@@klarnorbert tbh i haven't seen one mmo that delivered on that. People in this industry are obsessed with fetch quests like nothing else. It's especially sad when the actual story is so good like this one
@@1000Tomatoes honestly, that made it all the more jarring for me. I remember by mid Shb i was begging for the game to just give me the story lol. Feels so unnecessary to go through a fetch before every story conversation. Post expac patches and beyond do that pretty well, no fetches, just story and dungeons and it's amazing.
Have no idea how much I hated needing to go back to the Waking Sands. It was so stupid how a major location did not have a crystal to teleport too. Or at least a little one to port to from the local area.
You forgot the part where Minfilia rewards the warrior of light by sending them out on a thousand errands after the defeat of Lahabrea. Or how the warrior of light would often tell the primals to wait while they went off to pick berries and rocks and make outfits.
@@1000Tomatoes He's such a nice Primal. Keeps up entire timeline from falling apart, intervenes only to fix what is broken and streamlines the experience. I almost feel bad having to kick his ass. His raid songs tho... Pure gold.
Yea this is like the only problem I have with the game so far, I HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE WHERE I AM? These are main quests but why do they give so little exp and why does it feel like this isn't the expansion after the main story? I am so goddamn confused where I am in this game and what I'm supposed to be doing. Am I just wasting my time with these god awful quests that gives me second to nothing or should I go do dungeons and get some better gear? I have no idea... This is beyond frustrating, I do the MSQ but it doesn't feel like I am at all.
@@jsbfkdls So the parts where you get really low EXP is because you are already overleveled for the content you are doing AND you are doing whats known as "post-patch" content, or the content they patched into the game, after its release, before the next expansion. Its not suppose to give good XP because its effectively "old level cap" content, but it unlocked stuff and has story they wanna tell you, don't worry so much about the XP, once you see the words "HEAVENSWARD" written on your screen as you cross that bridge into the north, the XP returns from the story are great again to push you to 60 and the process repeats.
I didn’t skip the story, but with all the side quests & activities (crafting, timed events, etc) it can be easy to lose track of everything. I’m glad I found your video to fill in the holes of the story that I glanced over, the “why” of it all. Great job!! 😁
This is the first video of yours I've watched, just randomly tripping down memory lane since I don't play ffxiv anymore. Just wanted to say, I appreciate the sincere passion in your narration. Well done mate.
I'm here after several internet searches tells me no, I'm not allowed to play fun game until I read the novel first, so I'm here going to get a Cliffs Notes of what I would miss if I skipped ARR. (I'm job level 44 but msq just after the beach party hors d'oeuvres gathering surprise it's not a beach party it was a Test.) I honestly tried to pay attention to quest text for the first dozen levels but got burned out on how dry and underwhelming it was. I'm thinking of just an msq skip and leveling my first job to 50 by grinding other methods, since I'm almost there. But everything I've read says if I do nothing else in ARR the Hildebrand quest line is not to be missed, so when I get there I'll judge the rest of the game around it.
Truly preparing for a beach party with imminent rocky doom around the corner, so terrifying and powerful, was a highlight of the story, because as opposed to killing Titan, the party actually took a painful amount of time.
God that was so stupid. I finished the 2.X series of quests a while ago and people say that's the worst, but to me, truly nothing tops the inanity that was the Costa del Sol arc. At least the slower quests in 2.X eventually build to something. Why did I have to get cheese and wine for Whieskaet...well, at all...but especially with Titan around the corner?
I started playing a few days ago and I just got demotivated by all the fetch quests, so I skipped ahead to Heavensward. This video was exactly what I was looking for :)
A fair attempt, but you should have mentioned at the Ifrit chapter that in that encounter, the primals are found to have the ability to "temper" ordinary people outside of their Beast Tribe followers, making them mindlessly devoted to them. At this point the Warrior of Light's power and protection, courtesy of Hydaelyn, becomes manifest: You are immune to tempering, and have the power to fight and, with enough skill and grit, defeat primals. It is this that really gets the notice of the Empire, and makes you generally famous across the world.
