That level of validation our boy Jesse must've felt when YoshiP confirmed they'd seen his reactions to Endwalker and such, and even specifically referencing his reactions in them. Must've been a great feeling.

@jessecox

Ай бұрын

It feels just as good as reading nice messages like this. I’m very fortunate and thankful ❤

@TheDarkChaplain

Ай бұрын

@@jessecox It's all earned and well-deserved! The audience is just as fortunate if not more so to have you, even so many years later

@dragon12234

Ай бұрын

@@jessecox Apollyon as for the name Appolyon, it's the Greek name for Abaddon, an angel/demon of destruction/the abyss and/or a place in Abrahamic mythology. Being a bottomless abyss in the Hebrew Bible/Tanakh, and in the Book of Revelations they command a horde of locusts that scours the world. Final Fantasy in general loves using names from various mythologies and history

@Omnomface

Ай бұрын

@@jessecox I can 100% tell that the team (And Yoshi-P shows this in interviews and showcase events) really understands the playerbase, largely because they ARE players themselves. I particularly love that they keep an eye on major content creators and make sure that they understand the creators when they have interviews with them. I can't even imagine how stoked BOTH parties must be in relation to this!

@umphreak9999

Ай бұрын

Reminds me of the FF7 devs seeking out Maximillian Dood for a picture at a press event, citing his reveal reaction as a source of inspiration for the dev team. Lets you know they just get it, imo

watching Yoshi-P laugh made my heart grow 30 times bigger.

@lemnlyme

19 күн бұрын

same omg… ❤😂

@Dracobyte

11 күн бұрын

Yeah!

Ben Starr is a fucking riot.

The silent chuckle from Jesse as he learns that YoshiP is like him- an emotional vampire that watches people's reactions to the story, absolutely love all of this 🤣 Edit: Onwards to Dawntrail! So we may experience and subsequently react to future stories told by CBU3!

@BW-CZ

Ай бұрын

There's always a bigger emotional vampire!

@Kekira

Ай бұрын

Would he be the original vampire? ​@@BW-CZ

@crimsonpotemkin

Ай бұрын

He's the progenitor, the Methuselah or Antediluvian from World of Darkness. The Elder (Emotional) vampire that everyone else stem from.

@KainsAddiction

Ай бұрын

Funny I was more wondering why these MMO players always look like this...

@nicholaschisholm7018

29 күн бұрын

@@crimsonpotemkin In WoD terms he's the Cain of all us emotional vampires

OMG Ben, he is a treasure LMAO we do not deserve him! Put him to a voice in 14 please Yoshi P!

@Masamune84

Ай бұрын

I mean Ben could play someone like Estinien’s long lost brother: Benstien :D

@DarkZergkill

Ай бұрын

That part got me. I didn't see that coming at all. 😂

@john_7000

16 күн бұрын

Ben deserves to be in ff14

Jesse Cox: "You guys played Alan Wake II? Think we can get a dance battle encounter like Herald of Darkness?" Yoshi-P: "I know if we make one, we gotta perform it live next fanfest, no thank you lmao"

LOL. Jesse being the first to arrive for the media tour shouldn't surprise anyone. :) Especially with him getting to interview Yoshida.

@CooroSnowFox

Ай бұрын

He's probably the biggest supporter of 14 going...

@lPsychoMax

Ай бұрын

I wonder if Jessie will be the Red Shirt Guy for FF14? :D The guy who asks the questions we all want to ask, like when we will finally have lalafell riding other players !

Little did Jesse know, starting youtube as OMFG Cata, that years later he'd still me going strong years later and being invited to talk to a dev of a completely different MMO. Keep up the good work and keep rep'ing the best race! Lala mains are best mains.

@Frexter

Ай бұрын

Now that's a trip down memory lane

Conscripting Ben Starr into your Lalafell uprising was great, thanks for the chuckle Jesse.

