Final Fantasy XIV All Cinematic Trailers Reaction 

"This man can't catch a break!" This could be the tag line of FFXIV's campaign.

So a bit of perspective on the 2nd trailer. The first version of this game had so many problems that they actually shutdown the game servers and completely remade the entire game. No one knew what was going to happen just that the game was done. As soon as the shutdown happened this played and blew everyone’s minds.

"I'm about to look up this OST" Have fun, it is the current Guinness World Record holder for most original pieces in a video game (350+ tracks).

Bro this game is literally like an amusement park for Final Fantasy fans, and you should 100% play it with the stuff you catch in these trailers

Few moments: 1. Old guy, Luisoix, was a very powerful wizard. When Garleans dropped the lesser moon Dalamud on the plains of Cartenau, releasing Elder Primal Bahamut (in FFXIV summons are called either Primals or Eikons depending on country + extra round - in one specific place they are called Eidolons (like in FFIX)), he gathered power left from summoning The Twelve Gods and changed himself into Primal Phoenix. In this world Primals have two goals - perform wish of their summoners and gather as many followers as possible, even if it means - bending people's minds to their will. Even if it turns people into mindless slaves. Permanently. Luisoix, becoming Phoenix, got only one goal - to bring rebirth to the Eorzea, ending cataclysm that became known as Seventh Umbral Calamity (yes, there were 6 calimities of similar power - endless ice and snow, massive flood, huge earthquake etc.), bringing Sixth Astral Era to its closure. From that goes: 2. You got Bahamut right. 3. The Knight on the Horse is Odin. He has two forms - Standard boss-fight (or "Trial" as game calls them) and World-boss. World-boss variant has little quirk - when it appears next time, it uses appearance of the player character who dealt killing hit to him during previous fight (it is heavily implied that Primal is not warrior itself, but their sword - Zantentsuken and warrior is - whoever picks up the sword). 4. Since the game is MMO, they needed someone to represent players. Initially it was entire party, but later they ended up with single plain looking midlander. You have 8 races to choose from, each race has 2 clans, which can be quite different from one another (especially Hyurs, Roegadyns and Miqo'te) 5. 2nd expansion was heavily inspired by Dragoon storyline from Realm Reborn and story was going onward with it and was dedicated to war between Holy See of Ishgard against dragons. Funny enough, while Protagonist shows off Dragoon relic armor (The Dragonlancer set), Dragoons were in the game almost from 1.0. Instead expansion added three different jobs - Dark Knight (like Cecil from early FFIV - tank with massive sword1), Machinist (something like Edgar from FFIV - Damage dealer with a gun and many other types of devices that include a flamethrower, a shotgun, circular saw and a battle robot) and Astrologian (healer that uses astronomical globe and cards to give buffs to party members) 6. You got him right. White-haired dude is the Cid of this FF entry. 7. Stormblood expansion was mostly centered on war against Garlean Empire in Eorzea and Far East. It added some unique looking places aside of Japanese-Chinese-styled fantasy, like Deep-Sea Gungan-esque bubbled settlements or literally Fantasy Mongolia. You've ever seen Fantasy Mongols? Now I can say that I have. 8. Would you be surprised if I say that Shadowbringers is fan-beloved? It hits VERY different tone than previous expansions. 9. When music in the trailer changes to violins while camera makes flyby around Crystal Tower and city, it plays "Eternal Wind" - overworld theme of Final Fantasy 3. Also level 50 Raids "The Labyrinth of the Ancients", "Syrcus Tower" and "The World of Darkness" are heavily based on the ending of Final Fantasy 3 and Shadowbringers main story partially based on some concepts that FF3 brought 10. In addition Shadowbringers trailer showcases main additions to the game with that expansions. Aside of massive storyline it revamped some core characters, shifted focus on them and changed their Jobs. Thancred became a Gunbreaker (tank that uses Gunblade), Urianger (the Elf guy) became Astrologian, Y'shtola (the woman in dark dress) became a "Sorceress" (kinda like Black Mage but not really) and they added Dancer job along with Viera race (funny moment - at the time Viera were female-only race, but since Endwalker male Vieras were added, now we are only waiting for Female Hrothgars (possibly in next expansion) so True Catboys won't have to feel so lonely anymore) 11. Oh, no-no-no-no, DO NOT call Zenos discount Sephiroth. Not in front of Zenos' fans. It's ok to call Ardyn from XV discount Emet-Selch, but Zenos... No. Just no. You're not ready for the fan rage, that I can assure you. (to be more realistic, Zenos does look a bit like Sephiroth visually, but in a same way as Ascians at the start look a lot like Organisation XIII from Kingdom Hearts - some visual similarities, but if you go deeper, it's nothing alike) 12. In general XIV has some of better cinematic trailers not just for FF or MMO games but like... Probably some of the best cinematic trailers at this time. Considering that XVI has dropped cinematic trailers completely, XIV might be last Final Fantasy game to get new fully pre-rendered CGI trailers from Square Enix in visible future. Other points: game has very generous free trial without limitations on playtime and only limits available content by what is available in core game and first expansion. When new expansion is released, previous one gets delisted but you have to only buy latest expansion in order to get everything so price for full game is $60+subscription fee. While game is, like WoW is sub-based and has cash shop, that cash shop only sells level boosts/story skips, cosmetics, mounts and emotes. Nothing that can be gained in game is purchasable in the store and even opening store in game (and even then it only opens hyperlink to the store page in your web-browser) requires almost arcane knowledge because it's not shown explicitly anywhere. Game is not designed for any addons and all content can be finished without 3rd party tools You can get game for Windows, Mac (although client has not been properly updated for Apple Silicon Macs and still uses Intel-based code), PS4 and PS5. It has full crossplay and Playstation players are playing on the same servers as PC players. If you're playing on PC, you can use gamepad, if you playing on Console, you can use Keyboard and mouse Game has 20 combat jobs, 3 gathering jobs and 8 crafting jobs. Every job is considered as full-blown job with special abilities and gameplay (yes, including crafters). You can select your job at any time as long as you're not in combat or not in dungeon/raid/solo instance Aside of like 7-8 different Chocobo types, game has over 150 different mounts, which include but don't stop at: Dragons, Magitek Armor, Airships, Horses, Wolves, Birds, Elephant, Giant Tortoise, Seat carried by Moogle and even more bizzare things. It has Triple Triad minigame from FF8. People love it, new cards are added with each new patch. Each patch adds large chunk of content, including new story content and quests and new gear, dungeons, raids etc. Hence amount of content in this game is somewhat staggering. There is entire video series about references to other Final Fantasy games in XIV and even with its massive size, some of the references are omitted due to how many there are. And not only Final Fantasy - game had crossovers with Garo TV series, Monster Hunter and Nier and has massive references to other TV shows, anime and games.

