Every time I hear Close in the Distance, it all comes back. Not just the events from Endwalker, but my entire experience from FFXIV. The friends I've made while playing, and the friends that have passed. The depth and breadth of my adventures, and how far I've come as a person in these last 10 years. It's an immediate emotional response, and a gentle reminder that I still have so much farther to go. Beautiful song
I can totally relate. Having /finally cleared/ that part of Endwalker only a few weeks ago, every time I hear this song now Feelsbringer comes all rushing back. Jerod, you done an outstanding performance with this one. This song is so beautiful and amazing. Well done.
Feelswalker concluded with an absolutely heartrending final zone, dungeon, trial & overall story, but amazing BGM! _"The sorrow of a thousand thousand worlds weighs heavy. And yet you can walk on."_
"tales of loss, and fire and faith" that one line sends so many shivers down my spine and always gives me goosebumps. u can tell how much passion was put into it and the line itself is perfect for simplifying exactly what the entire expansion is about. how endwalker didnt receive even a NOMINATION for music of the year is byeond me and a crime.
The fact that it's the first line you hear when booting up Endwalker can't be anything but intentional. For people who have yet to experience it, it's mysterious and intriguing. For those who know, it's a reminder.
"To whomever receives this message out there in the vast reaches of the cosmos...To someone, I hope, who looks up at the stars with the same wistful gaze as mine... To you I say...forge ahead. May all our tomorrows be blessed with joy."
I'm not sure if you'll read this. I still watch your videos after all this time. I used to frequent your stream often, you even gave me a shoutout for my mom one time when I was going threw a tough time taking care of her. Back on Valentines day this year, the inevitable happened and she's not hurting anymore. I've been busy with a lot of things myself, including a move across the country to be closer to family. I'm a Vtuber now, and that's a lot of fun! Final Fantasy 14 has helped me with a lot of tough times in the past few years, from finding great friends to just having another world to escape to. And I'm so glad to see you enjoying the tales that I also enjoy immensely. Tales of Loss, and Fire, and Flame. Keep on keepin' on Jerod, and I'll keep watching and cheering.
That delayed drop during the first "Tales of loss...." at 2:37 is what I live for. I discovered the official orchestral version earlier this week, from the FFXIV Orchestral Rearrangement Album Vol 3. Also a great version.
This song just, has A way of making you think back and recall your entire journey up until this point, every memory good or bad, every experience that helped you grow as a person & a Player, every person you met along the way and potentially made friends with. and I just love that this one song captures everything and more for this story
“If you need a push, I’ll be right there behind you!” “Do not despair…you are not without allies!” “Such victories are rarely won without sacrifice” “Save your tears for the morrow. You may have ample cause to shed them be they for joy or despair” “I won’t stop praying until I know they’re safe…” “Let’s finish this!”
@@ProfessM The "Strong art thou, Mortal" is the most powerful to me. Midgardsomar, a powerful immortal dragon, so powerful that he flew through the empty void to another planet to make a new home, abandoning his own dying one. Looked at us as called us powerful because he knew we would be able to save is all.
Before "Close In The Distance" fully developed at the end of your journey there, just the starting notes were enough to make me cry. I downright sobbed when I had to kill the malformed dragonling, and the cold and hollow apathy its parent had.
this song hit me hard not just from my experiences in XIV to lead to where we were in endwalker, but the journey I took personally to get there along the way. The choices i've made in life and the hardships that followed. Endwalker really hit me while I was at my lowest and helped me walk on and never look back.
I don't think I've heard of anyone who hasn't cried at this part of Endwalker. It even got to ME, and I rarely cry. FFXIV is truly a phenomenal game with fantastic storytelling.
I didn't cry. I felt like shit, I felt downtrodden, but I did not cry. Mainly, because when I came to the walk and I heard everyone talking, feeling like gandalf. "I have no memory of this place.' it does not hit the same way you don't remember who's talkin. Now, this game did make me bawl like a fucking child. "Seto, my old friend. How you've grown.'
The comment section for just about every video about FFXIV's music, no matter what channel, are full of people sharing how much the game as affected them. That says something important.
