I made a video on my experience (and it was cringe) but today, I am updating it with all I know having completed MSQ.
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I have 3 alts, ff14 doset deter you from having alts I did the MSQ 4 times and I have a prity good headcanon for how my main is mindcontroling my alts so Im happy playing them
As awful as Mogstation is, those of us who came from FFXI remember how much worse Playonline was. (shudder)
Your comment at the 11:15 mark made me wonder if you missed some of the side dungeon content, because each expansion has those. ARR had Edda's story; Heavensward had the Warring Triad trial series; Stormblood had the Four Lords (dungeon, solo instance and trials); Shadowbringers had the Twinning (the science of the Crystarium) and Akadaemia Anyder (the science of the ancients); and Endwalker has both loporrits-making-poor-choices dungeons (one of which will be leading to a tribal unlock in another patch or two). Edda's path was definitely more involved than anything but maybe the Four Lords questchain, but that was also unlocking deeper dungeons (Palace of the Dead, which also reminds me that Stormblood does have its own deeper dungeon story, with Heaven on High – and there's supposed to be another deeper dungeon coming soon).
So… not arguing with the rest of your points, but I definitely wanted to answer the "wish there was more of this" with a friendly road sign, in case any of this had been missed. <3
As for your dungeon content, I think the Criterion dungeons that are coming might fill that one shot need. Fun video and I enjoyed your perspective.
I started XIV during the 2.0 beta and I'm a FF nerd so it was good, enjoyable, pretty, fun and other than coming straight from FFXI and being kind of annoyed I was having to drop from the party of friends to solo instance so much had a good time. There was so much I was enjoying I was sold but where I lost my mind was the hour n 20 minute set of cut scenes at the very end of ARR ..I was yelling at the monitor, crying and completely mind blown. I play regularly still (for 8 yrs) but even if I did need to take breaks or leave the game for irl reasons I will always come back to XIV to catch up on the story, it's masterful!
It's funny uldah is the only city that makes sense to me. Sharlyon(spelling) is also yea good but everything else I couldn't find my way around without constant looking at map
I have loved Final Fantasy since I was a kid, and in previous games they've never been afraid to go in a dark direction. I wondered if FFXIV would have that courage, then I got to the end of post-ARR.
FFXIV's narrative only gets more mature, harder-hitting, yet somehow still sentimental in the way Final Fantasy has managed to do for decades. I played WoW for 14 years, but I never once felt close to tears, except maybe for the Wrathgate. FFXIV is the first game where I had to regather myself to stay on my rotation because I was half tearing up, and half shaking. They do story on a whole other level from any other MMO.
Ok Soken is the goat, but you have to give credit for Answers to Uematsu 🤘
I find the best way to think of ARR is that it shows you the whole Thanksgiving feast. HW through SB focuses on the individual pieces of the feast, feeding you the turkey, then the cranberry sauce, then the mac & cheese. EW is the apple pie/sweet potato pie dessert to end the feast.
Playing Starcraft on a substandard PC taught me to turn the music off whenever I played any Blizzard games. Never listened to the music in Starcraft nor Diablo. From the WoW vanilla beta all the way to a month before Shadowlands's prepatch when I finally quit, I never listened to any of the music from WoW save from what came in their cinematics.
I never do that with any other game from any other company. It's just a habit with Blizzard games. The music in FFXIV really grabbed my attention in a very positive way.
The upsides to doing NG+ is that you can go and replay various points in the story without having to start over. Not only that, you can replay all of the major side stories too. The job questlines, the Normal Raids (and Coils), Alliance Raids, Hildibrand, it's all there.
The downsides are that you can only jump in at the beginning of each part of NG+, you can only have one NG+ savefile active at one time, and starting a different part will overwrite the progress made. You also will not receive any Quest Rewards in NG+. The final downside to NG+ is that you can only replay the city you chose to start the game in, it won't let you see what it was like starting in Limsa or Gridania.
The funny side to doing NG+ is a fun little glitch I discovered when I was standing on top of my house in the Mist district. This glitch can only be used in a housing district. Stand on top of a house and activate or deactivate NG+, it doesn't matter what part, any part will do. You will find yourself on the ground 'inside' the house. I made good use of that glitch, and the other housing glitches to put trees in my house. Even though the theme of my house is now better suited for Ishgard, I don't really want to move my house, especially since the district I'm in is now FC-exclusive to anyone who doesn't have a house there already.
Great video👍🏽
Peebs. I've been playing since Stormblood. I am STILL not over his death. It still hurts…and seeing the Endwalker updates to that moment…it hurts even more! And I now have new headcanons about my WoL and him and well. even new and more painful emotional damage.
The moment I truly fell in love with FFXIV was in Shadowbringers. I liked the story so far but it hadn't truly grabbed me.
I cannot pinpoint a exact moment but just the feeling that the story has been turned on its head, it's not as simple as you thought, and half the things you knew about this world aren't what you thought they where. The intrigue and desire to know the truth… and the shock when it's all revealed to us.
10/10 would become the warrior of darkness again anytime.
I will just say I get it when you started late that everything is easy up to a certain point but man, some stuff in HW was hard when it came out first. And coils was difficult. It's just that what with fixing button bloat in new expansions and so on, it becomes kind of brainless. They've done a pretty good job of tweaking some of the ARR dungeons though. I don't mind doing MSQ roulette at all these days lol.
Sprout moment heh, 4 lvl 90's and still a sprout 😂
I played WoW from the end of Burning Crusade till about a year ago. I introduced my daughter to it. To be honest I wish I had gotten into FFXIV instead mainly because the player base is soooooo much less toxic. I still love the look of WoW, the story and how it's played, I don't appreciate the pressure to grind to current content and I hate the nastiness of players in a pug. With FFXIV I play at my level of comfort, I look forward to exploring the aspects of the game I haven't yet and I have fun. I do agree that the subscription system is dreadful, if I hadn't enjoyed the game so much I would have left while trying to get my sub straightened out. They also need to get a handle on the housing situation, the lottery system is healthier but it's still crushingly difficult to get a plot.
I don't know how this video showed up for me but I'm glad it did, I'm glad you're enjoying it so much! 🙂 Also idk if it's possible but if it is you should enable japanese captions, Yoshi P asked when people make feedback videos to have japanese captions so more people can understand the feedback, particularly him because he himself likes to watch the videos and hear what people are saying!
6:05 😅🤣😂 I'm seriousness, I've been a fan of ff music since ff6 (was ff2 I first played it in the states) when I faced the rubricant (the fire fiend).
8:00 yes! I'm attached to my long hair cat boy. I have an alt my sister uses when she visits.
9:40 Emet did nothing wrong!
10:30 did you glam his shield on your paladin? Mine is and might be forever
14:22 mine was early fall last year. We were progging titan extreme on duty finder. After finishing, some wrote we should have used party finder instead.
I think I have played less other games since this ff14. Only earth defense force 5 has pulled me away. Edf 6 will have stop ff14 for while then.
17:38 love the add on after the credits. Lol!