The best part of Shadowbringers is always watching people react to the ending of it, gotta give props to the dev team and to writer of this expansion, and the dark knight and Crystal tower quests: Natsuko Ishikawa.
Yea chat told me she wrote all of that. I LOVED the DK job quests and can def see how it filled into here. Didn't know she did Crystal Tower too! She's an amazing writer and her character development was fantastic.
Shadowbringers is easily the best RPG story experience i've ever had! And i played pretty much all other FF's and several other RPG's. And now with 6.0 coming this year, our long journey in the saga of Hydaelin and Zodiak is coming to an end. 10 years of story is coming to its epic conclusion! I just can't imagine how hype this will be. Just knowing that this whole story that lasted 10 long years was pretty much all planned from the beginning, i can't help but say that Naoki Yoshida is easily the best writter in gaming history! Also, can't wait to see your reaction for 5.3, which marks the end of Shadowbringers!
@@RicktatorRick 2nd fav? It has become my nr1. And FF8 was my nr1 for very special reasons. And for xiv to pass that, is something I never would believe. I have now played FFXIV since July 7th 2011 ;). Playtime in FF8 about 800 hours, in FFXIV 921 days 11 hours and 48min when writing this hehe
@@ChandaniAranka that's huge! Wow. Yea FF7 is my #1 overall fav and fav game of all time. Mostly because of how special it is to me and during that time in my life. Tactics was my #2 but XIV has skyrocketed since.
I've not played many FF's, but a handful of RPG's and this one tops them all. I'm amazed cause there's always been that excuse (which I've said a lot myself) that MMO's can't top singleplayer RPG's cause the story and writing isn't the priority and there's so much else in terms of gameplay and content that takes priority. FF14's has proven not only can an MMO have top tier storytelling, but also top tier content and gameplay. This throws my whole experience in WoW out the window and partly GW2 that had great potential for story but was just shy off the mark. It all goes to show that it's not the MMO genre that's the problem, but the management, priority and writers themselves. It's likely way more complex to do it, but FF14 should be set as an example, THE example for a successful MMO henceforth. I can't wait for 6.0 and forward, my expectations are lowered but even if we don't get Shadowbringers tier, given the same writer is there it can still come close. Heck I didn't expect stuff could get better after 5.0 but oh boy could it, so who knows!
I loved seeing your reaction to the ending and the lead up, it's great seeing someone else who has as similarly enthusiastic reaction to the amazing ending that was this. I hope to see your reaction to 5.3 which is so damn good.
awesome reaction! I love re-living the end of shadowbringers through emotional streamer reactions! on a side note, I'm stillw aiting for the first one to catch that emet selch is quoting the little gremlin from the shadowbringers trailer! "Who are you? noone, nothing! Weary wanderer, no fight to fight, no life to live" And you, Sir, said it perfectly in the end: "you could do nothing but tear up!"
I don't know, was always partial to "My world will have no need of heroes." I think it says more about Emet's perception and desires more than pretty much any line in the story. The world of old didn't need heroes because it was perfection. The world the WOL would make would by it's design require them. That is what makes it inferior to Emet while also having it do double duty as a threat to the WOL.
@@chrisbaldwin8570 I love how he goes ham villain after we Rejoin with Ardbert ‘The victor shall write the tale, and the vanquished become its villain’
And Ardbert gets the final blow, in a sense. And the writers for this expansion were on another level making Emet...a villain that you know needs to go, but you are sorry to see him defeated. As for why Emet saw what he did....*cackles in 5.3 lore drops*. There is a reason the final part of Shadowbringers has the lore lovers in an uproar (in a good way)! 😉
I do find it funny that the writers basically created a racial supremacist as a sympathetic villain. Emet truly sees other creatures as inferior, broken, or malformed. Yet many people describe his struggle as sympathetic, that they understand his pain (Which in this case is being surrounded by inferior creatures that he feels he must sacrifice in an attempt to bring back the superior race), and that if Emet wasn't targeting the WOL's world many of them I suspect would stand by due to how Emet delivers his beliefs. Emet is, and always was, a truly horrific racist that makes Richard Spencer's desires seem small.