The Primals rendition totally makes me think of Blurry by Puddle of Mudd. It's definitely in the weightiness of the drums and the really melancholic guitar chords that rock through the intro and chorus 💙 When I hear this rendition I don't cry it actually gives me focus!🤘🏼🤘🏼
I haven't reached Endwalker yet so I can't watch this, but I have to at the very least leave a like here for now, because I allready know that this will be great and I'm looking forward to the day where I'll be able to come back to this and listen to it without spoilers.
@@reimichacha It's great and filled with moments of joy and moments of sadness and struggles and victoires. I'm enjoying every step of the way! =D (And I'm still no where near Endwalker at this point, haha)
@@yamina123 a journey always takes a while to reach the destination but when you do, the emotions and thoughts you have are gonna be all your own to experience and enjoy. Take your time and forge ahead when ready🙂
I havent been able to play since 6.1 because of moving and money issues but ill always remember my time gathering and listening to this song while waiting for Chi. I still dont have the mount.
@@darkedge221 Tell me you can't see a worship leader singing this soulfully into a microphone while the bass guitarist plays over-boosted bass chords :P
I remember when this was playing before I had to do a duty, and instead of queueing, I just sat there listening to this because it's so good, then I decided to queue and I had to wait 15 minutes to get a pop but I didn't care since the song slaps.
i've been playing this game since day 1; i was one of the few in that crowd that watched the giant angry red moon explode. i was there on every launch. I met some friends i'm still with to this day, and friends i have lost along the way as well. there were many ups and even more downs; but at the litteral end of the world, at the edge of the universe... everything just culminates to a final moment; it was like... everything i experienced, all the hardships both in game and irl just culminated into this final "zone." I sat there at the end of the world, staring at the thing that i had become: in bittered and depressed with thoughts that nothing mattered, and this "game" forced my hand to fight what was essentially my shadow, myself. I came out of it all... changed almost? like it sounds wierd to say this: but i legitimately felt better after confronting the end. idk, this might all just be sappy af, but these were my feelings as i went through this whole thing. it felt like an end to my more depressed side and a new beginning
As a long time FF fan, I was always jealous of people who managed to play from 1.0. I already saw the ad for XIV even before it was released and I badly wanted to play it. But buying the game plus the subscription was impossible for me cos I am only a student at the time. I also saw how it relaunched as A Realm Reborn but still not yet in the position financially to commit to it. When I graduated, I became more busy with life that I completely forgot about the game. Only when the pandemic hit that I once again came across an advertisement on the internet about the free trial and since I was stuck at home (WFH at this point) I had finally managed to try the game and became a Warrior of Light since then. Still, I regret the fact that I wasn't able to play 1.0 Edit: I know people say XIV 1.0 was really terrible but I am the type of player that does not curse a game even if it is lacking in any aspect. I always somehow find something enjoyable to them. Like I played the XIII trilogy and XV, and a lot of people hated it to the core but to me they had their own charms and I had fun playing them just like the classics.
@@midlanderhyur6035 the game in 1.0 was definitly really bad, but the start of a great community was there, from the great gubal wall and the war on the devs who kept spawning monsters, to the final parties people had before everything went down. it was good times
Lol when I was doing the walk at the end of the last zone, I was breaking down the entiiiiiiiiiiiire time. I held it together before that sequence but man was it rough xD.
Power leveled a raiding alt last weekend in the span of a couple days. By the end, I just wanted it over and done with asap. Still got a little weepy at the slow ascent up the weird glowy bridge with all the voices of the people you've met along the way, though. It's funny, because when I heard this track in the EW trailer, I was pretty indifferent to it. It's kind of jarring to think of how much it's grown on me now. There's just something about it.
the song is great but man... listening to it for the millionth time while gathering its not good hahaha i would love to have an option to set the bgm before this
its so weird. While i was playing it didn't really hit me at all. I was like "its a banger" but nothing really emotional. Listening to it alone with the context just a memory...now i cry. Well not cry, but that proto chest wrench you get before actually crying. like...dry sobbing or something
This song causes me such an immediate, uncontrollable rush of emotions. I don't think there will ever be a time where I won't cry hearing this. I had to turn off BGM in the game whenever I go into the final area it got so bad. 🥲
Every time I hear Close in the Distance, it all comes back. Not just the events from Endwalker, but my entire experience from FFXIV. The friends I've made while playing, and the friends that have passed. The depth and breadth of my adventures, and how far I've come as a person in these last 10 years. It's an immediate emotional response, and a gentle reminder that I still have so much farther to go. Beautiful song
I can relate to this so much
I feel you 100% on this. God I love how well crafted the story of this game is, especially in conjunction with the music too.