@john_7000

12 күн бұрын

Jesse is corrupting everyone 😂

they should 100% explore NOT ONLY lalas riding other players, but all sorts of emotes that let 2 or more players interact! i want to hold my friends like runar holds yshtola! i want synced group dance emotes!

@lemnlyme

19 күн бұрын

especially for all the married couples! having a proper hug animation would be so nice ❤

The embaressed face Jesse made when Yoshi-P said he watched his reaction videos is amazing 😂❤

Dude, that jazzy version of the Dawntrail theme at the beginning? Chef's kiss.🥰

absolutely nothing can go wrong with our vacation. absolutely positively NOTHING will happen.

@kaly8329

Ай бұрын

Its all sunshine and rainbow

@ivybennett2274

Ай бұрын

The only TRADGEDY that will happen is when the margarita machine breaks

@HawkinaBox

Ай бұрын

@@ivybennett2274🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@ArchieGamez

Ай бұрын

Surely no weird city we will find right

@ivybennett2274

Ай бұрын

@@ArchieGamez dw that's just cancun

Cool that the interpreter is kept in the interview 😊

There’s just something so wholesome about knowing that Yoshida-san and the team watch reactions to people going through the MSQ, or for other achievements they go through. It’s very heartwarming.

For lalafel riding, you can have a setting that lets you set it to "anyone" "friends only" "friends of friends" or "no riders." you can also have it set so that other players can ride too so it isnt a lalafel exclusive.

"We don't want to have random players being bothered by Lalafell's suddenly mounting them." -Yoshi P 2024

@katherinemerkel3505

29 күн бұрын

😂

"Do you consent?" Jesse with the real questions. Props to your dedication to the game. XD

The giant claw marks were likely made by Valigarmanda the giant blue and red serpentine flying beast. On the main site it says when it goes on a rampage, it leaves terrible scars on the land. Which is probably why our new character is afraid of birds.

@jessecox

Ай бұрын

Now this is the answer I'm here for!

As an Au Ra main: YES i consent to having the smoll creatures ride on my shoulders! #LetLalasRide

@Valkross9

Ай бұрын

Yep. I have 2 horns they can ride like mini version of the tree of the dead from 300.

@bathersbestie8986

Ай бұрын

Elezen also consent! We can awkward walk together!

@LedaTheotokoglou

Ай бұрын

As a female Au Ra main, please!!! Maybe if we band together, we can finally reach the top shelf.

@forcesinbalance5685

Ай бұрын

As a lala main, and in the interest of fairness and reciprocity, I propose that we also have animations for lalas carrying tallfolk. My vision for this is a lala holding the other character over their heads, in either a Superman or airplane pose, as the lala helps them "fly"...albeit at very low altitude. #LalaCarry

@hickknight

Ай бұрын

This reply should collect everyone's like towards this trend! Lala's should be able to be picked up by other races! #LetLalasRide

Whenever I hear Ben Starr I just can't think of anyone other than Clive Rosfield in my head. He is Clive Rosfield, no one else, lol. His voice is so memorable.

God I remember when Jesse was making fun of FF14 in the coptional podcast day, and now we're here. This is amazing.

@Precaricat

Ай бұрын

Just because it's great that there's been such a hilarious turnaround, can you recall what he made fun of FFXIV for back in the day?

I have so much respect for anyone who can translate this fast and this accurate on the fly. I speak 3 languages and I can't do that. If I tried I'd develop a stutter immediately.

#LetLalasRide

The Lala rider dilemna could be solved using a similar system to interactive emotes. There could be a "Uppies" emote for Lalas to indicate they want to ride you, and other races could approach and interact to pick them up and put them on their shoulders. Other races could learn an emote where they take a knee, and Lalas can approach and interact to climb up on the other character. The consent is there because players have to use a specific emote to initiate

Getting Ben Starr to ask Yoshi P your question was genius!

I'm very glad there is a voice like yours in the community Jesse, I freely admit even though I'm a long term player I'm a casual, midcore at best and I'm absolutely here for the story, the lore, the characters more than anything else and I feel you represent me best in that way. Glad to see Yoshi-P is not throwing that part of the game to the side it means a lot to me.

