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Fun Fact - way later in the game there is an optional Quest that shows that the people of Eorzea themselves have no idea how some Animals are able to fly and scientists are on it to one day find out

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

Galactic was telling me about this! That is wild way to enter something new into the game

@patyos2

4 ай бұрын

Its the Aether Currents its magic

@bradleydevron

4 ай бұрын

@@patyos2 Some mount descriptions even mention, directly or not, how they fly by using Wind Aether, which Aether Currents definitely fall under. It's glorious, especially since this means that bears, gorillas, wolves, elephants, boars, cats, dogs, and even *chairs and beds* can fly. Then there is the Fat Chocobos, who defy physics for cake, it seems.

@7thMoonHidariude

4 ай бұрын

It's the custom delivery in Labyrinthos. It is canon now that a group of Sharlyan scientists are investigating why animals with no wings can fly, and yes it is hilarious because they detail cats or something like that just floating around as if you haven't been seeing that shit firsthand for four whole expansions.

@eri_bb

4 ай бұрын

I thought the lore was just that if you fully attune to the aether currents in an area, any of your mounts are able to fly! Doesn’t make much sense though because shouldn’t we, too, just be able to fly then? It’s a really funny concept.

"papameow" actually had me rolling because it took me a second to realize you meant "papalymo" it's such a great half-remembered name and i love it. if it helps any, i've been playing for nearly 4 years and frequently forget he ever existed. not that he's a bad character, he's just underutilized. And a fun fact about flying mounts! Used to be only specific mounts could fly, things with wings that it made logical sense could fly, but the devs realized that was annoying and changed it so everything can fly.

@HyouVizer

4 ай бұрын

their character is criminally underrated, if ya know you know

@Ryotsu2112

4 ай бұрын

I thought he meant Papashan, but then I realized he probably never saw that character since he didn't start in Uldah. Papalymo makes perfect sense.

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

That's the guy! The falafel scholar who was with the pugilist! Omg I'm so excited someone knew who I was talking about!

@Funami2006

4 ай бұрын

@@CaffeinatedDadFALAFEL OMG that’s hilarious.

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

@@Funami2006 oh good auto correct has shown up

lalafells called dwarves? in a parallel world maybe

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

I'm so glad someone read the little side texts!

@Theothekyree

4 ай бұрын

That would be pretty cool, like with little beards and stuff, that’d be funny

@spankyjeffro5320

4 ай бұрын

Shark bait. They're called shark bate.

@Iriscal

4 ай бұрын

@@Theothekyree Preposterous. Utterly preposterous. Next you'll be telling me they all wear turbans or horned helmets.

@MediArgentum

4 ай бұрын

But dwarves should have beards and they probably dig stuff, usually.

You will love the Hildibrand questline!

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

Everyone has been saying that!

@wrathshorts2894

3 ай бұрын

@@CaffeinatedDad If the starter quests got you laughing then Hildy and Greg will destroy you. XD

@zeehero7280

3 ай бұрын

@@wrathshorts2894PAPA HILDY! I'M A MANDERVILLE MAN NOW!

Something you might not have noticed is if you have a sprout in your party, you get bonus loot. The devs really lined things up to make sure new players feel welcomed and it really sets the tone for a friendly, positive community :)

@dracocrusher

4 ай бұрын

Oh yeah, it's honestly really nice. Sure, the bonuses aren't really a huge deal or anything, but it is a nice incentive to make dungeons go from "Oh god, time to baby some newbies" to being more like "Oh hey, I'll get rewarded for helping a new person clear this!"

@nicky7552

4 ай бұрын

And mentors give bonus exp to sprouts iirc2

Admittedly, and you will hear it a lot because it's true, the story picks up a lot towards the end of the initial release game that you are in. Come the Heavensward expansion the game sees an overhaul in the voice acting both in quantity and quality, the story picks up significantly, way more to do, more 8 and 24 person activities, even more jobs to play, etc. I've been playing since 2021 and I'm still doing new content and love it. Glad you're loving the game.

