IS FINAL FANTASY 14 WORTH PLAYING?! | Final Fantasy XIV All Cinematic Trailers | Reaction

[@doomer8049]

I don't like MMOs and never played Final Fantasy game in my life, but FF14 became my favorite game of all time. It starts very slow (just like every mmo) but the story in the expansions (especially in shadowbringers and endwalker) is one of the best stories in all fantasy media.

[@DoonixHated]

me too. i spent my whole life searching for an MMO that would appeal to me. i was never a fan of Final Fantasy, but I decided to give this MMO a try, and I just fell in love with it

[@GheistXin]

Oh trust me, even as a Hardcore Final Fantasy fan, I can vouch for Final Fantasy 14's story. Out of all Final Fantasy games, in my mind, Final Fantasy 14 ranks as the absolute number 1 in terms of story and characters. And it's no wonder, you spend so much time in the beautiful world that is Eorzea, and you learn so much about the different characters (especially the ones in the trailer), it just starts to feel like home after a while. And even if it didn't, the devs have packed so much love into the game, and they continue to expand upon the story.. and the best thing about it: Endwalker feels like a real ending to the first story arc of the game, picking up plot threads from all the other expansions, and tieing them neatly together. It's a master class in story telling, and definitely my favorite out of all FFs.

[@blakec8549]

Avid final fantasy fan. Refused to play 14 for so long because I thought id hate an MMO. Turns out I was sooo wrong. I love the multiplayer aspect of the game. The only thing better than being a last man standing Chad warrior and synching the Victory for your friends is when the team just clicks and the boss just melts

[@atheist101]

I have to disagree because the Legend of Drizzt will always by my favorite fantasy story. Also as far as FF games go, VI story is top tier.

[@TorManiak]

​​@@atheist101That makes me wonder, have you played FFXIV's MSQ to be saying that? Your opinion is entirely your own, of course, but I prefer to make sure you know what you're comparing. Btw, this is first time I heard of Legend of Drizzt. I'll check it out.

[@DXDragon38]

Yes, it is DEFINITELY worth playing. The game has arguably the greatest Story of any MMORPG, and it has an amazing community. The Free Trial is getting expanded soon to include not just the Entire Base Game, and the 1st Expansion "Heavensward", but also the 2nd Expansion "Stormblood" completely free. That's 400+ Hours of content, all for free. Take it at your pace, read the quest dialogue, and enjoy the ride.

[@smward87]

It's not just the best MMO story, it's easily one of the best stories in video games as a whole.

[@GoatOfWar]

Community is overrated. Try and raise any critique or suggest any change to the game and see how hard they'll flip around.

[@FF-tp7qs]

​@@GoatOfWarthat goes for pretty much any community, though, there's always assholes in any group, and the bigger the community, the more assholes you are going to find. Best idea is to just ignore the haters and stick to your guns rather than worrying what other people think.

[@Rixx111]

@@GoatOfWar I love how you try to pin this as a FFXIV community issue but I've experienced this in many other gaming fandoms. Fire Emblem Bioshock Tales of Persona The last of us God of War Just to name a few, but yes, totally a personal ffxiv community issue. 💀

[@phoenixred240]

@@GoatOfWar Based on what i have seen through the years, it just not any critique or suggestions. Just those ones that are clearly trolling or fishing for an argument to rile up some people in the community. It also depends on how someone deliver their critique and suggestions. A probably good example is this, why use "Community is overrated". Of course, some in the community would react to that, are you expecting everyone should just sit back and swallow it.

[@SoloIori]

I would honestly watch you stream it. One of the biggest pleasures a 14 player has is watching new players go through the story

[@xanthiusdrake2775]

Yeah but it needs to be the remake version, cuz if its the original then its painful.

[@solerosable]

@@xanthiusdrake2775 what?

[@xanthiusdrake2775]

@@solerosable What? you don't know what happened with the original?

[@solerosable]

@@xanthiusdrake2775 you can't play the original launch of XIV unless its a private server.

[@xanthiusdrake2775]

@@solerosable At least without getting in trouble yeah.

[@PhoenixReturns]

The 'main guy' is throughout all trailers but his hair and class changes a lot, and he represents you, the player (as you mostly figured out in the ShB trailer) Also, between expansions they continue updating the game with more story/dungeons content, ect ect, so there is no two year wait. And the latest trailer isnt the full trailer just yet. Story and music wise, easily the best FF.

[@Thavleifrim]

yeah we get a patch every 2 months we're frankly spoiled for content compared to some other MMO's i could name, and the longest gap we will have in the schedule is only ~6 months from the January patch to the release of dawntrail in summer.

[@ПётрНауменко-т4з]

@@Thavleifrim oh you mean, some other game, there we best Titan and npc so: - oh you so great heeeeeerooo, can you give us all you artifacts? You just to be sure that we deactivate them, and give you some new garbage to grind in next patch. - ok sure, then will be new patch? - in one year. - maybe you wanted to say in 6 month? - i know what i wanted to say.

[@avenged-khaos]

he has a name its meteor

[@PhoenixReturns]

@@avenged-khaos I said main guy because that's what she said, so she knows who's I'm talking about......but, well done you 👏 maybe actually watch the video for context.

[@katnerd6712]

@@avenged-khaos His name is "Derplander", actually ;p

[@skyeagain5174]

Full expansions come out every couple years, but there's patch content spread out every few months to update the story and release new raids and dungeons and such. One selling point is the fact that you can play every class on a single character, so while you don't have access to the class with the gunblade at first, you can swap to it later. Crafting and gathering each also have their own classes and storylines, which is pretty cool.

[@RicardoSantos-oz3uj]

That was until they decided to get rid of the job stories and instead have a class story.

[@rednova2212]

@@RicardoSantos-oz3uj Regardless, It's not bad. And they even have reward content for doing all of the class quests too.

[@Rachet20202]

@@RicardoSantos-oz3uj Having less specialized quest lines is disappointing but it does make sense. Honestly, I personally don’t mind because it gives you more time to level instead of having to stop and do quests for every job.

[@johnshaffer3504]

@@Rachet20202 i get why they had to, theres a lot of jobs to make complete questlines for definitely. I think that combing them into class types was a good fix for that, tho my biggest ask would be for new jobs getting a full 20 lvls of questlines. I just don't feel like the 10 lvls theyve been getting establishes the job quest characters enough.

[@TGPDrunknHick]

@@johnshaffer3504 especially given they add like 2 jobs every major expansion.

[@michaeltrees7106]

Don't feel too bad for us Georgie. While there's a big wait between expansions, the expansions themselves are massive, and in between they release around 5 major patches, all with new story/raids/bosses and other fun side stuff

[@paradox8253]

yeah the in between patches basically are like a slow questline that introduces you to what will be coming in the next expansion.

[@paradox8253]

at the end of each expansion is also the expansion main raid storyline, and there is also the 24 man raids which have storylines to them as well.

