@@VDA19 He meant that he traveled around the world, to evaluate the worth of the new lives, that it was his duty as emet selch, and that we should do the same as our duty as azem.
The entire final scene and zone is so wonderfully done. It completely focuses on all the experiences our characters have made and shows how much all of them grew and changed. It's a celebration of the entire journey we have made and confronts the beliefs and values of our characters for the very last time. It brings the themes of all previous expansions and the writing of the characters so well together. I'm so sad that the MSQ streams are over until 6.1. I really enjoyed the journey and I'm so glad that Preach likes the story of XIV so much
Endwalker not only raises the stakes to "The Fate of the Universe" but it also sets the grounds for much lower stakes in the future. We don't need a massive threat to visit the New World; just say G'raha and Krile went to explore and disappeared, and we are ALL IN.
It really says something when a ton of people at the end of the MSQ are hammering in your head "you are an adventurer above all else. Go adventure." A certain company would have you believe you can't lower stakes once you raise them. Yoshi-P says no.
@@UltimaKeyMaster honestly can’t wait for some lower stakes in ff again, there’s a reason most peoples favorite city is ishgard, that expansion felt super closed off to the rest of the world and allowed us to get personal with a few characters.
I don't even need a threat. Just for the sake of exploration and discovery I'm in. Some plain ol' good adventuring will feel like vacation after Endwalker and thats absolutely fine.
There's a video from a channel called Raycevick called "Saving the world... 1000 times over" that generally says that when the stakes are so incredibly high, you don't have time to get personal, which is where character growth happens. And I 100% agree with that statement. The best moments for me in FF14 has been the heart-to-heart conversations where people just develop themselves, and it's so sweet to see.
@@francoisturgeon1176 I don’t even play ffxiv as an mmo it’s best as an RPG there are other mmos that are better for endgame experience but there’s nothing like ffxiv story
I love the way people crowd for Mike hitting MSQ milestones cause CAN YOU IMAGINE a regular dude trying to finish MSQ and suddenly a hundred people are surrounding you celebrating and you have NO IDEA WHY
id just be like "THANK YOU THANK YOU its been a rough ride but having you all here makes it that much easier to traverse! ONWARD, TO VICTORY!" and then walk forward, lonely, hiding my tears at the realization that it wasnt for me.
They do ask. For the vigils like for Edmont’s voice actor in Ishgard and for the meetups getting ready for Pyro in Crystarium when he first joined, people were lined up waiting and there were various shouts of people having no idea what was going on asking about it. So yes people get confused lol
Happened to me on Final Steps of faith, after the fight, 6/7 players stayed and waited on me to finish the kill cutscene and showered me with positive emotes till I leave the instance. One of the best random community experience I have, sadly it's the only time I experienced that happening
The beauty of Ultima Thule is how final everything feels. How you say goodbye to each and every one of your friends. How the music gradually grows ands adds a lil'bit each step of the way, until the lyrics kick in. How it makes you remember this long journey you've been on. All the places you've been and people you've met and I'm not just talking about the NPCs. No matter how much you try to convince yourself everyone is going to be fine, there is always doubt... Right up until there isn't. And then, they lay out the path ahead of you and you can go on without any doubt, that there's another journey ahead...
Honestly, UT didn't feel final at all to me. From the moment Venat gave you the power to "give form to the formless" and Birbgirl said "he (thancred) doesn't have a form to form words" I knew they'd get rezzed because of that the goodbyes just did nothing to me and the Endwalk up the rainbow road didn't feel earned. Well, that is my perspective on it anyways.
I dont think I've cried at another game as much as I've cried at FF14 (Witcher 3 coming in very close second). Everytime I hear the song Flow, I just immediately tear up as well.
FFXIV is probably the single most emotional journey i've made through any form of entertainment media, whether it be books, movies, television, theatre, whatever. It's just that good.
What an experience it was! Never would i have imagined us all reaching this point. We Crawlers are friends, everyday i log in and am greeted by tons of friendly people, we raid, we chill, we watch movies, we play other games together and we meme a lot! We have become a real family and it is the real cherry on the top of this giant wholesome story u went through! When i look back at your first stream and compare it to now, it is a difference like night and day. Best RPG i have ever played definitly and an MMO that has reminded me what that genre is all about. MMO´s can be so much more for us than just a slot machine, a grinder, a competitive "sim" game... it is the story, the npcs and formost the people we meet in this journey! Hell i even went to Hamburg and had the time of my life there, meeting everyone, having awesome food and drinking until 7 am, barely making it in time to the hotel for checkout without a minute of sleep. A time i will remember for sure, but this is not the end. No its the beginning. 6.1 is on the horizon and there is SO much more for u and us to see. Lets go!
@@KMCA779 Nor does Sargatanas (or hell, maybe all of Aether.) We have tons of great people and excellent FCs but the Crawlers are something else entirely and I love it.