You've done a great service to newbs everywhere, saving us 300 hours of pain xD Honestly the story is better coming from you than doing tedious chores anyway
Thanks for the video, I quit around level 46 due to RL issues, I've just got back into the game and need to finish the story but I felt disconnected from it since it's been like 3 years since I played last and forgot most of it, this was exactly what I was looking for in order to get re-attuned to what I'd already done.
OMG! Thank you so much for making this! I was a habitual story skipper and I greatly regret it after everyone told me how good Shadowbringers is. I needed something like this so bad. I'm not skipping anything anymore once I make it to Endwalker content.
Other people: This is a great way to fill myself in on the story so I can jump right into the latest expansion! Me: Actually played all the way through A Realm Reborn and multiple expansions over the years but can't remember huge chunks of the story 😂 Thanks a lot for the video man, I REALLY needed this refresher.
I didn't know you long over the ten years, but your videos when I choose to engage where a comfort. Thank you for all you did. We will all miss you but never forget you, for it's only when memories fade are you truly ever forgotten.
Awesome video, this absolutely deserves more views because it's not just the cut scenes slapped together. There could've been a tiny bit of explanation for certain names/phrases as Squenix throw some really convoluted and whacky names out there. For example 9:05 - 9:10 I have absolutely no idea what was just said hahaha
I enjoyed this a lot for someone who is playing through this right now. But its so much its hard to keep up. Please keep making more this helps a lot and its so easy and fun to listen to you as well.
This is great, I am that person who skipped the story to catch up, however with Shadowbringers I intend to watch and read everything. But since time is short now I am glad you made this video so I know what the story is about without having to play through again or reading everything. Thanks! Keep it up :)
Here in 2024, just put 40 hours into the game, big fan of the comic coverages. Even when you’re gone, your work still reach and help new people, thank you, rest in peace.
That's freaking cool, I'm just started my final fantasy adventure, my character's name is mark hunter , ( after my beloved father who passed away last year, ) so when I heard that this guy plays this game, I'm happy surprised but it inspired me to play the game, ( btw, I'm on the primal us sever on my ps4)
Just finished ARR and HW a few weeks ago and I sped through a lot of it on certain days I had to work etc so I’m gonna binge your stuff to catch myself up !
At first when I heard the voice acting I was like "Damn, this dude's cringey". Then I thought about it a little more and I realized "No, he's just going to be a really good dad"
the time i knew you was short, i had only seen this video, but i remembered you strongly and fondly, and when i saw the news my heart shattered. you had such a great vibe and i loved the way you narrated you seemed like such a cool guy from this video alone, and while i may not know you any further than this, it is devastating to know such a strong presence is no longer in our world. rest in peace sir.
Thank you so damn much for this man! The community has been begging for someone like you. WoW has thousands of channels going over their deep lore to their basic story and FFXIV was so desperate for this! It would be great if you could do spin offs of this with each job story / beast tribe line as well! Is there somewhere I can throw money at you, because you deserve to have money thrown at you!
Agh I can't wait to get to shadowbringers, I'm getting a little bit bored of a realm reborn but I want to continue playing this game because 1 I've already bought it lol, and 2, I rlly think I will miss a good experience if I leave it right now
Been playing since 2018 but felt pressured to catch up so i skipped all the cutscenes and by the end of shadowbringers i was clueless on the story. Im about to start new game+ to finally experience the story and as you may already know new game+ starts at heavensward so im watching this before i start it to catch up on what happened before then
Big respect for branching out into new things you're passionate about, especially FF14. I feel like you would cover the Hildibrand stories perfectly with your video style.
Oh my god thank you for this - my friends wanted me to get into this game and I did. But they were both done with the story and I was just starting. We would get into voice call and while I was having fun, I am NOT good at splitting my attention. And one friend is very excitable so they would info dump stuff while I was trying to read or listen to story. So I ended up skipping stuff. I've only gotten to Heaven's Ward but there are moment's that interest me, so I wanted to do a story recap of ARR 1 & 2 as a refresher and to fill in any holes. That way I can skip way less and listen without feeling so confused.
Another nice video! As a comic book and FFXIV player, im super happy with this history/lore video. Keep doing this great job. Salutes from Brazil, and sorry for my bad english.