[@xXD4rkxR4v3nXx]

Hi Georgie as an avid ff14 player you really should try it, at the end of the day its a story that you can take at your own pace. Sure, trying to avoid spoilers online can be an issue but the playerbase is really into no spoilers camp

[@ПётрНауменко-т4з]

At least there are no some bloggers who will spoil you all story 3 months prior to real release. And even made some theory how it all will end, and this theory will be so shitty and stupid that developers really take it as main plot. ... ..... Yeah i know i played WoW before coming to ff14(

[@KarlMorey684]

Gunbreaker is a tanking class, and they use the big gun-sword that you saw a few times in the trailers. Around 19:45 you asked if everything was this sad or angsty, and...well, there's no shortage of drama, but that particular trailer (Flames of Truth) represented the devs actually *DESTROYING THE WORLD* at the end of FF14 1.0, before they spent 2 years absolutely furiously rewriting the whole thing from basically the ground up before releasing 2.0, titled A Realm Reborn, which is the FF14 we all know and love. 1.0 was pretty lousy, from all accounts; I wasn't there, but I've seen enough explanations. The next trailer you watched, named A Realm Reborn, was the (re)launch trailer for the game back in 2013.

[@JM-nothing-more]

yeah, if you were to start the game now those first two trailers are in the past. the wreck of the giant airship is a location in the game, and you see references to the battle in the second trailer and the destruction caused by Bahamuth are referenced often

[@MorguerotheGaming]

@JM-nothing-more yeah 1.0 was a jumbled up mess of a game that was basically unplayable. The player base left and the devs decide "yeah we screwed up. We're kinda sorta starting fresh." They shut down the servers. That Flames of Truth trailer played for anyone in the game when the 1.0 servers went down. Thus, the name of 2.0 which was A Realm Reborn. It was a complete rework of the game and a massive success, keeping the story of 1.0 as the past. It happened but the spell cast on the Warrior of Light sent them into the future to keep them safe.

[@51953bdog]

I was there for it, always cry when i see the trailer. The end of the world. (Great gobbu wall)

[@dracocrusher]

Worth noting for anyone curious that people could actually watch the Red Moon with Bahamut in it fall from the sky in real time in 1.0, and the devs kept spawning in superbosses and the nuttiest stuff they could to have fun with things as people united together for the final days of FFXIV 1.0 . Also, apparently anyone who had a character from the original game not only got their names in the ARR credits, but they also got a unique tattoo shaped like the R symbol on the other Scions, which is Louisoix's symbol (the old wizard man). So that's pretty neat!

[@arcadeashdown3579]

@@MorguerotheGaming What's wild is that they were working on 2.0 while they were still maintaining 1.0. They were actively writing and implementing the story into 1.0 while people were playing, making 1.0 playable for people *even though* they were shutting it down eventually. CBU3 really knocked it out of the park with how they handled the transition from 1.0 to 2.0

[@Gameorama91]

Answers for a couple of your questions that aren't story or spoiler related, though I'm sure you friends will tell you as well lol: Yes, the main dude in the trailers is representing our character that we make. You can make them whatever you want, they just went with Generic Anime dude for the trailers lol. And yeah, he was given a different Job or Class each trailer, to represent how you can play as any or all of them on just the one character. From damage dealers like Samurai, Monk, Dragoon and Black Mage, to tanks like Paladin, Warrior and Dark Knight, and healers like White Mage, Scholar and Sage! Plus different jobs for crafting and foraging like Miner, Fisher, Blacksmith, Weaver and Carpenter! Plenty to do :D And yes, you can use a Gunblade lol. Gunbreaker is the Job that uses it. It's one of the Tank classes, but you can't start out as one. Some of the Jobs are unlocked through quests and can only be started at later levels. And don't feel too bad for us about the waits between expansions lol. The game DOES get updated between them. The expansions have numbers that go with them, so Realm Reborn is 2.0, Heavensward is 3.0, etc up to the new one Dawntrail, which will be 7.0. But in-between they have smaller updates that add a little more story, new side content, lots of stuff. Like right now we are waiting on the 6.5 update to come out pretty soon. So yeah, definitely give it a shot! It is indeed unlike other Final Fantasy games, yet also so familiar! There's so many references and nods to the other games, I'm sure you'll love seeing them!

[@Ashtari]

He is also affectionately known as Derplander due to him being a midlander (the race) and how awkward he looked in the first two trailers. He's had a REALLY excellent glow up.

[@PhoenixReturns]

Just playing through the story alone, it would be one of your best story gaming experiences youll ever have. And yes, Gunblade is playable, Gunbreaker class, although it is a Tank role. I main Gunbreaker and Samurai ^^ both feel awesome to play. And you can play every class on 1 character too so you can change whenever.

[@Dracounguis]

Yes the guy with the brown hair is the stand in for your character. He's called Meteor Man or jokingly Derplander (his race is Midlander, and he looked a bit derpy at first, so hence the name.) And he also changes into a new job / class each expansion in the trailers.

[@cainprescott4937]

Some people may also find it funny to refer to him as John Fantasy the Fourteenth.

[@beambreaker300]

now that they increase the free trial even further, it is definitely worth a shot to try it!

[@RyushiroK]

This, definitely. If you haven't bought anything FFXIV related before, you can play the game and the first 2 expansions (out of currently 4 expansions) for absolutely free. There are a few limitations, but that's still a crapload of content you get to enjoy, for free.

[@AgentRedShirt]

@@RyushiroK Did they start that already? Or was that coming for later on?

[@pokemondude45]

That free trial is gonna be hella evil. Just imagine finally hitting the paywall right when "Let expanse contract--" starts happening. It's too good a cliffhanger.

[@AgentRedShirt]

@@pokemondude45 haha. True. But at the same time, if you’re not hooked by the end of heavensward anyway….

[@FF-tp7qs]

​​@@AgentRedShirtfree trial gets updated in patch 6.5 around October, same time the Xbox series X/S gets its open beta

[@bendonatier]

As a note on Tonberries, yes they exist, they feature in two dungeons heavily(technically the same place but two instances of it), and also the scholar quest line. I highly recommend playing scholar if you want to learn about them in 14 it's a fun class.

[@dracocrusher]

Unfortunately she missed the Easter quest where you get Tonberry glamour gear (the head and the robe) but I'm sure they'll pop up on the cash shop or something eventually

[@bendonatier]

@@dracocrusher it'll hit the mog station next spring for cheap

[@Precaricat]

One of the Tonberry dungeon variants has one of the most amusing "you have succeeded" fanfare subversions I've ever seen.

[@randallmusgrave5138]

Ffxiv has a fantastic story. You can play the campaign like it's a single-player game. Endwalker was the end of the first 10 year long story from the beginning of the game. Dawn trail is the new story after the big end.

[@zeehero7280]

The giant long snakey dragon in that trailer is Midgardsormr. he is the literal father or grandfather of every dragon in that world.

[@SoulWhiteAngel]

The main story is a treat tbh and dont worry between expansions they make story for patches x.1-x.5 while also implementing a bunch of other content.

[@kaala7939]

I came here to make sure this was said. It cannot be overstated how awesome they are when it comes to patching and making sure we have content to devour in-between expansions.

[@algee6005]

@@kaala7939 I miss the plethora of content they used to add in the 2.x-3.x patches. I'm so thankful that I got to play during that time because it was amazing.