The guy riding the dragon in the Endwalker trailer is by far my favorite character in the game. His name is Estinien and his story arc is so good.

"whys buddy so angry?" heh the game has a entire multi stage raid to explain why bahamut is big angy.

The composer for all of XVI's music is the same composer for XIV, Masayoshi Soken. He is a genius, truly.

Yes, the old guy helped the heros escape by porting them 5 years into the future. So its the same world just 6 years later. The world has had some time to recover.

18:20 - essentually time travel but what really happened was old guy wizard sent the characters (representative of the player) into a pocket dimension for 5 years but for them it felt immediate. Also, the mark on the characters in the final trailer is a tattoed version of a PHD - it shows they are "Archons" and have graduated the Sharlayan university.

I love how everyone gets Bahamut right when they see him. "Is that Bahamut?" Yep!

Interesting thing of note about Shadowbringers Trailer: The character(The Derplander as many call him, the main character) starts off the scene as a Bard/Archer(as seen in very first trailer), then changes to a Warrior(as seen in 2nd trailer and start of Heavensward trailer), then changes to a Dragoon as seen in the Heavensward trailer, then changes to a Monk as seen in the fight against Lyse(the girl in red dress on top of the giant statue hand), then he changes to Samurai which is seen when he split the bullets, then finally to Dark Knight as the theme of Shadowbringers was of course bringing Darkness to an overwhelming amount of light to create balance. Interesting note about Endwalker trailer. Each of the previous expansion's main themes/trailer themes are featured in the song "Footfalls" that plays during the Endwalker trailer.

The guy you keep seeing is actually the stand-in for the player character. Each expansion, he takes a different class role. In the first trailer he was a warrior. the snowy themed expansion he takes the role of dragoon, and so on. Basically where you see that guy, He is you. You are the hero of the story and everything in the cutscene is what you do, or happening to you.

The beef with the dragons is explained in great detail during the events of Heavensward. If you're interested, Heavensward is part of the free trial. Unlimited play time with some limitations on what you can do in the game, but you can play all content included in A Realm Reborn and Heavensward before needing to pay a sub.

The second trailer you watched "Flames of Truth" is actually the full version of the original FF14 Version 1.0 end-game cinematic. The shorter version ends with the old man (Louisoix) appearing to die, then picks up 5 years later to show the heroes he teleported away appearing and seeing that everything was not fully destroyed. The backstory to this is that the original 1.0 version of FF14 was pretty bad, and was such a buggy mess that they decided to just patch it up enough to be playable and not completely bad. By patch 1.20 or so, it was actually pretty decent when the servers weren't crashing. Then with 1.21 they started making the Red Moon larger in the sky until by 1.23b it was fully visable in the sky and clearly was not a moon. A final boss fight was implemented (Riven Road) and then on the last day they devs started spawning monsters in cities and causing chaos, and when the servers were shut down the shorter version of the cinematic was played revealing FF14 was getting a new game with 2.0 called "A Realm Reborn". There's a neat documentary on it by NoClip.

