I was a kid lying on the backseat of my mom's car at midnight church (Filipino thing) contemplating time marching on each new year's, and realized that the time will come when people I know and love will die, and I wept. Learning about mortality at a young age is great to understand video games!
@Steve-YT383 I never played FF11 so I don't have any nostalgia for it at all sadly. I'm glad that FF11 players seem to be liking it though! I'm waiting for Jesse's reactions to the story outside of the raid itself. For reasons.
tbh, this was the scenario that played out in my head, that one of the female Mamool Ja got trapped in there with him and somehow they got together, but he was too focused on his goal to surpass his father. Did not see expect it to turn out the way it did, but I'm glad it wasn't a case that little guy was a "clone"
7.1 was a big improvement for me. The new VA lines for the 7.0 cutscenes fixed a lot of issues I had, and I actually am really interested to see where they go with Alexandria. These are people who have no concept of death, and I can't wait to see what it takes to get through to them.
One of the first scenes showed a father and son reconnecting after the years of time discrepancy apart, and I thought that was an interesting thing to witness; the aftereffects of the big event, and how everyday people are dealing (or not dealing) with it, but it was over in an instant. Probably the sole good thing out of the entire MSQ this patch. The Alexandrians are awful. They've been so insulated and coddled from hardship that they have literal mental breakdowns at the slightest mishap. Even Eulmorans weren't this bad. Even the GARLEANS put on their bootstraps when shit hit the fan. Not the Alexandrians. Instead of focusing on the real issues plaguing a civilization that's orchestrated its own entropic decline and growing destabilization, we have to sit here and watch them cry like toddlers while sitting around waiting for others to make the hard choices for them. Even when Turali are mentioned to be around who hold more traditional Turali beliefs on death, none of them speak up. It's like they don't exist because if any of them speak up it would be inconvenient to their little plot point of Alexandrian being a kingdom of crybabies. Finding out more about Galool Ja’s mother could have been interesting, so naturally they take the most, boring, uninteresting, nothing route with this. The kid’s mother turns out to be a nobody healer part of Zoraal Ja’s unit when he went to kill a Tural Vidraal, where she had this obsession with him. She willingly does everything he wants in exchange for being an obedient lapdog, and to get some dick, culminating into tying him with her forever by shoving a baby in her face and expecting him to abandon his ambition to be her husband. So, naturally, Zoraal Ja has a complete meltdown, causing her to cry that he didn’t love her, dumps her kid by a lake and presumably dies off-screen. Nothing about Zoraal Ja is revealed that we didn’t already know, so it just ends up being a massive waste of time; the kid goes “Thanks, I know this now.” and continues on like normal. Koana gets a bit of backstory in Shaaloani, the time-wasting region. After a single quest, cat man develops a hard-on for the rroneek, and helps the locals defeat a dinosaur. It’s so rushed and contrived; he wants to learn why he was abandoned by his parents, and then ten minutes later, he does. A beast that has not appeared in twenty or so years attacks, and then a hunter who knew his parents tells him a story about his parents being heroic by distracting a beast. That’s it. Koana, being the super smart character he was portrayed as, charges the dinosaur, but thanks to plot armour, just gets his glasses cracked, instead of being smashed into a bloody pulp like he should. The railway story makes no sense either. The issue we were presented with, was not just getting the rroneek off the track, but also keeping them from becoming stressed from the train noises. We do that by sending out the aetheric whistle from its predator. Wouldn't that be worse in terms of stress? The animal would internalize that their predator is constantly in the area they live in, naturally getting very stressed. Also why is that making the animal slowly waddle off the rails like there is no danger? That doesn't just make no sense, it's useless to the train unless they happen to move at walking speed at the time. Alliance Raid storyline-wise, I wasn't that fond of Bakool Ja Ja to begin with, but so far in Echoes of Vana'diel he comes across as completely boring. His lines are just generic utilitarian support dialogue, none of the friction or easy gags you would expect from a reformed over-the-top villain. How did the writers take a violent narcissist with two heads that represent different personalities, and make him so boring? I'm just extremely fed up with practically every single issue being just "learn our culture and the perfect solution comes out of nowhere".