[@ZariLutus]

@@algee6005 eeeeh. While Endwalker has been a bit sparse in regards to content in the patches, Stormblood and Shadowbringers were way better than ARR and HW for me. I personally don't really consider extra dungeons "more content" when dungeons really arent that special after the first time running them and I've been honestly tired of dungeons for years. I prefer getting other unique content even if I don't play all of it rather than getting an extra dungeon or two that i'll be bored of within a couple weeks of roulettes. ARR did have some extra new stuff coming during its cycle but that's mainly because a lot of it was stuff they couldn't get out in time for 2.0

[@RyushiroK]

Our main character, as mentioned, is the short haired human male you see in those videos. - The guy who had that whole fever-dream, using a bow against the Marlboro, in the first trailer - The guy with the axe who gets teleported away in the second (and third trailer) - The guy who goes from Axe to Dragoon in the Heavensward trailer - The Monk AND samurai in the Stormblood trailer - The guy who was Samurai against the big armor dude, and who's dragging himself along with the bow later on in the Shadowbringers trailer, who becomes a Dark Knight. And it was a nice touch in the Shadowbringers trailer, when he faces against the angel-like lady, all the jobs he switches to are call backs to the previous trailers (Bow, Axe, Dragoon, Monk, Samurai)

[@keithfilibeck2390]

to be clear, it isn't a fever dream, that is the first hint at his connection to Azem, aka, having FUTURE sight echo, which was rare even for the Ancients.

[@AmyElnah]

@@keithfilibeck2390 dude, SPOILERS

[@keithfilibeck2390]

@@AmyElnah everything I said is gibberish without context, the name Azem, means nothing till your told it, and once your told it, you "know".

[@demicus]

Also, in case it hasn't been said yet, YES! You can have a gun blade. It's a tank class oddly enough though, rather than a DPS. Though you can put on your FFXII hat and be Balthier+ by taking a GUN gun in the form of Machinist. Some classes aren't unlocked till later in the game though. Like AST and MCH come in during Heavensward normally.

[@GGradz]

Gunbreaker (the gunblade job) is available once you reach level 60, so, yes, you can have a gunblade.

[@Master_Matoya]

From Arknights to FF14, glad you're hitting up all the games I'm obsessed with.

[@halsteinprizrak1481]

I never comment on those videos , but this one one game you should absolutelly play. Its one of the only games to actually make me cry because I empathise with the characters. (also yes , gunblade is playable , its a tank class)

[@unironicallydel7527]

I've never been that emotional in a videogame, let alone an MMO. But good god FFXIV is brilliant. I was fairly emotional.

[@demicus]

Been playing since 2011, before Realm Reborn even began. Still at the top favorite game of all time for me. It'll steal your time, but you can always limit yourself to doing 1-2 quests at a time if you're concerned about it stealing your life. So much good stuff~ EDIT: Also yes, the second cinematic is how the 1.x storyline ended. Bahamut gets loose and wrecks half the planet in seconds. Dude has a wingspan measured in miles. He WINS. D: Not a spoiler either since 1.x isn't playable anymore, everyone starts in 2.0 and goes from there.

[@roetemeteor]

It literally took Best Elf going Super Saiyan to take him out.

[@twocatsgaming6628]

16:46 - Some context for that smile... At the end of 1.0, in the final update, when attempts to prevent Dalamud (the big red 'moon') from hitting Eorzea, have failed, Louisoix (the old Gandelf character) says, "If I can but see you to a better future, I would want for nothing more." He's smiling at the end there because, having teleported the Warriors of Light (us, the players) to safety... that wish is fulfilled.

[@adamosborne9440]

Its a great game. ARR (first part) is a bit of a slog at times, but once you get going it really, really gets good. No rush in it, take your time and farm the subs from MSQ vampires. Also, don't worry about the in betweens... we get looooooods of story and content in between.

[@shadowsofpain]

Oh yeah, we MSQ watchers are always ready to be feels vampires. One of my hobbies is watching new people play the game and relive all the story moments vicariously through them

[@VixenIcaza]

We MSQ Vampires exist because the story was emotions for us. While we can't experience it for the 1st time again, we can watch others do so as a way to relive those feels.

[@ExaltedUriel]

ARR itself isn't bad at all, it's a pretty good introduction to the world. ... its the 2.X patch quests between ARR and Heavensward that are a slog, even after being cut down lmao. Except for 2.5, that's when shit hits the fan

[@reveriec]

@@ExaltedUrielI mean, they improved on it. Not sure if they shortened it, but pre-Titan quests were a huge slogfest. But it gets going fast when you get to the end of base ARR

[@NezeruGaming]

The FFXIV community has a habit of being immensely supportive of new streamers picking up the game. If you ever feel like branching outside of streaming gacha games, XIV may be the game to try.

[@Ciguy18]

I'll just put it this way: I can definitely see some FF14 representation on the wall behind you after you finish the story. FF14 is an experience you don't want to miss out on, especially if you're an FF fan. It is also considered an FF theme park due to it having content that represent other FF titles.

[@scotty110]

it literally references every FF there has been so far, at least up til FFXV, though the director of FFXIV Yoshi-P is currently in talks with the director of FFXVI Yoshi-P about geting an FFXVI crossover done :D

[@shanehaworth6090]

@@scotty110 lol, this made me think of the Futurama episode where Hermes gave himself a massive tongue lashing just for wanting some time off.

[@namim629]

This is great for fans of the Final Fantasy series, it has a ton of call backs to previous titles while also having a full realised world full of personality. IMO the best part is you can take as long a break as you like and it's easy to pick up where you left off.

[@Divizoro]

12:07 "It reminds me of Alexandria" Dawntrail: 👀

[@elaine_of_shalott6587]

Also the main character from the cinematics who is a standin for the player character is officially known as "Meteor" but fondly known as Derplander.

[@AlcheaNemesis]

There are 5 major patches between expansions, which happen every 2-3 years, with some more minor patches. So, say, Shadowbringers' release would be version 5.0, and there were versions 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5 (with minor patches in between: 5.11, 5.15...) before 6.0 aka Endwalker released They only make this sort of cinematic trailer for expansion packs, aka .0 versions! So we have been getting new content and story in these 3 years, do not worry

[@SuperBrainSandwich]

Honestly, FFXIV is one of, if not, THE best Final Fantasy's out there, and maybe even game period. I haven't had the chance to play 16, so I can't say that it IS the best, but in story, nothing I've ever played has ever compared. The story in 14 is SO good! Heavensward and Shadowbringers, especially, are probably the best stories I've ever experienced in ANY media. So, to answer the question posed by your title, I would say that the answer is a hugely resounding YES, YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST PLAY THIS GAME! Even better, now is an especially good time to play as it has been announced that the free trial will be expanded to include the first two expansions, Heavensward and Stormblood. It already currently includes Heavensward, so it's adding the second expansion, Stormblood. That is many many hours of content, maybe even over a hundred, for FREE! There are some restrictions in the free trial (you can't have a retainer, you can't join a free company, your level will be capped at 70, you can only have a max of 300,000 gil, you can't access the market board, and a few others), but honestly it's still VERY worth it. And I'm willing to bet that you'll upgrade to the paid version long before you ever reach the end of the free trial period.