Okay for this one i'll leave a comment : MORE PLEASE ! After enjoying the story myself as a new player, you gave it an even better feel with your storytelling man !
Thank you so much for this! Really hope to see more FFXIV stories in the future. I skipped all the cutscenes when first playing this to catch up to my friends at endgame, and I haven't been able to bring myself to go back and sit through the story since.
I feel like FF14 has the opposite problem to Wow. Wow's overarching story is complete garbage but the small individual stories in it are pretty cool, but FF14's overarching story is cool while the small stories within are pretty bad. At least for a Realm Reborn. I didn't play the expansions yet.
Would love to see more of these for the other expansions! Would have appreciated you not using the overly dramatic voice over instead of your normal speaking voice as the very beginning of this video was much easier to listen to that the rest. Otherwise a very great video!!!
Thank you, that’s was brilliant. I’m playing through ARR now but by god is it dragging along. Now I can skip the text and not worry about missing plot.
Been playing WoW since 2007,I played this way back on PS3 for a shirt time. Just returning and this info helps. Had no idea you even did Video games, I always listen to your comics. Thanks for the Lore bomb 🤟 Appreciate ya man!
@@SokiHime It just tends to juggle a lot of events between each other to the point that you often forget certain arcs. The Ascians are literally always in the background, even after dealing with them a few times.
thank you so much for this! PLEASE don't leave this series unfinished as many others on YT have. this is for myself more than anything I know names are misspelled but this is for me tbh.i cant pay attention so I took some notes :) 1:19 you meet hydalen (talking crystal lady) 5 year since the calamity (end of 1.0) 7th umbral era begins enter warrior of light (you) join adventures guild (wanna get noticed by senpai) you learn about the echo (superpower) meet scions, menfilia (leader) join scions of the 7th dawn (super friends) warrior of light works alogn side thancred amalja kidnap ppl for ifirt (they capture you) hero melts ifrit choose grandcompany at ceremony held for calamity vets you see a shot down airship hero meest bigs and wedge (cid is lost since calamity) meet sylfs meet la habrea free sylf elder ramu summoned by extremist sylfs scions investigate la habrea cobalts are mad at limsa ppl for expanding into their turf you melt titan return back to waking sands (superfriends HQ) wakingsands attacked noraxia tells you menfilias final order to rendezvous in some church st landadama you meet marquis, vet of the calamity (cid) meet aplhinaud during a funeral for dead super friends he tells you the ixl want to summon garuda cid wants to fight her on her turf but they need the enterprise (lost ship) looking for the lost ship you end up in stone vigil ships gaurded by a dragon summon by lahabrea you get the ship back you melt garuda (with the help from gaius, garlean baddie) garuda lashes out on other beat tribes (causes the other primals to be summoned) they fight gaius summons ultima weapon (metal gear with kirby sucking power. he sucks all the primals for their powers) heroes retreat to waking sands turns out some scions are still alive menfilia and other scions are prisoners of the garleans (castrum centri ) cid makes magitek heroes sneak in wearing costumes and magitek armor thancred reveals himself as lahabrea he explains how he manipulated the beast tribes into summoning primals to weaken city-states gaius offers ultimatum (eorzea to surrender to galrean empire or die ) lol city states start considering a surrender alphinud, menfili and cid change their minds war is declared on the garleans operation archon final attempt to attack all the castrum centri leading praetorium attack is cid and warrior of light (ultima is here) you fight nero (he escapes) you fight general gaius, he uses ultima weapon after losing inside ultima weapon, Gaius uses a surge of primal energy to destroy the hero hydalen shields you la habrea appears out of nowhere using ultima spell to destroy the praetorium gaius and ultima weapon standing amongst the destruction la habrea will use this devastation to summon the one true god ? umm ok ... warrior of light and his/her party defeat la habrea after the victory the alliance meet in the castrum Empire is defeated and the threat of la habrea (thancred) they declare the beginning of the 7th astral era (not to be confused with the 7th ubral era) during celebration, they hear a primal being summon in the background
There's nothing that makes you really feel like the Warrior of Light more than delivering tea to soldiers in Thanalan.