@@blackdragoncyrus Thank you for taking the time to type all that out, sincerely. It makes for better conversation. I agree that the Alexandrians are maddening. I will say, though, that I gained a different opinion of them after talking with a friend. He pointed out to me that the closest parallel in the real world would be the modern day North Koreans. Alexandria was cut off from the outside world, and because of the regulators there was no real "learning lessons." Learned knowledge is useless in a society where everyone forgets they ever met you on the moment of your death. That's why the regulators are a very powerful indoctrination tool. It's like a drug that instantly takes away the pain of loss. People shoot up drugs in our world to escape that pain, how many people would jump on these regulators if they were available? The stuff about Teeshal Ja interests me, precisely because I know it's not over. There is more to that story, which means there is more about Zoraal Ja coming. The stuff with Koana I actually liked. I loved that the "Head of Reason" didn't just do the reasonable thing when he protected the rroneek. It felt more human to me. I already knew Koana could be clinical, I wanted to see him be more emotional, and that's what his side story gave me. I also like that they didn't explicitly say it was the same vidraal, nor had a tear-jerky scene confirming definitively that those were his parents. As for the rroneek whistle being worse? Not sure, but they're using sound to protect elephants from poaching, and it's still being tested on a number of different animals. It's not that far-fetched. As for the Alliance Raid, I didn't have too much good or bad to say about Bakool Ja Ja. We're on the first tier of that raid. The first tier of any Alliance Raid leaves you with more questions than answers. However, I do like Jeuno. I'm hoping progress makes the place fill out as we go along.
What I love the most about all the caster hate is that this patch actually introduced a totally okay 100% instant cast rotation for black mages so pictomancers and red mages are the only ones really getting hosed
Yeah, i have to say the lack of VA was quite surprising. By this point in FF14's timeline i think every scene should be voiced. The actors can just do them at home if needed. The twins didn't even have one single line in this. It's always bothered me because i know many people skip cutscenes that aren't voiced. It's one aspect of the game that really needs to be addressed in the future imo.
It would be such a fun twist that everyone but me would hate if all the azem stuff in the world is not because of you, but because of one of your reflections who used the inter-dimensional key to go to your shard years and years ago
Love this dungeon. Hope for the next expansion they add a bit more action to the MSQ and maybe more dungeons overall. I know they have a formula but I think it’s time to break it. Dungeon every level!
The "black mage has no movement" meme is so old at this point... Ironically enough BLM has more movement than RDM and situationally even PCT because it uses instants instead of a mix with slide casting, you can literally zoom zoom for something crazy like 10gcd in a row or so. If anyone tells you black mages "stress out" in high movement phases they're just bad players lol
On 7.1 release day I made it as far as unlocking the dungeon, then interruption stopped me from running it. Been stupid busy being self-sufficient crafter since then: getting the full set of Everseeker's gear (DoH/DoL) has taken an age, and the stuff I am selling is selling *WAY* too good for me not to keep up remaking/selling. Glad to at least see what's in store once I get time to get back to it. Re: levelling alt jobs, all the non-DoH/DoL allied tribes are great XP on-level (and super easy to do TBH), including the new Pelupelu now they are available.
4:55 A deep conversation between father and son who effectively did a MCU like blip reconnecting, oh you were thinking this was to be a heartfelt moment? Psyche, Wuk Lamat inserting herself into the narrative right on queue. My initial words out loud were "oh for ****'s sake **** off."
![[MV] A leap of faith...ความเชื่อใจครั้งสุดท้าย (From "Petrichor the series")](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/U1piZH2CNXA/mqdefault.jpg)
My initial reaction to the msq as a over 10 year player of this game "it's probably ascians" xD
I'm still convinced the holographic Alexandria symbol is an ascian mask 😅
my brain went there too lol.