It is absolutely INSANE that you had no prior knowledge of the game, but were able to call a lot of the plot points on visual cues alone. You're very observant, great job!

A note on the first trailer: Those little "cards" the character picked up represent "Leves." In essence, "Adventurer Wanted" advertisements offering rewards for doing repeatable sidequests. These are also present in the modern version of the game. You go to the location listed in the Level description, activate the card, and the monsters spawn. There are also crafting (make stuff) and gathering (find stuff) leves. The system gives players a different way to level when they are stuck on the normal quests or just bored; they can also be an easy way to scrounge up gil (money), crafting crystals, and other resources.

I've always been a big fan of the FF series but I was never an MMO person, and yet after watching the Shadowbringers trailer on a whim I literally installed the game and here I am, over three years later, with over 200+ hours in the game. It really is just that good! :D

man.. this game is a MUST play mmorpg if you like that style, but even without liking mmos the story, music, world and atmosphere are all beyond amazing. after experiencing the 500+ hour journey and experiencing the end of it all.. i can confidently say it has changed my life forever. its a fresh storyline individual to 14. but its extremely long. i know for a fact it would be a game to sit very special in your heart if youve played those final fantasy games. not necessarily asking for a playthrough as it is very different and long, but even if you play it in your own time its one hell of an experience. free trial allows you to experience all of a realm reborn and heavensward! heavensward is one of the best expansions in the story by far. but every single one of them is amazing and will probably make you cry by the end of the last one regardless of who you are.

Calling Zenos off brand Sephiroth had me laughing.

The OST for this game is absolutely insane. It's composed by Masayoshi Soken, and they also have a band called The Primals. They perform live as well at many of the fan events. And that Shadowbringers music? Soken was battling cancer for a year while still creating the music for that expansion. He didn't reveal his battle with cancer or chemo treatments, until the end of a Fan Festival where he was performing with The Primals. Soken is an absolute legend

38:13 - “I wonder what that mark means on them.” That purple mark is called an Archon’s Mark. It is a sign that they not only graduated from one of the most prestigious colleges in the world, but have completed what is essentially a Doctorate in their field of study, such as Aetherology (the study of magic and its applications, The elf guy, as well as the Cat Girl), Espionage (The guy with the coat and gunblade), or Ancient Civilizations (Red-haired cat man). It’s not always purple but it is for all of these characters. The old wizard from trailer 2 had a white one on his dome.

Each trailer (other than Shadowbringers) has the player stand-in (the warrior of light) showcase different Jobs (advanced classes). ARR they are a Warrior, Heavensward they change to Dragoon, in Stormblood they start out Monk and then later are changed to Samurai which was added in that expansion. For Shadowbringers they change it up a bit and show him changing to previous shown Jobs before finally changing to Dark Knight, which was added way back in Heavensward. And finally, with Endwalker they change to Paladin. The change from Dark Knight to Paladin and being on the Moon is one giant Final Fantasy VI reference. Shadowbringers also has a big Final Fantasy III reference with it's use of the Crystal Tower (which was a raid series for A Realm Reborn) and the music changing to a fantastic arrangement of Eternal Wind.

Shadowbringers is such a step up over the other trailers... still my favorite is endwalker because of the amount of foreshadowing and because the song is actually the best one for me, it has so many facets and tries to mix differents soundtracks along the trailers and in-game, the lyrics itself are telling you the story of the "Warrior of Light", more like, the mc is talking directly to the world. And we are not even talking about the "Wings of hope" part.

That second video was Bahamut you guessed well. Just a bit of random info. He looks huge because he IS huge. Someone actually did the math using various things in the game (that I can't mention without spoiling some things) to judge the size of it and it came out to Bahamut being around 4-6 miles from tail to nose with a wingspan of about 14-16 miles. He is the Big Daddy of all dragons.

In final fantasy 14 you have one character who has all the different jobs, so you can change classes on the fly which is what he was doing in the fight with the angel.

TIme for some random trivia on Bahamut's size: Someone used something in-game to do some calculations, and it turns out that, you know, he has a wingspan of EIGHT MILES. The Burj Khalifa, the tallest building on the planet, comes to his KNEECAP.