[@FelNaga]

You absolutely can play the gunblade job which is called Gunbreaker. Gunbreaker is quite literally a mash up of all of Squall and Seifers abilities from not just FF8 but also Dissidia. Further more, Squall's base revolver is a model you can use as "glam" for your gunblade, if you get the collectors edition of the game. Gunbreaker is a tank job and its damn fun to play.

[@FF-tp7qs]

You can also get squalls outfit once you have subscribed for about 1 year As well as Firion, Clouds advent children outfit and Zidanes outfit

[@scottwagner2566]

Gunbreaker is the best tank because it’s the only one that can cause immediate panic in the healer with the press of a single button.

[@FF-tp7qs]

@@scottwagner2566 how about blue mage tank, that uses Final Sting or Self Destruct?

[@scottwagner2566]

@@FF-tp7qs While I love blue mage and agree with you, we both know why they don’t count lol.

[@ChipotleKanetsu]

@@FF-tp7qs Blue Mage tank is intentional though and rarely is an oops moment

[@lenoria]

the story of ffxiv is really good. it is true that its quite lengthy, especially if you want to finish every expansion's story. the free trial is being expanded to include the base game, and the first two expansions. you can take your time and enjoy the story and login whenever you want. if you don't want to get invested into a lengthy story based game though that's very understandable.

[@dracocrusher]

Oh yeah, don't worry about the wait. The game drops 'Patch Quests' between expansions, which are big story content with unique dungeons, bosses, twists, etc. to link things from one arc to another. So the actual story and reveals never stopped. We've also been getting entire new raid questchains, which have been consistently great since Heavensward, so that's pretty nice. Those are basically fairly self contained mini stories about dealing with other larger plotlines off to the side. So yeah, people haven't really been waiting too long for content, it's just that this is adding the new BIG stuff with the new areas and classes and stuff. And that's something people are super excited for because nobody really knows what the one-handed sword Class in the trailer is going to be. But my bet is on Weaponmaster. I think we're getting the Bartz/Noctus fighting style and that as soon as the full DawnTrail trailer comes out we'll see our guy start summoning and using a bunch of different weapons back to back in a really cool way, which should be really neat!

[@LyfeNEET]

The game story hit every emotion in me when playing it. Music is wonderful and so much to explore. Also Every expansion is about every 2 years and each big patch comes after the launch of an expansion is every 3 to 4 months to add more story and such. Due to Covid in 2020 Endwalker was delayed. The full DawnTrail trailer will be released in Jan. 2024 at the last FanFest in Japan showing so much more and the 2 new jobs coming. DawnTrail is a brand new Story Arc that going hopefully last the same amount as the current Arc that been going on for 10+ years

[@LukeGarou]

I got into the game in 2021, not expecting to stick around too long. I binged through all the available story at the time in around six months (which was up to the end of the Shadowbringers patches), played Endwalker on launch day later that year, and have been a regular player ever since. If you play for story, you will get EVERYTHING you could ever want out of this game and more! It's what has kept me hooked over all that time, plus all of the other amazing content I've been doing in the game. Highlu, highly recommend you give it another shot (and maybe stream it, because people like that stuff).

[@RyushiroK]

Oh boy! I've been playing FFXIV for over 10 years now. I love the game, and strongly love the community. If you choose to play, I will wholeheartedly welcome you in. I also have a character both on the NA and EU servers, so I might actually be able to help you directly, if wanted.

[@kokiburiwallas1261]

Hi! It was nice to look back at all the trailers. You should definitly give the game a try! You've got almost a year to catch up with the story before Dawntrail, it's doable! It's an increadible journey and if you've friends playing, it will be even better! Welcome to Eorzea :D

[@millamiqote8827]

Yes, you get a chocobo, around main story quest lvl 20, then, I think around lvl 30 or something you can teach it to fight at your side as a companion 😜. You can also change the colour of the chocobo, there are also fat chocobo mounts xD. The summons are called primals or eikons in this game, they do have a fairly large role in this game, as for the details, you'll have to play to find out😁. There IS a summoner job as well btw xD. The horse riding person in the forest was Odin btw.

[@txmale1977]

You REALLY need to see the final Dawntrail trailer, you would probably LOVE pictomancer

[@33ND101]

After playing all the expansions, seeing the first trailer always makes me tear up. Such an amazing story.

[@sailorofmyvessel7890]

It's not as bad as you think with the wait between expansions. We get a main patch with new story content every 4 months or so, and it comes with a bunch of other stuff. Taken together, it adds up to about an expansion's worth of storry in itself. You seem fun, I'll through a sub down on the hopes that you start. To answer some questions: Yes, gunblade is used by a job called Gunbreaker, which you can pick up after hitting level 60 with any job. (and owning Shadowbringers) Samurai as well, unlockable by hitting level 50. (and owning Stormblood) The 'main guy' in each trailer represents the player character, as you already guessed :)

[@thewoollywizard3762]

In response to your question at 19:23, it is but a taste of the angst you have to look forward to. So much wonderful angst...

[@gryphon6sg]

Heavensward story really broke me when certain scenes played, you get the back story of the characters and understand the motivations on what that individual character wants and needs. Also note the age of the main character that supposed to represent you grows from fresh faced adventurer to war hardened warrior of light and so on. he grows alongside you as progressions takes you to a new level.

[@Helbereth]

Gunblade is absolutely playable as the Gunbreaker job, though to play it you have to reach 60+ (current level cap is 90) and own the Shadowbringers expansion. Yes, there is also Samurai and 17 other battle jobs currently, as well as the 'limited job '(too OP for normal play, so it's its own thing) Blue Mage, plus 8 different crafting jobs and 3 gathering jobs, all of which you can acquire with a single character, making it so you never actually need to make another. The guy seen in all the trailers is referred to as Meteor or Derplander (mostly by the community) among other names, and is meant to represent the player character in the trailers. There's tons of lore, probably hundreds of characters at this point, about 500-1000 hours of main story (depending on your pace), 5 expansions worth of additional patch content including raids (8-man and 24-man), dungeons, trials, a couple dedicated expansion zones with full stories, all of which is kept evergreen by the level-synched duty finder, and an assortment of other activities like glamour (fashion), housing, and, after finishing Endwalker, you can even get your own island... it's a LOT. If you do decide to play, just know that all the stuff I mentioned is mostly optional - really the only thing you have to do is the main story quest and a few side things that were deemed necessary due to their importance to the story later. There's no rush. Nothing is mandatory and everything is encouraged.

[@Joshua-jw9ze]

I’m very new to the game and it’s been really fun. The story so far is good. I’m only lvl 36. Don’t wanna watch too much because I don’t wanna spoiled but will return

[@argent4444]

The Dark Haired guy in each trailer is meant to represent the player character (You) as kind of a generic stand-in.