Soken would say "Mission accomplished!"
I can totally relate. Having /finally cleared/ that part of Endwalker only a few weeks ago, every time I hear this song now Feelsbringer comes all rushing back. Jerod, you done an outstanding performance with this one. This song is so beautiful and amazing. Well done.
It's the kind of music that qualify as "nostalgic rock"
Feelswalker concluded with an absolutely heartrending final zone, dungeon, trial & overall story, but amazing BGM!
_"The sorrow of a thousand thousand worlds weighs heavy. And yet you can walk on."_
I love how this is essentially a response to Venat's earlier line: "No more shall man have wings to bear him to paradise. Henceforth, he shall walk."
"tales of loss, and fire and faith" that one line sends so many shivers down my spine and always gives me goosebumps. u can tell how much passion was put into it and the line itself is perfect for simplifying exactly what the entire expansion is about. how endwalker didnt receive even a NOMINATION for music of the year is byeond me and a crime.
HOW WAS IT RAGNAROK IM SO MAD
The fact that it's the first line you hear when booting up Endwalker can't be anything but intentional. For people who have yet to experience it, it's mysterious and intriguing. For those who know, it's a reminder.
"To whomever receives this message out there in the vast reaches of the cosmos...To someone, I hope, who looks up at the stars with the same wistful gaze as mine...
To you I say...forge ahead. May all our tomorrows be blessed with joy."
In the description: “Hey, you wanna see how hard I can cry?”
Me grabbing for a box of tissues: “Is this a challenge?”
You: "Is this a try not to cry challenge?"
I'm not sure if you'll read this. I still watch your videos after all this time. I used to frequent your stream often, you even gave me a shoutout for my mom one time when I was going threw a tough time taking care of her. Back on Valentines day this year, the inevitable happened and she's not hurting anymore. I've been busy with a lot of things myself, including a move across the country to be closer to family. I'm a Vtuber now, and that's a lot of fun! Final Fantasy 14 has helped me with a lot of tough times in the past few years, from finding great friends to just having another world to escape to. And I'm so glad to see you enjoying the tales that I also enjoy immensely. Tales of Loss, and Fire, and Flame. Keep on keepin' on Jerod, and I'll keep watching and cheering.
Ffxiv is still one of the best ff stories I have ever had the pleasure to play through. Love this game.
"Ffxiv is still the best ff story I have ever had the pleasure to play through. Love this game." FIFY ;)
Shadowbringers might be my favorite FF story of all. It’s just so good.
If we count ARR to Endwalker as one story then hell yes, out of the FF games it's the best by a mile.
@@harrylane4 A world lost to Light, with us saving it from the brink of being completely engulfed in it. :')
@@harrylane4 seriously, that story didn’t stop being insane
DUDE EMET-SELCH IS SO GOOD
That delayed drop during the first "Tales of loss...." at 2:37 is what I live for.
I discovered the official orchestral version earlier this week, from the FFXIV Orchestral Rearrangement Album Vol 3. Also a great version.
This song just, has A way of making you think back and recall your entire journey up until this point, every memory good or bad, every experience that helped you grow as a person & a Player, every person you met along the way and potentially made friends with. and I just love that this one song captures everything and more for this story
“If you need a push, I’ll be right there behind you!”
“Do not despair…you are not without allies!”
“Such victories are rarely won without sacrifice”
“Save your tears for the morrow. You may have ample cause to shed them be they for joy or despair”
“I won’t stop praying until I know they’re safe…”
“Let’s finish this!”
From tragedy and sacrifice we rise to greet a new dawn.
Yet miracles do happen. So let us pray, and will our friends home.
Strong art thou, mortal.
Look to the light within, that you may continue to serve as a beacon to others.
Don´t do that to my while that soung plays ;o; this song and the message friends near and far had me bawling over my keyboard for 2hrs.
@@ProfessM The "Strong art thou, Mortal" is the most powerful to me. Midgardsomar, a powerful immortal dragon, so powerful that he flew through the empty void to another planet to make a new home, abandoning his own dying one. Looked at us as called us powerful because he knew we would be able to save is all.
DUDE
I was not prepared for this. Every time I hear this song all of Endwalker comes storming back.