@@Steve-YT383 Pashtarots symbol looks similar. not exact but similar
the other one that could even be considered similar is Altima, which was Ultima in tactics. maybe through merging parts of both symbols but idk
Me when I first saw the Tural Vidraal; “I knew I should have brought my Holy Hand Grenades!”
It's got big sharp pointy teeth!
@argent32 I am very curious how many people got this reference.
Lol the first thing I thought was Monty Python. Oh it’s just a cute little bunny.
I’m surprised Ishgard hasn’t made any Halone Hand Grenades yet. They have guns and cannons.
Teeshal Ja might be the horniest character in this game, and that's a high bar to clear.
*laughs in U tribe*
Giving Suzaku a run for her money
Excuse you. Runar is a cat MAN. Not a cat boy.
I was a kid lying on the backseat of my mom's car at midnight church (Filipino thing) contemplating time marching on each new year's, and realized that the time will come when people I know and love will die, and I wept. Learning about mortality at a young age is great to understand video games!
I'm really looking forward to Jesse doing the new Alliance Raid. For absolutely no particular reason 😏
Played through Wings of the Goddess. Was everything I wanted
@Steve-YT383 I never played FF11 so I don't have any nostalgia for it at all sadly. I'm glad that FF11 players seem to be liking it though!
I'm waiting for Jesse's reactions to the story outside of the raid itself. For reasons.
Because of nostalgia, or because of what we learn in the post-raid quests?
tbh, this was the scenario that played out in my head, that one of the female Mamool Ja got trapped in there with him and somehow they got together, but he was too focused on his goal to surpass his father. Did not see expect it to turn out the way it did, but I'm glad it wasn't a case that little guy was a "clone"
I figured this was the case, as well.
"Are we just going to be sad forever...?"
Welcome to FFXIV kid.,
FFXIV? Welcome to LIFE, kid
7.1 was a big improvement for me. The new VA lines for the 7.0 cutscenes fixed a lot of issues I had, and I actually am really interested to see where they go with Alexandria. These are people who have no concept of death, and I can't wait to see what it takes to get through to them.
i am curious how its gonna go. since making people change is a daunting task.
really we should just shake a stiff drink for em.
Yeah, no easy answers: "Are you going to be sad forever? I mean, a little bit, yeah."
Necron is coming, I'm certain of it. Roll on 7.3's trial
One of the first scenes showed a father and son reconnecting after the years of time discrepancy apart, and I thought that was an interesting thing to witness; the aftereffects of the big event, and how everyday people are dealing (or not dealing) with it, but it was over in an instant. Probably the sole good thing out of the entire MSQ this patch.
The Alexandrians are awful. They've been so insulated and coddled from hardship that they have literal mental breakdowns at the slightest mishap. Even Eulmorans weren't this bad. Even the GARLEANS put on their bootstraps when shit hit the fan. Not the Alexandrians. Instead of focusing on the real issues plaguing a civilization that's orchestrated its own entropic decline and growing destabilization, we have to sit here and watch them cry like toddlers while sitting around waiting for others to make the hard choices for them. Even when Turali are mentioned to be around who hold more traditional Turali beliefs on death, none of them speak up. It's like they don't exist because if any of them speak up it would be inconvenient to their little plot point of Alexandrian being a kingdom of crybabies.
Finding out more about Galool Ja’s mother could have been interesting, so naturally they take the most, boring, uninteresting, nothing route with this. The kid’s mother turns out to be a nobody healer part of Zoraal Ja’s unit when he went to kill a Tural Vidraal, where she had this obsession with him. She willingly does everything he wants in exchange for being an obedient lapdog, and to get some dick, culminating into tying him with her forever by shoving a baby in her face and expecting him to abandon his ambition to be her husband. So, naturally, Zoraal Ja has a complete meltdown, causing her to cry that he didn’t love her, dumps her kid by a lake and presumably dies off-screen. Nothing about Zoraal Ja is revealed that we didn’t already know, so it just ends up being a massive waste of time; the kid goes “Thanks, I know this now.” and continues on like normal.