[@TheJamieellis]

YES!!!! The beauty of the Free Trial is that you can play for free up until the first expansion and level 60 BUT! that is going to be expanded to the 2nd expansion and level 70, which is over half of the game. There's also no time limit on the free trial, so you can play at your own pace. FFXIV is also well known for being aggressively kind and helpful to new players, who even have a cute lil nickname "Sprouts", because newer players get a lil sprout icon above their heads. This symbol is an immediate sign to other players to be patient with you, to let them know you might need help etc Very worth playing imo.

[@DrewSwenson]

Absolutely play this game! I started in the early days of Covid, and Ive enjoyed it thoroughly. In the time since I started, things have expanded and been streamlined, so the early campaign is less tedious. Honestly it is my favorite Final Fantasy because you're able to play (and switch) to so many different classes... And of course the EPIC story. The characters are incredible! The biggest thing is to avoid spoilers as much as possible, and to make sure you don't spoil things for others lol. You're missing a lot of context atm so you're still safe for now 😅

[@E.Fredericks]

FFXIV is first and foremost a RPG and then an MMO, a RPGMMO if you will, and the dev team are working on adding single player options for most of the game's story related content, so its really something you can go at your own pace!

[@drnerdrage2535]

Highly worth playing and now is the time to do it. The community loves seeing people play through the story and the game is getting an Xbox release here in the near future meaning there will be an uptick in new players and interest in their reactions to story moments!

[@aramyth]

What a pleasure to watch these with someone who's never played. This was super cool. 🎉🎉❤

[@dohalimilqarasdeldemenanci8483]

One of the best story if not the best in gaming, best community of any online game. Been playing it since release and I recommend it!

[@Scarlett90]

XIV definately have a "party", even more so since they added the ability to run all dungeons with NPCs. There is a main party who you meet early on, who carry on throughout!

[@PiLipOppa]

i was pleased by your reactions!

[@RyushiroK]

One big feature of this game is that you can play all classes as the one character (unlike games like WoW where you need to make an alt character for each class you want to play. And yes, the Gunblade is, in fact, a playable class in the game. It's called Gunbreaker and it's a tank.

[@DXDragon38]

54:53 Yes, it's called "Gunbreaker" in FF14, and it is a job that comes with the Shadowbringers Expansion. You can unlock it once the Expansion is purchased and you have a Lvl 60 Character (Any class). I suggest you play the Free Trial, use it to beat the Base Game, Heavensward, and then Stormblood (it's being added to free trial soon) and then buy Shadowbringers to unlock Gunbreaker.

[@sinom]

to add to this. You will only need to buy either endwalker or dawntrail depending on when you actually get through stormblood. Any purchase of the currently newest expansion includes all previous expansions. Also most likely older expansions will in the future also get added to the free trial. Heavensward was made free in 2020, Stormblood in 2023 so ShB will most likely be made free in 2027 or so. So always only the newest 3 expansions will be paid for while the ones before that will be part of the free trial

[@Souko_osu]

They've put a lot of effort into making it more "singleplayer like" kind of. A lot of the dungeons and such can be done alone with NPC support characters coming with you. It's basically an RPG game with an MMO strapped onto it, great mix of both! Really recommend giving it another go :) Also Hironobu Sakaguchi, the father of many of our older FF games, got really into the game a while back and just couldn't stop playing it. He's called it a Final Fantasy theme park! Lots of references, lots of bringing old FF games' things into 14 whether it be a small reference or literally a class of characters we meet, among many other ways they work to make it a love letter to the franchise as a whole.

[@SuikodenGR]

The best thing NOW, for those like yourself, who are very intimidated by MMO is the fact the game now has the option to play it like a single player game without the MMO. Duty Support are NPC that you go along during dungeons in the MSQ without having to play with other players from ARR to EndWalker 🙂 Another to really consider - Reading. Lots and lota of reading. So much reading, it surpassed the amount of worda the the Holy Bible (not joking) So if your big into reading, this is definitely your game. Lastly, in the game, we're about to celebrate the 10th anniversary of FFXIV A Realm Reborn release. So it would be perfect to celebrate with us all as you start your adventure. 🙂

[@talljohnsparky]

We love playing this game because of the community and the story! I’m sure people have already commented on this, but I love that you had the 1.0 trailer. Flames of Truth was the cinematic that 1.0 players got when the servers shutdown for 1.0 and was the bridge to FFXIV ARR (2.0)!

[@Domura]

The composer for the game, Masayoshi Soken, is an absolute beast with the music, it's all so good. He even wrote the climactic song for Shadowbringers while in the hospital for 6~7 months undergoing chemotherapy for cancer, a situation that he had kept secret from most of the rest of the development team because he didn't want to impact their performance worrying for him. They only found out when he announced at a Fan Fest, live on stage, that the treatment was successful and he's doing better. He's a total legend. So yeah, the general course of FFXIV updates, we get a teaser trailer first and then the full trailer is dropped later on. We'll probably be getting it in January 2024, to tempt us for a June-ish release, the full trailers are more or less twice the length of the teasers and expand some scenes and add more that would reveal some other hidden info of the expansion. There's one scene here that looks like it'll be expanded in the full trailer when the white haired catgirl is looking down at something and seems surprised, we'll likely be seeing what's going on in the full trailer. Many of the characters shown in these trailers have been with us from the start but they didn't start getting screen time until Shadowbringers, when the story is well and good getting settled in on you and them as the main cast of the story. While the 'main guy' the trailers follow does generally make for a stand-in character for the players, he's also got an in-universe representation of his own. That elf dragoon dude too, Estinien, is a pretty major character and a proper badass. There's a ton of references and callbacks to other games in the series, if you're a longtime fan of the series there's just so much for you to see and experience. There's bosses, raid battles and extra content that is all themed around different games, it's easier to list the titles that haven't gotten a ton of representation than those that have been covered. As much of a treat as the main story and experience that 14 is, the extra content and additions along the way are an even greater prize for fans that know the rest of the games. My own brother was so invested in the post-story plot introduced in the post-launch content of Endwalker that he went and bought the whole 1-6 pixel remaster set so he could play through the entirety of FF4 just to have better context for what it entails.

[@Scarabswarm]

I suspect the fight scene will also be extended. There is a lot of buzz around the WoL being a new class, so them cutting the fight short to keep the details of that under wraps a little longer seems to make sense. Plus, there is likely more to see between Estinien and the Mamool-ja tracking that beast down and capturing it.

[@amuro9624]

Wtf? I just watched a video this morning of someone else reacting to this and i thought it'd be great to see you react to the trailers😂 Btw im sure you'd love the game if you play it like a single player game. Especially as someone like you who likes to dive into the lore if you play it for the story you gonna be eating good for a while. Ps: I have 1500+ hours in the game, done most content but still log in every now and then just to hangout with people because the community is so great.