Well done, man. WELL DONE!
Sometimes I have to avoid going to Ultima Thule because I'm not in the mood to cry. The song gets me every time.
Before "Close In The Distance" fully developed at the end of your journey there, just the starting notes were enough to make me cry. I downright sobbed when I had to kill the malformed dragonling, and the cold and hollow apathy its parent had.
nobody can resist pullin out the dadrock voice when this song comes on
this song is absolute perfection
Oh I didn't know there was a Primals version...
I didn't cry, but it definitely still hurt
Soken is a gift to our generation
Even the primals version makes all the moments come back to you god damn
this song hit me hard not just from my experiences in XIV to lead to where we were in endwalker, but the journey I took personally to get there along the way. The choices i've made in life and the hardships that followed. Endwalker really hit me while I was at my lowest and helped me walk on and never look back.
Emet- Selch: For those we have lost!
WOL: For those we can yet save!
I'm so glad I gave FFXIV a chance. This became one of my favorite games of all time.
I don't think I've heard of anyone who hasn't cried at this part of Endwalker. It even got to ME, and I rarely cry.
FFXIV is truly a phenomenal game with fantastic storytelling.
I didnt cry
The zone hurt for sure… I was able to keep it together until the lyrics kicked in. That was the moment I broke and I broke hard.
@@Lacreya It's even more painful when you realize when exactly the lyrics kicked in. It's almost like he's the one singing, right?
@@kittycatzuka YES. That's the exact connection I made!!!
I didn't cry. I felt like shit, I felt downtrodden, but I did not cry. Mainly, because when I came to the walk and I heard everyone talking, feeling like gandalf. "I have no memory of this place.' it does not hit the same way you don't remember who's talkin. Now, this game did make me bawl like a fucking child.
"Seto, my old friend. How you've grown.'
The comment section for just about every video about FFXIV's music, no matter what channel, are full of people sharing how much the game as affected them.
That says something important.
Impossible for me to not tear up while listening to this song
The Primals rendition totally makes me think of Blurry by Puddle of Mudd. It's definitely in the weightiness of the drums and the really melancholic guitar chords that rock through the intro and chorus 💙 When I hear this rendition I don't cry it actually gives me focus!🤘🏼🤘🏼
I haven't reached Endwalker yet so I can't watch this, but I have to at the very least leave a like here for now, because I allready know that this will be great and I'm looking forward to the day where I'll be able to come back to this and listen to it without spoilers.
How is your journey so far, friend?
@@reimichacha It's great and filled with moments of joy and moments of sadness and struggles and victoires. I'm enjoying every step of the way! =D (And I'm still no where near Endwalker at this point, haha)
@@yamina123 a journey always takes a while to reach the destination but when you do, the emotions and thoughts you have are gonna be all your own to experience and enjoy.
Take your time and forge ahead when ready🙂
@@reimichacha Of that I have no doubt. Thank you for your words, they are appreciated! =D
Know this guy is known as a drummer, but he has an amazing voice...should sing more
apparently its now been revealed that in canon this song is from Ardbert to the Warrior of Light.
I havent been able to play since 6.1 because of moving and money issues but ill always remember my time gathering and listening to this song while waiting for Chi.
I still dont have the mount.
much love for yohsi p and all the devs that created something i will never forget.
Thank you so much for playing this awesome song!!! It means a lot, and I'm sure it will more once I get to that part of the story!
Bro this song gets me every time I swear.
Having explored all other music genres, Masayoshi Soken tries his hand at Christian Devotional Pop.
As a christian myself this made me lol so hard xD
@@darkedge221 Tell me you can't see a worship leader singing this soulfully into a microphone while the bass guitarist plays over-boosted bass chords :P
And then Soken changed it up to Evanescence when 6.2 dropped. lol
Truly versatile.
👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you for all the awesome work! :D
Awesome song. Awesome drum cover 👏
TALES OF LOSS, AND FIRE, AND FAITH
EVERY WORD ON OUR HEARTS ENGRAVED
IN THE DARK YOU WILL NOT STRAY
FORGE AHEAD TIL THE END WE PRAY
I love this song and the game. It’s a game I’ll play till they shut it down. I love the whole lot of possibilities you have in the game
This song convinces me to stay alive when I desperately don't want to anymore.
