Ardbert Tribute | FFXIV : Shadowbringers (spoilers.)
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ส.ค. 2019
- (Please subscribe, let's hit 1000 Subscribers by September!!)
Ardberts tale is one of sadness, good intentions and mistakes. But it's a story that most of us can relate to in terms of themes, unless you too have traveled between worlds to save your own. :p This was the MOST requested tribute, with at least a dozen of you requesting it. Thank you all for the support these videos have been getting, you're all amazing. - เกม
they really took the generic main character on the cover of the box and turned him into my favorite character in FFXIV
It's amazing what writers can do if they challenge themselves
This is why good voice acting is important.
Great voice acting and writing.
Try Japnese ver
@@teteamaster I do japanese voices as well, but Ardbert is fine. Problem is when the whole game is that everyone in the game has the fake mid-atlantic accent. Can't suspend my disbelief as easily
Aaron Paul killed it
@@vodyanifox6704 u can't blame voice actor's for poor writing, but they usualy get the blame eitherway sadly, also can u send me a good example of malfurion voice acting?
Ardbert was and is "The Warrior of Light". He saved his world from all darkness. Then he embraced the mantle of saving it through others and accepted the fact he would never be regarded as a hero anymore. He was casted as a villain, but yet he fought and paid the ultimate sacrafice to save his world. This man is... a hero.
he in fact, is part of us, and we are part of him.
ardbert is our reflection on the first, when hydaelyn split the world, she split everyone, into 13 different reflections plus the source, thats why dude in the place in the underwater city said you and ardy have same color soul, you were once whole, or some shit like that
nathan madden. you and ardbert were ascian, a 14th member of the ascian council, a good friend of emet selch, That’s why emet freaks out when he sees the hooded figure (when you and ardbert join souls) because he sees his old friend, and greatest enemy
Hero's who really did live long enough to become Villians.
@@georgewashington7982 Greatest enemy? Whilst they had disagreements, Azem and Emet were actually close to the point Emet went behind the backs of others and made the 14th Crystal for Azem. Unless you meant in the context of us fighting him, then we are his enemy indeed.
At any rate, I loved how they weaved this tragic tale through past and present.
"We did everything right, everything that was asked of us"
I know Ardbert baby. I know.
"If you had the strength to take another step, could you do it? Could you save our world?"
"What?by myself?"
You know I could.
@@rainbowsnail4171 I like the other response more, cause he was telling ya earlier that non person can do everything by themselves.
@@skyeshi3570 Well, that kinda implies that you don't see Ardbert as helping you right then and there. You were never by yourself, and you know it.
@@rainbowsnail4171 exactly. by saying "You know I could" you tell him that with his strength he could save both worlds. And so you become only the 2nd 9th rejoined being in existance.
God damn Artbert made my emotions explode in Shadowbringers.
When i saw him walk into Crystarium with his clean axe and his friends, i started crying. And I am a 39 year old man. That is the true power of excellent character development and story telling
For me it was the part with his mount
Same part. I kept it together the whole of Shadowbringers until just that moment.
Ardbert is the creators true way of making you hate a character, only to turn it around and turn it into nothing more than love and understanding why he turned to be the way he was. A misguided soul, that had nothing but love for his world, it's people and his mount :( I give the creator the biggest Kudos for making me go from urgh! this guy to OMG this guy ... and legitimately cry for yet another character other than Haucherfont and Ysale.
i only wish i got a proper goodbye with him
@@Leviirus2 For me it was both. I cry a fuck ton every time.
The most heartbreaking thing was seeing Ardbert hoping and pleading that his axe would find its mark, only for it to met with the last screams of a fresh recruit
that shit gets me everytime, i was even rooting for him to find purchase with his axe, i was sitting here screaming in my chair "come on godsdamnit work!"
The most insulting thing about that scene is literally 5 seconds later your character appears with a fucking army. Then it suddenly turns all sunshine and shit. Like what the fuck was that slap in the face.
@@Zwei22 No the worst part is the line that follows. "Though your victory's be hollow claim them." Literally admitting that there are times where your win comes with nothing to gain.