Dude, I just finished this quest today, and was thinking the same thing...
This game has one of the worst questlines in MMORPG history.
@@klarnorbert tbh i haven't seen one mmo that delivered on that. People in this industry are obsessed with fetch quests like nothing else. It's especially sad when the actual story is so good like this one
Cid Highwind: "Get me some GOD DAMNED TEA!"
@@1000Tomatoes honestly, that made it all the more jarring for me. I remember by mid Shb i was begging for the game to just give me the story lol. Feels so unnecessary to go through a fetch before every story conversation. Post expac patches and beyond do that pretty well, no fetches, just story and dungeons and it's amazing.
A Realm Reborn is like having a 9 hour works meeting that could of just been sent over an email
funniest comment in this entire thread. lmao.
i wish it was only 9 hours, more like 50
@@swimdogi had spent 50hr on it and goddamit... I'm still halfway.
Lol😂
Old comment, but still so true...🙈
Objective: Return to the Waking Sands.
[ *Irritated Warrior of Light noises* ]
*Triggered noises*
Aka the goddamned filler episodes.
Whoever decided not to put the Aetherite in the Waking Sands needs a swift kick in the materias.
Have no idea how much I hated needing to go back to the Waking Sands. It was so stupid how a major location did not have a crystal to teleport too. Or at least a little one to port to from the local area.
Nothing compared to the Company of Heroes quest line. The people who wrote those quests are the worst kind of sadists.
You forgot the part where Minfilia rewards the warrior of light by sending them out on a thousand errands after the defeat of Lahabrea. Or how the warrior of light would often tell the primals to wait while they went off to pick berries and rocks and make outfits.
@@cekuyak That was such Bullshit, man! And this is only the tip of the iceberg.
@@1000Tomatoes He's such a nice Primal. Keeps up entire timeline from falling apart, intervenes only to fix what is broken and streamlines the experience. I almost feel bad having to kick his ass. His raid songs tho... Pure gold.
Yea this is like the only problem I have with the game so far, I HAVE NO FUCKING CLUE WHERE I AM? These are main quests but why do they give so little exp and why does it feel like this isn't the expansion after the main story? I am so goddamn confused where I am in this game and what I'm supposed to be doing. Am I just wasting my time with these god awful quests that gives me second to nothing or should I go do dungeons and get some better gear? I have no idea... This is beyond frustrating, I do the MSQ but it doesn't feel like I am at all.
@@jsbfkdls So the parts where you get really low EXP is because you are already overleveled for the content you are doing AND you are doing whats known as "post-patch" content, or the content they patched into the game, after its release, before the next expansion. Its not suppose to give good XP because its effectively "old level cap" content, but it unlocked stuff and has story they wanna tell you, don't worry so much about the XP, once you see the words "HEAVENSWARD" written on your screen as you cross that bridge into the north, the XP returns from the story are great again to push you to 60 and the process repeats.
waking sands...
You summarized in 5 mins what has taken me so far 30+ hours of playing to get through, and I feel like you covered everything worth sharing.
Yep, the sad thing is im 10 hours in, its extremely boring and i seen non of this yet.
I didn’t skip the story, but with all the side quests & activities (crafting, timed events, etc) it can be easy to lose track of everything. I’m glad I found your video to fill in the holes of the story that I glanced over, the “why” of it all. Great job!! 😁
coming back to this video. RIP man. You were a great influenace on my life. Wish I could've shown my kids this channel.
I mean... The channel is still here
Thank you for this, now I can skip more cutscenes with a clear conscious.
lmao same.
Bruh I skipped almost all the ARR cutscenes. Felt bad. Now I don't.
Rest in Peace, fellow Warrior of Light. May the warmth of the Lifestream guide you back into our lives one day.
RIP Comicstorian your still helping me through final fantasy and comics!
Story skippers will never have heard Minfilia say “Pray return to the Waking Sands”
That’s sad
who is Minfilia ?
@@8r3oon5 LMAOO
Alphinaud to Ryne: So... Minfilia.
Ryne: scared
Skippers: How does he act like he knows Minfilia? Such a creep.