It is crazy... I watch the Kira and Josh video on MMOs now days and how they don't feel like the 'good old times' and then you have this gem. Playing it my self was exactly how feel back in the days going thru the story of games like WC3, diablo2, SC, Half-life 2, Fable, WoW tft and so on. And watching streamers and their communities it make the feeling only stronger. Thank you all for the things you did, cheers and for many more cool moments
I saw a comment flying through chat: "A smile, better suits an Emet." Blew my mind wide open as I realized something: Haurchefant's dying words were "A smile better suits a Hero." Emet smiled at us as he died, because Emet is one of the true heroes of this story: He sacrificed himself and his eternal lifespan to try and fix the mistakes that were made by the Ancients. He drove himself mad in an attempt to right that wrong. And that reminds me of Lord Fortemps saying: "A hero fights for those they can yet save. Because a hero lives to serve, to protect, to sacrifice. For them, there is no greater calling" Emet served his people, protected their legacy, and sacrificed himself and his sanity to do it. Emet is a true hero, but our paths were destined to be opposed, because we were the hero of another story.
So many Emet fans forget, he MURDERED a bunch of innocent people in the process and never apologized for it. Hero? I think not. That doesn’t mean we can’t like the guy tho.
I finished this months ago, when endwalker came out and was crying my heart out, and here i am crying again. This game has a secret superpower, i'm sure of it.
@@VDA19 That really bother me, not the fact that someone doesn't peak 1 but people in almost every chat spamming that one. People forget that with a hell of a journey this it "your" character can view differently. I remember Shen picking the last one in a heartbeat lol. For me was 1,the best one for MY character, but for others can be different and still people spam 1
It has been so cool, watching Mike be all in on this experience, seeing his reactions to things I'd nearly forgotten. :) I cried myself dry during this final stretch. Honestly, I'm still pretty wrung out. That was months ago and I still haven't been able to bring myself to do much endgame stuff. The story writers are masters.
I just love how final all of UT feels, everything building up to one big climax and then right at the end of the zone when we're winding down from the emotions and getting ready to go for the finale, emet reminds us that our journey is nowhere near over and this is just one part of it
The worst thing about this is it's finally over, there's no more msq streams (6.1 is close but also short), and there's not a single comparable msq streamer to Preach at this point (my favorites are all done with it months ago, i still stalk their vods from time to time), and the next expansion is still years away. Vod days ahead, despair! On the bright side, i'm excited for his side content streams (except panda raids and role quests, haven't started those yet).
@@keiichimorisato98 2 years afaik, if they're gonna stay consistent with it like previous expansions. Honestly I'd expect another ARR with loads of stuffs thrown at us, slowly building it all up again, though less tedious of course.
@@ADKV95 It will be longer than 2 years. ShB to EW was 2 years and 5 months. Yoshi said the patch cycle was between going to be 4 months now. So that adds about three months. I am not sure what they consider a 'major' patch But just 6.1 to 6.5 will add 10 weeks to the cycle. And I think they treat the final patch like a main patch so 6.55 may add another 2 weeks, which would be 3 months total.
Thancred getting snapped made me worry they might actually let that one stick. Once Estinien died, I was 100% certain that we were going to lose probably everyone, but we would get them back. That being said, I had to choose "Stop. Not another word," when I realized the Twins were going, because I was starting to break. And when we summoned our old new friends to our side, and Meteion asked "What are you?" I bellowed in response "STUBBORN ASSHOLES!" Because there were 3 standing right there. And when we called our friends back to our side, and the strings cut out, leaving just the piano, tears just flowed down my face. I also cried once the vocals kicked in, in the final trial's Phase 2. The Maker's Ruin melody, _our theme,_ under the prayers of our friends, kicking over to the vocals singing the Song of Hope, I managed to keep my rotation going, and not die, through the tears.
I remember the effect placed upon you once the twins are gone stating you are so overcumbered with emotions that you can only walk and yeah thats how I felt at that moment
Opposite reaction here. When Thancred vanished It seemed possible they might kill him off, but when Estinien went I was certain they'd bring everyone back.
When I did this, the people that saw me were a bit occupied. One, however, the one that recommended me the game was standing there. I can only look at chat and see my friend stand there. It was really nice! Then the final battle happen, the other one also showed up to assist. It was really touching and the journey that I went through was worth it
Been here since the beginning of his journey with the Crawlers and followed him all the way to the end of Endwalker. It's been amazing to have seen him experience the story and the friends we met along the way. The Crawlers is a great FC.
This is still the emotional high watermark of 6.0 for me. What came after feel like it should, and would happen. On the other hand, y(our) friends, separated by thousands of years, of all the tragedies, worlds and adventure, came to your aid for perhaps one last time, and bidding you farewell, is very moving. And, despite all of that, you managed to "recall" parts of your memories you shared with them, even parts that they might have forgotten. Emet, despite all of the misgivings between your character and him, still consoles and smiles at his friend before departing, because inside, he still remembers you as part of yourself, long gone. After all, all he did, he did it for his friends, for memories. Finally being able to entrust that memory to his friend before departing is melancholic in the best way possible. All of this didn't happen very "logically" as well. There were quite a lot of Deus Ex Machina, but we didn't care, it all feels connected and mattered because of the emotional connections. It's such a simple principle, yet so few bothers with. They didn't plan it all out meticulously either, they accept changes, deviations, as long as the core emotion and connection remains. Inevitably it draws comparison to another former beloved IP. The whole mess with Sylvanas, at its core, is because the story can't make up its mind about what kind of emotional connection the player is supposed to have with her. She's not the most confusing personally. To me, Jaina is a lot worse than any of them. Her history and journey seems to have little impact to her character. Her character seems to just be whatever role the writer wants her to play at the moment. She went from being the reasonable leader of an exposed outpost, having lost her father from conflict with the Horde, but also understanding her debt's to them, as well as the consequence of the cycle of hatred. Yet, she had to go through that again but much shallower with her face heel turn during BfA, as if her madness phase after Mists never happened, and she never expelled all Horde mages from Dalaran nor refused to fight the Legion because Khadgar invited them back. Her motivation, is well understood, but she never make any meaningful enough connection with anybody that it feels emotional. I can go on about things such as Anduin and Wrynn connection is effectively non-existent in game, and it took a cinematic monologue to convey it (Legion).