[@ifaeriewraith]

So happy this video showed up for me! I get incredibly emotional and excited to see new players come to the game or revisit it. Final Fantasy XIV Online has been a huge part of my life for the last 10+ years now. I loved it and also hated it, but I’ve NEVER stopped playing it every single day because it’s sucked me in so deeply and just hasn’t let me go. It quite literally changed my life in so many great and amazing ways. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to tell the creators of this absolute masterpiece what it has done for me as a person and as a gamer. I really hope you enjoy your journey and I hope you stick with it this time. It really truly is amazing… for the story that will most likely teach you about yourself and for the community you’ve never experienced in any other MMO ever. Welcome Warrior of Light… you won’t be disappointed. I promise you that. 💜

[@obsidianhornet6643]

Seeing the Main Character through each of the trailers actually smiling for the first time in ages was such a treat and I am so looking forward to Dawn Trail. To answer your Gunblade question, yes it is playable it is a tank class called Gunbreaker that becomes available at level 60 if you have the Shadowbringers expansion (you don't have to have beaten Stormblood though, being level 60 and having Shadowbringers is enough).

[@guilegale8942]

If you think of each expansion as a new game in a series, it makes a lot more sense. FF14 is HEAVILY story-centric, and each expansion is a new chapter of the story. You can finish the base game and have a good time. You can play the next expansion and have a good time. And the next one, and so on and so on. There's no rush to get to the latest content, there's nothing forcing you to skip where you're currently at like so many MMOs do, you can just enjoy it like you would any other RPG. And the story is WORTH taking your time for. It's no exaggeration to say it's my favorite Final Fantasy, period. You get so much more time with your cast of characters and your narrative compared to other games in the series, and they make GOOD use of that time to build some of the best characters I've seen in a game, period. This is a game made by people who love what they do, and it shows.

[@GuiReno]

FFXIV is the most casual MMORPG there is today. Its story its awesome like a regular FF game while there is no chains to attach you. If you suddenly stop playing for a while, there is no guilty of "I didnt farm my gear for X days, my account is done for" because the weekly farm is pretty easy and 3 times during each expansion cycle (with is 2 years), they release new weekly gear and the previous one turns into something very easy to farm. So if you drop the game at any point, its okay to comeback later, you wont miss so much. Also thats what the game director Naoki Yoshida wants: play XIV, stop playing XIV every now and then, go play other games, come back to XIV when there is new stuff you like.

[@DeltaDragon79]

It's interesting to note that having played through all the expansions and stories that the 'Flames Of Truth' cinematic hits on many, many different levels than you first think it does when you first see it. Which is a testament to how well this story was thought through and put together. To me, it's a must play game and one of the best Final Fantasies, regardless if it's an MMO or not. Timeless.

[@Teramoix]

We get a content update every three to four months so we get plenty of things to do. Gunblade is a job called Gunbreaker and is a tank job that becomes available when you get another job to 60.

[@Kanamon22]

FFXIV is one hell of a game. And it doesn't really feel like an MMO if you don't want to thanks to the MSQ (Main story quest) but it has one of the best history in games that i can think off. Def a most do specially if you enjoy FF so it's a good idea to try it and then thank your friend for it. I'll assure you you will have a lot of people watching you, for some reason we feast in the emotion and tears of others, and since you got a little bit emotional with the second video... it'll be a feast.

[@ruka9700]

"We have to wait" There's like....a ton of thing to do between the years xD We don't just sit there and wait expansion to expansion.

[@paradox8253]

Gunbreaker is a tank job in the game that uses the gunblade. The way things work in FFXIV is you start off picking one of the base classes (gladiator, marauder, lancer, pugilist, rogue, archer, thaumaturge, arcanist and conjurer). You level them up to 30 where you pick your job which is an advanced version of your class. The base jobs are (Paladin, Warrior, Dragoon, Monk, Ninja, Bard, Black Mage, Scholar, Summoner and White Mage. The base jobs can only be objtained from leveling up its respective class. The jobs that were added in the expansion dont require a specific class, you just have to have one leveled up to 30 and have completed the Main Story Quest for A Realm Reborn. Heavansward added Machinist, Dark Knight and Astrologian, Stormblood added Samurai and Red Mage, Shadowbringers added Gunbreaker and Dancer, Endwalker added Sage and Reaper. It is unknown at this time what will be added in Dawntrail but there are speculations on which jobs will be added.

[@Null_Experis]

The Dragoon with the white hair is a major character in the story, and if you want to meet him as soon as possible, you should pick up the Lancer job class when you are able, get it to level 30, and advance to Dragoon. you can start off with any job you want from the main beginner jobs, and which one you pick decides your starting city: Pugilist (Hand to Hand melee), Thaumaturge (Offensive elemental Magic), and Gladiator (Defensive sword and shield melee) start in Ul'dah, a desert city. Marauder (Defensive Axe melee), Arcanist (offensive non-elemental pet-based mage with light healing) and there is also a "secret" starter class of Rogue (melee, daggers, available at level 10) which start in Limsa Lominsa, an ocean/island city. Conjurer (healing and some earth/wind magic), Archer (Ranged bow DPS), and Lancer (spear melee dps) all start in Gridania, a forest city. Once you hit level 15 or so, and advance the main story you can freely travel to every city and change jobs whenever you want.

[@demondj0220]

The first trailer had the Battle for Silvertear Skies, where the Garlean Empire fought against Midgardsormr (the Leviathan-esque creature) and his brood. He's actually a companion on your journey during the second expansion, Heavensward.

[@AyameAkito]

To do a brief resume about the trailers, the brown haired man in everyone of them is called Meteor by the community and he is the stand in for the Player Character and his job changes to represent the flagship job for every expansion (Archer for now inaccessible 1.0, Warrior for 2.0 A Realm Reborn, Dragoon for 3.0 Heavensward, both Monk and Samurai for 4.0 Stormblood, Dark Knight for 5.0 Shadowbringer, Paladin for 6.0 Endwalker and A yet undisclosed new job for 7.0 Dawntrail). To clarify, the game has a extensive live patch cycle between expansions that help continue the story and release around 2 to 4 months or so, regularly adding MSQ (The main story quest of the game) and Endgame content (More difficult versions of MSQ fights and some independent Endgame content), as well as new side activities, this is usually referred as the X.1 to X.55 patch cycle. The Gunblade is the weapon of the Gunbreaker Job, is a designated Tank role (Thou the community often jokes it is a DPS in disguise), but you need to meet a few requirements to unlock it, that being having a LVL 60+ Combat Job and to buy Shadowbringers but before you can panic when you look at Steam and see the only expansion available is Endwalker, all previous expansions are always unlock after buying the latest expansion. Lastly, yes it has been meme to death but the game does have an extensive Free Trial, that is going to be further expanded in the future to include Stormblood for free, of course you will be impose limitations, you can find them here support.na.square-enix.com/rule.php?id=5382&la=1&tag=freetrial so you can play until you can decide if the game and it's story is of your liking, or at least worthy enough to commit to a monthly subscription, you can just purchase the game and the latest expansion and it should be it, just be advice that the Free Trial version and the full version of the games are considered different games by Steam with their own independent launchers.

[@TsuchiGamer06]

As someone who's been playing since Day 1 of ARR, I just love seeing fresh eyes on everything. It still gives me chills

[@argisus1279]

If you ask me it's worth it

[@Shiirow]

seeing as the free trial is being updated here soon to include two full expansions (ARR/HW/SB) of content, if you are still on the free trial, you will have a massive amount of content you will be able to play with zero monetary investment. it will only require a time investment instead.