I like how you pointed out the man that reminded you of Cid... because that is indeed XIV's Cid! Some of your other observations were impressively close or spot on as well. A mention about the first trailer where you had all those dragons and airships fighting: That was an event that took place 20 years before the start of 1.0 called "The Battle of Silvertear". The Empire tried to invade the land for its resources and the dragons showed up to defend it. The shot of Midgarsormr (the biggest dragon) wrapped around the flagship as it went down is actually a landmark in the game- the broken remains of the ship and the slowly degrading remains of the dragon in that final position. The explosion from the ship triggered a chain reaction of the mana in the surroundings which changed the landscape of the area forever.

Damnnn he even noticed the Scions all have the tattoo of the Circle of Knowing, what a chad.

That was fun watching your reactions to these trailers. You actually had a couple really good guesses that were dead-on: the old guy in the second trailer did in fact teleport Meteor Survivor (the 'main character' in these trailers) and his companions into the future: 5 years, to be precise. The guy with the white beard and goggles is in fact Cid in this game, like you had guessed. The bunny-eared dancer in the Shadowbringers trailer was in fact a viera, who are from FFXII like you thought. It was also fun seeing you recognize Thancred's gunblade. Each trailer "featured" a single class for Meteor Survivor, but those aren't necessarily new classes introduced in that expansion. The original 1.0 trailer had him as an Archer, the A Realm Reborn trailer had him as a Warrior (with the axe), the Heavensward trailer had him as a Dragoon (with the spiky armor and spear, fighting dragons), the Stormblood trailer had him as both a Monk (for the fist-fight with the lady in the red dress, who is also a Monk) and as a Samurai (for the second half, in the Japanese city alleyway), the Shadowbringers trailer had him go through all the previous classes listed here, in the same order as the previous trailers, before finishing off as Dark Knight, and the Endwalker trailer had him as a Paladin. Of these, most were available at the launch of A Realm Reborn, except for Samurai (released in Stormblood) and Dark Knight (released in Heavensward). In the game, you CAN switch between classes as the same character, so the class switching in the Shadowbringers trailer is mostly canon for how the game works (in the actual game, you can't do it during a fight like he did, which I guess is Main Character Privilege ^_^ ). The companions from the original trailer and the A Realm Reborn and New Beginning trailers were originally just for the trailers, though the game later incorporated them as characters in some interesting and unique ways. The characters you see in the rest of the trailers from Heavensward on are companions and allies (mostly) of the main character. Cid is a long-time ally throughout the series. You can also see him in the A Realm Reborn trailer with the dragon/old guy fight, but without the beard. The characters presented in the Shadowbringers and Endwalker trailers, who speak, are companions and allies of the main character in the game (several of them having been allies since the original game, and most of them since A Realm Reborn), except for the guy with the scythe and the dark-robed guy who was with him in Endwalker, who are antagonists for multiple expansions. Fun fact: The guy with the long blond hair and the scythe in Endwalker is physically the same person who fought Meteor Survivor in the katana duel at the start of the Shadowbringers trailer (and any more clarification than that would be a story spoiler).

Those OP characters are the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, probably the 10 most powerful people on the planet. You are the Warrior of Light, the most powerful person on the planet, and spoilers, the last of your race. The story of ff14 is arguably the most amazing story in gaming history, and I have played RPGs for 40 years. Those tattoos basically mean they are world experts in a field of study, given to them by that Greek looking city state.

I loved the bit in the 1.0 trailer where the ship just stops firing for a moment and focuses its entire arsenal at something into the sky. You get this sense that their instruments just picked up something MASSIVE up there and the command center is losing its shit.

Those cards in the first trailer are quest contracts. Levequests. You take them like bounty jobs.

heavensward is _ALL_ about dragons,there's a war against them and the resolution is peak final fantasy

That dragon in the ARR trailer, Bahamut, sometimes known as Calamity Bahamut, is so large, his wingspan measures 12 KILOMETERS

Some of the story in this game is based on past FF games, but they do make their own original spin on it. If you’re interested, do try it out and see how many references you can find.

The first trailer and the second trailer always make me cry. I was there for 1.0 to watch Yoshi-P save it from the brink and bring it to the forefront with A Realm Reborn. I honestly thought it was going to be the end of Final Fantasy if they couldn't save it. Sweet memories~ As bad as 1.0 was, I remember the good times.

Bro said 'off-brand Sephiroth' I'M CRYING LMAO! Oh man, if only he knew...

21:20 "this man can't catch a break!" sums up the entire main story of ffxiv lmao

So as others have pointed out the first and 2nd trailers are connected in part due to the game failing at launch and being re-launched by Yoshida (who also directed FF16). Also yes you are correct about A Realm Reborn trailer.. it is time travel as if you pause during the spell being cast at first...theres an hour glass below the 1.0 group. Its explained during the first raid of A Realm Reborn called Binding Coils of Bahamut that closes the loose ends of what happen after the closing of 1.0. However the Hyur (human) is named Meteor and is the mascot for FF14. Each of the expansions highlight a class except A Real Reborn who highlights a Bad Guy. So Heavensward highlights Dragoon. Storm Blood highlights Monk and Samurai, Shadowbringers highlights the job class system + Dark Knight and Endwalker's poster class is Paladin.