I would've forgotten anyways by all the fetch quests.
@@8r3oon5 lol my friend skipped all the cutscenes for heavensward and hes like "wait. . . I have a DRAGON!?" lol
"The battle is fierce"
Not as fierce as the amount of unskippable cutscenes that lead to a 30 second boss fight lol
OMFG like straight up. It's the worst
Yeah, let's just accept that A realm Reborn never really happened. It was that bad.
@@chadchaddington8490 Still better than 1.0
No idea why retards play a story based game if they wanna skip scenes... Can always go tp fortnite. Lol
The Praetorium. The fucking Praetorium.
I 100% support this kind of content.
This is the first video of yours I've watched, just randomly tripping down memory lane since I don't play ffxiv anymore. Just wanted to say, I appreciate the sincere passion in your narration. Well done mate.
Who else is here after skipping through all the cutscenes and dialog? 🥴
Yup
Exactly
That’s meeeee hahahahaha.
I'm here after several internet searches tells me no, I'm not allowed to play fun game until I read the novel first, so I'm here going to get a Cliffs Notes of what I would miss if I skipped ARR. (I'm job level 44 but msq just after the beach party hors d'oeuvres gathering surprise it's not a beach party it was a Test.) I honestly tried to pay attention to quest text for the first dozen levels but got burned out on how dry and underwhelming it was. I'm thinking of just an msq skip and leveling my first job to 50 by grinding other methods, since I'm almost there.
But everything I've read says if I do nothing else in ARR the Hildebrand quest line is not to be missed, so when I get there I'll judge the rest of the game around it.
Yep.
Truly preparing for a beach party with imminent rocky doom around the corner, so terrifying and powerful, was a highlight of the story, because as opposed to killing Titan, the party actually took a painful amount of time.
God that was so stupid. I finished the 2.X series of quests a while ago and people say that's the worst, but to me, truly nothing tops the inanity that was the Costa del Sol arc. At least the slower quests in 2.X eventually build to something. Why did I have to get cheese and wine for Whieskaet...well, at all...but especially with Titan around the corner?
I think you missed the part where you prepare for a party and even celebrated while Titan is just looming around the corner.
I fear no man..
But that thing
"Return to the Waking Sands."
Scares me...
I started playing a few days ago and I just got demotivated by all the fetch quests, so I skipped ahead to Heavensward. This video was exactly what I was looking for :)
did you enjoy heavensward?
A fair attempt, but you should have mentioned at the Ifrit chapter that in that encounter, the primals are found to have the ability to "temper" ordinary people outside of their Beast Tribe followers, making them mindlessly devoted to them. At this point the Warrior of Light's power and protection, courtesy of Hydaelyn, becomes manifest: You are immune to tempering, and have the power to fight and, with enough skill and grit, defeat primals. It is this that really gets the notice of the Empire, and makes you generally famous across the world.
You've done a great service to newbs everywhere, saving us 300 hours of pain xD Honestly the story is better coming from you than doing tedious chores anyway
Rest in Peace buddy. We love you, kupo!
Thanks so much for making this!!
Love your videos. They're a huge help. Especially the Eureka videos, lol.
i see what u did there!
Thanks for the video, I quit around level 46 due to RL issues, I've just got back into the game and need to finish the story but I felt disconnected from it since it's been like 3 years since I played last and forgot most of it, this was exactly what I was looking for in order to get re-attuned to what I'd already done.
rest in peace king 💕
thank you for telling us stories and sharing your light with the world!
OMG! Thank you so much for making this! I was a habitual story skipper and I greatly regret it after everyone told me how good Shadowbringers is. I needed something like this so bad. I'm not skipping anything anymore once I make it to Endwalker content.
You skipped SHADOWBRINGERS?! That's a crime!
@@mychiIdfreeass Yea. I at least didn't skip end walker though.
Other people: This is a great way to fill myself in on the story so I can jump right into the latest expansion!
Me: Actually played all the way through A Realm Reborn and multiple expansions over the years but can't remember huge chunks of the story 😂
Thanks a lot for the video man, I REALLY needed this refresher.
Cause its so boring I'd rather watch paint dry.