Koana gets a bit of backstory in Shaaloani, the time-wasting region. After a single quest, cat man develops a hard-on for the rroneek, and helps the locals defeat a dinosaur. It’s so rushed and contrived; he wants to learn why he was abandoned by his parents, and then ten minutes later, he does. A beast that has not appeared in twenty or so years attacks, and then a hunter who knew his parents tells him a story about his parents being heroic by distracting a beast. That’s it. Koana, being the super smart character he was portrayed as, charges the dinosaur, but thanks to plot armour, just gets his glasses cracked, instead of being smashed into a bloody pulp like he should.
The railway story makes no sense either. The issue we were presented with, was not just getting the rroneek off the track, but also keeping them from becoming stressed from the train noises. We do that by sending out the aetheric whistle from its predator. Wouldn't that be worse in terms of stress? The animal would internalize that their predator is constantly in the area they live in, naturally getting very stressed. Also why is that making the animal slowly waddle off the rails like there is no danger? That doesn't just make no sense, it's useless to the train unless they happen to move at walking speed at the time.
Alliance Raid storyline-wise, I wasn't that fond of Bakool Ja Ja to begin with, but so far in Echoes of Vana'diel he comes across as completely boring. His lines are just generic utilitarian support dialogue, none of the friction or easy gags you would expect from a reformed over-the-top villain. How did the writers take a violent narcissist with two heads that represent different personalities, and make him so boring?
I'm just extremely fed up with practically every single issue being just "learn our culture and the perfect solution comes out of nowhere".
@@blackdragoncyrus Thank you for taking the time to type all that out, sincerely. It makes for better conversation.
I agree that the Alexandrians are maddening. I will say, though, that I gained a different opinion of them after talking with a friend. He pointed out to me that the closest parallel in the real world would be the modern day North Koreans. Alexandria was cut off from the outside world, and because of the regulators there was no real "learning lessons." Learned knowledge is useless in a society where everyone forgets they ever met you on the moment of your death. That's why the regulators are a very powerful indoctrination tool. It's like a drug that instantly takes away the pain of loss. People shoot up drugs in our world to escape that pain, how many people would jump on these regulators if they were available?
The stuff about Teeshal Ja interests me, precisely because I know it's not over. There is more to that story, which means there is more about Zoraal Ja coming.
The stuff with Koana I actually liked. I loved that the "Head of Reason" didn't just do the reasonable thing when he protected the rroneek. It felt more human to me. I already knew Koana could be clinical, I wanted to see him be more emotional, and that's what his side story gave me. I also like that they didn't explicitly say it was the same vidraal, nor had a tear-jerky scene confirming definitively that those were his parents.
As for the rroneek whistle being worse? Not sure, but they're using sound to protect elephants from poaching, and it's still being tested on a number of different animals. It's not that far-fetched.
As for the Alliance Raid, I didn't have too much good or bad to say about Bakool Ja Ja. We're on the first tier of that raid. The first tier of any Alliance Raid leaves you with more questions than answers. However, I do like Jeuno. I'm hoping progress makes the place fill out as we go along.
I'm so excited for the cooking in the second part. Missed the stream.
The demon bunny read that LB.
I suck at the spinning direction mechanic but I manage to cheese it as a tank by just using hallowed ground before his attack finishes.
I have waited for this ever since I played the patch Yay
I find it interesting how Gossan has a fairly unique model, in he seems to be half Garlean half Elezen. I feel we might see more of him.
The LB on the last boss LOL
I missed you doing every single sentence of Gulol Ja starting with a "waaahhhh" from ep1 star wars... the little tool deserved that.
someone pointed that Cahciua and the tural vidraal have the same hair and I can't help seeing it and being disturbed.
