Finished the FFXIV: A Realm Reborn 2.0 storyline!
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Not posting a review until I do the 2.1-2.4 quests, since apparently I have a hundred or so story quests to go, but I got a full twenty minutes of credits and everything. I did the final two dungeons in about an hour, most of which was cutscenes. Squeenix patched them so you couldn't skip the cutscenes, whcih meant there'd be a cutscene, 10 seconds of running, another cutscene, etc. At least I didn't end up lost in the Imperial fortresses with no idea where to go, which is what used to happen back when cutscenes were skippable. Groups that cleared it already would charge ahead and leave new players in the dust. I already had that happen a couple times in lower-level dungeons, where the boss had died and nearly everyone had left by the time I was done watching the story.
It's weird. I had sworn off MMOs when I quit playing World of Warcraft back in 2011, but
sashagee convinced me to jump back in with her and
aaron.hosek came back a couple weeks afterwards. There's enough quality-of-life features that there's barely any friction as I go through the game, especially now that flying is allowed in ARR zones and
sashagee could just fly me around on the two-seater mount I bought her. And now that I can fly, there'll be even less friction. It's certainly true that I wouldn't be playing if it weren't a Plague Year since I'd have too much to do, but when everything is cancelled and I'm at home for the overwhelming majority of the time? I can weave this into playing my other games. And it's something we can play together!
She nearly murdered me when I turned off the sound on the villain's speech and started playing a clip of an uwu version someone had recorded, though.
It's a hotbar-and-cooldowns MMO with daily and weekly quests and I'm having fun with it in 2020. Who would have thought?
It's weird. I had sworn off MMOs when I quit playing World of Warcraft back in 2011, but
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She nearly murdered me when I turned off the sound on the villain's speech and started playing a clip of an uwu version someone had recorded, though.

Gaius Van Baelsar: "Tell me... for whom do you fight?"Also, when the Ascians revealed that they were actually trying to resurrect [SPOILER], I literally gasped. Slightly, but still--I'm not immune to nostalgia. They got me.
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Gaius Van Baelsar: "How vewwy gwib. And tell me...do you bewieve in Eowzea?"
It's a hotbar-and-cooldowns MMO with daily and weekly quests and I'm having fun with it in 2020. Who would have thought?