@@chrisbaldwin8570 definitely was a fantastic antagonist. His motivations were so carefully written that at points even though you know the plan would result in un-fathomable tragedy, you can't help but feel for his personal dilemma, of wanting to bring his friends and family back. So excited to see what the team create for future stories
Tissue warning, just wait till they start chopping those onions! Never seen so many tears by so many ( including me ) this hits the feels, the rest of the story breaks your heart.
Let me make you cry a bit... at the End, what is more important to Ardbert.... that the people of the world he sacrificed everything that he was to save finally greet him with joy and celebration... or that he gets to see his friends.... one more time, and tell them, TRULY tell them... it wasn't all for nothing.
I haven't shed a tear for a video game since Xenogears in 1998. Shadowbringer changed that. Whats even sadder of all is it's an MMORPG. Unlike single player game, FF14 will eventually disappear.
Ugh, I LOVED Xenogears growing up. The combat was amazing and I won't ever forget the mech fighting game mode. I also don't think FFXIV will disappear per say. I think that it will continue to be reimagined with new stories, zones, world's, etc. WoW has been going for 15+ years and even FFXI has people still playing! They pulled this from the ashes so I look forward to what else they give us!
@@RicktatorRick The new patch seems to be making many group instanced dungeons/quests possible as single player. This not only appeases socially anxious introverts and allows them to experience the story without having to stray outside of their comfort zones if they aren't yet ready to, but it also perhaps will provide an avenue to play the game as a single-player game should the population dwindle in the distant future.
"shadowbringers is top five easily" ya God damn right. I'm old enough that I've played every final fantasy since 4/2 on the SNES and ShB has made 14 my favorite, full stop. I even played during The binding coil of bahamut and quit because I didn't think it was that good. I didn't pick up 14 again until well after ShB launched, slogged through ARR and parts of Stormblood but thank God I stuck with it.
Agreed. I grew up with FF and loved many of them. FF7 is still my all time fav (just due to where it landed during that time of my life and it's meaning to me)! Tactics was #2 and now this has moved up to that slot. I only wished I had played this sooner! Hot damn this one has been incredible and happy to see that the writer is returning for Endwalker. Starting 5.3 this week since I just finished Eden 1-8!
Just finished 5.2 last night! Going to try and do Eden 1 and 2 before 5.3 since my community was saying it helps fill in some gaps. Avoiding the Endwalker trailer like the plague too!
@@RicktatorRick Yes, that's true. Eden turns 1-8 should go first, since they were released prior to 5.3. The story will feel disjointed if you didnt. Well, enjoy 5.3!
Man i'm watching this video again and I never get tired of how good Shadowbringers story is. Watching this again gave me the take that if you watch Emet-selch's actions and his mannerisms and demeanor to me says to me that the WoL had reached him before we even had the final fight. It felt like there was no malice in his actions even as Alisae is infront of him you can almost see a reluctance in what he's doing and a sadness. I feel that if he had truly wanted to kill any of the Scions in that first mix up they would have been dead. In the long run this re-watching of the events gave me the take that as Emet was talking to and belittling them he wasn't talking to them, he was talking to himself to convince himself to stay the course. When I ran this by my friend he said "HE didn't want to destroy our world, he just wanted his back."
Never have I hated more to kill a character in a game as emet. Mostly because I finding myself agreeing with him on everything and the only reason to fight him is self preservation.
You couldn't ask for a better ending. Everything just comes together so incredibly well. AND THEN THEY FUCKING TOP IT 3 PATCHES LATER?! WHAT IS THIS GAME?!?!?!