Such a beautiful song, and yea, I cried so hard. This whole section, but THIS SONG... T_T
*Sees the "CHI IN 5" comment*
There is no sadness, only pain now.
This song hits me so hard, thank you for playing this one ❤️
I remember when this was playing before I had to do a duty, and instead of queueing, I just sat there listening to this because it's so good, then I decided to queue and I had to wait 15 minutes to get a pop but I didn't care since the song slaps.
Absolutely perfect
hot damn though that harmony from like 2:20 till the chorus, hadn't heard the primals version yet but you still made it better my guy!
Primal Version has such a sweet bass line! Great video!
I was NOT prepared for this song when it first came on
I was not prepared for the end of Endwalker
the opening to this version reminds me of Brave Shine
Just found your channel. You’re pretty awesome! Love your drumming.
i've been playing this game since day 1; i was one of the few in that crowd that watched the giant angry red moon explode. i was there on every launch. I met some friends i'm still with to this day, and friends i have lost along the way as well. there were many ups and even more downs; but at the litteral end of the world, at the edge of the universe... everything just culminates to a final moment; it was like... everything i experienced, all the hardships both in game and irl just culminated into this final "zone." I sat there at the end of the world, staring at the thing that i had become: in bittered and depressed with thoughts that nothing mattered, and this "game" forced my hand to fight what was essentially my shadow, myself. I came out of it all... changed almost? like it sounds wierd to say this: but i legitimately felt better after confronting the end. idk, this might all just be sappy af, but these were my feelings as i went through this whole thing. it felt like an end to my more depressed side and a new beginning
As a long time FF fan, I was always jealous of people who managed to play from 1.0. I already saw the ad for XIV even before it was released and I badly wanted to play it. But buying the game plus the subscription was impossible for me cos I am only a student at the time. I also saw how it relaunched as A Realm Reborn but still not yet in the position financially to commit to it. When I graduated, I became more busy with life that I completely forgot about the game. Only when the pandemic hit that I once again came across an advertisement on the internet about the free trial and since I was stuck at home (WFH at this point) I had finally managed to try the game and became a Warrior of Light since then. Still, I regret the fact that I wasn't able to play 1.0
Edit: I know people say XIV 1.0 was really terrible but I am the type of player that does not curse a game even if it is lacking in any aspect. I always somehow find something enjoyable to them. Like I played the XIII trilogy and XV, and a lot of people hated it to the core but to me they had their own charms and I had fun playing them just like the classics.
@@midlanderhyur6035 the game in 1.0 was definitly really bad, but the start of a great community was there, from the great gubal wall and the war on the devs who kept spawning monsters, to the final parties people had before everything went down. it was good times
hi! thank you for using the video xD
i really like your playstyle! keep it up man!
good job
Lol when I was doing the walk at the end of the last zone, I was breaking down the entiiiiiiiiiiiire time. I held it together before that sequence but man was it rough xD.
As soon as I read close in the distance I had to click on the vid
Amazing 👏
Power leveled a raiding alt last weekend in the span of a couple days. By the end, I just wanted it over and done with asap. Still got a little weepy at the slow ascent up the weird glowy bridge with all the voices of the people you've met along the way, though.
It's funny, because when I heard this track in the EW trailer, I was pretty indifferent to it. It's kind of jarring to think of how much it's grown on me now. There's just something about it.
Welcome to Sobwalker
A yes depressed bird, my favorite type of depression
Yep
And in the end a character that kills your heart from her mere presence
the song is great but man... listening to it for the millionth time while gathering its not good hahaha i would love to have an option to set the bgm before this
its so weird. While i was playing it didn't really hit me at all. I was like "its a banger" but nothing really emotional. Listening to it alone with the context just a memory...now i cry. Well not cry, but that proto chest wrench you get before actually crying. like...dry sobbing or something
Bro, do the UNDEFEATABLE (Sonic Frontiers)
6 am me not seeing cry
Did you ever do any xiv streams?
1
I meant 2 my bad
Greetings, you who sees this from across the world. I wish to hear your words. Share your feelings. Know your thoughts. May we please be friends?
BibleThump 😢
Where's the obligatory Scream cover XD
This song causes me such an immediate, uncontrollable rush of emotions. I don't think there will ever be a time where I won't cry hearing this. I had to turn off BGM in the game whenever I go into the final area it got so bad. 🥲