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To each their own. But you're WRONG!

>.> I don't like the weird flavors.

Welp. Finishing up loose ends on XI; cleared RoZ. Eald'narche died way faster than I expected. Accidentally auto-attacked him to death before I even had time to set up any JAs.
Now to go punch Bahamut in the ***.

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The shout box. >.>

So Yoshida's idea of Ark Angels for XIV is just to rerender and implement the original party from 1.0.

They are different from Ark Angels.

Thematically they are supposed to be you and your friends but the "Dark" version.

They arent the 5 tears Altana cried to create the races: But they are basically the same thing.

I mean, i love the fact that somehow you get to fight the original party from 1.0, but it doesnt make much sense otherwise.

How is those two statements the same thing? That's like saying a brontosaurus and a chair are the same cause both have four legs..

Hydaelen chooses you and your friends for whatever reason to become the Warriors of Light Louisoix saves you from being roasted, somethingsomething plot line huge climax now there's dark ones.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Im interested to see how it plays out but it's the same concept for a different universe.


Uhmean
Pretty gosh darn parallel


I DDDDDOOOOOOOOO want to go to the planets moon though, cause why do Ascians get to play around in space but i dont. ITS MY 12.99 GOSH DARNIT!!!

ffxiv rage?

If you really must *** and moan about how the Warriors of Darkness are a reference to a previous FF, at least use the right example.
They originally appeared in FF3; they are not a reference to 11's Ark Angels.

XI uses other creatures from the same species, which allows them to reskin everything to death.

XIV is a true niche themepark MMO that shouldve just been called Final Fantasy Online (Same with XI, but for whatever reason they decided to add numbers to them) with how much it piecemeals FF4 and whatever other titles they sample.

Im not exactly angry with it, im just more sort of disenchanted i guess? Meanwhile: More Hildibrand cause YAYYYYYYYYYYYYY weird japanese humor and less actually playable content for endgame.


Yea, but they chose this route as well. FF3 was just YOUNermind FFWiki is based god, which is what i was expecting seeing as how you only saw darkside derplander in the MSQ and it made his accomplishment of soloing Ravana more intriguing as a story. Using the whole party from 1.0 is not that, it's something else at this point.

In order to balance light and dark for one person and his group of side characters who hold no other significance than to just say they were there (as Koji Fox said at fanfest, even though there is ONE WoL[you] the story considers the other members of your party just equal randoms who help you to take down whatever challenge arises and the story itself changes who the WoL is based on which character is playing that role) we create dark doppelgangers of the entire legendary party of who the legends are made about (Even though the WoL is only one single person as the MSQ would like you to believe).

Ik lol.

Just threw my WIFE Mysticat a surprise party on game with all our friends :D


Thank you Everyone that came and everyone that couldn't come but send their Regards :D


Pics are posted :D

i would call it far from a niche park with it basically being WoW...
Maybe a bit closer to Tera...
The game is far from "Niche" or "Original"

Or maybe im just being grumpy today...

All FF use throwbacks to previous titles. Reusing mobs from older FF is normal and a staple in the saga. Actually, it's expected.

I get more mad when I see Valefor being a random pigeon or Quetzal a turkey.

It just annoys me when my brother is like "FFXIV is the most original game evar"

But theres also a point to that "Staple" or borrowing things from other games has a line. Like theres, "Oh thats cool way to represent that thing from a previous game" and then theres "Ok that's the dumbest callback to this thing ever". 14 is "Ok thats the dumbest call back to this thing ever" like 24/7.

To me, in XIV, whenever they repurpose some NM's name for like a Fate Boss and all that, it's usually a hilarious reference to FFXI. I enjoy seeing all the hi-def XI references in armor and stuff too. Nostalgia triggers.

As for the other game references, it's pretty much the same as FF9. You like FF9 don't you? I mean, it's not got the same aesthetic(XIV is like, LOOK AT HOW BISHI I MAKE EVERYTHING), but when it references other FFs it still takes into account an in game lore for them.

For instance, the Empire of Garlemald from the land of Garlond. FF1 reference to Garland, very duh, but fairly creative in that he hasn't been referenced this way before. All their leaders look like him to some extent(their armor). They use magitek armor and gunblades, another cool way to mix and reference two FFs at once.

All of the primals have backstories related to in game beastmen, most of which are not in other FFs (The Amal'jaa, the Ixal, the Gnath, the Vanu, the Kobolds etc).

I love that they make many FF1 and FF6 references. I think they make them the most.

Only thing that irks me, is that they gave us a really shitty story to go along with a very shitty "raid" for Alexander. Hopefully they'll go back to Coil level storytelling for future raids.

It's on the continent of Ilsabard, Garlond is the family name of Cid and Midas

Vyre Basically reinforces what i said, Theres the cool way to make those references. And then the sucky way FFXIV goes about it...
It's more stealing than it is making it look cool and being a fresher look on the original design.

While some dragons (Bahamut, Tiamat etc) are a nod to older FFs they have their own original storyline and language/way of speaking etc

I like the addition of Midgardsormr and Hraesvalgr as well, the Dravanian Horde storyline was well put together. I do want to fight Tiamat, but i can accept how they entered that particular big named dragon into the world of XIV.

There are still 2 unnamed dragons though, we might meet them down the line

hopefully Jormungand comes out to play.

Jormungand and Vrtra maybe?