its absolutely been a blast watching Preach go through all of FFXIV. going through 7 years of memory with fresh eyes is always fun and the credits part isn't in this video but I 100% agree that XIV is probably the BEST RPG story. (though it also has the most story so its kinda unfair lmao) I look forward to whatever you do next
I honestly wish I was there for this but I hadn’t started endwalker, now having finished and now able to watch this, honestly my feels were hit just as hard, what a fantastic story, next time I will hope to be there at the end of the journey with you as so many of your FC were
I don't know if there's enough screen time to make FFXIV a movie. FFXIV only works because it gives its story room to breath. A streaming series would be the best bet. Every season would have to be an expansion .
I am going through all the content story etc with my wife, I have done it before but she has not and it's a real blast to see her take in the story and enjoy it.
Pff, look at this grownass man crying to a video game. Stupid weeb game building a phenomenal narrative complete with great voice acting and a powerfully beautiful ending to wrap everything up. I bet I can cry more than he can! For real tho, I shed many, many memorable tears. This damn expansion has been ridiculously heavy and so beautifully and cleanly wrapped up to become easily a top 5 all-time game for me if not the absolute top, now.
I expect there are more than a few game devs from other companies who watch these streams, Mike and Pyro, Zepla and many others. Not one of thos streamers fails to break down at these moments, and this, THIS is how you make a game for 25 million people. Take notes, you devs.
@Jay Bee did you forget the massive waiting times during the first 2 months of endwalker, we quite literally had to sit hours in wait just to get in compared to now where theres only like 12 peeps before me
@Jay Bee FFXIV was taken off the shelves *after* Endwalker's release - a period in which SE also had to refund weeks of subscription time due to player queues. But I'm sure there's no relation between the two.
Zenos has definitely been a contentious character for a lot of people, but I've never wavered on the quality of his voice acting. Luke Allen-Gale absolutely crushed it.
@@hugz4genestealers His voice during the part after 4.3 trial in asahi's flashback is pure eargasm. I could listen to it for hours and hours. Sicard kinda messed it up for me in someway (good way) when I realized he was also voiced by Luke, pirate zenos lol, it's strangely hilarious imagining it as zenos' alter ego during bath time with his toy boat.
@@hugz4genestealers Just listen to the way Sicard says "make me" in his argument with Sir Whines-A-Lot in Sharlayan's loot delivery scene and you can 100% hear it.
Oh my God, what a story. Best game story I've ever experienced in my lifetime so far, and I loved the Witcher series. Can't wait to replay it again, and again x2 with my alt stuck in ARR
It's been a great journey, there is plenty more to see though, and I look forward to seeing you stream it too! For the glory of the Trolley, and the magnificence of KWEH.
I was in that pile of ppl, so fun day that was :) We were scared Preach would be moved to different instance. since there were so many of us 😅 But all worked out, thank u Crawlers and Preach for this journey, I enjoied every little bit of it)
Huh. So the reason why EW was delayed another 2 weeks was because Yoshi P felt that the last cutscene was too short, and then he added the part where Emet 'invites' WoL to see the unknown parts of Etheirys. Did you think it was a worth it delay? Because... I certainly did. :)
I did cry in endwalker myself, but it was at a totally different place in the story. I actually didn't really feel the stakes in this final part. Although it did make me smile
@@louiskusters9452 First time i cried on msq i believe, i've cried while watching streamers play the msq but never when playing myself, but that part hit it just right.
Man. I'm glad so many enjoyed this xpack. I truly am, makes me almost tear up to watch people do this. When I was doing it, I couldn't get past the fact that they chose my 3 least favorite villain types. Didn't shed a single tear and that actually made me sad. A) inexplicably powerful and random new convenient powers with no-precedent explanations, 1 dimensional and 1 stupid goal (Zenos, Garrosh) B) normally un-powerful small character made super dangerous by the power of depression and trauma (Meteion, 50000 anime characters) C) inexplicably insane/nihilistic and single-minded yet somehow able to form complex strategies, which would be ok if he was actually funny and it weren't combined with someone who should be a genius but does just the most idiotic thing you can think of (Fandaniel/Hermes, no comparison) Also didn't like Ultima Thule...I mean parts of it yes but the concept of it being the last place...its so...ultimate. It will all feel downhill almost no matter what they do now. We defeated some half-ass version of the most powerful primal (which was a HHHUUUGGGEEEE disappointment for me, stopped playing for 2 weeks...all that buildup since ARR started and stupid ass fandaniel ends it like THAT, what a disappointing narrative decision). Like what more is there? Meteion even threatened Omega's creators and they and the dragons were the strongest non-primals we knew of.. so like...we will just be weak or fight weaker stuff now (in canon)? If there is something stronger out there, why didnt they stop the meteions? This is where WoW completely lost me...I started drifting when they pulled MoP out of their ass with a single bonus character as precedent, but when Sargeras was defeated, I was done.