The opening full of the little NPCs just drawing on the ground together and just generally doing fun little interactions was sooo cute. I feel I'm gonna take extra long because I'll wanna see what all these NPCs are running around doing.

Head's up Jesse, when you levelsync on a character 90-99 with the earring and get content which is lower than 90, the earring XP bonus WORKS. That means if you do MSQ roulette and get Praetorium, the XP earring is good. Same with all the 81-89 dungeons for leveling roulette. So even if you're level 99 wear the earring when you do roulettes. It will apply.

I think that having a Ride Pillion option for riding friends as a Lalafell would be very funny. Mabinogi actually has a similar system where the smaller races (if allied with Giants I think?) can ride on a Giant’s shoulders! Something akin to this would be great and very funny.

Lil JC in the male Dancer gear is SLAYING

Yoshi-p asking if we remember all the names of the members of the convocation gave me some big feels and might have upped my hype just a smidge.

Why did the interview make me so emotional. They truly are involved in the community to the point of watching lil JC’s adventures !

Ben is JUST the best. And following up with "well you'd need to consent to it :D" is just the most adorable answer. They took it in such good stride.

I was already digging the intro music, but when the Dawntrail leitmotif kicked in I just got so pumped. So ready to have a goofy fun adventure.

Jesse asking YoshiP the real question, you love to see it. Also I'm really glad you got invited to this!

Apollyon looks identical to Abadon, a mini boss fought during the ”You’re Not Alone” segment in FF9

@diamondedge83

Ай бұрын

Apollyon is the Greek name of Abaddon.

Holy shit that opening track is FIRE. Big band summer vacay y'all

#LetLalasRide - nothing else is needed to be said

I remember when I watched you the first time, for the Cata Beta impressions (omfgcata...). And now, I watch you for FFXIV Dawntrail first impressions. A lifetime ago, today!

27:14 theres a mob in the gubal library (and some others) that will "insult" the tank and give them a sadness debuff.. it can be dispelled by a healer, but also if you /comfort them that gets rid of it too :D

@ExileTwilight

Ай бұрын

I learned that during my last run of that dungeon and it made my day xD

@symposes

Ай бұрын

I always thought it would be fun if things like "frog" could be dispelled with /kiss or /dote

@vaan_

Ай бұрын

it's in gubal library, not antitower

@LedaTheotokoglou

Ай бұрын

​@@vaan_ Yep, Gubal, Amdapor and I believe the one in Holminster Switch can also be /comfort'ed away

@Triscraft

Ай бұрын

@vaan_ @LedaTheotokoglou My bad, Fixed locations knew it was something matoya related lol :P

Okay so I think you're absolutely right on those paintings depicting The Twelve. I think that's Tural's version of Ramuh/Rhalgr looking over what I expect to be Solution Nine, and would make sense with all the purple thunder and lightning around it. And Byregot is the hammer wielding fellow. The painting with the sun definitely feels like it's trying to encapsulate Tuliyolal from what we know of it, but the way the face is put on the sun is so weird. I'd normally say it's their Azeyma but.... it looks like a child's drawn that face, and we know that Tuliyolal is a more recent city that hasn't had many rulers, so maybe it's showing something a lot more recent done by a child? AND NOW I'VE JUST GONE TO LOOK AT THE 4TH AND THAT MIGHT HELP CONFIRM THIS? So the one that you mentioned looked like the Mayan god of The Sun, I noticed immediately that it's just surrounded by water, with gates to the north. That reminds me of where Tuliyolal is placed, lots of water surrounding it with a bridge to the north. So I wonder if that is depicting what stood there BEFORE Tuliyolal with their version of Azeyma (depicted as the Mayan god of the Sun). No matter what there are some fascinating things in there, I'm going to be thinking over those for a good while.

Just want to say Jesse that we are very proud of you and you have earned this so much.