I hope you give this game a try, it truly is a fun time and you can play it however you want unlike some other MMO. Here are some tips to make starting off more enjoyable. 1) Play on the platform you enjoy the most. You can't switch between PC and PlayStation. If you play on PC look at using GShade to improve the graphics. 2) Treat the first few hours as a tutorial. The main story really doesn't get going until around the level 18-20 MSQ. 3) Don't worry about your starting class. After the level 10 class quest you unlock the system that allows you to switch classes whenever you want. Try them all out to find one that works best for you. I personally recommend focusing on 2 classes, a DPS for your main class and a healer/tank as a secondary. Use the MSQ to level up your DPS and the dungeon roulettes to level up your healer/tank. 4) About 90% of the people in the game are very nice and helpful. If you have questions just ask.

As others said, the first trailer is for the 1.0 version the game had. What we see here are some things that they eventually reused but had to sink off in concept, and others only very faintly refer back to. We see our 'Derplander' (affectionate nickname for our pc stand-in) experiencing an 'Echo Vision'. A power we have where we can see and even 'live' through powerful events or memories. In 1.0 I believe they made it predictive. So what he sees when he picks up that card, a leve plate which are ingame repeatable sidequests, he gets a vision of events that may be. His start as an Archer, an epic battle. An all out war between an evil technological empire and the dragons and an explosion that frees powerful elemental demigods from their prison... In 1.0 it was kindof meant for Primals/Eikons/Summons to have a somewhat memory between summons, and because they were bad for the land they were trapped under the lake and the explosion set them free. That memory is only faintly touched on in the future parts... And then we snap back to now, and we see him make the decision to take the grand adventure. That second one you watched was pretty much what everyone got to see when the servers for 1.0 shut down. And it faded to black after Bahamut blasted everything. Well... Faded to white... What you see when Louisioux got supercharged and killed Bahamut was actually part of a secret video only people who managed to get through the first raid of the game to learn the Truth of what happened that day and finally close off 1.0 proper... All everyone else really got was the fade... and then the bit where it starts off again five years later with the running chocobo. And no knowledge of what ever happened inbetween.

A bit about the Endwalker trailer, like the name suggests the Final Days are much like the apocalypse or doomsday happening right now, as in the entire planet's at risk. Now unless you ask me to I won't go into details for fear of spoiling you if you end up playing, but "these dudes" aren't that OP considering what they're up against really.

Believe it or not, the moon is somehow one of the least insane places you will see in Endwalker.

The heavensward was showing the new job Dragoon, which has been a job in almost all FF games, you said you played FF9 so you'll recognize Freyja was a Dragoon. They use spears and jump out of combat then return and plunge on enemies moments/seconds later

Just a couple things if you hadn't already been told by other people. The "main character" of these trailers is called Meteor by the community, in essence they're just the personification of the player's character. Cid is actually a reoccurring character that appears in almost if not every numerical FF game (you were correct in spotting him in the Heavensward trailer). The dragoon class prominently shown in the HW trailer amusingly was an already introduced class, however it was used heavily due to the class' lore basically being dragon slayers; They amusingly do this twice, as at the end of the Shadowbringers trailer, the class shown with the massive sword is the Dark knight which was added in Heavensward, but it thematically fit the expansion. (technicaly even do it in Endwalker too showing Paladin prominently which is a base game class) In Shadowbringers it shows the meteor swapping between multiple classes, this is actually just showing off a feature that's always been in the game where you can do everything, play every class just on one character. The marks on the necks of certain characters that you noticed in Endwalker are something that identifies them as a scion (part of a certain organization.) Talking about OST, I highly highly recommend going through these trailer songs once more to appreciate something Endwalker's trailer song did which is it actually has the motifs of every other expansion's ost in it, symbolizing how that expansion was the conclusion of a certain overarching story that occurred throughout the whole story up to that point. Also would recommend looking up the 2 EW OSTs: On Blade's Edge (a mid-dungeon boss bgm), and Close in the Distance. Also if you haven't been told the lead composer for FF14 is Masayoshi Soken and the head developer for FF14 (and FF16) is Naoki Yoshida (lovingly nicknamed Yoshi-P ) Apologies for the massive walls of text, I just adore this game and love seeing people experience any of the content coming from it. I hope you, whomever ends is reading this; has a fantastic rest of their day.

