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Music toi loud for me

I love the cutscenes with the proper heroes (meaning Meteor and the rest of the ganf from the promotional cutscenes XD)

Louisoix should be revered by every Eorezian for his sacrifice and triumph over Bahamut, as their existence would have ended without his intervention. Not nearly enough respect given to the man In ARR and beyond. Shame most players today will never know about that story unless they play through coils.

I don't regret missing out on playing this game, but I do wish there were a way to experience its story first hand. Logging in to a nightmare about oneself getting murdered is such a powerful narrative device.

I can only imagine how cool it must have been to watch the world around you crumble and burn as Bahamut draws near.

When is the next vid Ari!

Bro the scene where the Scions fight Gaius is the most I've ever seen them directly do anything Certainly compared to Realm Reborn/7th Astral Age

As someone who has just started ARR, I think you should keep up with explaining the story. You have a knack for giving the necessary gravitas to the story beats when needed and explaining things well enough that people know the context but can still dig deeper to know more if they want to. Great work on the video.

Honestly this video is a big help in me deciding how my character fits into story and world of FF XIV.

Two years and no other vids? Hope you’re ok man. This was an AMAZING video to listen to while at work. Whatever you’re up to now, I hope that you still have time for Dawntrail <3

Thank you for this. You may not continue like you planned, but this was amazing. Thank you very much.

The video started as a slog and got better as it went but you closed that thing out like a boss.

how dare you call Godbert Manderville unimportant!

no wonder ARR kinda sucked bc i was supposed to kinda know the characters and their backstory lmaoooo i find out months later omg

Did you ever plan on releasing those other story recaps? I liked this a lot and would love to see more

damn, 41:40, i cant believe Gaius killed Hildibrand too smh

>mentions Female Hrothgar's will be added in the game two years ago Now that we're getting them in Dawntrail I never realized that this was something planned so far in advance. lol

God I hope 7.0's graphic update can make current XIV look even half as pretty as 1.0

yo I forgot about the nightmares! That was really trippy! Good stuff!

Great video, ehens the next?

Bro dropped a banger of an explanation, didn't elaborate and then left.

I don't know why you have so few subs, but this is amazing! I've watched the Speakers Network stuff like Fall and Rise and Remnants of a Realm, but this is such a good recap of the overall story. Thank you for sharing this. (2.3 to present player here)

Those cutscenes were INCREDIBLE for 1.0! It's an unbelievable loss and shame that 2.0 cutscenes are such an insanely massive downgrade.

Great video!

Thank you for this ❤

Honestly... How about an area that's like a Eureka or Bozja where you can experience all the story events of 1.0 I think that would be awesome! Mini retro expansion in an expansion.

i was there and didn’t even know it. i was a dumb lil 10 year old kid lol picked up ARR seriously two yrs ago

Love your detail on this trailer. Some context for the main character, Warrior of Light. Because Final Fantasy XIV is an online MMORPG, you're able to change classes/jobs. When he flashes blue and his armor changes, that's him changing class. Specifically previous classes highlighted from earlier content chapters (as shown by the flashback). This is a very important element to the game's structure. I highly suggest starting with A Realm Reborn - A New Beginning. That trailer was created as an homage to the first version of XIV (1.0) incorporating the last cinematic of the game before it was shutdown. The first version of the game had failed to live up to expectations and SquareEnix took a chance to redo the game's story, structure, dynamics, etc. When it was announced that the game was being redone, the servers introduced a harbinger (Dalamud Moon) that would grow in the sky as the end of the game counted down. At 00:00 of the original game they played the trailer End of an Era to say thank you to the fans who stuck around, destroying Eorzea, and making a promise to a better story soon. A New Beginning welcomes old fans and new fans to what is now FF XIV A Realm Reborn (2.0+).

This brought a big tear to my eye. Thank you for covering 1.0

its crazy how much better 1.0 looked compared to current 14. even with the 7.0 graphics update I don't think the game will look as good as it did back then. the cutscenes being mo-capped and touched up by hand, while time consuming, makes the action so much more involving to watch.

