The Blueprint For Endwalker Is 30 Years Old 

Hahahaha, I mean it's ok, us North American's all got conned by localization back in the day. We went from FF1, FF2, FF3.....FF7....wait what?

American FF2 is JP FF4

I thought FF2 was FF4 in JP not FF5

No worries I felt smart for noticing

All good, it's not anything spoilery either way. The Garlean army with its magitek armors have been designed as FF6 references ever since 1.0 so really none of that clip of FF6 magitek in a fight spoils anything for new FF14 players. They'll run into enemies like that by the time they're like level 35 or so.

Ironically many of us are in that same seat with Michael partially because of him specifically. Those blow-up 'I'm done' clips with his red face in the thumbnails, lambasting Blizzard after Preach's interview with Ion Hazzikostas, were the final straw for us as WoW players. We were all just so fed up with that game's mismanagement and we wanted a new home game with better leadership, and Matt was right there going "so have you heard about the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV which has a free trial up to level 60 including the widely beloved expansion Heavensward?" And you know what, that boy was right to preach that from the mountaintops.

@@FishSkeleton- Welcome to the world, over there beyond that hill of shiney things of lost wonder and things to do you will find another mine of things to do. And never forget Glam is the truest of endgames

His accent though. LOL. I had to go re-listen a couple of times.

Matt has skillz but he needs to work on his presentation and go Hollywood like 'best ad for hair transplant' Bellular. 🙂

he is just a content creators that jumped on the content train after the content creator used all drama and content in other games like wow. these content creators can be full of sheet. actin like they care about the game when in reallit just content farming popular issues they fin on reddit. imagine instead of being innovative for FF16... they ognna make another single player game... instead of innovating they are going into the past. the future is in multiplayer action combat game with good fun gamestyle like Arena or Capture the flag or King of the hilll... also innovation ability to tame open world monsters as your mount or open world raid bosses players could fight over for... check ou the Kings Avatar animation to learn how to actually make complete mmorpg moba game the game has some really good PvE elements, music, zones bosses, story.. but its not a complete game lack of social features like chat bubbles, smaller nameplates aka small text font size option (last time I checked there was only normal and big option=) and no vocie chat. you have an outdated combat and subscription model with convoluted login/register/buy game systems. u lack social and PvP updates. u lack innovation. u don't even wanna complete game. u don't combine PvE elements with PvP. like open world raid bosses where players and guilds would fight to contest them. they could drop epic mounts. or exp/gear tokens that could be 1 alternative to story progression. or the ability to tame open world monsters as your mount. but most good mounts are locked behind a paywall or insane grind. u don't have Frontline sound or graphic notification. the lack of PvP mounts/events/quests. u only care about PvE and story players.u focus on shemale model instead of updating your game lol. also no blue mage in PVP (most good MMORPG animations main character is classless class. from Kirito to the main character in the Kings avatar animation. u don't have a single good 4v4 map like Heavens Arena from the King's avatar. FFXIV community could learn a lot from the Kings Avatar animation from Tencent. your combat too. 20 years behind. no skillshots or dodges, not even hybrid action combat like gw2, let alone true action combat like smite or Vindictus...2.5s global cooldown time with tab target combat in 2021... and they thought they are gonna solve the issues of combat by just adding crazy animations...but that cluttered the game and now they cannot even lower global cd time because of that. lack of social interaction. because u only have chat box that gets spammed whole day and emotes. emotes are nice but feel like u also need chat bubbles or voice chat. games 15 years ago successfully implemented chat bubbles. also new players cannot their content on ffxiv reddit, u have blocked comments on your FFXIV promotion videos so people cannot discuss it.... you take people that care for the game and complain as "toxic"... the game lack social and PVP updates? doesn't have chat bubbles (you only look at chat box whole day which sux), smaller nameplates aka text font size option, voice chat, good 4v4 Arena style map like Heavens Arena from the King's Avatar animation, no frontline popout sound notification, outdated combat and subscription model, convoluted login/register system (cant even use afna at launcher reset password confirm email box), no blue mage in PVP, lack of innovations such combining already good PvE elements with PVP such as open-world raid bosses where players and guild fight to contest said bosses? compete for the boss. they could drop epic mounts o exp/gear tokens which could be a great alternative to story leveling. new players cannot share their content on ffxiv reddit... doesn't change the fac the game has 500 ms animation lock + 2.5s global cd tab targeting combat. 20 years behind. they thought they will fix the combat by adding crazy animations, but that also just cluttered the game. mybe they could lower global cd to 2 second but anything lower hard because crazy animations. but the core problem si still there. tab targeting combat. not even hybrid action combat with skillshots and dodges. elt alone true action combat like Smite, Vindictus r the Kings Avatar animation. WoW TBC, for example, ahs bunch of instant casts too but only 1 second global cd. also wow tbc has chat bubbles and voice chat... ffxiv only has emotes and chat box. and it sux watching into chat bo whole day that get spammed. it is not socially interactive. or actually good 4v4 map like heavens Arena from the Kings Avatar or open-world raid bosses where players and guild could fight to contest them....or ability to tame open world monsters as your mount....innovate....more PVP events/rewards/mounts, combine PvE and PVP elements... and ffxiv community often mix competitive spirit and rivallry with toxicity