[@augosyx]

The male character, officially named Meteor Survivor, more commonly known in the community as Derplander, is our in-game character so he represents us in the trailer. He starts from Archer (1.0), Warrior (A Realm Reborn), Dragoon (Heavensward), Monk and Samurai (Stormblood), all the jobs he represent until he changed to Dark Knight (Heavensward) and Paladin (Endwalker). For Dawntrail, he uses a new job for that expansion so until the next two FanFest, we don't know its official job name or if he even uses the new job. Starting from Shadowbringers onwards, you see the other cast members (party members essentially). The one using the gunblade (Gunbreaker) is Thancred, the one that was always with him in the last 2 expansions is Urianger (Astrologian). 2 cats, the Miqotes, the male is G'raha (he's an All-Rounder, uses Paladin, White Mage and I think Black Mage), while the female one is Y'shtola (Black Mage but hers is called Sorceress). The Dragoon is Estinien (one can argue he already appear in Heavensward but that's up to debate), and the twins whom you saw in Endwalker is Alisaie (Red Mage) and Alphinaud (Sage). Whether is it worth to play this game, I'd say yes. Been around since A Realm Reborn 2013, the story gets better.

[@greylight5]

The guy in the trailers is affectionately known as Derplander. He represents the Warrior of Light (the player character) and many of his friends in the Scions carry through the entire game, though they have grown and changed a lot throughout the expansions. I think some of the later trailers (EW especially) would be a bit hard to get into if you don't already know the characters and story. But they're all people you will meet and grow to love! Also, yes... Gunbreaker is a playable job using a gunblade! But you can only unlock it once you get a different job to level 60.

[@michaelbart7014]

Without spoiling anything for you, that old man is perhaps the most powerful character from the pre ARR version of FF14. As for waiting quite a long time for new expansions, they release major story content with each .X patch and new side content usually in .XX patches. There is also SO MUCH to do in this game that even people that have been playing since FF 14 launch still have things they havent done yet, and for new players like me (started at the launch of endwalker) we have so much to do its insane. My favorite expansion was definitely endwalker, with shadowbringers and heavensward vying for second place. I hope you enjoy the journey!

[@MrUpinsmoke247]

In the Stormblood trailer that "main guy" you had mentioned from previous trailers was there in 2 instances first on the hand fighting, second as the samurai...He's basically the cinematic iteration of your character(the Warrior of Light) and is basically showing off the highlighted "job"(class) of the current expansion. In the A Realm Reborn trailer you had commented on the dark knight on the horse, that is Odin, a Primal you have the pleasure of fighting in game(pretty hard fight if your doing it for the first time).

[@projiuk]

I’ve been playing FFXIV for 8 years now and still love it. There’s always things to do, expansions happen roughly every 2-3 years but in between content is added. You definitely can play gunbreaker but you might need to level up a certain amount first before you can unlock it. As an aside you can play every class in the game with the same character, I mostly play Black Mage but I have also levelled Astrologian and Dark Knight as well 😊

[@castorc6632]

Something to clarify! Like you noted at the end, those dates are for expansions, yep, but between each expansion, there are major patches every few months that are consistently large and continue the story as well as adding new dungeons, raids, side-content, etc, and smaller patches between those to touch things up and add smaller content lines. The consistent ~2 year expansion cycle is generally very well liked, because of the quality of content, and because each expansion has done good work to pull the aging game engine forward. Semi-related, but the game is also pretty light on time-limited missable content, especially to anyone trapped in the gacha treadmill. The developers have openly said that they want you to go play other games when you want to, and to come back when you see something you like. Always a relief to play an online game that isn't out to become a second job.

[@thatrandom_canadian]

Don't worry, FF14 gets regular updates beyond the expansions. There tends to be a patch cycle of Release>X.1>X.15>X.2>ETC. until usually X.55 wherein the next content is the expansion. It's almost always "Story and raid, story and alliance raid, story and raid, story and alliance raid" for each full numbered update. Patch 5.3 for Shadowbringers is often a highlight for fans in terms of story. I personally highly recommend Final Fantasy 14, I thought I hated MMOs because I never liked them before but FF14 has taken the slot for my favourite game of _all time_ with no contest. The story is amazing, the gameplay is so much fun, and the community is what helped me stick around long enough to truly love the former two! I've clocked about 5.8k hours into the game in the last 2 years. That's a little over 210 _days_ of playtime on my Warrior of Light. For the Gunblade, you can actually get a gunblade! I'm not sure if you're in the free trial, but you need at least Shadowbringers and a character at least level 60 to unlock the gunblade class which is a tank.

[@basch71]

Just from the intro you mentioning that, it feels intimidating as an mmo with alot of content. Without prior knowledge I'd get it, but 14, like Genshin should be treated more like story arcs you're running into and a continuative narrative you're taking piece by piece at your own pace. The actual MSQ as a whole can be long but it isn't as long as you'd think, assuming you're not taking detours. You absolutely can pace yourself and play casually and more or less complete it in a surprising amount of time.

[@jonathanbliss5685]

I'd definitely recommend getting into it now! There's nothing like being ready for the launch of an expansion!!! Think of all the potential friends and memories you could make whilst enjoying a fantastic game and story.

[@vagabond142]

54:55 Gunbreaker (whose main weapon is a gunblade) is one of four tank jobs in the game. They're called Jobs instead of Classes because each job is a combination of two classes (at least in the original release), and your player character can do ALL Jobs, so you don't need alts. I main a Warrior tank on my bun bun (Viera, the bunny race), but I also love to play Sage healer and Dragoon DPS. Chacking Jobs is also as easy as selecting its gear set, as what job you are is definited by what main weapon you have equipped. Warriors use big fking axes, Sages use those lil floaty laser thingies, Dragoons use halberds or spears.

[@miri5373]

as a lot of people have already said, each expansion has its own story. inbetween the expansions we have major patches every few months, where the story of the expac is continued and setup for the next one happens at the end of that you have the full trailers. the story of the game we have starts at A Realm Reborn, the first one was the trailer for the first version of the game, and yes.. they made the server shutdown into a giant thing in the Lore. the "Flames of Truth" one is kind of something that you understand when you have done the lvl 50 raid story, as that one had to be uploaded because the raids were too hard back in the day and most players could not finish them... they are still hard. in the trailers we have a generic dude as a PC stand in, lovingly dubbed "Meteor" by iirc most players. and yeah all the things that this dude is during the trailers, are playable classes, dont worry you can just do all of them on one character. there are new classes each expac too, since Stormblood there have been 2 each expansion. If you really want to play with the Gunblade as a weapon you would need to unlock Gunbreaker, to have that quest available you need to have a combat class at lvl 60 and Shadowbringers unlocked. It would also be one of the currently 4 tank classes in the game. Dawntrail is hopefully going to be great, but yeah we only have the first of 3 parts from that trailer, so we cant even really tell too much of what that is potentially going to be. As it is the first one they even cut out the new weapons from Meteor... so the amount of theories is absurd! yeah nah there is a schedule for when patches happen actually. Every X.1/X.2/X.3/X.4/X.5 and X.55 patch will have main story content. There are also the X.x5 patches inbetween those, so the Devs actually space out the content over a reasonable time.