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

I didn't think I would enjoy it as much as I have. Legitimately it has been a Damm good time. I also have heard alot that it's better as the story progresses so that's something tk look forward to

@MrCarlWax

4 ай бұрын

​@@CaffeinatedDadNot gameplay wise but storytelling for sure.

@deadmeat53

4 ай бұрын

Don't forget Hildi quests. You laugh your ass off 😂

@mikokun7714

4 ай бұрын

Everyone can agree. The fact that it feels like a trek makes everything that comes after way more appreciated

@ZianaSue

4 ай бұрын

@@deadmeat53 I agree. He will laugh constantly at Hildi's stupidity and antics. And those quest unlock certain Trials he wouldn't get access to in any other way.

The descriptions of the races on the side had me rolling lol I love that he put Miqo's weakness as Laser pointer

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

I was really hoping someone got a kick out of them lol

@ivanovich8267

4 ай бұрын

Might explain why I can't stand Alagan things....

@llKirosll

4 ай бұрын

as a Miqo'te I can confirm, those pesky lasers spots are really unavoidable, specially the big circular ones. Must. Stay. In. The. Middle.

@eternalsummer8409

3 ай бұрын

Trust me, the amount of miqos I’ve seen a timely chase aoes, I belive it

@eternalsummer8409

3 ай бұрын

*actively

i would watch hours of this particular narration of a sprout perspective! I love it so much!

19:00 this keeps happening to you specifically because you're in a party with someone in the same area. Enemies start linking together when you're no longer playing solo. Summoning your chocobo companion (which you don't have yet) also counts as not being solo.

@evaboeglin5690

4 ай бұрын

How have I spent 4 years and over 8,000 hours on this game without knowing this

@shurhaian

3 ай бұрын

Technically, if you're far above them in level they'll also link together, but in this case that just means that Dad was getting four or five rather than just two at a time. For the highbie, it's still absolutely trivial... IF they're the one actually taking the aggro.

‘this may effect you later on the game’ as mouse hovers over text that reads ‘this has no effect on gameplay’

When you mentioned you noticed how 'quickly' you seemed to became a 'hero' already, actually it used to take longer or there used to be more quests in early MSQ within the City-states, especially before you become emissary, but I guess people were complaining about how MSQ was 'too long' so around 5.3 patch they cut out some quests I myself started in Gridania before the patch and was planning on trying out the other City-states but took too long and it was cut before I got the chance *sob*

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

Oh... that makes so much more sense. It just seemed like I beat like 5 people and they were like he's the very best!

@anceptus

4 ай бұрын

Sometimes the opposite happens too. You're the defender of the realm, a legend to walk amongst the people of Eorzea, but NPCs still make you their personal courier lmao

@jackabot526

2 ай бұрын

@@anceptus This still happens anyways 🤣

Gotta love how your friend (hopefully unknowingly) trolled you by joining your party as a high level class. Which then ramps up your group level and weaker monsters then also team up as a challenge mechanic. As such, if G'alactica had not been in your group you would not have pulled all those mobs as a group and wouldn't have died. 😅You usually only pull one mob if they are the same level as you.

@GalacticW

4 ай бұрын

well according to all the comments here its commen knowledge, and the one piece of commen knowledge that has escaped me for 4 years it seems 💀

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

Gotta get that challenging experience! Lol Galactic has been a huge help!

@kevinsano

4 ай бұрын

@@GalacticW I learned this the hard way when a friend of mine got eviscerated 3 times in a row in central shroud by a giant bird that jumped down a cliff to get to them

I'm taking "M Kote" as my prefered way of saying that now. XD

@The_Yukki

21 күн бұрын

It's even funnier when "kot" means "cat" in your native tongue.

FATES used to be so great when there were large crowds of players all on the same content. It made leveling so dynamic, as you would constantly be switching between MSQ, and hunting down FATES that either crossed your path, or were high reward. Large groups clearing FATES is something I really miss from the ARR era

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

I'm guessing based off of that it isn't as prevalent in later expansions?