And a year ago, 90% of you thought this was a dweebs game. Don’t you feel bad for putting this game down and it turns out one of your life’s highlights.
I don't get the whole 'Hades was an Azem' angle. First of all he lacked the temperament to actually deal with what being Azem entailed and secondly I think people are misinterpreting his "I certainly did" line. He didn't mean that's what he did as Azem, he meant that as someone who had decided to obliterate these worlds and everything on them that it was his duty to see them for himself before he did so. He was doubtless expecting to have his bias reinforced that they were unworthy to live in his eyes but he still went to see them.
Somewhat agreed I do not believe it was meant that Emet was Azem, but I do think that line has a different meaning. It has become quite clear during the Eplis part that Emet and Hythlo were very close with the last Azem before the sundering and given their interaction with Venat, even with her too when she held that title before. So I see it more that Emet just has A LOT of experience in dealing with various Azems, be it getting schooled by Venat, running after her successor and budding heads with the WoL.
@@Sneedmeister what part of needing to be manipulated into doing things he didn't feel like doing shows he had anything close to the temperament to deal with the everyday problems of randoms like an Azem would have to?
I love how the las thing Emet says to you is, "There are so many adventures you haven't had." Not, "There's an even greater threat our there."
Not just that, but he admits that he carried Azem's crystal and explored all these lands because he missed his friend.
@@VDA19 That's the most important thing but people miss it because they go OMG SPOILERS.
He also gets to troll Azem (in spirit) one last time, you can tell from the reaction the WoL gives he says "I certainly did."
@@VDA19 I think he only meant that he explored everything, not that he carried the crystal.
@@VDA19 He meant that he traveled around the world, to evaluate the worth of the new lives, that it was his duty as emet selch, and that we should do the same as our duty as azem.
The entire final scene and zone is so wonderfully done. It completely focuses on all the experiences our characters have made and shows how much all of them grew and changed. It's a celebration of the entire journey we have made and confronts the beliefs and values of our characters for the very last time.
It brings the themes of all previous expansions and the writing of the characters so well together. I'm so sad that the MSQ streams are over until 6.1. I really enjoyed the journey and I'm so glad that Preach likes the story of XIV so much
Endwalker not only raises the stakes to "The Fate of the Universe" but it also sets the grounds for much lower stakes in the future.
We don't need a massive threat to visit the New World; just say G'raha and Krile went to explore and disappeared, and we are ALL IN.
It really says something when a ton of people at the end of the MSQ are hammering in your head "you are an adventurer above all else. Go adventure."
A certain company would have you believe you can't lower stakes once you raise them. Yoshi-P says no.
@@UltimaKeyMaster honestly can’t wait for some lower stakes in ff again, there’s a reason most peoples favorite city is ishgard, that expansion felt super closed off to the rest of the world and allowed us to get personal with a few characters.
I don't even need a threat. Just for the sake of exploration and discovery I'm in. Some plain ol' good adventuring will feel like vacation after Endwalker and thats absolutely fine.
There's a video from a channel called Raycevick called "Saving the world... 1000 times over" that generally says that when the stakes are so incredibly high, you don't have time to get personal, which is where character growth happens.
And I 100% agree with that statement. The best moments for me in FF14 has been the heart-to-heart conversations where people just develop themselves, and it's so sweet to see.
@@alejandroorozco4767 For me my WoL see Isghard as home. And that's canon for me no matter what everyone tell me
never have I cried playing a game as much as I did playing through ffxiv's msq just a truly masterpiece of a story imo
true i dont play ffxiv anymore cause im really tired of mmos .. but i cried so much in shadowbringers :) nice game
@@francoisturgeon1176 I don’t even play ffxiv as an mmo it’s best as an RPG there are other mmos that are better for endgame experience but there’s nothing like ffxiv story
I think I cried once while playing a game at the end of MGS3, this stupid weeb game made me cry 20+ times from HW to EW
I totalled three T-shirts crying at 5.3, I love this goddamned game
I love the way people crowd for Mike hitting MSQ milestones cause CAN YOU IMAGINE a regular dude trying to finish MSQ and suddenly a hundred people are surrounding you celebrating and you have NO IDEA WHY
id just be like "THANK YOU THANK YOU its been a rough ride but having you all here makes it that much easier to traverse! ONWARD, TO VICTORY!" and then walk forward, lonely, hiding my tears at the realization that it wasnt for me.
i tried to do it for random people during week 1 and 2.
They do ask.
For the vigils like for Edmont’s voice actor in Ishgard and for the meetups getting ready for Pyro in Crystarium when he first joined, people were lined up waiting and there were various shouts of people having no idea what was going on asking about it.
So yes people get confused lol
Happened to me on Final Steps of faith, after the fight, 6/7 players stayed and waited on me to finish the kill cutscene and showered me with positive emotes till I leave the instance.
One of the best random community experience I have, sadly it's the only time I experienced that happening
It's funny, but some random players cheered me when I was up there too. It was such a game changing moment. Pun intended.