I love to hear when the dev team watch streamers too. I enjoyed all of this. I feel like the lala riding on shoulders thing could be an emote (like the uppies one) that triggers a pop-up to allow it. Or it could just be something you allow in settings and at any time you or the lala could trigger a "get off me bro!" action. I don't know, but we MUST eventually have it! LOL

i appreciate you asking different questions compared to the usual raid / balance focused ones! because for me this is what im personally more interested in

Excited to see what my lil guy Sanji Panini will look like thanks Jesse

@jessecox

Ай бұрын

Now that’s a good lala name!

@BostonOtaku

Ай бұрын

@@jessecox thank you! :)

the amount of passion coming out during this was immense! Yoshi P such a real one. Glad this MMO thrives

Amazing editing throughout! Great job team

I love that the team sticks to their guns about people playing the story. That’s one of the big things that separates this from other MMOs

@DrakeWurrum

Ай бұрын

I think it would be more fun to go through if it were fully voiced and most of it weren't just... dialogue leading to dialogue leading to dialogue. They don't feel like "quests" after a while.

@halfandhalf3386

27 күн бұрын

I agree doubling down on wanting players to experience the story but I will also say that ARR is a definite slog and should be remade in a way, redo all the voice lines with the current voice actors, and voicing over more dialogue to make the story more engaging in ARR would probably go a long way, when I first started back during post 4.0 it was so hard to stay interested in alot of the mundane fetch quests and un voiced dialogue that I eventually just skipped ARR and watched a 1 hour recap instead, once I hit heavansward the story was immediately interesting and I loved the narrative 90% of the time going forward all the way to endwalker today.

Feels like a Crendor themed expansion to me

@nogitsune4452

Ай бұрын

If we find a lizard named Little Skittles, I'll do a flip.

Appreciate you keeping this super spoiler-light. As someone who is taking my sweet time and just barely started Stormblood it’s nice to see what I have to look forward to and get the motivation to keep chuggin’ along. Oh and enjoy Jesse tormenting YoshiP, that part’s fun too!

Seeing you at the helm of FFXIV content all these years later (been a fan since TGS podcast days), it's so heartwarming to be tuning in still. Beyond hyped for this expansion, couldn't have come at a better time!

Thank you Jesse for your honorable service to Potato kind so that we can see our job gear on the superior Lalafell body type. Sorry Talls, That is what peak FFXIV character design looks like. Also, I need the dance mechanic in the next Hildy Questline. You can 100% make sure players have the dance because they were given it earlier in the story and it's just the right amount of Silly for Hildy. It'd be perfect.

@KingDavidCreates

Ай бұрын

Also the Lalafell riding other players as mounts, easy make it so we have to be in a party with our Tall steeds that can then carry us into battle.

all these videos is really like christmas, love to see you all getting into the media tour.

The lighting looks so much better. I love how bright it looks.

I'm so glad for you!! Thank you Jessup for everything 🧡🧡🧡

I am getting excited now for the new expansion! Love your work as always Jesse!

To expand on the lalafell point, give us a piggyback or player carry options for all races smaller or equivalent to their mounting race :P Lalafells can be carried by anyone but can't carry anyone except other Lalas. Medium sized races can carry small and medium but not large. Larger races like Roes can only carry other Roes, etc.

Been watching for over a decade and your content never fails to bring good vibes.

Jesse, you are the best ambassador we could have for FF14. I'm so glad you had a great time and thank you always for being yourself. You truly are worth all the gil in the world. I hope one day you'll give us the FF14 full lore series, like you have with other games, they have been a happy place in my heart for the decades.

They should also make it that lalafells can ride other lalafells, like on their shoulders. You can do that with up to 3 people and if you do, it becomes 3 lalafell in a trench coat.

Great video dude! I'm so excited for DT and this video has been my favourite so far as a showcase. Also the interview is amazing haha. Keep it up

I love the new heads up display flashing that red bar that really grabs attention.