Getting ready to finally do stormblood. With the Yda reveal, and how Thancred protected Minfilia in childhood, storylines being brought up during heavensward I realized it was finally time I look at 1.0 storyline to make sense of past information.

i just watched the 7 hours of encrypted duck ff14 1.0 video and i was a little confused, this video help a lot, thank u very much and i hope u bring more in the future.

THATS WHERE THE SMILING GUY GETTING BLOWN UP GIF IS FROM???

Watching this video makes me want to voice over my own essays or recaps or whatever but i don't know how to edit video. I'd love to redub this and try to give the reading a dramatic flair, but who has the time? Thank you for making this

Ngl, kinda want 1.0 remastered now

Im currently starting my FFXIV journey. Im wondering how it was for players when they transitioned. Did there characters reset to level 1 ? Did they have to level through the same content again with a new main story or did ARR add completely new content ?

thank you

God, I wish there was a way to experience 1.0's story in FFXIV 2.0. This explains so much about characters like Thancred and why he was so broken in Shadowbringers. To him, it was like losing a daughter.😢 I know 1.0 was rough, but the story sounds so interesting, especially when you factor in the events of the later expansions.

little did i know that back on that fateful day when dalamud fell, i would be in for a big surprise. or rather a rude awakening as i wholeheartedly believed it would be just a server restart and we'd be able to move on to 2.0 right away. boy was i wrong! >.<

shame you never made more videos

Are you going to do more videos? This was fantastic!

I started playing FF14 in 2013 which was my 1st & still the only MMO game I've ever played. I regret not watching this amazing video before playing Endwalker. Still I enjoyed it & I'm glad to have many questions answered. Specially the one regarding whether the current adventurer is the same as the 1.0 one or not. Thank you very much for this well organized video. It made me feel like I'm being inside 1.0 & playing through the whole story. I'll be sure to show this to my friends who are planning to play FF14 soon ^_^

Gaius was a bad ass in 1.0. I mean he is a bad ass now too, but he was underwhelming back in 2.0.

Ah man, the time when Bahamut was so strong, even literal divine intervention could not stop him.

As a lore nerd this was best thing Iv seen. Helped me learn new stuff and confirm what I knew... Cant wait too see what FFXIV next 10 years will hold. Amazing lovely work you did and such a good editing skill hope someday I will see more of your work if you ever plan to create similar stuff for ARR and each expansion. I go back in my geek den turning pages of the Eorzea Encyclopaedia volumes and other lore bits to feed my never ending hunger :3 /toast

Yoshi P. Was really given something terrible and played an absolute blinder with the story and vision he had in mind. Not many developers would actually create a narrative to destroy the world, then break rules of most MMORPGs making hub city's dangerous and having monsters attack your ability to traverse the world. All while that eerie music is playing. The game clearly had problems and was probably bad but the experience must have been something to play through without know what was coming next

Thank you for the video!! Honestly at the beginning I thought it was going to be boring and with just you talking and showing pictures. You made it fun and easy to understand and added in some great cutscenes I've never seen before bc I came in on ARR. I never knew why Thancred was so anal about Minfillia. I thought he was in love with her or something now knowing he was like a daughter to him it makes more sense of why her death meant so much and how much it hurt to see a young Minfillia in Endwaker. Ohh also he song playing to the choses who could hear the echo. It made sense that now Hydalyn has now chosen her chapions by song. So it actually Hydalyn sining the not to her champions. I though it was jusy the theme song to ARR.

Thank you, I enjoyed watching your retelling :)

WE NEED PART 2

Holy sh*t this summary was fantastic. I have always wanted to learn the story and lore in 1.0 since it plays such a significant role in 2.0 and every following expansion. You managed to make this video not only comprehensive and easy to follow- but an epic retelling that instantly captures you. Thank you so much for putting effort into creating this masterpiece! You’re truly the MVP. Addition: So THAT’S what the Great Gobbue Wall was!! I wish I had been there.