The beauty of Ultima Thule is how final everything feels. How you say goodbye to each and every one of your friends. How the music gradually grows ands adds a lil'bit each step of the way, until the lyrics kick in. How it makes you remember this long journey you've been on. All the places you've been and people you've met and I'm not just talking about the NPCs. No matter how much you try to convince yourself everyone is going to be fine, there is always doubt...
Right up until there isn't. And then, they lay out the path ahead of you and you can go on without any doubt, that there's another journey ahead...
Honestly, UT didn't feel final at all to me. From the moment Venat gave you the power to "give form to the formless" and Birbgirl said "he (thancred) doesn't have a form to form words" I knew they'd get rezzed because of that the goodbyes just did nothing to me and the Endwalk up the rainbow road didn't feel earned. Well, that is my perspective on it anyways.
This is the best explanation of UT i have read so far
I cried at the end the game. And now I’m sat in my car in a car park watching this.. crying all over again. FFS Mike!
FFXIV turn us into vampires that feeds on tears
Close in the distance, hits me in the feels all the time. So does Hopeful Dynamis. The whole thing with Meteon, and omg.....now i need tissues.
I dont think I've cried at another game as much as I've cried at FF14 (Witcher 3 coming in very close second). Everytime I hear the song Flow, I just immediately tear up as well.
FFXIV is probably the single most emotional journey i've made through any form of entertainment media, whether it be books, movies, television, theatre, whatever. It's just that good.
Ah yes, nothing really sells the dread and emptiness of Ultima thule quite like your 100 man strong personal pep squad.
What an experience it was! Never would i have imagined us all reaching this point.
We Crawlers are friends, everyday i log in and am greeted by tons of friendly people, we raid, we chill, we watch movies, we play other games together and we meme a lot! We have become a real family and it is the real cherry on the top of this giant wholesome story u went through!
When i look back at your first stream and compare it to now, it is a difference like night and day. Best RPG i have ever played definitly and an MMO that has reminded me what that genre is all about. MMO´s can be so much more for us than just a slot machine, a grinder, a competitive "sim" game... it is the story, the npcs and formost the people we meet in this journey!
Hell i even went to Hamburg and had the time of my life there, meeting everyone, having awesome food and drinking until 7 am, barely making it in time to the hotel for checkout without a minute of sleep. A time i will remember for sure, but this is not the end.
No its the beginning. 6.1 is on the horizon and there is SO much more for u and us to see.
Lets go!
You Crawlers are absolute nutters... and if you guys were on a NA server I'd be joining in a heartbeat. Poor Diabolos has nothing like you guys.
This is why I couldn’t get into lost ark, combat is fun but the experience just feels hollow compared to this
@@KMCA779 Nor does Sargatanas (or hell, maybe all of Aether.) We have tons of great people and excellent FCs but the Crawlers are something else entirely and I love it.
It is crazy... I watch the Kira and Josh video on MMOs now days and how they don't feel like the 'good old times' and then you have this gem. Playing it my self was exactly how feel back in the days going thru the story of games like WC3, diablo2, SC, Half-life 2, Fable, WoW tft and so on. And watching streamers and their communities it make the feeling only stronger. Thank you all for the things you did, cheers and for many more cool moments
Kweh!
I saw a comment flying through chat:
"A smile, better suits an Emet."
Blew my mind wide open as I realized something:
Haurchefant's dying words were "A smile better suits a Hero."
Emet smiled at us as he died, because Emet is one of the true heroes of this story: He sacrificed himself and his eternal lifespan to try and fix the mistakes that were made by the Ancients. He drove himself mad in an attempt to right that wrong.
And that reminds me of Lord Fortemps saying: "A hero fights for those they can yet save. Because a hero lives to serve, to protect, to sacrifice. For them, there is no greater calling"
Emet served his people, protected their legacy, and sacrificed himself and his sanity to do it. Emet is a true hero, but our paths were destined to be opposed, because we were the hero of another story.
Emet is the hero of his own story, his story that is intertwined with ours.
So many Emet fans forget, he MURDERED a bunch of innocent people in the process and never apologized for it. Hero? I think not. That doesn’t mean we can’t like the guy tho.
Sadge
I finished this months ago, when endwalker came out and was crying my heart out, and here i am crying again. This game has a secret superpower, i'm sure of it.
I’ve watched like 6 streamers finish EW and cried during each one. Games good. That I can’t deny.
@@justsomeguy4422 Jesse, Zepla, Preach, Firefighter were all great to follow. Too bad one of them didn't choose '1' in the last Zenos dialogue.
@@VDA19 That really bother me, not the fact that someone doesn't peak 1 but people in almost every chat spamming that one. People forget that with a hell of a journey this it "your" character can view differently. I remember Shen picking the last one in a heartbeat lol.
For me was 1,the best one for MY character, but for others can be different and still people spam 1
It's really mindblowing how the Jailer planned all of this since warcraft 2.
It has been so cool, watching Mike be all in on this experience, seeing his reactions to things I'd nearly forgotten. :)
I cried myself dry during this final stretch. Honestly, I'm still pretty wrung out. That was months ago and I still haven't been able to bring myself to do much endgame stuff. The story writers are masters.
I don't know what it is, but seeing Preach go googoo/dreamy eyed over the game is so freakin wholesome.
I just love how final all of UT feels, everything building up to one big climax and then right at the end of the zone when we're winding down from the emotions and getting ready to go for the finale, emet reminds us that our journey is nowhere near over and this is just one part of it
Hythlodaeus is very well casted in the English dub.