The story feels like it’s all over the place. And some of the names of people and places are hard to pronounce and remember.
Been playing FFXIV for the past 2 years. Glad to see this. You just got a new sub
Holy shit. Much respect for doing this. I can't wait for the next expansion. Gunblade class!
Behemoth Server represent!
Warrior of darkness 😀
cant wait to try dragoon, white mage new skill and also dancer
mirdgardsormr server represent :)
Your Light shall BURN NO MORE!!!
BRmoth
Behemoth server here too!
I didn't know you long over the ten years, but your videos when I choose to engage where a comfort. Thank you for all you did. We will all miss you but never forget you, for it's only when memories fade are you truly ever forgotten.
Its funny that it took 20 hours to get to the beginning of this story :D
Awesome video, this absolutely deserves more views because it's not just the cut scenes slapped together.
There could've been a tiny bit of explanation for certain names/phrases as Squenix throw some really convoluted and whacky names out there. For example 9:05 - 9:10 I have absolutely no idea what was just said hahaha
Starts at 1:19
I enjoyed this a lot for someone who is playing through this right now. But its so much its hard to keep up. Please keep making more this helps a lot and its so easy and fun to listen to you as well.
This is great, I am that person who skipped the story to catch up, however with Shadowbringers I intend to watch and read everything. But since time is short now I am glad you made this video so I know what the story is about without having to play through again or reading everything. Thanks! Keep it up :)
Here in 2024, just put 40 hours into the game, big fan of the comic coverages. Even when you’re gone, your work still reach and help new people, thank you, rest in peace.
That's freaking cool, I'm just started my final fantasy adventure, my character's name is mark hunter , ( after my beloved father who passed away last year, ) so when I heard that this guy plays this game, I'm happy surprised but it inspired me to play the game, ( btw, I'm on the primal us sever on my ps4)
The narration and the voice. Good work!
Thank you!
My man doing gods work 😭 I can finally fangirl about the lore and not having to watch all that bs
I tried playing but got so confused with all the terms, thank you for giving a story overview for people like me who are so lost
0:45 you went through all of the bugs, the updates, and crappy crafting system? Man you just gain a hole lot of respect from me my friend.
I literally only subscribed because you get excited while narrarating. I mean the content is good, too. But it's actually interesting to listen to
Rip ❤ Thank you for sharing
Dude you have an absolute EPIC voice. I haven't subscribed that fast to a channel in a long time.
This was right on time for Shadowbringers. Thx for uploading this.
The passion in the story telling is much appreciated
Saw the Shadow bringers trailer and the wife and I landed on hyperion.
Fun game, best crafting system I've ever seen.
communicated with my grandmother: Speaks in buster sword
Phenomenal. You did such a tremendous and concise job with such a complex story. You really knocked it out. Very well done, brother!
Thanks for the video. Because I skipped all ARR
I just picked up this game last week since I have all the free time now. I'm loving it so far.
Just finished ARR and HW a few weeks ago and I sped through a lot of it on certain days I had to work etc so I’m gonna binge your stuff to catch myself up !
Love it!!! I'm currently playing now, with my wife and best friend. Love that you did this!!
Okay. The number of main quests can at least be cut by 80% if that’s it. Such a grind.
Thanks mate
At first when I heard the voice acting I was like "Damn, this dude's cringey". Then I thought about it a little more and I realized "No, he's just going to be a really good dad"
Omg you’re so cool
lmao
Nothing is cooler than a dude just being himself
Absolutely wonderful video. Excellent recap, great energy.
Thanks. I resubscribed and completely forgot the a realm reborn storyline. I didn't want to watch three hours of cutscenes, so this would do.
RIP Comicstorian😢
I started this game a month ago and now this.
Nice!
Took a really long break and forgot everything that had happened, this video really helped alot, I really appreciate it!!!
Wow... this dude is really enthusiastic.
the time i knew you was short, i had only seen this video, but i remembered you strongly and fondly, and when i saw the news my heart shattered. you had such a great vibe and i loved the way you narrated you seemed like such a cool guy from this video alone, and while i may not know you any further than this, it is devastating to know such a strong presence is no longer in our world. rest in peace sir.
