I love how in the final parts of the endwalker patch trailer (after the "to meet the end") its a bunch of very plot heavy stuff but out of context looks like really random and crazy stuff and then "Let the curtains fall upon this - the final chapter in the tale of the star" "..sick"

i love the fact that the devs acknowledged the game kinda sucked, remade it, and canonically added an event where the game got nuked by bahamut in order to have it reset into the better version. (a realm reborn)

Difference between wow and final fantasy is Final fantasy will make you cry

I am just now realizing that 6:22 is keeper of the lake being made basically. Also all the stuff that we see in this trailer for the most part is Meteor experiencing his first echo probably and it did pretty much sum up all of ARR. Also ARR has some cool stuff, it's definitely more of a slow burn/buildup to the story tho but there's some repeating themes and stuff that you don't really realize till later. FFXIV story is top tier tbh that's what's been keeping me subbed for so many years, this is the only mmo i've found to have a good story. The story, raids, and loot keep me going

if u ever do or did play again the story is like 80% or so of the game to skip it is to skip the game entirely EVERYTHING is tied to the story if u just skip everything u just get confused dont care get bored and then leave. i know its hard to break that wow habbet since wow isnt really the greatest and the comunity as a whole is extreamly toxic. i would sugest going and looking at the story bits u have skipped yes it may be boring and a slog at forst but its needed. this game is a final fantasy game first and an mmo second

this is commentary I guesss

11:18 “Pissed” doesn’t even begin to describe what that dragon was.

This gave me the amusing thought that Odin may be the only horse-owner in Final Fantasy.

Fo answer the question of "Is a Realm Reborn a cataclysm?" Yes and no. The beginning cutscene was quite literally, the ending cutscene for when the original FF14 shut down. It was the end of if a timeline, in a sense.

The FIRST trailer means nothing really, it is from the OLD game before it was burned to the ground and rebuilt.

Bahamut makes Deathwing look like a baby dragon first learning to puff his first little puff of fire.

Bro.... He's him

The plates that they are looking at in the beginning are leve quests

12:02 yes but unlike Cataclysm, it made the game fun. Final Fantasy 14 A Realm Reborn was them rebooting the game and fixing issues people had with the original release

FF!4 is nothing but the story. yes the fights and actions are great but its all about the story. skipping the story eliminates 85% of the game.

The patch trailers are tied to the story but also show new side content, they are meant to be the events that lead up to the next expansion

Not Bad!

> "Let's see if there's any continuity in the trailers" > Skips 2 years of story trailers between every expansion

"I am become you" is a valid old English construction. FF14's writing has a lot of old English stuff

I tried playing FFXIV years ago, after having played WoW for like a decade. I really didn’t get it. Wow teaches you that the story is kind of an afterthought. Like the story is there, but it’s not front and center. In FFXIV, the story is front and center. It took me coming back with that in mind for it to click. By the end of A Realm Reborn (technically a fair bit before the end), I was hooked. The story is amazing and completely digestible, in a way that I never felt in WoW. There’s also so many side stories that are engrossing and really fun. FFXIV has its version of daily quests to get faction with certain groups, and even those quests are part of a really entertaining side story. There’s funny side stories, serious side stories that choked me up, wholesome and touching stories, comedy type anime stories, etc. etc. etc.

Back whem whm had protect and stonskin

Holy shit this guy is just internet/Twitch incarnate. His entire personality and vocabulary is just memes and leet speak. Everything is- Bro who's cooking, where's the guy that was cooking, that the guy that was cooking? Bro he's on that 'Insert thing that's happening here' beat. Bro got that 'insert thing here' beat. It's like every 5 seconds is 'Bro', 'Homie', 'He's Him', and all his commentary is just repeating things he heard on the internet (AKA the things I've mentioned so far), or just relating things to things he knows. And not in a 'Is that similar to this other thing?', but like, sees a bridge. 'Alright we're at the bridge in Alterac'. Sees an angel 'Yo is that Kayle from League of Legends'.

Do not fear of skipping A Realm Reborn (with a real money level-skip purchases) and starting with Heavensward at level 50. While I don't recommend you doing it; I absolutely cannot recommend you playing through level 1 to 50 if you dislike it. FF XIV has a slow start with a main cast consisting of over 50 characters. The pay-off comes during all the hundreds of hours after A Realm Reborn. (The developers have a genuine excuse of ARR being subpar, as it is technically an expansion made to replace the whole 1.0 base game.)

"I didn't pay attention to any of the story" "I skipped everything" - "I hope it all makes sense".... dude, what?? LOL!

I love how HARD you try to look distant and above, when you watch how *SUPERIOR* FF XIV is than wow just by the trailers alone. Copium more my dude, copium is the answer.

thats one piece of advice Id give anyone coming from WoW, dont play XIV like you would play WoW. there are similarities but they are two different beasts. if you come in with an open mind and take the game for what it is, and not what you want it to be or what you think it is, you will enjoy your stay a lot more. "Slow down, the game is to be savored." - Old Pandaren Proverb

The commentary is deeply cringe, but I'll take any opportunity to watch a compilation of the cutscenes from the *best MMO on the market*.

Clearly never even seen a picture of an oil rig...