The English dub is top tier overall
@@fartimusmaximus8710 No, it's not compared to the original japanese.
@@edtazrael It's terrific. Stop being a stuck-up weeb.
@@edtazrael okay, weeb
@@edtazrael Well when you dont speak or understand japenese you can't really compare them
I happy to see Preach enjoying his time.
Everyone running to the center was cute af. Hopefully Mike got to see it.
Like a big communal hug.
"That's two vuln stacks" got me.
Awesome streamer 🔥 Awesome FC 🎉
Best FC - so proud to be a part of it. What a journey
OH MAN that was beautiful. Only reactions I ever see are Preach's cuz he is so wholesome
The part where everyone rushes in and hugs him is one the best moments in the ffxiv community ❤️
that smile Emet gives us at the end
The worst thing about this is it's finally over, there's no more msq streams (6.1 is close but also short), and there's not a single comparable msq streamer to Preach at this point (my favorites are all done with it months ago, i still stalk their vods from time to time), and the next expansion is still years away. Vod days ahead, despair!
On the bright side, i'm excited for his side content streams (except panda raids and role quests, haven't started those yet).
Yeah, I'm sad that we gotta wait 3 years for the next expansion, but so much work is being put into that it's hard to really be upset.
@@keiichimorisato98 2 years afaik, if they're gonna stay consistent with it like previous expansions.
Honestly I'd expect another ARR with loads of stuffs thrown at us, slowly building it all up again, though less tedious of course.
@@ADKV95 It will be longer than 2 years. ShB to EW was 2 years and 5 months. Yoshi said the patch cycle was between going to be 4 months now. So that adds about three months. I am not sure what they consider a 'major' patch But just 6.1 to 6.5 will add 10 weeks to the cycle. And I think they treat the final patch like a main patch so 6.55 may add another 2 weeks, which would be 3 months total.
I must say as someone who suffers from crippling depression this game gave me hope
same expecially the last few zones hitted so hard i cried so much
Makes me want to go back through it all again. All the love to Preach and, perhaps even moreso, the community he's created.
This was pretty incredible! Just awesome!
This is absolutely fantastic and I love it
Thancred getting snapped made me worry they might actually let that one stick. Once Estinien died, I was 100% certain that we were going to lose probably everyone, but we would get them back.
That being said, I had to choose "Stop. Not another word," when I realized the Twins were going, because I was starting to break. And when we summoned our old new friends to our side, and Meteion asked "What are you?" I bellowed in response "STUBBORN ASSHOLES!" Because there were 3 standing right there.
And when we called our friends back to our side, and the strings cut out, leaving just the piano, tears just flowed down my face.
I also cried once the vocals kicked in, in the final trial's Phase 2. The Maker's Ruin melody, _our theme,_ under the prayers of our friends, kicking over to the vocals singing the Song of Hope, I managed to keep my rotation going, and not die, through the tears.
I remember the effect placed upon you once the twins are gone stating you are so overcumbered with emotions that you can only walk and yeah thats how I felt at that moment
I was so worried for Thancred.
I healed the 2nd phase blind from tears 😭
Opposite reaction here. When Thancred vanished It seemed possible they might kill him off, but when Estinien went I was certain they'd bring everyone back.
@@benclapp6100 Yes, that was my reaction. Once Estinien died, I was like "That's how they're gonna play this." And I still cried.
I have cried more in this game than all TV shows, movies and novels I've watched/read combined.
When I did this, the people that saw me were a bit occupied. One, however, the one that recommended me the game was standing there. I can only look at chat and see my friend stand there. It was really nice! Then the final battle happen, the other one also showed up to assist. It was really touching and the journey that I went through was worth it
Had to come and see what a real expansion end felt like again.
I fucking hate this game... ALWAYS MAKE ME CRY AGAIN AND AGAIN, WHY IS IT SO EMOTIONAL
lol i was playing with my gf and the whole time shes crying and im just there, mumbling, "i hate this game. i hate this game. i hate this game." lmao.
the best goodbye to a character I've ever seen, a slight smile and he's gone again, forever.
Been here since the beginning of his journey with the Crawlers and followed him all the way to the end of Endwalker. It's been amazing to have seen him experience the story and the friends we met along the way. The Crawlers is a great FC.
This is still the emotional high watermark of 6.0 for me. What came after feel like it should, and would happen. On the other hand, y(our) friends, separated by thousands of years, of all the tragedies, worlds and adventure, came to your aid for perhaps one last time, and bidding you farewell, is very moving. And, despite all of that, you managed to "recall" parts of your memories you shared with them, even parts that they might have forgotten. Emet, despite all of the misgivings between your character and him, still consoles and smiles at his friend before departing, because inside, he still remembers you as part of yourself, long gone. After all, all he did, he did it for his friends, for memories. Finally being able to entrust that memory to his friend before departing is melancholic in the best way possible.
All of this didn't happen very "logically" as well. There were quite a lot of Deus Ex Machina, but we didn't care, it all feels connected and mattered because of the emotional connections. It's such a simple principle, yet so few bothers with. They didn't plan it all out meticulously either, they accept changes, deviations, as long as the core emotion and connection remains.