@@Ninjaman9323 I didn't see that part as all too serious. Mainly because that applies realistically to any mmorpg. "I know you just went through this dungeon that took 5 hours to gain a specific drop but... hey at least you got all those slime jellies right?"
That's what I was thinking of when he said hollow victories.
that part killed me inside. Having him standing there and hearing the sounds of a man dying because he could literally do nothing to save him, and him blaming himself. Dear me, the Gods dealt him a cruel blow. And what makes me a little angry on the inside, is how we get to saunter around and reaping the victories and the support of the people, BY LITERALLY DOING THE SAME THINGS AS THEY DID! We get called hero, he gets called villain. It wrecks me.1
Ardbert is a reminder that people can have the best intentions and still fail. Perspective is important.
Ardbert, our literal soul brother.
Gendry Baratheon is an AWESOME voice actor
his voice was perfect for this character
They even look similar xD
he's a stage actor before a screen actor, stage actors tend to do voice work way better than screen actors
Holy moly had no idea that was same actor as Gendry. What a stellar performance.
Dear Lord Ardbert, Lord Nyelbert, Lord Branden, Lady Renda and Lady Lamitt,
We are now you and we have finished what you started. Your story and tale is now part of us, forever, and long will many in the Source, the First and elsewhere remember through our efforts, The Shadow Bringeth! Thank you and fare ye well, and tell Lady Minfilia we send our regards.
Signed,
The Adventurers of Final Fantasy XIV.
This...
Absolutely beautiful
I can totally get behind this
why'd this make me tear up you bitch ;_;
Signed. All my alts.
This man was in true, pure hell, wandering the world as a shade without the company of his friends, living nothing but his failures day after day. And yet...he had the compassion to say that it was nothing compared to what Emet-Selch went through. Ardbert is my favourite character from FF14!
Ardbert had a well-deserved ending.
Ardbert: There is only one hero in this room and its not me...
Final Cutscene
Me: I had help form a hero of this world....
Thats what i picked as well.
@@VanguardCommanderAC I smile seeing this choice
Emet-Selch in Qintana Ravel: We Ascian know it because it was our past, *our history.*
Final Cutscene:
This world isn't yours to end. This is our future - *our story*
I did the classic I’ll tell you later😂
i cant imagine not picking that option!
My favorite character in the entire story. I loved him when they all first appeared in Heavensward, but Shadowbringers fleshed him out so well.
I'm torn. He finally got the rest he was searching for, but I also want him to speak up in our consciousness from time to time. Surely the Echo can manage at least that, right? ... Right?
PLEASE I LOVE HIM
I rather him having this great closure than this being dragged out, also Ardbert is a part of WoL/WoD so it makes 0 sense that Ardbert soul would go anywhere but fused with us like all of the other WoL from the rejoined worlds. Let Ardbert rest.
He's probably in there making comments about your glamour choices and dumb decisions. Kind of like Nail from DBZ Abridged in Piccolo's mind.
Has any of the story ever been kind to our emotions?
Think of it this way. In a way we basically are Ardburt
I need a patch where the first recognizes them as the heroes they are. I would love to see a statue of them in honor of their sacrifice.
Please let that be a patch.
I didn't realize I needed this until now.
Sadly endings aren't always this happy. But what is happy is Ardbert finding peace, his mission finally accomplished, and his friends waiting for him on the other side.
Mayhaps not a statue, but we now can see his legend restored.
Thankfully the Cardinal Virtues gives the heroes the closure they needed
Forge a different path. Seize a better fate. - Who knew that someone who tried very, very desperately to kill us came to be one of our staunchest allies and supporters. He's right up there with Best Knight Boi for me, Best Dark Boi.
Though the victories be hollow, claim them.
Man I will miss him.. I liked him more then the rest of the support cast.
He did stand out from the pack for sure.
Perhaps we'll get to see him again. He is part of us now. Eight times rejoined.
Ardbert: "Please let this work Please let this work." That's where I lost it. Ardbert such a hero.
