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

@DoonixHated

11 ай бұрын

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

@GheistXin

11 ай бұрын

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

@blakec8549

11 ай бұрын

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

@atheist101

11 ай бұрын

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

@TorManiak

11 ай бұрын

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

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

@xanthiusdrake2775

11 ай бұрын

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

@solerosable

11 ай бұрын

@@xanthiusdrake2775 what?

@xanthiusdrake2775

11 ай бұрын

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

@solerosable

11 ай бұрын

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

@xanthiusdrake2775

11 ай бұрын

@@solerosable At least without getting in trouble yeah.

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

@smward87

11 ай бұрын

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

@GoatOfWar

11 ай бұрын

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

@FF-tp7qs

11 ай бұрын

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

@Rixx111

11 ай бұрын

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

@phoenixred240

11 ай бұрын

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

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

@paradox8253

11 ай бұрын

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

@paradox8253

11 ай бұрын

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

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

@RicardoSantos-oz3uj

11 ай бұрын

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

@rednova2212

11 ай бұрын

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

@Rachet20202

11 ай бұрын

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

@johnshaffer3504

11 ай бұрын

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

@TGPDrunknHick

9 ай бұрын

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

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

@Thavleifrim

11 ай бұрын

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

@user-cf6yi5yq5i

11 ай бұрын

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

@avenged-khaos

11 ай бұрын

he has a name its meteor

@PhoenixReturns

11 ай бұрын

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

@katnerd6712

11 ай бұрын

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

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

@user-cf6yi5yq5i

11 ай бұрын

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

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

@cainprescott4937

11 ай бұрын

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

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

@Ashtari

11 ай бұрын

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

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

@dracocrusher

11 ай бұрын

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

@bendonatier

11 ай бұрын

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

@Precaricat

9 ай бұрын

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

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

@JM-nothing-more

11 ай бұрын

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

@MorguerotheGaming

11 ай бұрын

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

@51953bdog

11 ай бұрын

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

@dracocrusher

11 ай бұрын

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

@arcadeashdown3579

11 ай бұрын

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

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

@RyushiroK

11 ай бұрын

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

@AgentRedShirt

11 ай бұрын

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

@pokemondude45

11 ай бұрын

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

@AgentRedShirt

11 ай бұрын

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

@FF-tp7qs

11 ай бұрын

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

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

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

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

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

@kaala7939

11 ай бұрын

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

@algee6005

11 ай бұрын

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

@ZariLutus

11 ай бұрын

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

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

@keithfilibeck2390

11 ай бұрын

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

@amyelnah8717

11 ай бұрын

@@keithfilibeck2390 dude, SPOILERS

@keithfilibeck2390

11 ай бұрын

@@amyelnah8717 everything I said is gibberish without context, the name Azem, means nothing till your told it, and once your told it, you "know".

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

@shadowsofpain

11 ай бұрын

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

@VixenIcaza

11 ай бұрын

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

@ExaltedUriel

11 ай бұрын

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

@reveriec

7 ай бұрын

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

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

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

@roetemeteor

10 ай бұрын

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

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

@unironicallydel7527

11 ай бұрын

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

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

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

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

@scotty110

11 ай бұрын

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

@shanehaworth6090

11 ай бұрын

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

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

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

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

@FF-tp7qs

11 ай бұрын

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

@scottwagner2566

11 ай бұрын

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

@FF-tp7qs

11 ай бұрын

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

@scottwagner2566

11 ай бұрын

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

@ChipotleKanetsu

11 ай бұрын

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

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

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

If you ask me it's worth it

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

i was pleased by your reactions!

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

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

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

In the first trailer, he wasn't shaking with fear. He was shaking with *anticipation*. The rush of being an adventurer.

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

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

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

"You can definitely feel the music has a high fantasy vibe." Alexander's theme being a literal rap song:

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

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

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

I would definitely love to watch you play it, if you'll be streaming or recording your playthroughs!

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

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

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

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

Bruh, you'll love playing FF14 if you're interested in trying it out. It has the best story & community out of any MMO. You can be every single class/job on 1 character alone, including a crafter. If you need tips on certain things, you can join a novice chat, which are ppl consisting of new, returning & veteran players that'll help you with everything in the game. I'm not even scratching the surface as to what this game has to offer like Hunts, treasure hunting, playing music, etc. The best part is that you can play everything at your own pace & the devs encourage that you take a break if you're feeling burned out. Then you can come back with open arms & resume your journey as the Warrior of Light.