@@RicktatorRick I'm actually afraid of it. I cant begin to fathom how they can top what they've already done. And if they do manage to top it, I'm not sure my heart can take that level of EPIC
Not gonna lie, man. When I first met the Chais, I wholly expected Dulia to be what most would expect from an obese person in a position of opulence. Entitled, vain...More like Vauthry, really. I'm so glad she wasn't, she was an absolute lovable doll the entire time and I'm so glad they broke from the stereotype.
So, I know this is a strange, off-topic question, but... Why do I see -so- many FF14 streamers use "Raubahn's Left Arm" as their title? I get it's a neat title, but is that the only reason, or is there some hidden meaning I never learned?
Well, it's heavily implied at the Ascian DMV that the WOL, Ardbert, and the other fragments are part of a singular Ascian soul that was Emet-Sulch's friend. By combining with Ardbert the WOL looked even more like his old friend to Emet.
@@chrisbaldwin8570 Yes this is what it means to be sundered or unsundered. The sundered are fragments of one original being spread out between the worlds. The unsundered like Emet are whole.
emet-selch is the name of his convocation seat, hades is his real name! iirc he's the only ascian whose real name we know rather than just their seat. i suggest reading the side story Through His Eyes if you havent already!
The diagetic justification for summoning in the raid party in this sequence is so brilliant. Chills every time I rewatch it.
I thought it was incredible! Amazing touch by the team there.
Wow that is like the most obscure word you could use for that. I applaud you
The best part of Shadowbringers is always watching people react to the ending of it, gotta give props to the dev team and to writer of this expansion, and the dark knight and Crystal tower quests: Natsuko Ishikawa.
Yea chat told me she wrote all of that. I LOVED the DK job quests and can def see how it filled into here. Didn't know she did Crystal Tower too! She's an amazing writer and her character development was fantastic.
@@RicktatorRick She also wrote the Azim Steppe questline (Probably the best one in Stormblood and one of the best in entire game)
ikr. I've been binging reaction videos haha. They're like crack
AND she wrote Haurchefant. She's a brilliant beautiful soul with a brilliant beautiful mind.
Shadowbringers is easily the best RPG story experience i've ever had! And i played pretty much all other FF's and several other RPG's.
And now with 6.0 coming this year, our long journey in the saga of Hydaelin and Zodiak is coming to an end. 10 years of story is coming to its epic conclusion! I just can't imagine how hype this will be.
Just knowing that this whole story that lasted 10 long years was pretty much all planned from the beginning, i can't help but say that Naoki Yoshida is easily the best writter in gaming history!
Also, can't wait to see your reaction for 5.3, which marks the end of Shadowbringers!
I'm stoked for it! This has easily bumped into my 2nd fav FF of all time and has been an incredible story. I wish I played this game sooner!
Naoki Yoshida is the director, not the writer. The credit for the Shadowbringers writing falls to the incredible skill of Ishikawa Natsuki.
@@RicktatorRick 2nd fav? It has become my nr1. And FF8 was my nr1 for very special reasons. And for xiv to pass that, is something I never would believe. I have now played FFXIV since July 7th 2011 ;). Playtime in FF8 about 800 hours, in FFXIV 921 days 11 hours and 48min when writing this hehe
@@ChandaniAranka that's huge! Wow. Yea FF7 is my #1 overall fav and fav game of all time. Mostly because of how special it is to me and during that time in my life. Tactics was my #2 but XIV has skyrocketed since.
I've not played many FF's, but a handful of RPG's and this one tops them all. I'm amazed cause there's always been that excuse (which I've said a lot myself) that MMO's can't top singleplayer RPG's cause the story and writing isn't the priority and there's so much else in terms of gameplay and content that takes priority. FF14's has proven not only can an MMO have top tier storytelling, but also top tier content and gameplay. This throws my whole experience in WoW out the window and partly GW2 that had great potential for story but was just shy off the mark.
It all goes to show that it's not the MMO genre that's the problem, but the management, priority and writers themselves. It's likely way more complex to do it, but FF14 should be set as an example, THE example for a successful MMO henceforth. I can't wait for 6.0 and forward, my expectations are lowered but even if we don't get Shadowbringers tier, given the same writer is there it can still come close. Heck I didn't expect stuff could get better after 5.0 but oh boy could it, so who knows!