@GalacticW

4 ай бұрын

@@CaffeinatedDad yes and know...starting in shadowbringers they introduced the shared fate system which incentivizes doing them at the begining of an expansion but once everyone has maxed out the rank in each zone there is not much reason to do them after that because there are better ways to level up

@Zanador

4 ай бұрын

@@CaffeinatedDad They never stopped making FATEs, and they actually have gone out of their way to give more incentives to actually do them. Later expansions are more likely to have people doing FATEs in their zones. That being said, they're still not super popular and you're not likely to find a big group of people doing them unless they're trying to get one of the rare Achievement FATEs to spawn.

@luriastaats6499

4 ай бұрын

People still group to do them, but it's most coordinated through discord. I do some sometimes.

6:26 It's basically a visual novel with combat using long form storytelling as the backbone of the MSQ. I would embrace it if you're to get into the game. You can teleport to any of those giant crystals from anywhere, and each city has an internal crystal network (aethernet?) to teleport around within them to significant locations. Take your time through the game, and find when you can do raids, which are also linked to the story though optional.

@CaffeinatedDad

3 ай бұрын

Visual novel indeed! The game has been amazing to play and basically live inside for the past two months!

@kmurphy0620

3 ай бұрын

@@CaffeinatedDad see if you are ready for Binding Coils of Bahamut. If you can get something close to blind that would be a great experience and video from you.

This was an absolute joy to watch! I really love your take on the game so far and am very much hoping you continue along. It's a long journey, but one that is absolutely worth taking.

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

I plan on putting a few adventures in moving forward! It's been fun thus far!

all the mounts fly bc back in the day they didn't, only mounts for whom it made sense to fly could fly, which also meant if your favourite mount was like, a horse or something you could go pound sand bc it couldn't fly and it sucked 💀 also some mounts that SHOULD have been able to fly for some reason couldn't, like the swing that was suspended with balloons. anyway they made it so all mounts could fly even though sometimes it's silly

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

Galactic said it was integrated into the story just like, "we don't know why but everything can fly now "

@jonathanhoyle8946

4 ай бұрын

​@@CaffeinatedDadthey attempt to explain it by saying it can fly because you've "attuned to the aetherial winds" in an area. But it really just isn't worth thinking too hard about.

Glad you're trying out my favorite mmo! The game gradually gets better and better over 200 solid hours. It's very different than GW2 but I always keep coming back to this game.

2 things. 1: there is a flying pig mount, unfortunately its in shadow bringer and not part of the trial. 2: Learning skills. They have gona back and forward with learning skills . For marauder and all other base classes you learn them as you level to 50. But jobs (Warrior, white mage etc) only learn skills through the job quests from 30 -70. After that they just learn them from leveling up. So after 30 you really want to keep up with the job quests as you level.

i'm glad to hear you're enjoying it! new players are always fun to see experiencing the game, and it's always funny to see their perspective on things; i hope you keep progressing and enjoying it! as a note, as you get higher levels and unlock more dungeons, you're able to replay dungeons unsynced which lets you play through dungeons without being level synced which lets you farm trials and such for mounts later on once you unlock them. it's worth doing with friends, i find. lot of fun.

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

Galactic explained that a bit to me, but I actually missed doing group content, honestly. Gw2 didn't really intrigue me in that way

Koji fox is a legend for his translations that he put in the game. Theres too many times to count that ive busted out laughing at the puns he puts in XD

@CooroSnowFox

4 ай бұрын

"Thals balls"

@shurhaian

3 ай бұрын

@@CooroSnowFox The punnery that goes on in quest and FATE names never ceases to amuse me. They're not all thigh-slappers but they're *pretty* consistently amusing.

Heads up: The Further you get into the game, the more (and better) Voice Acting the game provides! By the time you are in Endwalker, it has 16 HOURS of Voiced Cutscenes in the Base Expansion alone! I believe Excluding the Raids & Side Content, there is about 70 Hours of Voiced Cutscenes alone in the MSQ up to 6.55.

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

Someone told me that it is basically a video game novel that you live within. Honestly thats exciting to look forward to!

I hope there will be more videos of this game on your channel!

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

I'm planning on putting a couple more!