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For real, You can tell he's got a real passion for this series.

Yeah, I loved this video.

Could see Matt as that friend trying to get Bell to play for years, and finally he does and now he gives him so much shit fori t.

Thank you! I definitely need some more time on camera and with a teleprompter, but I promise I'll get better. Edit: Don't worry, I *did* take this as a compliment!

@@bellulargaming9515 Haha I think that was meant as a complement, as in we'd love to see more of you Matt :)

@@bellulargaming9515 You did great, and it sounds like Patrick agrees. You're such a wonderful addition to these channels, I would love more content like this video.

He does, his voice is easy to listen to. I love the fact the FF14 is a series love letter. God I torn between waiting for release and yet not having time to do everything I wanted before release. I really wanted my shiny Resistance weapon before Bozja got deserted but I dunno if I can.

@@chrisanderson7820 I wouldn’t worry too much about Bozja/Zadnor becoming deserted at least for a few weeks it’ll just be all sages and reapers which personally I’ll be jumping in to see that

Ugh, if we somehow get a Soken Endwalker version of "Theme of love" I'd get an instant overkill message over my head. While I ugly cry in a sea of nostalgia.

I will instantly cry if i ever hear Theme of Love in FF XIV. That song hits different than any other soundtrack this franchise has ever had :(

Endwalker: "Cute."

Funny thing that actually got a mention when Sakaguchi(Sp?) was playing through as Uematsu's favorite song

$100 say twins gonna turn into stone with this music playing in the background... (...Begins to cry 😭😭😭😭)

When I was a boy, many long years ago, I yearned to stand tall as the heroes of eld. But like a fool seeking to pluck the stars from the heavens, my every attempt to reprise their deeds fell short. And then, one day, an all but forgotten dream from my youth stood before me, in the flesh. A hero who looked to the horizon and beyond, and saw I knew not what. All I knew was that I would give anything to stand at that hero’s side.

@@vaidenkelsier7757 The story of someone who loved heroes so much, he didn't notice that he became one.

[Insert speech to the tune of 'but every attempt to reprise their deeds fell short', followed by bashful catboy squirming and tail wiggles]

I only recently learned you can show him the Wind-Up of him. If you did CT: he’s flattered and asks who made the toy and doesn’t recognize Tataru, but happily tries to think of who else could have commissioned it and guesses who it could be and lists Krile and Rammbroes happily. If you DIDN’T do CT: apparently he’s just weirded out that you have a toy of him lmao.

@@Gredran To be fair, it's nearly impossible to have not done CT these days since it's now required before you get too far into 5.0 MSQ. If you didn't do it before it became required, all the "optional" stuff became a moot point. You'd have to have asked someone who beat it before that happened to show you the dialogue. It's pretty clear exactly WHICH moment makes it perfectly clear they wanted to push for it, since without playing CT, the moment just falls flat on its face emotionally.