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

@Scarabswarm

11 ай бұрын

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

Georgie I'm not even kidding if you're streaming FFXIV I'm gonna drown you in an endless supply of arts to use as thumbnails (as I did once for your Doctor art!) you're not going to regret it. Do it do it (it's full of hot old men just like Milknar)

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

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

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

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

Something I've noticed about a lot of reviews of the cinematic trailers recently, is that "Flames of Truth" is not actually a cinematic trailer. Everything leading up to, and including, the sad smile in it is the cinematic trailer for A Realm Reborn, called "End of an Era". "Flames of Truth" did not release until about fourteen months after the expansion, and was only revealed after the world's first clear of the raid series at the time, because it's intrinsically linked to the lore of the game world.

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

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

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

It was so fun watching you react to the trailers! The ARR one still gives me goosebumps after all this time! Really hope you pick it up, and if you do decide to pick up FF14 again I recommend picking a job that starts you in Uldah ;D

@VixenIcaza

11 ай бұрын

God's yes. There are some Awsome songs in FFXIV but Answers is still amongst the top ones.

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

is there an updated version where you react to the actual dawn trail trailer? The one you watched was a very short version.

thing is, you mentioned that the content dripfeed is quite long, but the story does take a long time to complete if you read and watch every cutscene and conversation, and between every major updates there's "Patch Story" in which they wrap up and prepare for the next story so there's always stuff to do

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

@sinom

11 ай бұрын

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

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

Herro! While on the outside yeah a full year can seem really long but in between major expansions,(around every 4 months), there are updates adding more story, fights, and overall content! Since we are nearing the end of our current expansion our content pool will slow down a little bit but it helps add to the hype and allow peeps to play different games and take a break which the devs are super in support for! (Also the free trial just recently got expanded so you can play the base game the the two expansions!) If you have time to spend id defenitly give it a try! :D

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

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

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

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

You can get a gunblade, but you have to reach level 60 first. Jobs added in later expansions don't start at level 1.

I remember seeing the answers cinematic and being absolutely blown away, inwatch it the on the regular even after all these years.

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

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

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

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

Have you heard of the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV? With an expanded free trial which you can play through the entirety of A Realm Reborn and the award-winning Heavensward expansion up to level 60 for free with no restrictions on playtime.

@themoistlad

11 ай бұрын

Now it's the award winning Stormblood expanison

@DXDragon38

11 ай бұрын

Don't forget, they are adding Stormblood for free too, later this year!

I'm sure it's been said already but I couldn't find a comment mentioning it. The first trailer you watched was for the "1.0" version of FF14. It was "poorly received" to put it nicely, and as such something needed to be done. So, rather than try and fix a broken game, they blew it up, literally in-universe Bahamut blew it up, allowing them to start over. The second "trailer" you watched was actually the cinematic that ENDED 1.0 "A Realm Reborn" ("ARR" for short, or "2.0" if you wanna get technical) is what came after, so the third trailer you watched was for the new current game. ARR is where you will start the game as a new character. Also don't worry about the amount of content this game has, new people are joining all the time and long-time players get rewards for entering lower level content through a roulette which keeps even the oldest of dungeons populated. So you don't have to worry that you need to rush to catch up to endgame, simply just enjoy the journey! You might not like ALL of it, but I'm sure you'll like most of it. Hell, I'd never played an MMO OR a Final Fantasy game before and it sucked me right in and now I'm at max level on all jobs excitedly awaiting the new content. Give it a try if you like! Also the free trial is being expanded soon, to include the first TWO expansions after ARR, (Heavensward and Stormblood). Where it used to end after Heavensward and then you had to buy it. Now you only have to buy it if you reach the end of Stormblood! So there's literally no reason not to try it if you think it looks fun! Though if you have your heart SET on the Gunblade, you will have to pay for the game as it's locked behind Shadowbringers being active on your account. But you'd have to be Level 60 to unlock it anyways, so you'll have plenty of chance to play the game without having to pay for it before you can unlock it! Oh yeah, you can play every job on the same character, the only reason to roll an alt is if you wanna mix things up without using a fantasia... I may have a few alts myself because of this >.> Anyways Highly recommend this game, Final Fantasy XIV gets my wholehearted recommendation!

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

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

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

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

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

Idk if anyone answered your question already but yes you can have a gun blade it’s the gunbreaker tank class unlocked in new gridania at level 60

just saw you in my suggestions and watched it to know what a person that never played it would think. and yeah you should try it and the game free for a good part so you can see if it is as good as you thought it would be with the different videos you watched :D

The game is definitely worth playing! Especially since the Free Trial is being expanded to level 70 and all of the Stormblood expansion! So that's tons of content to dig into before you even gotta pay. Something to keep in mind is that the voice actors change once you hit 3.0 aka Heavensward. They become the voices you heard in the later trailers. My favorite expansion is tough to choose lol. They all have things I love! Maybe Shadowbringers because it has a lot of tropes that I just eat up.

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

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