Damn it I'm gonna miss him! SO MUCH! GO ARDBERT! GO ENJOY THE AFTERLIFE! ENJOY YOUR FRRIENDS!
he has so many strong moments and when he failed to save the Crystarium troops from that sin eater I nearly cried. All he wanted to do was help :(
As we talked for the first time with his voice. I hope we talk again. Showing that we have grow as we become more rejoined. That would rock!
he is always with us in our hearts, Pun unintended.
Isnt he in a way always part if us ?
@@AndreaRushSugarWombat Yes
Ever since I heard what ShB is going to be about, I was _hoping_ Ardbert would return
The way he did though... that I did not expect, but boy am I glad it happened, Ardbert was an amazing character and a true beacon of hope
"A job here, a favor there...we never aspired to be warriors of light."
When Arbert tried to protect those two soldiers from the sin eater. I felt his pain i understood his hope that he could hit it at least once it was a deep depression and I'm glad now he can find peace.
(I love how people say that games affect us in a negative way and yet these moments exist.)
We wade through all the crap because moments like this are worth it. They don’t understand.
I've died before, Ardbert. I'm not afraid to die again.
Ardbert's story has got to be one of the best I have ever seen.
"If you had the strength to take another step, could you do it?"
Ardbert's arc from Heavensward to the end of Shadowbringers is truly epic.
Fight and struggle. Seek salvation by your own hands. Though the losses be grave, endure them. Though the victories be hollow, claim them.
Gosh i love this quote !
They are so freaking tragic
This is even more poignant and striking after the events of patch 5.3. My word. Every character this expansion has been a mastercraft all years in the making, all coming together for this beautiful masterpiece of a storyline.
"For a hero is not measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart." Ardbert never let his limitations stall him from doing what he felt was right.
I think not enough people told Joe Dempsie what a very good job he did as a voice actor.
He’s still in the cast playing Arenvald!! So I really hope that means we may see Ardbert again in EW
@@gateauxq4604 well hes joined with us in our consciousness now, as shown in 5.4, he can very well still speak with us so i really hope we get more of that in endwalker for sure, as well as esteem for the drk story
These tributes are killing me! Ardbert was a damn hero! He was a hero to the very end! And screw anyone who thinks otherwise! And I will miss him. I loved the chats in the inn room. Especially the one about Seto.
I admit I smiled and teared up seeing his face light up and him become full of life again after asking him about Seto. I loved it cause other times he was just so down in the dumps and deep in shallow
Yes that part made me tear up too. Especially because Ardbert was right there and Seto wasn’t able to see him. It also made me happy in a way since Ardbert realised that he was still loved even though it seemed like the world hated him.
this whole expac made me weep, from the time ardy comes back from beyond to emets fading away at the end, tesleen getting turned into a sin eater and doing the dungeon with alisaie was heartbreaking, seeing g'raha tias face again after so long, that was the icing on the cake
@@1jidion I agree. This has been an exceptional expansion. It's been night and day compared to the WoW expansion. Shadowbringers has been phenomenal.
Elfgirl and malms ahead of stormblood
I WAS CRYING BEFORE YOU EVEN GOT TO SHB CONTENT PROPER. I would do anything to be able to have an instance in the game you can visit any time and just acknowledge his existence.
A round of applause for Joe Dempsie and his incredible performances!
Thank you for making this! I’ll miss him. At first, I found him annoying and didn’t really care about him. But by the end of SHB he had become my favourite character and I realised that he had once been just like us, but had fallen into the Ascians’ trap.The part with Seto telling us that he thought Ardbert deserved to be happy almost made me cry lol. I know he’s gone but I hope somehow we’ll get to see more of him. After all he’s still with us but just merged with our soul..
Also I just really love his voice hehe
The fact that Ardbert is voiced by Joe Dempsie, the actor of Gendry in Game of Thrones. I salute this man!
Jesus Christ this was freakin' beautiful. It's been so long since I've seen anything relating to Heavansward, Shadowbringers since Im more or less at endgame for EW now, but god DAMN this got me cryin ;3;
Snackdaddy Gaming more like Warrior of Cri.