Never in a million years did I think an MMO would make me tear up.
I loved seeing your reaction to the ending and the lead up, it's great seeing someone else who has as similarly enthusiastic reaction to the amazing ending that was this. I hope to see your reaction to 5.3 which is so damn good.
Just finished 5.2 this week and going to finish Eden phase 1/2 before hitting 5.3!
@@RicktatorRick Awesome I hope you'll upload your reaction to going into the final trial of 5.3 and the ending of the story that is Shadowbringers.
That little smile Emet gives after you nod to his request. How the music starts... damn, gets me every time.
5.0 was like facing a party of onion ninjas, but wait until you face against the raid of onion ninjas. ;P
I'm not prepared! I guess I need to stay hydrated...
awesome reaction! I love re-living the end of shadowbringers through emotional streamer reactions!
on a side note, I'm stillw aiting for the first one to catch that emet selch is quoting the little gremlin from the shadowbringers trailer! "Who are you? noone, nothing! Weary wanderer, no fight to fight, no life to live"
And you, Sir, said it perfectly in the end: "you could do nothing but tear up!"
It's so damned good...
"I. Am. Hades!"
Best fucking quote in the entire franchise.
And you'll note. No titles under his name at the fight. Just like he said.
I don't know, was always partial to "My world will have no need of heroes." I think it says more about Emet's perception and desires more than pretty much any line in the story. The world of old didn't need heroes because it was perfection. The world the WOL would make would by it's design require them. That is what makes it inferior to Emet while also having it do double duty as a threat to the WOL.
I think among FF14 quotes, "A smile better suits a hero" is still my absolute favorite.
@@chrisbaldwin8570 I love how he goes ham villain after we Rejoin with Ardbert ‘The victor shall write the tale, and the vanquished become its villain’
The moment they mad Duty Finder Canon
"Oh no, my glue!"
Caught me off guard. Cackled aloud where I was moments before contemplating the gravity of the Ryne situation.
"how can it get better than this?" with patch 5.3 that's how, good luck!
Hoping to start it this week after Eden!
I never thought myself this story could reach new heights, but the patch story... holy shit, hit me harder even.
Yoshi.P and Soken are truly amazing. I'm excited to see what they bring to FF16 (hopefully Soken is the music director for it).
I can only imagine! Def could see the touches from the Heavensward team in the trailer. I cannot wait! (And hope it's rated Mature)
this one moment made ff 14 the best game of all time for me
So glad you popped up in my recommended. Love these vids man.
I nearly lost my shit when they incorporated your party members into the Lore. That was simply *chefs kiss* sublime.
Oh, btw, Urianger was right next to Yshtola, Thancred, Ryne and Graha, but floating DEAD in the water
I laughed for 10mins when I first saw that.
And Ardbert gets the final blow, in a sense. And the writers for this expansion were on another level making Emet...a villain that you know needs to go, but you are sorry to see him defeated. As for why Emet saw what he did....*cackles in 5.3 lore drops*. There is a reason the final part of Shadowbringers has the lore lovers in an uproar (in a good way)! 😉
Can't wait!
I do find it funny that the writers basically created a racial supremacist as a sympathetic villain. Emet truly sees other creatures as inferior, broken, or malformed. Yet many people describe his struggle as sympathetic, that they understand his pain (Which in this case is being surrounded by inferior creatures that he feels he must sacrifice in an attempt to bring back the superior race), and that if Emet wasn't targeting the WOL's world many of them I suspect would stand by due to how Emet delivers his beliefs. Emet is, and always was, a truly horrific racist that makes Richard Spencer's desires seem small.
@@chrisbaldwin8570 definitely was a fantastic antagonist. His motivations were so carefully written that at points even though you know the plan would result in un-fathomable tragedy, you can't help but feel for his personal dilemma, of wanting to bring his friends and family back.