@Toksyuryel

4 ай бұрын

@@CaffeinatedDad Only a couple? :(

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

@Toksyuryel well to be honest it depends of this series gets traction. My goal is to be a full time content creator!

@clintonruckert8598

4 ай бұрын

@@CaffeinatedDad the FF14 community loves new player reactions to the story it will get some traction but be aware that most won’t stay once you are done with the story if you decide to stay that long. But I hope you have a fun experience nonetheless

@dazzlemasseur

4 ай бұрын

​@@CaffeinatedDadI'm sure it will, your general innocence of the final fantasy universe and unique take on the story will definitely grab the attention of people.

Great timing! I've only recently watch you through your path of exile playthrough and now you're playing my all time favorite MMO. I'm excited for your next video of this game!

If you liked the story at the beginning -which is not far from its lowest- then oh boi you are in for a ride because it gets SPICY

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

That's what everyone has been telling me!

@gumebe4349

4 ай бұрын

My experience picking up that first crystal was "Is this FFXIV or breaking bad?" and that was when I got engaged lol

I just recently started this game again and man this gave me such a good laugh when I realize how goofy stuff can be in this game thanks for the good laugh man hope you're still playing!

It baffles me that the only name you got right was Merlwyb's. The single one that I still can't pronounce right a decade later.

-generally displeased with giraffes you not knowing the Elezens nickname is giraffe makes this even better

I'm glad you had such a good time! I'm a fairly recent convert to FFXIV myself and I've been enjoying it thoroughly. It's the first time I've played a tank or healer where it really FELT like I was tanking and healing as my main role.

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

I actually like the idea of this being a locked role like this is your job and your job only. Good feeling!

@Tolly7249

4 ай бұрын

@@CaffeinatedDad It's very satisfying! I came off a couple of MMOs where the differences between jobs were fairly minimal and having my healer actually BE A HEALER is just the best feeling!

As a player, I'm glad you at least gave it a shot. If you continue to play, I hope you enjoy yourself!

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

Can't honestly critique a game if I haven't played it! I am going to put some more time in however!

Even on the free trial, there's a TON of great story and group content available. If you're already into the story thus far, you are in for a TREAT. It literally only gets better and better. Regularly regarded as some of the best writing in any game, mmo or not.

I want more of these videos! I thoroughly enjoy watching you play and hearing your perspective 😊

There's more and more voice acted cutscenes with each additional expansion.

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

Ooo that's great! I liked the voice acted cut scenes probably the most!

@elgatochurro

2 ай бұрын

with budget and mroe budget adn mroe budget XD

Love the view of a sprout's expierence like this! The mispronounciations are having me in stitches! I've been playing 2015 so it's nice to see the changes made to MSQ in ARR since then. You will eventually get the ability to ride a mount yourself, also like a typical JRPG you were essentially in the tutorial phase of the game until you finished the first 3 dungeons. So you'll find that it will start being more interesting! Also I suggest going to Western Thanalan to unlock Glamour if you haven't already.

If you flat out don't like FFXIV, I actually wouldn't recommend continuing, but if it's at least tolerable then keep giving it a try! Even today, the base game is a real patchwork; classes and their jobs for example started life as either playing the base version and having access to more abilities from other classes or playing the (flat out better) advanced version with less "cross-class" access. Now it's basically vestigial, but it's still here because mechanically and lore-wise it's part of the foundation

i was not ready to see you were located on Goblin because i recognized everyone who was idle near the Aetherites

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

Ha! Yeah I'm on goblin because that's where Galactic told me to go!

Nice! Always entertaining to see the perspective of a new sprout!

Merl-wib Blif-at-swyn Admiral of Limsa Lominsa, leader of the city state, a tough, no nonsense ex pirate who has guided the city to grow since the Galadion Accord was signed.

@HyouVizer

4 ай бұрын

roe seawolf names always sound like they your hand breakdanced all over on your keyboard.

@jordanrodrigues1279

4 ай бұрын

Sea Wolf names are ripped off from Dutch and thus pretty close to English, Bluefish-Win is as close as you'll get.

