Well, I bought FFXIV
2020-Aug-04, Tuesday 09:49![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dorchadas
I played the free trial with ![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
sashagee for a week or so and that was enough for me to buy the game, making me no longer a:
When I bought World of Warcraft, I was already a massive Warcraft fan, so it was the lure of participating in the same world that drew me in. I made a night elf druid and played Alliance because, coming straight from Warcraft III, I had no idea that anyone else could be druids. I got a bunch of my friends into the game and I played almost daily for six years, from 1.8 of vanilla through to clearing Firelands in Cata, before I lost interest and let my subscription lapse.
I'm not that far into FFXIV, but it's already very different from how WoW was when I played it. One of the things I loved about vanilla WoW, that was lost as the game became more of a character-focused themepark, was that your character was just one of the adventurers roaming the land trying to right all the wrongs of the Third War. There wasn't an overarching plot for the whole game. Instead, there were a bunch of little stories: The Defias Brotherhood's compaign against the Stormwind nobility, the Missing Diplomat, the Hydraxian Waterlords fighting against Ragnaros, the stirring Qiraji in Silithus, Kel'Thuzad trying to conquer what remains of Lordaeron...it really gave the sense that there was more to the world than just what was happening around the PC. That changed as the expansion train continued, and by the time I left, the PCs were always addressed as "heroes," and there was basically one main plot running through the entire game.
FFXIV starts with the PC having strange visions and being spoken to by god(?), and then pretty quickly establishes them as a Hero with Special Powers. I'm not particularly far, but so far it's been a pretty consistent thread of the various beast tribes (though that name is...
) trying to summon their Primals and needing to be stopped. The PC has already joined a specific organization--the Scions of the Seventh Dawn--and is a member of the infrastructure in one of the three major city-states in Eorzea (I went Twin Adders). There's much more of an overarching structure to the storyline, even very early on.
And the music is amazing. Whensashagee went to show me Matoya's Cave and The Mushroomery started playing, I teared up a bit. Nostalgia is heavy, true, but those orchestral arrangements are fantastic. Squeenix really knocked it out of the park.
Looking forward to playing more!
sashagee for a week or so and that was enough for me to buy the game, making me no longer a:"Free trial peasant."Ilyesen Valenroix on Cactuar. Look me up.
-
When I bought World of Warcraft, I was already a massive Warcraft fan, so it was the lure of participating in the same world that drew me in. I made a night elf druid and played Alliance because, coming straight from Warcraft III, I had no idea that anyone else could be druids. I got a bunch of my friends into the game and I played almost daily for six years, from 1.8 of vanilla through to clearing Firelands in Cata, before I lost interest and let my subscription lapse.
I'm not that far into FFXIV, but it's already very different from how WoW was when I played it. One of the things I loved about vanilla WoW, that was lost as the game became more of a character-focused themepark, was that your character was just one of the adventurers roaming the land trying to right all the wrongs of the Third War. There wasn't an overarching plot for the whole game. Instead, there were a bunch of little stories: The Defias Brotherhood's compaign against the Stormwind nobility, the Missing Diplomat, the Hydraxian Waterlords fighting against Ragnaros, the stirring Qiraji in Silithus, Kel'Thuzad trying to conquer what remains of Lordaeron...it really gave the sense that there was more to the world than just what was happening around the PC. That changed as the expansion train continued, and by the time I left, the PCs were always addressed as "heroes," and there was basically one main plot running through the entire game.
FFXIV starts with the PC having strange visions and being spoken to by god(?), and then pretty quickly establishes them as a Hero with Special Powers. I'm not particularly far, but so far it's been a pretty consistent thread of the various beast tribes (though that name is...
) trying to summon their Primals and needing to be stopped. The PC has already joined a specific organization--the Scions of the Seventh Dawn--and is a member of the infrastructure in one of the three major city-states in Eorzea (I went Twin Adders). There's much more of an overarching structure to the storyline, even very early on. And the music is amazing. When
sashagee went to show me Matoya's Cave and The Mushroomery started playing, I teared up a bit. Nostalgia is heavy, true, but those orchestral arrangements are fantastic. Squeenix really knocked it out of the park. Looking forward to playing more!
no subject
Date: 2020-Aug-04, Tuesday 20:17 (UTC)i’m a’bad tank on adamantoise, btw. i’ll try to add you next time i hop on. ^^
no subject
Date: 2020-Aug-05, Wednesday 13:50 (UTC)