Looks like I'm going to be playing Final Fantasy XIV

[dorchadas]

sashagee used to be really into Final Fantasy XIV a few years ago, but until recently she hadn't played in almost two years, not since the middle of the Stormblood expansion. Before now she couldn't play at all because she and her roommates don't have home internet or wifi, instead opting for unlimited data plans on their phones. However, since I have wifi, she brought her PS4 over here, reactivated her FFXIV account, and bought the Shadowbringers expansion. I've been watching her play it and she brought up playing it together:

sashagee: "If we play it together I wonder what you’re going to play."
Me: "There are goth elves? I’m definitely playing one of those."
sashagee: "Oh my goodness 🙄"

...and based on that, I went and downloaded the Shadowbringers benchmark software to see what score it gave me, since my computer is four years old now. I ran the benchmark, it came back with a "Extremely High" (raw score of something like 12K), so there's no worries on that score. And then I noticed that there's a "Character Creation" function, I fiddled with it, and, well:

Originally I started with white hair, but I switched it to red. Have to have that long red hair. It's my signature.


I overwrote a character preset from 2013 there when I saved that. Apparently I thought about playing A Realm Reborn before but never pulled the trigger. Well, this may be the time--FFXIV's "must be done in order" structure means it's more like a traditional game than an MMO, and playing it with sashagee will be nice, especially if we all get thrown back into germ jail this winter.

This marks the third game she's talked about playing together, after Horizon Zero Dawn (playing through together, anyway) and Divinity: Original Sin 2. I wasn't a big fan of Divinity: Original Sin but while I'd be willing to give the sequel a try, I've heard amazing things about both HZD and FFXIV--that the latter is the best Final Fantasy game in the last fifteen years, even! My usual schedule is still disrupted, so looks like I'll be gaming with sashagee a bunch in the future!

Comments

[law]

yeah, same tbh. there's plenty to choose from. BLM is fun at first honestly. i think i started to burn out on it once i hit the end of arr / lvl 50 but feel free to try stuff! that's one of things that makes xiv so fun :)