IM digging your channel and Id love to watch more vids about your experience in the game

Glad you picked Limsa first. I love ybr opening dialog at the Adventure's guild. Another popular kone you miss out on is if you start in Ul'Dah. An NPC asks you to give out cookies to some bored and tired soldiers who are stationed nearby on lookout. And the NPC thanks you and exolaons the best purpose of your task, "i find a nice treat helps a lot when you want to kill yourself." Or something along those.lones.

Was a fun video, I hope you continue to enjoy your time with the game!

I clicked on this video randomly, and the whiplash I had seeing G'alactic show up made me pay 10x more attention lmao (We're friends in game!!) Glad to see you're enjoying this game so far!!! Definitely gonna keep an eye out and follow your journey!

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

Ha! Galactic has been trying to convert me to FF14 for years now and I only just conceded!

You, my good sir, are friggin hilarious. This vid was a treat. I'm looking forward to your next videos. ;)

Always great to see new XIV players! Glad you enjoyed it, it just gets better from here!

I'm happy that you ended up liking the story considering it'll just get better and better! Hope you'll keep playing to get to those really amazing stories and group raids!

It's fun to watch this. I started this game 3 days ago. I've chosen an archer as I do enjoy playing support classes. It's been such a unique experience so far. I'm completely loving it! Plus I like how I don't have to create a separate character and that everything can be done on one. I've come from GW2, SWTOR and LOTRO (LOTRO I think is a similar journey). This Is just a breath of fresh air. The content is really enjoyable and it's a lot of fun to just explore and experience. I've never been a Final Fantasy fan, I've played a couple of the games in the past but I think I'll have to take a further look into the franchise. Great music too 😊

4:22 “might be important later down the line” Hovers under the “this does not impact gameplay”

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

I am not the smartest man

I hope you make more of these vids on 14, this is so funny and it’s been a bit since I’ve seen someone enjoy the opening so much! (Not that it’s bad it’s just everything afterwards is just so much better) and I’m excited to see your reactions to everything else if you do continue!

Love your commentary and little pop up texts (yes I read them all :P). Welcome, enjoy your stay!

I started back in September. I'm now about to start EndWalker. 355 hours so far. This game is easily one of my favorite of all time as of now. And probably has my favorite story of the series. Also RIP papa meow. Those who know, well.... Know lol

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

Lol it's like papmylo or something close I couldn't quite remember

Great thing about the "Warrior[s] of Light" of old: They are 1.0 Players before Square nuked it so ARR could be made from a mostly clean slate.

Goblin is my home world! Glad you enjoyed playing...hope you keep at it!

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

That's the plan! Next journey episode is out next week!

Definitely gained a sup. The video was super funny but what grabbed me in was the fact that you tried my favorite game honestly and fairly. Thank you for playing ff14 and welcome

i need to see more of these, this was great!

Glad to see you enjoyed it, and I look forward to a sequel video!

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

Coming soon! It's been good fun thus far!

Can't wait to see what you report back with your next vid! Hope you have fun!

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

Can't wait! I've been enjoying myself quite a bit!

This is a wonderful video. Happily upvoted!

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

Hey thanks! Working on the next episode!

Wait until you get to the Manderville questline once you hit lvl 50. Some of the funniest content I've seen in a game in a long time. A+

I’m a veteran player from 1.0 beta and absolutely love watching new players give 14 a go. Stay on the free trail for as long as you can muster but honestly, i love the way new players pronounce things. 😂 genuinely gives me a giggle. Enjoy the game and welcome to Eorzea

So cool to see someone else's first steps through FF14. Makes me feel super nostalgic lol. Trust me, you'll love this game! And if laughs are what you're after, just wait until you get some of the later quests. The Manderville quest line is an absolute treat lol.

.-.. ... I had completely blanked on that Alphi arrived on the same boat as us. Neat.

9:00 Lol gotta love the friends that stalk you and fly around to follow you as you do your MSQ. I do it to my friends too and now fly them around when needed with the FFXV car mount.