So excited to see what the team create for future stories
"For we who walk before, may lead those who walk after." The moment I saw this Im like, DAMN! they managed to tie in "Answers"
How about that Endwalker wrap-up, though?
Tissue warning, just wait till they start chopping those onions! Never seen so many tears by so many ( including me ) this hits the feels, the rest of the story breaks your heart.
Started 5.3 last night! Wanted to do Eden 1-8 since chat said it has some filler to support it. I'm not sure if I'm prepared? lol
"Do a super hakuden. Do a goku vs cell!" He did a WoL vs Emet, one to add to the pile of awesome moments to reference in future!
:D
LOVE THIS PART OF THE GAME, MY FAVORITE EVER
I cracked up when Urianger was washed up at the end of it lolol
Let me make you cry a bit... at the End, what is more important to Ardbert.... that the people of the world he sacrificed everything that he was to save finally greet him with joy and celebration... or that he gets to see his friends.... one more time, and tell them, TRULY tell them... it wasn't all for nothing.
This expansion invoked all the feels
Emet chose to pass on in his own term instead of transferring to another body. Thats a gigachad move right there
TBH I don’t think we will ever have a character as good as Emet again. Easily my favorite FF character.
Dude how the FUCK did you get your character to look so badass? I love the story but i was just staring at this absolute units amazing beard!
A little bit of luck and channeling my inner beard! lol. It helps when I turn into a floor mage too.
Great reaction!
Thank you!
I haven't shed a tear for a video game since Xenogears in 1998. Shadowbringer changed that. Whats even sadder of all is it's an MMORPG. Unlike single player game, FF14 will eventually disappear.
Ugh, I LOVED Xenogears growing up. The combat was amazing and I won't ever forget the mech fighting game mode. I also don't think FFXIV will disappear per say. I think that it will continue to be reimagined with new stories, zones, world's, etc. WoW has been going for 15+ years and even FFXI has people still playing! They pulled this from the ashes so I look forward to what else they give us!
@@RicktatorRick
The new patch seems to be making many group instanced dungeons/quests possible as single player. This not only appeases socially anxious introverts and allows them to experience the story without having to stray outside of their comfort zones if they aren't yet ready to, but it also perhaps will provide an avenue to play the game as a single-player game should the population dwindle in the distant future.
"shadowbringers is top five easily" ya God damn right. I'm old enough that I've played every final fantasy since 4/2 on the SNES and ShB has made 14 my favorite, full stop. I even played during The binding coil of bahamut and quit because I didn't think it was that good. I didn't pick up 14 again until well after ShB launched, slogged through ARR and parts of Stormblood but thank God I stuck with it.
Agreed. I grew up with FF and loved many of them. FF7 is still my all time fav (just due to where it landed during that time of my life and it's meaning to me)! Tactics was #2 and now this has moved up to that slot. I only wished I had played this sooner!
Hot damn this one has been incredible and happy to see that the writer is returning for Endwalker. Starting 5.3 this week since I just finished Eden 1-8!
自分もエンディングの音楽には感動を覚えました。この後も楽しんでください！
bgmべた褒め兄貴大好き
Graha Tia used LB3: DUTY FINDER!
They have their work cut out for themselves if they are going to top this story.
5.3 is pretty good...
Ishikawa is the main writer for the next expansion, so hopefully she'll be able to continue the momentum. :D
*ENDWALKER HYPE*
Yeah, you need to be prepared for Onion Knights and Onion Ninjas on your way to completing the Shadowbringers story in 5.3.
Just finished 5.2 last night! Going to try and do Eden 1 and 2 before 5.3 since my community was saying it helps fill in some gaps. Avoiding the Endwalker trailer like the plague too!
@@RicktatorRick Yes, that's true. Eden turns 1-8 should go first, since they were released prior to 5.3. The story will feel disjointed if you didnt. Well, enjoy 5.3!
its not over yet my guy :D youve got to finish 5.3 before Shadowbringers is finished
Just finished 5.2! Going to try and to Eden 1-8 before going into it.
