but with discords that are dedicated to older content you can do it. That means there is a decade worth of content available. Also it's kind of fun learning your job at all level caps.
Also you didn't recommend Monk, oh the irony.
Something I always like to mention to people is that the hard content in ffxiv (specifically Extreme, savage, and ultimate) is completely optional. I remember seeing footage of those raids and being really intimidated by it because of the teamwork aspect. For a long time I avoided ffxiv because I thought I would be expected to learn crazy complex mechanics quickly. I’m a slow learner who likes to lab things without the expectations and pressure of teamwork, so this was a hard stop for me.
I was so relieved when I actually gave it a chance and realized that you are NEVER required to even attempt anything truly difficult unless you go out of your way to do so. I played for close to 1,000 hours ( over the course of about a year and a half ) before even attempting savage and never ran out of things to do. I get why people focus on hard content because it’s AWESOME once you’re into it, but I wish more people would talk about how gentle the learning curve is on normal content because it is genuinely great as well.
I don't watch a Rath stream and then discover both him and a bunch of viewers here. Funny thing that. And while I'm not a big FG nerd and far from good or even competitive, I did have some major fun with them in my teens. Why? Because of the execution. Which is honestly a big aspect of my love for speedrunning as well. And, interestingly, I noticed that Monk scratches a specific itch I had associated with Feral Druid from WoW and this video gave me a new perspective on. And from that, if Black Mage is a bit too immobile, but someone still wants to be a Caster, Summoner is definitely a good choice. Not only does it have a lot of freedom both in movement and rotation, it also has a major timer on its resources that can be extremely punishing. These resources include three mandatory longer casts (though not as long as Black Mage) and a similar amount of regular casts (I think 4) within a sixty second window. Include the paradigm of ABC (Always Be Casting) and the seeming simplicity (esp compared to its previous iterations) turns into a puzzle of when to use which of three sets. It's not a finger twister like Monk can be, but planning ahead is very much needed.
I’d say ESO with its attacking weaving, it’s like doing combo timing.
Insert leave alone akira meme with woolieVS
sick video, killing perfect alex at .1% witha dot was pretty hype lol
Ayo, you mind sharing what you are wearing for that monk glam at 3:19?
Man I remember when I used to play street fighter 2 world warrior and street fighter alpha 3 at the last arcade in my town and then in the last Laundromat that had the arcade cabinet then I played COD until BO4 hated that game then found FFXIV and have played that ever since