Lord zodiark take the wheel with this comment bringing me to a whole new perspective I didn't sign up for
So does Durante so I don’t particularly think this is enough evidence for a solid theory.
Jesse Cox being haunted and banged by a sexy Victorian ghost was not something i had on the bingo card today. Awesome vid as usual! 😂
Oh I didn't have the role quest or the Wachumeqimeqi options :o
Jessie got that onnicrafter mindset.
"Golden Throne makes you think of your father? Melt it down dude. Desynthesize that chair, dude."
1st dungeon boss is FF9 reference to the great hunt
What I love the most about all the caster hate is that this patch actually introduced a totally okay 100% instant cast rotation for black mages so pictomancers and red mages are the only ones really getting hosed
I wanna imagine that Sphene's passing triggered a system update that programmed everyone remaining in Sol9 to start speaking British.
cs3 really needs to do an outright horror game, they're so good at it
Perhaps they all like the "Big Fat Tacos" fight (insider Joke now) :)
So if Otis is Steiner, and Sphene is Garnet, and Gulool Ja is Vivi...does that make Wuk Lamat the Zidane?
*Lil JC wanting to jump in the hole* The children yearn for the mines.
Oh Teshall…. And thats how we lost another woman in STEM to a toxic man.
I forgot how creaky Wuk's armor is lol.
Yay, now I don't have to watch the twitch vod 🥰
Bless Jessup for the VoD 🧡🧡🧡
Yeah, i have to say the lack of VA was quite surprising. By this point in FF14's timeline i think every scene should be voiced. The actors can just do them at home if needed. The twins didn't even have one single line in this. It's always bothered me because i know many people skip cutscenes that aren't voiced. It's one aspect of the game that really needs to be addressed in the future imo.
It would be such a fun twist that everyone but me would hate if all the azem stuff in the world is not because of you, but because of one of your reflections who used the inter-dimensional key to go to your shard years and years ago
1:35:55 You greedy, greedy boi lmao:
Meanwhile in the back, Alisaie is silently judging him.
Also- Windows 11 isn't the problem inherently... But Microsoft's irritating tendency to reset all the settings every time they do An update is...
Love this dungeon. Hope for the next expansion they add a bit more action to the MSQ and maybe more dungeons overall. I know they have a formula but I think it’s time to break it. Dungeon every level!
So Jesse...what do you think about the Mobile Version coming soon??? 😂
that was so out of left field
@@myoumyou90 whats so funny is that ive heard talks of a mobile game a long time ago, but i thought they were talking about the companion app
@yoshiiscool2002 Well, better late than never 😅
Seen nothing but jokes about phones exploding or catching fire.😂
1:37:20
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I've been waiting to see if Jesse uploads to decide if I actually do the story or watch via Jesse and skip ingame
The "black mage has no movement" meme is so old at this point... Ironically enough BLM has more movement than RDM and situationally even PCT because it uses instants instead of a mix with slide casting, you can literally zoom zoom for something crazy like 10gcd in a row or so. If anyone tells you black mages "stress out" in high movement phases they're just bad players lol
On 7.1 release day I made it as far as unlocking the dungeon, then interruption stopped me from running it. Been stupid busy being self-sufficient crafter since then: getting the full set of Everseeker's gear (DoH/DoL) has taken an age, and the stuff I am selling is selling *WAY* too good for me not to keep up remaking/selling. Glad to at least see what's in store once I get time to get back to it. Re: levelling alt jobs, all the non-DoH/DoL allied tribes are great XP on-level (and super easy to do TBH), including the new Pelupelu now they are available.
Where is Skyrim?
Todd Howard left it in his other pants.
4:55 A deep conversation between father and son who effectively did a MCU like blip reconnecting, oh you were thinking this was to be a heartfelt moment? Psyche, Wuk Lamat inserting herself into the narrative right on queue.
My initial words out loud were "oh for ****'s sake **** off."