Vet player here, welcome to eorzea! Nice to see a fresh perspective, keep the videos coming

Glad you liked it! Come swing on by Balmung sometime. Limsa is... different. 8:30 Really nailed it about the accent. 13:40 Should see Ninja sprint :D 14:20

@imafirenmehlazer1

4 ай бұрын

there is no other place of such villinay and scum then balmung uldah i only need to say one phrase the waking sands >:3

About character creation affecting the story. There are tiny changes in dialogue sometimes depending on race and gender, and the class you pick decides your starting town. The rest is completely irrelevant to the story and only there for looks and RP. The guardian deity used to give you elemental stat buffs, but elemental damage was removed a few years ago so now it's just for RP purposes. So people can just go with whatever they like best. (Technically there are miniscule stat differences between races but they basically only effect .01% of your DPS at higher levels at most and if you really really want to you can adjust your BIS to mitigate the racial stat differences)

Hope you're enjoying the rest of the game! I've been interested in FFXIV for years, and I finally started playing last week.

Glad to hear you enjoyed yourself! I found it a perfectly serviceable MMO when I started and had a lot of fun. It also has the best crafting system I've ever seen in an MMO. Using the same multi-class job system for crafting is fantastic; you get gear and stats for crafting and gathering, there's a decent little mini-game for crafting, and it allows quests to give crafting XP so it's not just "Buy a stack of copper and make 50 useless belts". The crafting gear is also completely competitive with end-game progression gear, giving people options for end-game content.

@davidcollins9213

4 ай бұрын

You're forgetting the MOST vital part about crafting my good sir or madam. That which is a pillar of this game, one that is so important the game might well not survive. You have forgotten about the FASHION!!! ...and all the furniture for housing I guess, but regardless!

@RothAnim

4 ай бұрын

@@davidcollins9213 True, but honestly, the number of non-progression rewards in the game is a major part of keeping old content relevant. Fashion, furniture, Triple Triad cards, crafting mats, Orchestrions, Chocobo barding, mounts, emotes, titles and effects are all timeless rewards. Along with level synched combat, duty roulettes and the job system, there's always people willing to run old dungeons, trials and raids.

Longtime FFXIV player, loved your take on it. Hope you keep playing and keep enjoying!

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

Hey, thanks! I had a great time stepping into this game!

As a veteran of the game, this was really fun to watch. Thank you

Oh my god this is so fun to see a new player to 2 of my favorite games, Hope you enjoy FFXIV starts slow but gets better.

@CaffeinatedDad

2 ай бұрын

It has been great!

Not related to the story but just wanted to share some knowledge as a sea-faring girl! Dry docks are where you remove boats from the water and complete repairs (or weatherize/winter storage, where applicable). They are dry purposefully. It seems really strange I know but they have an essential purpose. :)

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

Well ya know what you did? You taught me something!

@GTaichou

4 ай бұрын

@@CaffeinatedDad Always happy to share! I hope you continue to enjoy your time in FFXIV! :)

God I love sprouts! How you pronounce things are killing me! Keep going, the laughs don't stop!

Kan-E-Senna is a padjal, a very rare race of goat horned ageless beings who are only born from other races when the Elementals decide to make that happen. Padjals serve as spiritual leaders of gridania, communicate with the Elementals, and are also the guardians of White Magic, which is considered just as dangerous as Black Magic

This video was the best part of my week! God I laughed. See you in Eorzea!

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

Ha! I'm glad that you enjoyed the first steps! It's been a wild journey thus far!

You need to play the hildribrand quest line! Its so funny, you are going to like it :D it continues in every expansion

Very fun to see a new player's perspective. Enjoy the game!

Wow somehow we always end up trying things around the same time, I've been playing FFXIV lately too myself, been taking a break from gw2 until QR2 patch. Thanks for the video.

oh god i remember when selecting the god you follow the closest *actually* had an effect on your elemental affinity. Now I feel old.

experience was harder to come by back when the game launched, and the story is paced to match that. Getting to level 15 and related quests took a lot longer, and involved clearing out at least half the sidequests on a given map in order to hit the required level-- and that's even when taking into account the higher number of quests the base game used to have. That's why they treat you like a hero-- at that point in the OG game you'd have been going out of your way to help and protect the populace for a significant amount of time; you'd be popular.