Inevitably it draws comparison to another former beloved IP. The whole mess with Sylvanas, at its core, is because the story can't make up its mind about what kind of emotional connection the player is supposed to have with her. She's not the most confusing personally. To me, Jaina is a lot worse than any of them. Her history and journey seems to have little impact to her character. Her character seems to just be whatever role the writer wants her to play at the moment. She went from being the reasonable leader of an exposed outpost, having lost her father from conflict with the Horde, but also understanding her debt's to them, as well as the consequence of the cycle of hatred. Yet, she had to go through that again but much shallower with her face heel turn during BfA, as if her madness phase after Mists never happened, and she never expelled all Horde mages from Dalaran nor refused to fight the Legion because Khadgar invited them back. Her motivation, is well understood, but she never make any meaningful enough connection with anybody that it feels emotional. I can go on about things such as Anduin and Wrynn connection is effectively non-existent in game, and it took a cinematic monologue to convey it (Legion).
4:44 doesn't get much more wholesome than this lol
I laughed at this video when they all hugged/mugged him XD
its absolutely been a blast watching Preach go through all of FFXIV. going through 7 years of memory with fresh eyes is always fun and the credits part isn't in this video but I 100% agree that XIV is probably the BEST RPG story. (though it also has the most story so its kinda unfair lmao)
I look forward to whatever you do next
Glad he made it. Can't wait to see what vids yall produce abound endwalker.
One of the best streams I have ever watched!
Thank you for sharing this jorney with us, Mike. May you have many more blessed adventures.
Same Preach, same. I bawled my eyes out man.
the smile of emet.. the same smile when he departed in shadowbringers....
Damn, what I would do to experience this part of the story for the first time again.
The speediness on this upload is something else. I'm watching Preach watch the end credits while commenting.
I honestly wish I was there for this but I hadn’t started endwalker, now having finished and now able to watch this, honestly my feels were hit just as hard, what a fantastic story, next time I will hope to be there at the end of the journey with you as so many of your FC were
This game would make a fantastic movie. Can't wait to see what we do next, such a great game!
I don't know if there's enough screen time to make FFXIV a movie. FFXIV only works because it gives its story room to breath. A streaming series would be the best bet. Every season would have to be an expansion .
I am going through all the content story etc with my wife, I have done it before but she has not and it's a real blast to see her take in the story and enjoy it.
Pff, look at this grownass man crying to a video game. Stupid weeb game building a phenomenal narrative complete with great voice acting and a powerfully beautiful ending to wrap everything up. I bet I can cry more than he can!
For real tho, I shed many, many memorable tears. This damn expansion has been ridiculously heavy and so beautifully and cleanly wrapped up to become easily a top 5 all-time game for me if not the absolute top, now.
I expect there are more than a few game devs from other companies who watch these streams, Mike and Pyro, Zepla and many others. Not one of thos streamers fails to break down at these moments, and this, THIS is how you make a game for 25 million people. Take notes, you devs.
@Jay Bee yeah yeah, whatever
@Jay Bee careful, might get an aneurysm with all hate seething hate in you.
@Jay Bee did you forget the massive waiting times during the first 2 months of endwalker, we quite literally had to sit hours in wait just to get in
compared to now where theres only like 12 peeps before me
@Jay Bee You are , of course, entitled to your opinion. I assume you don't like the game and have stopped playing?
@Jay Bee FFXIV was taken off the shelves *after* Endwalker's release - a period in which SE also had to refund weeks of subscription time due to player queues. But I'm sure there's no relation between the two.
and thats how you satisfyingly turn someone into 35 anima.
That's just wholesome content right there.
our boi made it!
René Zagger as Emet-Selch, Luke Allen-Gale as Zenos and Toby Regbo as Hythlodaeus were the best casting choices ever
Zenos has definitely been a contentious character for a lot of people, but I've never wavered on the quality of his voice acting. Luke Allen-Gale absolutely crushed it.
@@hugz4genestealers His voice during the part after 4.3 trial in asahi's flashback is pure eargasm. I could listen to it for hours and hours.
Sicard kinda messed it up for me in someway (good way) when I realized he was also voiced by Luke, pirate zenos lol, it's strangely hilarious imagining it as zenos' alter ego during bath time with his toy boat.
@@ADKV95 Yeah I couldn't believe it when I saw he voiced Sicard as well
@@hugz4genestealers Just listen to the way Sicard says "make me" in his argument with Sir Whines-A-Lot in Sharlayan's loot delivery scene and you can 100% hear it.
Oh my God, what a story. Best game story I've ever experienced in my lifetime so far, and I loved the Witcher series. Can't wait to replay it again, and again x2 with my alt stuck in ARR
Best FC ever.
Immediately after the cutscene: WAYTOODANK
having finished EW just yesterday I'm happy I can watch spoilers now, this expansion really broke me hard.
That's soo wholesome!
emet such a tsun tsun and it made us like him more
I can only dream of something like this happening when i reach the end of Endwalker myself, only a forlorn dream
Did anyone else notice his office door open all by itself at around 6:10?
It's been a great journey, there is plenty more to see though, and I look forward to seeing you stream it too!
For the glory of the Trolley, and the magnificence of KWEH.
I was in that pile of ppl, so fun day that was :) We were scared Preach would be moved to different instance. since there were so many of us 😅 But all worked out, thank u Crawlers and Preach for this journey, I enjoied every little bit of it)
Even in the end, Emet's the best.