Every video I just cri everytiem.
I bring forth the tears, so that you can feel again.
Well I guess I just live to cry at Ardbert videos then. That's cool.
This poor guy. Poor, poor guy. Always meant the best.
When that last scene hit..walking towards the citizens..and then i switched to Ardbert walking towards his friends..i broke.
Home... Riding home... Coming home....
I'm glad he finally cleaned off his axe before rejoining his friends. The blood coated all over it was distracting at times in the more poignant moments!
The blood is just the "recolor" of Bravura Atma tho
@@Konpekikaminari It's not really a recolor, all the Warriors of Darkness use Atma relics. Bravura Atma has the same bloodstains that Ardbert's does.
@@TheUndyingCrystal I know
I did not mean it as a recolored atma
But rather that the bloodstains _are_ the recolor, as in they are the changr from zenith to Atma (as opposed to say, Gae Bolg, which turns blue)
He also got a ghost shave!
@@Konpekikaminari i really dont like that gae bolg turns blue
3 years later and i still watch this vid from time to time because it's just that good ^^ S tier tribute
if only Ardbert was a black mage. He wouldve survived.
only if the healer adjusts.
how is this video not up to at least 1 million views ?????
amazing tribute
i cried again
This character made me cry multiple times such an amazing character who deserved to to be happy he’s a hero just the same as our warrior of light I will always love this character and will miss him in the story a lot
Listen you dont understand how often i come back to this and watch and cry
I wish there was like, a whole separate game that was just about Ardbert and his companions trials and dungeons etc....What a great story it would be.
The best voice acting in the whole game ngl
A damn good tribute to imo the best story arc in the game! Well fucking done! Amazing tribute!
I wonder if Ardbert ever was aware of Lamitt's true feelings.
Wait wasn’t she in love with him or something? I thought at first it was Renda Rae
@@MA-yu2ss It is confirmed that Lamitt is very much in love with him, noted in Encyclopedia Eorzea.
@Daedelous Ohh I see. I’d have liked to see his reaction... especially because she’s a Lala
@@MA-yu2ss Well, Lamitt never revealed them because she didn't want to risk upsetting the group's dynamic, bearing in mind that as a Dwarf she is from a beast tribe, compared to how Lalafells are a spoken race on the source. Of note, the book specifically describes her longing for Ardbert as physical as well as emotional.....so yeah.
@Daedelous ok thank you. A dwarf then. I guess that’s worse as she’s from a beast tribe. Poor Lamitt
This is probably my favorite of your tributes. Ardbert makes me cry so much.
These tributes are absolutely brilliant. Half of them leave me teary eyed. What a story.
These tributes are AMAZING, really hope you continue doing them, nice work!
Thank you so much! I plan to, don't you worry about that!
holy voice acting
I liked his Japanese voice because it’s the same voice as Archer Emiya from Fate series 😂😂😂😂 all I could hear during quests related to him is red archer. They share a similar world view and past too
Unlimited Ardbert Works.
The writing is so good
Who do you wanna see a tribute done of next? I'm leaning towards our boy Urianger
Uriange - amyeric - niddhogg \ hraesvelgr both in 1 vid :D ideas
I would love to see Iceheart. Also a tragic figure.
@@Ray6695 That would be......cool.
The First Brood.
@@maxmax-pi7kw I could do one about the dragonsong war, that would cover Niddhogg and Mraesvelgr. lol
This is tearjerking
I just found out that the lyrics of the Shadowbringers theme are about ardbert and WoL and I’m just here to cry about it
That. is. tragic. Q_Q
I stopped playing FF XIV years ago but I returned just because of shadowbringers.
and I hope you never regretted it.
@@ChainedFei Never did ;)
When i have to descripe shadowbringers in one word...it would be: sacrifice.
awesome job as always
Many patches to go friends! With the power of ass pull and the power of friendship he may come back as some sort of super Ardbert!....Some sort of Godbert! :D
Or a flesh puppet... As we got in future patches.