We get our next expansion announcement on the 29th. I cannot wait to see that trailer

Respectfully Endwalker was the best trailer. It was a blend of all of the expansions into one a lot of people don’t know that

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but your player character is known as the "Warrior of Light" (WoL) within the game universe after a realm reborn began. Effectively, within the world, you're literally known as a force of nature that has done things that defy all logic to win. It's not even an exaggeration that you and your companions (the folks talking in the trailers) are literally the multiple time over saviors of the planet. It's honestly an incredible journey and if you think the Shadowbringers TRAILER was good as hell, then my guy you NEED TO PLAY SHADOWBRINGERS. I make no exaggeration that it's not just THE best MMO questline I've ever played, but within my top 5 stories OF ALL TIME and I have been gaming for over 30 years.

I mean you were right with Cid. If you didnt know but they have a Cid in every game, he is kind of a cameo for almost every game xD

For context, I highly recommend watching NoClip's documentary on Final Fantasy XIV. The rebirth of FF14 coincided with the rebirth of SquareEnix's FF14 development unit.

"So this was definitely an endgame event". Kinda. It was the event that ended the failed 1.0, and started A Realm Reborn, the FFXIV we know today.

they got teleported 5 years into the furture by the old guy but it was forbidden magic that caused everyone to forget about the warriors of light

The main character is "the warrior of light" and represents us, the player, Also in Final Fantasy 14, you can have every job/class on a single character and just swap weapons to change jobs on the fly, so that's why you see this warrior of light in every cinematic having different armor/weapons

shadowbringers trailer is highly regarded as the best ffxiv trailer to have been made

You also correctly clocked the first big dragon as Bahamut too.

Funny enough, in two weeks we will have a teaser for the next trailer!

If you are not a Final Fantasy fan, I recommend trying this game regardless. The free trial gets you the whole base game and the (award winning) Heavensward expansion, to enjoy for as long as you like. That's hundreds of hours of story, good story, for free. If you *are* a fan of Final Fantasy, I *highly* recommend playing this game. There are a number of crossovers and callbacks to other games that will make you smile. The base game is your typical MMO experience to start, fetch quests and the like, but the story builds slowly until you hit Heavensward, which is deep, layered, and absolutely amazing. Unlike most MMOs, where you are just another nameless adventurer doing odd jobs for coin, in FFXIV you ARE the hero. Everyone else is an adventurer, but this is *your* story. You start off small, but soon enough everyone knows your name and what you can do, and start coming to you for help. This lets your actions canonically change the world, and lets you have close relationships with NPCs because of a shared history that you just don't get in other games. So people call it more of an RPGMMO, rather than an MMORPG. Even if you're not a fan of MMOs, this will surprise you, as you can do most of the game solo with NPCs, instead of with players if you prefer. I can't recommend this game enough. It is an amusement park full of attractions, that has something for everyone. I guarantee it.

Also dont forget that ff14 is critically acclaimed where you can play to lvl 60 in the free trial with unlimited game time during thise levels.

And in about a week here, we're expecting a new cinematic trailer to announce the next expansion. Probably a shorter version. Whenever they announce a new expansion, the initial cinematic trailer is short, then a little while later (usually a few month) they release the full trailer. What you saw here were all full trailers.

It's crazy how good the Shadowbringers trailer is even if you don't know what's going on. It's even more wild if you do - they're dropping massive story bombs every minute in it.

"How do you come back from THAT? The world's finished." FF:14 "That's why it's called A Realm Reborn. we came back from that, but wounds are still healing."

0:54 Good observation! The developers of FF12, and FF16 also made FF14.

The fact you called out Cid... YES that was Cid in ff14. So you absolutely Nailed it.

I started playing FFXIV a few days ago and I love the game

If your interested in trying it you get the base game and first expansion for free in the trial with no restrictions on play time the game feels like a single player final fantasy that just so happens to also be a mmo you can do a majority of the story without ever interacting with another player

great video my brother

39:13 that's Y'Shtola (aka "Kitty Mommy" to many), pronounced "eesh-tolah." She's the black mage of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, a group of extremely powerful good guys that work to save the world. That is what the marks on their necks or faces denote, that they are members (38:12). The Scions, in order of appearance in the Endwalker trailer, are: -You (player character, in this trailer portraying a Paladin tank class); -Alisae (one of two Elezen twins, portraying a Red Mage DPS class here, sister to...); -Alphinaud (the other Elezen twin, portraying a Sage healer class); -Estinien (Elezen, The Azure Dragoon, basically one of the coolest characters in the game because he is MASSIVELY OP); -Thancred (hume, started out as a rogue, now portrays a Gunbreaker tanking class); -Urianger (Elezen guru of pretty much everything, portraying an Astrologian healer class) pronounced Ooh-re-ahn-jay; -G'Raha Tia (Miquo'te, all-rounder in terms of class in that he can pretty much do any and every job, but is most commonly either a Bard (archer) or Paladin (tank)); -Y'Shtola (kitty mommy (Miquo'te) and one of the most powerful Black Mages... ever), and during that part of the trailer, she is arguing with Fourchenault Leveilleur, Alisae and Alphinaud's father. A lot of other Scions are not shown, either because they are not major NPCs or because while they may be important, they aren't the main story characters.