Thank you so damn much for this man! The community has been begging for someone like you. WoW has thousands of channels going over their deep lore to their basic story and FFXIV was so desperate for this! It would be great if you could do spin offs of this with each job story / beast tribe line as well! Is there somewhere I can throw money at you, because you deserve to have money thrown at you!
I would definitely watch that
Man I remember finding you when you had like 100k. Still a lot but man it's surreal to watch one of your favorite UA-cam channels grow along side you.
AFK-ing in FF XIV while browsing FF XIV subreddit while listening to you beat FF XIV lore into my ears.
Thanks, I'm just getting out of ARR content and It's taken me a minute so I appreciate the refresher.
Awesome idea dude. Any chance that the class quests will be covered, too?
First ever video here and dude I gotta say you are inspiring. Thank you for what you do.
Agh I can't wait to get to shadowbringers, I'm getting a little bit bored of a realm reborn but I want to continue playing this game because 1 I've already bought it lol, and 2, I rlly think I will miss a good experience if I leave it right now
it took me a while to get past ARR but I'm so glad I eventually stuck it out. This game is so worth it.
I’m here just because I’m skipping ARR, the grind is too boring and a lot of cool mechanics are locked behind the slow beginning.
ARR in a nutshell: "SUCH DEVASTATION!" *return to the Waking Sands.*
Been playing since 2018 but felt pressured to catch up so i skipped all the cutscenes and by the end of shadowbringers i was clueless on the story. Im about to start new game+ to finally experience the story and as you may already know new game+ starts at heavensward so im watching this before i start it to catch up on what happened before then
So I'm one of those who skip the story.... SUPER WELL DONE. Thank you for keeping me updated with the story.
Big respect for branching out into new things you're passionate about, especially FF14. I feel like you would cover the Hildibrand stories perfectly with your video style.
Oh my god thank you for this - my friends wanted me to get into this game and I did. But they were both done with the story and I was just starting. We would get into voice call and while I was having fun, I am NOT good at splitting my attention. And one friend is very excitable so they would info dump stuff while I was trying to read or listen to story. So I ended up skipping stuff. I've only gotten to Heaven's Ward but there are moment's that interest me, so I wanted to do a story recap of ARR 1 & 2 as a refresher and to fill in any holes. That way I can skip way less and listen without feeling so confused.
As a player of 14, You are pretty amazing for this.
Linky Thecat - Exdous.
Aaaand subscribed.
Thank you. I got bored from 20 to 35 and just skipped half the dialogue and cut scenes. Fixes things for me.
OMGGG IVE NEEDED THIS. Cutscenes got me like TLDR
That's such a trash mentality.
Another nice video! As a comic book and FFXIV player, im super happy with this history/lore video. Keep doing this great job. Salutes from Brazil, and sorry for my bad english.
Need: Heavensward and Stormblood
you really out here doing the lord's work 😭 tysm
Sweet, look forward to more video game lore. Dark Souls?
Oh its coming!
I came back for Endwalker, determined to watch every entry in _The_ _Unending_ _Journey..._
Thanks for this.
Benny you should cover 1.0 also cover hilabrand you’d make it even more hilarious
Okay for this one i'll leave a comment : MORE PLEASE !
After enjoying the story myself as a new player, you gave it an even better feel with your storytelling man !
OMG THANK YOU, this is such a good story. I myself is a Astrologian main. :) what do you play?
Just started playing, and who else to explain everything to me, miss you and love you Benny.
Really got into FF14 during heavenward :) I fell in love with the Au ra race XD
Thank you so much for this! Really hope to see more FFXIV stories in the future. I skipped all the cutscenes when first playing this to catch up to my friends at endgame, and I haven't been able to bring myself to go back and sit through the story since.
Dude, you deserve a like just for pronouncing all those crazy names/words.
He didn't even pronounce 75% of them correctly.
aw man I didnt pay attention to any of this, it'sactually quite good, thank you for this, you're really good at summing it up
I feel like FF14 has the opposite problem to Wow. Wow's overarching story is complete garbage but the small individual stories in it are pretty cool, but FF14's overarching story is cool while the small stories within are pretty bad. At least for a Realm Reborn. I didn't play the expansions yet.