[@drachepumpernickel7056]

Yes gunblade is a job, called Gunbreaker and it's unlocked at level 60 in gridania. It's a tank job and is hella fun. New jobs were released with each expansion. Dark Knight, machinist and Astrologian in heavensward, red mage and samurai in stormblood, dancer and gunbreaker in shadowbringers, reaper and sage in endwalker. The newest expansion dawntrail will have 2 new ones that we don't know what they are yet, but there is lots of speculation on what they will be. Oh and there is a regular patch cycle between expansions. It's just the expansions are big updates that come out every 2 years or so. The smaller updates tie off expansions and build up towards the next, normally at like 6.3 to "finish" an expansion and then it's build up to the next. Each solid X.0 is the expansion release

[@supatiltgaming]

Man, those cinematics bring back so many memories! Not gonna lie, I shed a few tears watching all that. I've played through all the expansions and have leveled up a bunch of the jobs and it was and still is well worth the experience. As others have said, gunbreakers get gun blades. Pretty much everything you saw as far as the jobs that the various characters have are playable. As far as the characters you meet and get to know and love, it's not necessarily your 'party' per se (although you can use them in dungeon content as an npc party if you don't feel like using the dungeon finder to play with other players), it's a group of NPCs that are part of an organization you belong to. I don't want to say any further because I don't want to spoil anything and I wouldn't worry too much about these cinematics spoiling things either. By the time you get there you'll probably have had so much happen in between you won't really remember the few seconds of actual spoiler stuff that might of happened in each cinematic.

[@veselinrankov7322]

Best story in a video game - there will be a lot of tears, but also a lot of laughter and a spectrum of other emotions to go with it. Best MMO on the market, great community, wonderful devs. Also going through the main story is prime stream content. A lot of players watch streamers go through the main story as it is the best way to recapture that first time feeling again. Ps gunblades are definitely in there (gunbreaker job) I really hope to see you streaming it :)

[@HeroHiro64]

If it interests you, the story prior to A Realm Reborn, or the story of 1.0 FFXIV and its patches, is told through Louisoix Leveilleur(the brown old man) in a bonus disc video called The Waning of the Sixth Sun. It's a huge loredump that not a whole lot of players are knowledgeable of but gives context to the beginning of 2.0.

[@JoshuaHarbin-y1o]

There’s generally a new expansion ever 2-3 years but to keep us happy during that time every 6 months they do mini releases to add a little more quests and dungeons and such. The gun blade is playable but you have to reach a certain level and you have to own the expansion it’s introduced in.

[@sinom]

The update model to the game is 1 major expansion every 2 to 2.5 years, and smaller around 8 hour story updates (patches) every 4 months in between expansions for a total of 5 patches per expansion which in total makes them often around 50% the length of the expansions themselves counting just the main story, and they continue the major side stories of the game as well. The patches themselves are then usually split into two parts around 2 months apart, with the first half having the major side story content and the second half having minor side story content. So there's something new to do in the game every two months or so and usually that content is then enough to actually last most people for those two months

[@Zhanael]

Final Fantasy XIV is a love letter to the previous Final Fantasy games. It features story beats, characters, even locations (Dalmasca, for instance) from other games. If you've played them, then you'll recognize a lot. It also has a canon section of the NieR story! (Because Yoko Taro is silly like that.) It *is* an MMORPG, but (as I'm sure many have mentioned by now) it's more RPG than MMO. A vast majority of the main story is soloable, and a significant portion is free to play; I'm sure you've seen the meme by now. :P It *does* start slow, almost agonizingly so, but it picks up--even sooner than Heavensward, depending on how into the story you are. After all, you're starting as a no-name adventurer come to [insert starting city here] to make a quick buck; you have to build a name for yourself before you get into the all the epic stuff. It's a good take on the Chosen One trope. I know your streaming schedule is limited, and I fully understand not wanting to add Yet Another Game. But I do suggest streaming it after all, unless you just want to enjoy the story by yourself without having to entertain. The reason I suggest that is because there *are* parts of the story you can't solo (8-player fights, 24-player raids, etc.), and your audience can get you groups a lot faster than if you were playing alone and just using the group finder tool. However, I *also* suggest waiting until October (or January), when a) the Stormblood expansion gets added to the free trial, and b) the XBox version releases (or at least has its beta) and there will be a bunch of new players. A note about the English voice acting, also: A Realm Reborn has USAmerican VAs up until the end of it. From Heavensward on, Square Enix contracted a UK studio for its English voices, as well as better direction. The difference is stark, and can be a little bit jarring. That said... you may recognize some of the Heavensward+ actors if you watch any amount of television over there across the pond, as they've contracted a number of television and film actors, too! Apologies for the long comment. I hope you enjoy FFXIV!

[@Bokugo1]

Ohohoho you think we're simply asking you to play the campaign? No, you need to do the trial series, 8 man raid story, and alliance raid story, AND the Manderville quest line. No lie, this is about 400-500 hours. Enjoy :)

[@kevinkijowski5980]

The music during the section in the shadowbringers trailer where it shows the crystal tower and dancer (dancer is class in the game) is a remix of FF3 theme, eternal wind.

[@fairabbigailgrace]

I come from single player games and am a mom to 4 adult children, although I started playing when they were still in school, so I was busy as all get out. This is a game that you don't need to rush and you can take at your own pace. I've never played any other FF game in the franchise, just FFXIV and I don't see me picking one up at my age if I'm honest. I think if you would like to give the game another try then give it ago and just pace yourself if you have real world responsibilities because this game is totally worth playing. The music, story, and the steady increase in developer experience is amazing throughout the 10 years of the 5 expansions and they do not plan to stop. The community is more than willing to answer any questions you have and give you any help you need throughout your journey, so utilize the vast knowledge of the player base. :) You were asking some questions during the video: the main guy we see in the trailers represent our character throughout the game; in each expansion so far there have been new areas and classes/jobs that were released. Heavensward had dark knight, astrologian, and machinist. Stormblood had samurai and red mage. In Shadowbringer was gunbreaker and dancer. Then Endwalker released with sage and reaper. In the Stormblood trailer the two characters at the beginning were monks, which start as pugulists. You were right about the guy in the Heavensward trailer, a dragoon, which start out as a lancer. The starting classes will end up switching over to another class, pugilist to monk, lancer to dragoon, gladiator to paladin, thaumaturge to black mage, arcanist to scholar or summoner, rogue to ninja, archer to bard, and conjurer to white mage. The classes released in the expansions start at higher levels and there are crafting classes you can look into if you want when you have extra time.

[@alyssaphillips1744]

i resisted this game for so long, I tried it early on and did not enjoy it. Friends kept telling me it got better, and finally, at the beginning of this year I caved, and quite frankly this game has one of the most compelling stories and hands down the best community I've seen in an MMO. You should give it a shot, the story gets better and better with each expansion. This game has made me cheer, given me chills, and made me cry. You should definitely give it a go.

[@elizadfera3556]

You absolutely need to play through. Learn the story, the characters. Those you see in these trailers and one in particular who isn't, but you hear his voice. Then come back and watch these again. Your reaction will be 1000x more intense!