Man i'm watching this video again and I never get tired of how good Shadowbringers story is. Watching this again gave me the take that if you watch Emet-selch's actions and his mannerisms and demeanor to me says to me that the WoL had reached him before we even had the final fight. It felt like there was no malice in his actions even as Alisae is infront of him you can almost see a reluctance in what he's doing and a sadness. I feel that if he had truly wanted to kill any of the Scions in that first mix up they would have been dead. In the long run this re-watching of the events gave me the take that as Emet was talking to and belittling them he wasn't talking to them, he was talking to himself to convince himself to stay the course. When I ran this by my friend he said "HE didn't want to destroy our world, he just wanted his back."
Never have I hated more to kill a character in a game as emet. Mostly because I finding myself agreeing with him on everything and the only reason to fight him is self preservation.
I know! It's insane how relatable to some of his vewis/actions are. In all, he just wanted to bring his friends/people back.
woah, we made the same replies
You couldn't ask for a better ending. Everything just comes together so incredibly well.
AND THEN THEY FUCKING TOP IT 3 PATCHES LATER?! WHAT IS THIS GAME?!?!?!
It's insane how well it's come together. I can't imagine how Endwalker will be bringing every loose end up!
@@RicktatorRick I'm actually afraid of it. I cant begin to fathom how they can top what they've already done. And if they do manage to top it, I'm not sure my heart can take that level of EPIC
12:00 Using transformation magicks in front of others is very unbecoming, Emet.
That blue menu setup is really throwing me off
It took a bit for me to get used to and I kinda wish they had everything in the blue if you chose it.
Not gonna lie, man. When I first met the Chais, I wholly expected Dulia to be what most would expect from an obese person in a position of opulence. Entitled, vain...More like Vauthry, really. I'm so glad she wasn't, she was an absolute lovable doll the entire time and I'm so glad they broke from the stereotype.
I hope we get to see them again with more story! Loved em by the end.
7:58 My exact choice haha!
So, I know this is a strange, off-topic question, but... Why do I see -so- many FF14 streamers use "Raubahn's Left Arm" as their title? I get it's a neat title, but is that the only reason, or is there some hidden meaning I never learned?
I can't say why others did it, but I thought it was a hilarious title and had to use it. Still one of my favs.
he saw his friend since he's kinda the "WoL" of their "time"
Well, it's heavily implied at the Ascian DMV that the WOL, Ardbert, and the other fragments are part of a singular Ascian soul that was Emet-Sulch's friend. By combining with Ardbert the WOL looked even more like his old friend to Emet.
@@chrisbaldwin8570 Yes this is what it means to be sundered or unsundered. The sundered are fragments of one original being spread out between the worlds. The unsundered like Emet are whole.
@@shadenox8164 would u think moving forward. We would need to get all to beat the big bad? Assuming theres more to zenos and the hooded guy
Your character looks pretty cool. Just sayin'
Thanks!
you should zoom out your camara, you are failing/missing lot of mechanics cause that
Thanks for the advice!
@@RicktatorRick it's a pleasure! You are going to feel lot better on the endgame content with that camera
Emet-Selch is so great, no one refers to him as Hades to this day.
but the rest we refer to them by their Acian name, think about it.
emet-selch is the name of his convocation seat, hades is his real name! iirc he's the only ascian whose real name we know rather than just their seat. i suggest reading the side story Through His Eyes if you havent already!
@@sabrinasanchez2724 well, we know one other.... but that’s SPOILERS.
@@iconius2000 thats why i didnt say it. but also thats not their real name either, just their seat's name
@@sabrinasanchez2724 well, I didn’t reference where / when we found out either 😜
Also, we do know both names for that person.
If you don't pick "all by myself?" here, you're evil. Good Job making the right choice.
Lol, chat told me the same thing after I picked it.
Why?