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Back on the MMO train again. This time it's FFXIV again and I really did enjoy Stormblood. Themes of revolution and overthrowing a corrupt and hateful empire just kinda work well nowadays for mysterious reasons, and I've always liked the way Final Fantasy does it.
Of course, every XIV storyline has two parts. There's the part where you learn about a world-threatening, horrid monster of a thing and line up yourself and seven randos from the Duty Finder to punch it in the face until it dies, and then there's the part that comes afterward, the infinitely more interesting political and social fallout of having punched this particular threat. The post-story patches for Stormblood should be particularly interesting as they have to set up the Shadowbringers expansion and explain why Xao Xizee (still provisionally a catgirl of light) has to go all dark and goth.
I'm prepared to invest in Morticiawear, I just want to know why.
At the moment, though, I'm not concerned with that. (Well, I am but not as much as I might be.) I'm concerned with Eureka, a second MMO nested inside the first, one where you have to grind for crystals to improve your weapon to progress to the next island to grind on, one where people ride around in groups calling out big-name boss monsters to fight as a party, one where careful pulls mean life or death if you're alone. In short, it's Final Fantasy XI-2 and heyyyy that's my jam a little bit!
Naturally it's like the least popular content, but now that it's no longer CURRENT content, there's a small hardcore group of people still plugging away at it and I hope to join them for a while.
Y'know, when I'm not working on becoming a master of children's card games or fishing every fish in every river in Eorzea. There's always SOMEthing to do in Final Fantasy XIV as long as you're mostly caught up with the plot, and for the moment I'm caught up with the plot of four years ago and delaying before plunging into the waters of the Most Current Content.
Still, Endwalker looms on the horizon of November.
I bought Stormblood on sale in November 2018.
I finished it, uh, about four years later.
...maybe I'll actually manage to wrap up Shadowbringers in marginally less time?
Or maybe I'll fuck off and play Psychonauts 2. I can't believe that's out.
Of course, every XIV storyline has two parts. There's the part where you learn about a world-threatening, horrid monster of a thing and line up yourself and seven randos from the Duty Finder to punch it in the face until it dies, and then there's the part that comes afterward, the infinitely more interesting political and social fallout of having punched this particular threat. The post-story patches for Stormblood should be particularly interesting as they have to set up the Shadowbringers expansion and explain why Xao Xizee (still provisionally a catgirl of light) has to go all dark and goth.
I'm prepared to invest in Morticiawear, I just want to know why.
At the moment, though, I'm not concerned with that. (Well, I am but not as much as I might be.) I'm concerned with Eureka, a second MMO nested inside the first, one where you have to grind for crystals to improve your weapon to progress to the next island to grind on, one where people ride around in groups calling out big-name boss monsters to fight as a party, one where careful pulls mean life or death if you're alone. In short, it's Final Fantasy XI-2 and heyyyy that's my jam a little bit!
Naturally it's like the least popular content, but now that it's no longer CURRENT content, there's a small hardcore group of people still plugging away at it and I hope to join them for a while.
Y'know, when I'm not working on becoming a master of children's card games or fishing every fish in every river in Eorzea. There's always SOMEthing to do in Final Fantasy XIV as long as you're mostly caught up with the plot, and for the moment I'm caught up with the plot of four years ago and delaying before plunging into the waters of the Most Current Content.
Still, Endwalker looms on the horizon of November.
I bought Stormblood on sale in November 2018.
I finished it, uh, about four years later.
...maybe I'll actually manage to wrap up Shadowbringers in marginally less time?
Or maybe I'll fuck off and play Psychonauts 2. I can't believe that's out.