Excellent coverage of the media tour! I really appreciate you showed the artifact gear on Lalafell since not a lot of content creators for the media showed off the gear on that race.

thats soooo cool dude, you talking direct with yoshi P , i LOVED ^^ thanks for the video .

Thanks for continuing the push for lala riders. I always thought it was a fun and hilarious idea when you first asked Yoshi the first time.

I think my bunny is more attractive than Merylweb.

@dennisfxd

Ай бұрын

@itmeJP nah, humen are the best! #HYUR4LIFE!

@vagabondht5791

Ай бұрын

Agreed

The final boss is the exact same model as a pretty cool mini-boss in FF9 at the tail end of disc three. It's called Abadon, and it appears during the Zidane you are not alone sequence and you fight it with Quina and Steiner.

37:24 asking the important questions

Jesse crushing it with the interviews. Great work.

Fantastic video Jesse! Must've been so awesome talking to Yoshi P :D

I think the Lalafell mount system should be like the multi-rider mounts. You have to be in a party, and just right-click on your non-lala party member to mount like a car.

Excellent video as always Jessop and team, always good to see YoshiP laugh. 😄

Yay time to start the media tour coverage with the cox!

Oh man, thank you for posting the music at the start. I'm so excited to get some great jazz tunes in Dawntrail!

So excited for Dawntrail!

This is the first time I've watched your videos, and it will not be the last. Ffffing brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

Running dungeons the first time with Duty makes me enjoy them so much more. You get to look around and see the small flavor texts and stuff! Not to mention it forces you to learn the bosses.

Sorry but that jazzy remix of the main theme at the opening of the video is SO GOOD.

I don't even play FF14 but I love seeing Jesse all into it and the dev's business

Ben Starr + Jesse Cox are the best comedy chaos duo

HOLY that instrumental in the beginning is from the game??? Hell yea

Maaaaan, Yoshi P really is just one of us, huh? xD Fantastic Rocking the whole damn show like always, Jesse - you're an absolute delight! ♥

That last part of doing Myths of the Realm and remembering all the names of the Convocation seems like a heavy hint at Pashtarot who got namedropped at the end of the Myths quests and has been seen once at the end of 2.0 in that dark room with all the other Ascians where he even got named, so since we haven't heard anything about him since he might show up in the New World.

I love that Jesse can sit down and have a conversation with Yoshi P that turns into a friendly chat where it's clear that there is mutual admiration from all sides. My heart leapt when they specifically referenced your reactions. Congratulations Jesse, you deserve this kind of recognition and comradery with the giants of the industry.

I love that Yoshi takes even the silliest of questions seriously. Love this guy lol

I love Jessee. The things he got to show us are amazing :)

Jesse I just wanted to say I’ve been viewing your content since you were playing terraria with tb. You’ve inspired me to play ff14 on a ps5 which I currently have, you inspire me to pick up wow while I’m still saving for my new pc. Your cox and crendor podcast has helped me through difficult times. I’ll keep watching you till you stop. Thank you Jesse Cox

Hey Jesse! The final boss of the dungeon is from FF9 on Terra. When Zidane is alone and one of the best songs play "Not Alone"

That music in the beginner is either Hildy or another one of those ancients dungeon themes

you're the best Jesse, thank you for this great video!

Bless you, Mr. Jesse Cox, for bringing THE bright and shining Ben Starr to ask the most important question of all time. The heroes we don't deserve.

Jesse I’m so proud of you for this accomplishment, that’s all

The music at the start is giving FFX Chocobo Jam. Love it.

I love seeing Jesse do dungeon guides

Totally Hype now!

I noticed that on the slimes/Mimicloth, the red one was Alphinaud. Red Alphinaud.

Man the emotions were welling up, but you held up like a champ! I woulda been a blubbering mess in that situation. Heck I teared up a bit watching! This'll be my first expansion I'm playing at launch, and nothing could make me more excited!

Seeing jesse's smile when Yoshi-P mentioned one of his videos was heartwarming.

So happy for Jesse! Been here since OMFGCata days.