I'm glad this video ended up in my recommended, I've actually seen you around on the Goblin server here and there! I hope you're continuing to enjoy the game, I like to think that we don't have the worst playerbase in the world, just one of the more obnoxious ones lol

I had the same reaction to the "Lesser" gargoyle as you did back when I first played.

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

Dude was huge for a lesser.. geez!

6:17 This joke alone made me subscribe, no joke XD I will never look at Ascians the same way again LMAO

"Galactic scares me a few times with his healing." Yeah welcome to being a tank. Just remember, so long as you have 1HP left at the end of the battle, the healer did their job right.

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

Brave man once said, if you have more than one hp, then you are good to go

@GalacticW

4 ай бұрын

yeah i don't heal much and i would say i am at the lower end of mediocre for healing, i am more experienced as a dps or tank

@AbyssalRook

4 ай бұрын

@@GalacticW Oh nah I'm not even being ironic. So long as you're DPSing between heals, then success as a healer is measured entirely on whether the party survives the fight. Don't matter how nervous the tank gets about their HP. You're a doctor, not a psychiatrist.

If you really wanted a bewildering flying animation for a mount, ask your friend to get on his turtle/adamantoise

@GalacticW

4 ай бұрын

already did

Oh it's really nice to see you giving this game a try, the story in Realm Reborn is actually just a lot of information about the world and a big build up for the long "acutel story" to come, unfortunately it might not keep you on the same level of entertainment of you start skipping, but just know that these are 10+ years old writing, and the newer expansions are much much well made and written. I hope to see more of your journey, and I hope you fully enjoy it as well!

Me over here, a fellow Goblin resident, scanning the crowd in Limsa to see if I recognize anyone. I'm pretty sure I actually saw you running around at some point with no idea you did youtube.

Dude this is awesome I'm so glad you're trying out Ff14 have fun and enjoy

Your commentary is awesome. Keep it up!

12:59 Fun fact: G'alactica was responsible for your aggro problem. They were linked because you were in the same party and normally they don't aggro at level 1 but because G'alactica was 90, you got additional mobs. 19:09 Again, G'alactica's fault for screwing you over. 21:03 I'm suprised you didn't get a lift from G'alactica -- there are mounts that allow 2, 4 and 8 people

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

Galactic is there to be my guide! Whether or not he was helpful remains to be seen lol

@AllyUnion

4 ай бұрын

@@CaffeinatedDad Have G'alactica make a Cross World Party. All the benefits of being in chat but no group aggro problems.

I've played this game for a while but now anytime Y'stola start spouting exposition at me it will now be "saying tea and crumpets things". Thank you sir , you just made this game better. 😆

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

Lmao glad I could help!

I'd love to see a part 2!!!! :D

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

Tomorrow morning!

The clan choice only changes a couple of character customization options you get and that's it. Starting city is decided by your class. Story is the same for everyone save from your starting city questline and a few hidden nods to optional content you have done here and there.

not sure why I'm watching this as a person who's played this game religiously for three years, but I'm always glad to see new sprouts getting into the game. :) And yes- the game (at least the Main Scenario Quest anyway) is VERY story focused and requires a ton of reading. like, it's a borderline visual novel at times. but then when you're done with the novel you get to hang out with your friends in the cool world you've been reading about.

Now THAT is a mustache of kings. The more I watch this, the more I love this character.

I have way more hours in the game than I care to admit. You're in for a real treat! :D

I actually had to stop drinking my tea because the sarcastic humour was catching me off guard every time making me cough 😂

I started with marauder too and honestly Tanking is pretty good for Beginners cause it does teach you the mechanics and ya I love the fact that if you ever get bored of story being able to just grind another class or side quest is so nice.

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

Honestly that has me intrigued, I always got bored leveling alts

"My Christian eyes!" 😂 Just spend a bit of time around Limsa Lominsa's main aetheryte.

@CaffeinatedDad

4 ай бұрын

Oh... I know what you mean... lol

12:30 the text box to start the crafter job, Weaver is pretty great. It has no right to be, but they did it. I die every time i think back to it 😂