Amazing video keep it up love your videos !!
Easily the greatest support character side arc in FF history. Love Ardbert, the story, the development, the message himself and his friends sent. Too much good is the real evil. Balance is key.
Gosh darn, you made me cry 🤧
This is beautiful
Getting as far as we have, with Ardbert merging with us. His journey is far from over.
I was hoping to see him again after SB like talk to him when we are alone or on the moon =/
@shadowzach09 and now we know how the Finsl Walk plays
I cant stop watching this. So powerful. Forgotten heros. The ones who saved a world before us.
Makes me tear up every time I watch it.
great job!
Gendry does so well in this role.
This is so good
Just gained a new subscriber
Hey man your videos are criminally underrated every tribute is beautiful and well done. Looking forward to your possible endwalker videos.
Endwalker is going to be HUGE. I'm buying external HDDs for cutscene storage
@@TheNerdsTemplar excited for it!
His and Venat's story 😭
At 4:18 as i had this cutscene it legit broke me.
I dont think their was any scene that hurt me more thinking about how Ardbert had to feel their must be so horrible.
The voice actor who played Ardbert is second only to Aymeric, and its damn close. If it wasn't so far into the journey, I'd roll an alt just to have him with me again
For me it's Elidibus > Ardbert > Emet-Selch > Aymeric, but I appreciate all of them, the voice acting is one of the best things in FFXIV.
@@Scruffed elidibus is fantastic too. I really came to appreciate him by the end of his story
Great video!
This video hurts my soul.
This made me cry
My PC is going to main WAR and get the armor, Bravura axe and even the hairstyle because of this man.
FFXIV continues to have the best narrative of any MMO on the market. I love this game.
Love how this came around so long ago
Omg so good. I love him so much.
He's a legend, and legends never die, not really.
Snackdaddy Gaming there’s another good video called “Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers (Legends never die)” which you should check out :)
@Baby Shenanigans who was it made by? There are multiple videos with the same title
M A glitch gamers tv
Ugh still watching this non stop
Two dislikes? Sin eaters perhaps
By far my favourite character in all of FFXIV
also for those looking for more story on these friends, complete all the role questlines and talk to the dark skinned elezen wench in that same area, it continues that story and gives a cool title, also ties into another story relating to the warring triad so i recommend completing that story too for even more
This expansion hurt my soul on multiple occasions....
Since the WoL can still hear him from time to time and his consciousness still seems to exist in there, I like to imagine that Ardbert, Frey, and Myst (and Midgardsormr, come to think of it) are like Kami and Nail in Piccolo's head from Dragonball Z Abridged.
I love the twist of how light can also be evil
Yin and Yang. There has to be balance
yeah and the thing is its neither the two gods hydalain or zodiark. its the will of the world itself backstabbing you
My hope is that somehow, through the power of Hydaelyn, we will bring back the Warriors of Darkness, and they will fight alongside us, to save both worlds. I don't want their story to end yet.
@Lazy Makara I don't think you saw the same story as the rest of us...
@Lazy Makara Hydaelyn is not the bad guy either
She simply did what she was summoned to do- protect the "new life" from Zodiark
Who, in turn, tried to do what _he_ was summoned for- preserve & protect the ascians
@@Konpekikaminari Which fucked the First
I miss him so much...
Oh my. I really had a bit of a crush on him. To bad he was a ghost 😋
Ardbert was ShadowBringers emotional punching bag. Everything that could of gone wrong for him and his friends did, and he was punished for doing what was right. He couldn't save them, he couldn't save anyone because some unseen goddess needed him for one singular moment. She made him watch as men, women and children were eaten alive by Sin Eaters.
I'm glad he finally got some measure of peace.
Joe Dempsie (Gendry Baratheon from Game of Thrones) is the voice of Ardbert and Arenvald Lentinus.
Ardbert was the MVP of Shadowbringers
Ardbert is on the same level as inspirational as zack fair and other ff characters
3:09 CHILLS down my whole entire body man lol