22:45 Yep. That is indeed Cid. Its final fantasy tradition to have a character named Cid.

Second comment, different topic... These trailers are amazing, and during fanfests (at the time of this comment, in about a week or so for the first) we get teased with small teasers that get longer and more complete as time continues. They are very good at creating hype but... The downside that I'll have to note is that they create a lot of hype for people who already play the game. Most of the recurring characters in the later trailers are buddies of our character whom we've been spending ten years with. They grew and became stronger as we did, got better personalities and everyone has their favourites they like to play up. So seeing them in speaking roles or important scenes is great... for us. For someone who has no idea who they are it's kindof hard to figure out why they have to feel excited for them. The way the gameplay is set up normally is that we get our main storyline in the basic expansion and pretty much 'save the day' when we complete it. In the following content patches we work to tie off loose ends and really end the story of that expansion. Then we get some more content blocks that start teasing the next chapter at us. We get into speculation that is only fanned even more when the actual trailer hits. We see things we've been teased with in the game, we get some answers, but more questions still. Again amazing for someone who already plays it. People who are new, again, have no idea why Discount Sephiroth is so important... Or why a Dragoon coming in on an actual Dragon is such a big deal... Or even the bit in the Shadowbringers trailer where the "Meteor Survivor" (or Derplander as we lovingly call our cinematic stunt double) switches jobs; it's an in-game mechanic where you can basically do all the job on a single character. But that it is a thing that is ACTUALLY acknowledged in the game universe at that point that you actually CAN do it, and not just a programming thing nobody mentions. Again, amazing trailers, wonderful music, great hype and cinematics... but not quite as much for people who haven't gotten into the game yet. And I say this as someone playing since 2.1 :)

So that first trailer you watched was fir the original 1.0 version if the game. Which does not even exist anymore (except in lore) because of how bad it was the only way to fix it was to blow it up and completely remake it. This was such an epic decision they made it a part of the games lore. Big huge catastrophy wrecks the world, restart. This is why XIV is subtitled "A Realm Reborn" it got a second chance at life only to become one of the best MMORPGs on the market.

Common mistake, but you didnt watch the 2nd trailer. What you saw was the end of the raid, which told us how the fight versus Bahamut ended. It was not revealed till you do the raid. The trailer ends with the old guy teleporting you(who is supposed to be one of the heroes, generally seen to be the guy with short hair and the axe for lore reasons). Them being on the chocobos was the very next thing you see. You were teleported like 5 years into the future.

"how did you even end up here" well he was being held by the malboro and that crashed into it, he fell onto the deck, it got back up and took off and there he was lol

Thing about the trailers is that they only really provide context to what is going on for those who are already playing. The transition from the 1.0 trailer to ARR requires you knowing for example about the end of the server wars at the very end of 1.0's life and into 2.0. Heavensward requires you being at a certain point of the main story to know what happened with the Sultana being poisoned and the dude (Raubahn) in chains. Stormblood requires you learning who the girl in red is and who the Samurai and Ninja are. Shadowbringers requires you really to have bonded with the cast and know who the villains are. Ditto for Endwalker.

ff14 OST has magic from just about every style of music and they make them all work. Trials and Raid (8 man content) often have a song built with the fights in mind and if the group is keeping up then the song flows perfectly with the fight. Honestly the only style of music I think we don't really have is rap more or less, and honestly I think it's just more about getting the right fight more then anything. Masayoshi Soken is a god damn man but he just goes ham with the music. Check up Scream, The Fiend, The Black Wolf Stalks Again, A Long Fall (most memed ff14 song to date that dev's got in on the memes as well), Crimson Rise (Brand new with 6.45 patch with came out this week). I swear the music never is not enjoyable to listen to.

@34:50 Imagine how it hits when you know what's actually happening, who these people are and the significance of the scenes they chose to show you and then being able to speculate about what's going to happen. :)

A bit of trivia for the 2nd trailer, they had to shut down FFXIV 1.0 because it was so bad but Yoshi P and his team does not know how to end the game and introduce ARR (2.0) that they’ve been working on. But then everyone was talking about the end of the world since it was 2012, so Yoshi was inspired by that and decided they will end 1.0 by completing destroying the world. Hence 2.0 was named A Realm Reborn because they completely reborn the game forge by fire.

if no one pointed out, for the record, minor detail: in the shadowbringers trailer, that angel like being was a female (somehow you didnt notice the boobs) and was definitely NOT the warrior of light lol... also not sure if anyone mentioned it but, the purple tattoos on some of the chars necks were a mark given to those who were part of the Circle of Knowing. it symbolized someone who was an expert in a particular field of study.