And then there's the Savage tier, which is a "what-if?" scenario where she regains her memories in their entirety and proceeds to use the full extent of her time powers against your raid group.

The final cutscene is literally a copypaste from FF8's ending with Ryne/Gaia takng the place of Rinoa/Squall

@@ember-evergarden Certainly not the most original idea, but at least the devs still respect Final Fantasy in all its forms.

@@atraxos To be fair, thats every savage, ultimate, and half the EXs (aside from the old ones)

@@ember-evergarden Well, the Eden raid was a love letter and an ode to FFVIII.

FFxiv can be thought of as an FF theme park to a lot of us that have played some of the others

as much as you cant imagine, and that is awesome

Thought we'd see his Ascian mask this video.

And to expand on it even as recently as 5.5 when you [spoilers for that patch] get some more history on how Bahamut and Tiamat ruled over Meracydia in peace with their dragon children, the tree people, and mortal races, and many others before Allag sought to conquer them.

Yeah, Matt is always so rapid-fire that it almost feels like he's tripping over himself just a little bit. Tone down the speed just a tad bit (around 15-20%) and he's gonna be amazing!

Blizzard give up and now want a group of 100 players to tell them what they want lol

you hit it right on the nail.

You NEED to play 3 and 4! lol

and 6 7 8 9 10 12 😭

FF 2/4 was my first FF game and what introduced to RPGs in the first place, absolutely great game.

This is an eastern thing that has been present in many stories. Dark =/= evil and balance is more important than anything.

It makes me so happy that Shadowbringers brought this up. The Warriors of Darkness were a cool concept but they were even less actually established than the Onion Knights even in the 3D remake where the WoL's had actual (one note) personalities. Chalk it up to it still being an NES game maybe, but hey now we have real Warriors of Darkness with stories and personalities and we kinda sorta become one as well.

Why did you skip 10 tho? Just curious.. There was a lot of hype around that one. I remember i would buy every gaming magazine that came out around that time just to see if there would be an article about it with some screenshots :D

Yunalescka is basically this, was really fun watching her do msq because she actually got every reference

@@milemile4813 I got my first ps2 pretty late, I remember watching the XIII-versus trailer the same period of time that I was playing XII. it was already in the ps3 era and I coudn't find the X and X-2 disc to buy, it was the game I regret that I didn't play during the ps2 days. I brought it on ps3/vita in the psn store but it was a chinese version and I can't read chinese... I'm actually thinking about buy it on steam tbh.

@@Absts4ct Its the last classic FF. With the gameplay at least.. Plus the story and characters are cool too. My favourite summoning system ever. Im sure you'll like it :)

i was like that also when i heard that song! XD also therea re FF10 references too : D

It's surely possible to do it. It's not a very long game. And since it has a 3ds remake, I'm sure there's the "movie version" somewhere on youtube, if you're not in the mood for oldschool RPGs.

(beyond the VERY start of the vid) They certainly made it confusing back in the day. When we mention FF3 we mean the actual FF3, not the American release of FF3, which was FF6 in Japan.

@@bellulargaming9515 As a person that played those games at the time and the remakes when they redid the numbering system in the West on the PS1 era console. Its still bloody confusing. When talking when friends we have to make certain which one we are talking about.

@@bellulargaming9515 yeah, the very start was what I was referring to. But I'm not trying to call you guys out. I just thought it was funny.

This would be the absolute perfect theme for the end of the nearly 10 years journey.....and making us cry rivers of tears

Tbh ff6 was released as ff3 in the us.

They certainly made it confusing back in the day. When we mention FF3 we mean the *actual* FF3, not the American release of FF3, which was FF6 in Japan.

And when they start actually taking about it, it's one of the final areas(dragons) of ff3.

Yeah that was a joke lol

FF2 taught me basic gameshark/game genie cheat code hunting. So many starting points to seek memory addresses to fixate to values