The thing that really sold me on this game is all jobs on one character. It is amazing to have that freedom. It also goes towards becoming more investing in your one character. Of course, that doesn't keep me to fanta-ing a bit. I agree the glamour system is not intuitive. I've had to walk people through how to use it many time. And yes, the story will continue to get better and better. As a wow player/raider, your 'respect your time' is so spot on. That's what burned me out of wow.

hey man! I've enjoyed watching your streams. I'm really glad you enjoyed it so much. I don't wanna be super tribal, I haven't played other MMO's and I'm sure they're great in their own ways. But I've enjoyed it so much as well and agree that I feel respected by the game developers. Very cool that it captured that feeling you used to have old school WoW.

the glamour system is REALLY clunky. I agree! I think they have been playing catchup since 1.0 though, so it hasn't been a prio for them maybe? And Yoshi P is very money conscious so it is my GUESS that it hasn't been a prio for them. Just trying to make up for the bad start, make players stay, create new story. I think this might be the first breather they have and they seem to have utilized it to the max and tried graphic updates and all kinds of other updates as their first thing they wanted to update. So I HOPE, that an update to the glamour system is down the pipeline somewhere. HATS FOR VIERAS FIRST! .. thanks!

Really loved hearing your thoughts! I'm so glad you liked ARR, veteran players can have a bit of a tendency to shit on it but I love it, I've gone through it about 8 times Personally even though you can do everything on one character and I am playing every job on my main, I still have 9 alts right now aha with probably more to come 😅 I feel you on glamour, I would really love an overhaul of the system if they can get a fix for the ancient code worked out I'm not much into streams but it was nice to hear your off the dome thoughts, definitely planning to check in more as you progress, hopefully we run into eachother in a queue sometime somewhere too 👍

My bit of an advice for a month old video: skip arr minor quests, get in to the expansions in a good pace and maybe watch some lore recap video after to catch up. ARR is after all kind of a mixmatch from 1.0. And when you eventually get in to a Shadowbringers and Endwalker.... you will cry.

The patch trailers show story bits that came out for that patch.

I'd say play again and take your time, enjoy the plot. The Gunbreaker (the class that uses a gunblade) is from Shadowbringers, so you can't unlock it in the base game. It's a tank class

"Is this guy still alive?!" is like, the surprise secondary theme running through pretty much each expansion, but the payoff is really worth it.

Its called Heavensward, not Havensward.

at 37:00 that's a different evil dude in a stupid pointy horned hat. Same empire though

Honestly I personally loved a realm reborn but it did get really monotonous and repetitive tbh but once you get past a certain point it gets really good! And some side stories are really good as well! Like crystal tower, the coils of bahamaut and hildabrand. Heavensward is my personal favorite but I feel every expansion has its own certain charm to it!

You'll like the newer patch trailers from shadowbringers and endwalker. They're not as boring as the ones you decided to start skipping

Bro, I'm not trying to gatekeep or anything, but if you aren't going to give the story the priority, this ain't the game for you. You gotta switch your mentality if you're going to enjoy FF14.

onc eu reach Heavensward the story is really good, ARR was kinda meh, then Bloodstorm was ok and then at Heavsward things got really good

FFXIV taught me to enjoy the journey. Our character matter, we are part of the game's story, we are important. That's why we get attached to other NPCs and get emotional in some parts of the story.

"a realm reborn is shit" okay dude, no i can't. coming from a WoW player who doesn't even confidently know that yes you are the warrior of light in the story by the end of ARR because he basically "skipped all cutscenes and dialogues to get to the good part" consequently missing all the foundation of the story, i find it very "rich". considering that you made a mistake is good but you still don't seem to understand why when i hear you say that. the irony man, especially from a WoW player. How the F are you supposed to understand the story if you skip hours of it in the beginning ? i'm always dumbfounded by wow skippers who come to this game for the "story" but skip half of it and de facto don't understand half of what they see later on *facepalm* yeah dude start again don't skip the main story dialogues, don't skip thoses of your job quests either, they give a lot of "flavor" to the world, but yeah you can mostly skip those in simple fetch quests that are everywhere, those are not that interesting and rarely bring something of interest in term of intel or flavor. this game is heavily oriented on the story and it is meticulously written, some small details in ARR can be important two expansions later, some things in the beginning you will only understand in the end of shadowbringer maybe, so yeah PAY ATTENTION otherwise it's just another MMO and you are ruining it for yourself. hope you'll do good, it's up to you dude.

Glad you're enjoying FFXIV instead of WoW. 🙂

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Long time WoW player myself. I gave FF14 a real try last year and it really is incredible. Get through the vanilla base game and it only gets better and better. Combat doesn't feel as good as WoW but the story blows WoW post WOTLK out of the water.

FF14 is a way better story then WoW has even been. In fact, WoW has copied FF14 type of story telling the last 3 or 4 years.

So you know "Northward" or "Eastward"? It's "Heavensward" Heavens + Ward, as in going up to the heavens, not "Haven Sward," which I have no clue what that means xD

I don't know if you've already started FFXIV again or not, but I thought I'd make a couple comments. One, story and narrative are MUCH more important in FF than they are in WoW. In WoW, you can literally level through an expansion by running dungeons and not care about any of the quests. Not so in FF. Literally EVERYTHING involves progressing a narrative and the narrative is important. And more, the devs actually *remember* past narratives in crafting new ones. It makes for a game that's a much LONGER experience than you might be used to. Those cutscenes do end up mattering eventually. It's just a very slow burn for some of them. Two, unlocking Gunbreaker involves getting a single job to level 60 and then doing the unlock quest in Gridania and it unlocks at level 60. This can, literally, be done during the ARR storyline if you have the benefit of the Road to 80 buff from starting the character on a Preferred or New world. It is a Tank job that plays like a DPS, so if hitting a lot of buttons quickly is your kinda thing, you might enjoy this one. It's not the game for everyone, but what it does well, it does EXCELLENTLY.