Man, this was a nostalgia trip.

the composer for ff14 is the same as ff16, Masayoshi Soken :) not sure if anyone had mentioned that yet haha. he's incredible. and he wrote a lot of the songs from shadowbringers while he was fighting cancer. there's a specific song, called To The Edge, that he wrote during that time and the lyrics are super meaningful to him and its an insane song, def check it out!

The music of FFXIV goes along with the story of the game, and there is a free trial that allows you to play the game for free up to the 4.0 storyline. Please play it without skipping the story. It's designed to be played by one person now. We promise you that it will add one more wonderful story to your life.

Probably the fastest person to make the moon connection.

Damn right Shadowbringers is the best one 😁Good reactions.

"Voidcast dias" is my latest favorite

Lol dude standing on the moon “I think they’re going to the moon”

all those places are in game, and if you wanna try it out they have a free trial ALL THE WAY to level 60 and the end of heavansward with very little limits and unlimited playtime.

To answer your question about that mark you saw on the various Scions: That is called the Archon's Mark. Essentially, that mark is this world's equivalent to a Doctorate.

38:12 : The game doesn't bring it up directly, but the neck mark both of those characters have means essentially they're PhDs. And I'm not even joking.

Meteor getting older with each Cinematic.

For not knowing the game, this guy nails several details accurately. Great storytelling awareness.

Having played the entire game I would agree that Shadowbringers had the best cinematic trailer, especially if you lack context for what's going on. The Endwalker trailer looks cool but it is BY FAR the most story and character-driven trailer so if you don't know who these people are and what they've been through then it'll lack impact. The key difference I find between the Shadowbringers and Endwalker trailers is that the playerbase didn't really know what was going on going into that trailer and that expansion and it kind of just blew us all away whereas we knew A LOT about what was happening for the Endwalker expansion given that it was the culmination of 10 years of storytelling so while the trailer didn't necessarily blow us away the actual expansion story still did as it had plenty of twists and turns that forever changed how we see the game. Honestly, Shadowbringers and Endwalker were a 1-2 punch of expansions that just solidified Yoshi P and his team as GOATS and were the reason why I would've bought FF16 sight unseen just because they were the ones making it and it also turned out to be a ton of fun.

Btw the "main Guy" you see in every Trailer is us ^^ that is the stand In for our Character

Shadowbringers and Endwalker, depending on who you ask, are the best expansions. A few say Heavensward, but they're in minority. The trailers do show that. Shadowbringers is definitely the most artistic expansion. By a lot. A lot of the events are symbolic. Except Thancred and Minfillia, and Y'shtola and Urianger. Aka the lion scene and the fire scene. Both of those things happened before your character, the WoL get onto the scene. But the amazing sequence WoL fighting the angel is symbolic. It tells you what the expansion is going to be about: restoring darkness, and balance, to the world. It even shows how you do it, by killing the powerful wardens. That angel isnt one of them but is a significant force to the early story. And just gonna say it, the little gremlin thing is the best part of the trailer. When you finish the game expansion and rewatch the trailer, you realize who is speaking. One of the best fucking characters in final fantasy. Seriously, despite being burried in 4 expansions in, that person made like 7th on a top 10 ff characters poll in Japan. Anyone and everyone who meets this character from go usually falls hard for them. They literally remade a weak part of the story one of its most compelling elements by presenting us with a delightfully complex, conflicted character that you look at and say, "I literally cant be on your side without sacrificing everything, but I get it. In their place, we might have done the same." Shadowbringers has a fascinating world and so many hooks it hurts.

The old dude teleported them into the future then rebirthed the world by becoming the Eidolon pheonix.

A bit of history, the game from the first trailer aka 1.0 was so bad at launch, they brought another director in to fix it. He pretty much decided the best way to fix it was to start from scratch, but wanted to keep everything lore related, and so ARR was created ad the world would be destroyed. If you want more information on the game, a free trial version that will take you all the way through Heavensward and level 60 is available, and can be an easy starting point to learning everything going on. I would recommend doing that then coming back to watch the trailers afterwards and see what more you notice.

Shadowbringers is best one given without any context. Endwalker trailer hits the best only when you have played all the expansion pior to this one.

Bro i played this since version 1.0, and it took me a decade to understand the story behind the first cuntscene, and you pretty much figured it within the second trailer. Also .. play the god damn game, even if you are not an MMO fan .. the story man .. if youre a fan of the FF franchise, you'd love it.

The old elf sent them 5 years into the future to save their lives.

"Who are you? Off brand Sephiroth?" Well you're not entirely wrong hahahaha

the mark on some of the character's necks are basically the equivalent of a PhD, it signifies their acumen in their field