This is EXACTLY what I've been looking for. Doesnt even matter how old the video is. This helped a lot.
Would love to see more of these for the other expansions! Would have appreciated you not using the overly dramatic voice over instead of your normal speaking voice as the very beginning of this video was much easier to listen to that the rest. Otherwise a very great video!!!
Thank you, that’s was brilliant. I’m playing through ARR now but by god is it dragging along. Now I can skip the text and not worry about missing plot.
OMG YOU PLAY FFXIV AAAAAA~!
I know right he never mention this what server :)
I’ve been playing this game forever 30 hours, and you summoned the plot that I have experienced in 1 minute…
SO MUCH FILLER!!!!!!!
FFXI made you married? Thats terrible calamity. ;)
Been playing WoW since 2007,I played this way back on PS3 for a shirt time.
Just returning and this info helps.
Had no idea you even did Video games, I always listen to your comics.
Thanks for the Lore bomb 🤟 Appreciate ya man!
Ah JRPGs I always get so confused 😁
XIV's story is actually pretty straightforward.
@@SokiHime It just tends to juggle a lot of events between each other to the point that you often forget certain arcs.
The Ascians are literally always in the background, even after dealing with them a few times.
thank you so much for this! PLEASE don't leave this series unfinished as many others on YT have.
this is for myself more than anything I know names are misspelled but this is for me tbh.i cant pay attention so I took some notes :)
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you meet hydalen (talking crystal lady)
5 year since the calamity (end of 1.0)
7th umbral era begins
enter warrior of light (you)
join adventures guild (wanna get noticed by senpai)
you learn about the echo (superpower)
meet scions, menfilia (leader)
join scions of the 7th dawn (super friends)
warrior of light works alogn side thancred
amalja kidnap ppl for ifirt (they capture you)
hero melts ifrit
choose grandcompany at ceremony held for calamity vets
you see a shot down airship
hero meest bigs and wedge (cid is lost since calamity)
meet sylfs
meet la habrea
free sylf elder
ramu summoned by extremist sylfs
scions investigate la habrea
cobalts are mad at limsa ppl for expanding into their turf
you melt titan
return back to waking sands (superfriends HQ)
wakingsands attacked
noraxia tells you menfilias final order to rendezvous in some church st landadama
you meet marquis, vet of the calamity (cid)
meet aplhinaud during a funeral for dead super friends
he tells you the ixl want to summon garuda
cid wants to fight her on her turf but they need the enterprise (lost ship)
looking for the lost ship you end up in stone vigil
ships gaurded by a dragon summon by lahabrea
you get the ship back
you melt garuda (with the help from gaius, garlean baddie)
garuda lashes out on other beat tribes (causes the other primals to be summoned)
they fight
gaius summons ultima weapon (metal gear with kirby sucking power. he sucks all the primals for their powers)
heroes retreat to waking sands
turns out some scions are still alive
menfilia and other scions are prisoners of the garleans (castrum centri )
cid makes magitek
heroes sneak in wearing costumes and magitek armor
thancred reveals himself as lahabrea
he explains how he manipulated the beast tribes into summoning primals to weaken city-states
gaius offers ultimatum (eorzea to surrender to galrean empire or die ) lol
city states start considering a surrender
alphinud, menfili and cid change their minds
war is declared on the garleans
operation archon final attempt to attack all the castrum centri
leading praetorium attack is cid and warrior of light (ultima is here)
you fight nero (he escapes)
you fight general gaius, he uses ultima weapon after losing
inside ultima weapon, Gaius uses a surge of primal energy to destroy the hero
hydalen shields you
la habrea appears out of nowhere using ultima spell to destroy the praetorium gaius and ultima weapon
standing amongst the destruction la habrea will use this devastation to summon the one true god ? umm ok ...
warrior of light and his/her party defeat la habrea
after the victory the alliance meet in the castrum
Empire is defeated and the threat of la habrea (thancred)
they declare the beginning of the 7th astral era (not to be confused with the 7th ubral era)
during celebration, they hear a primal being summon in the background