WOW. NGL the group hug was funny as hell
Preach: We are only going to play for five days
Also Preach: (At the end of the universe six months later) - Holy shit we are here!
Now all we need is for someone make a picture of Mike in style of the "manly tears" anime meme to put on his wall - or sell as a displate.
Huh. So the reason why EW was delayed another 2 weeks was because Yoshi P felt that the last cutscene was too short, and then he added the part where Emet 'invites' WoL to see the unknown parts of Etheirys.
Did you think it was a worth it delay? Because...
I certainly did. :)
How does he have chat bubbles above the heads of people talking?
A skybox that's been unmatched is beauty, Venat was right that there truely was still beauty left
What a journey
Endwalker made me tear up quite a bit nothing wrong with it thgis story definitley deserves it GZ on finishing FF14 atleast story wise
God I love the ff community!
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The amount of GIGACHAD emotes I see in chat, I wanna see an Emet Selch GIGACHAD edit
I did cry in endwalker myself, but it was at a totally different place in the story. I actually didn't really feel the stakes in this final part.
Although it did make me smile
Was it the Urianger cutscene? Same for me
@@louiskusters9452 First time i cried on msq i believe, i've cried while watching streamers play the msq but never when playing myself, but that part hit it just right.
Urianger was the only one that had me crying during Endwalker.
I knew everyone was coming back for the final boss fight lol
Yeah same. Urianger getting a hug broke me; this bit didn't.
Yeah UThule was definitely emotional but it was so obvious that your companions weren't ACTUALLY gone forever I couldn't get invested.
I just completed endwalker yesterday!! Great ending and story!
i havent played swb or endwalker yet and i still cried watching the playtrough wtf
awwww
Like how Emet Selch is just hyping up the next Saga
Emet-Friend and Hythbrobaeus forever.
The Final Fantasy XIV community is truly something special.
Emet was actually spoilering lmao
Great experience today & I see my Twitch username in chat lol.
Tsundere award of the year goes to Emit 😁😁
Wait there are thought bubbles now?
Add on
and add on the devs should really consider putting in the game, 'cause it is amazing
add on from XIVLauncher
my new old friend o7
Emet was a great antagonist, but he's no Jailer.
I teared up a little seeing his fans come in and give him hugs lmao. Those people are amazing.
how does he have chat bubbles?
How do you get the chat bubbles?
Man. I'm glad so many enjoyed this xpack. I truly am, makes me almost tear up to watch people do this. When I was doing it, I couldn't get past the fact that they chose my 3 least favorite villain types. Didn't shed a single tear and that actually made me sad.
A) inexplicably powerful and random new convenient powers with no-precedent explanations, 1 dimensional and 1 stupid goal (Zenos, Garrosh)
B) normally un-powerful small character made super dangerous by the power of depression and trauma (Meteion, 50000 anime characters)
C) inexplicably insane/nihilistic and single-minded yet somehow able to form complex strategies, which would be ok if he was actually funny and it weren't combined with someone who should be a genius but does just the most idiotic thing you can think of (Fandaniel/Hermes, no comparison)
Also didn't like Ultima Thule...I mean parts of it yes but the concept of it being the last place...its so...ultimate. It will all feel downhill almost no matter what they do now. We defeated some half-ass version of the most powerful primal (which was a HHHUUUGGGEEEE disappointment for me, stopped playing for 2 weeks...all that buildup since ARR started and stupid ass fandaniel ends it like THAT, what a disappointing narrative decision). Like what more is there? Meteion even threatened Omega's creators and they and the dragons were the strongest non-primals we knew of.. so like...we will just be weak or fight weaker stuff now (in canon)? If there is something stronger out there, why didnt they stop the meteions? This is where WoW completely lost me...I started drifting when they pulled MoP out of their ass with a single bonus character as precedent, but when Sargeras was defeated, I was done.
Imagine the zero interest guy, imagine never in a 1000 years guy, imagine the im not a story guy. never heard of him
PreachCon... call it a... CONgregation.
xiv has to be my fav game when it comes to story, nothing really comes close imo
And a year ago, 90% of you thought this was a dweebs game. Don’t you feel bad for putting this game down and it turns out one of your life’s highlights.
I don't get the whole 'Hades was an Azem' angle. First of all he lacked the temperament to actually deal with what being Azem entailed and secondly I think people are misinterpreting his "I certainly did" line. He didn't mean that's what he did as Azem, he meant that as someone who had decided to obliterate these worlds and everything on them that it was his duty to see them for himself before he did so. He was doubtless expecting to have his bias reinforced that they were unworthy to live in his eyes but he still went to see them.
Somewhat agreed I do not believe it was meant that Emet was Azem, but I do think that line has a different meaning.
It has become quite clear during the Eplis part that Emet and Hythlo were very close with the last Azem before the sundering and given their interaction with Venat, even with her too when she held that title before.
So I see it more that Emet just has A LOT of experience in dealing with various Azems, be it getting schooled by Venat, running after her successor and budding heads with the WoL.
Agreed, Hades was never an Azem and there's nothing that indicates it. People are reading WAY too goddamn much into that line.
@@Sneedmeister what part of needing to be manipulated into doing things he didn't feel like doing shows he had anything close to the temperament to deal with the everyday problems of randoms like an Azem would have to?