i never played ff11 what was the story like?

What I found silly was the transition. A bunch of flashes, than the Zilart mission starts. "Oh you don't remember what happened 5 seconds ago? SURPRISE: the Jeuno leaders are evil Zilart, and Roegrimm saved you in Shadow Lord form. We left that out of the Vanilla end cutscene."

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Originally Posted by Colorful

Quick questions, is it possible to purchase the game and just burn through the story solo in the free month? Are the quests simple to follow like FFXIV with the quest markers being special for MSQ or will I have to look up which quests to follow?

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I made a new character a few months back, and I was able to get through almost all of the various stories (didn't finish Adoulin) while leveling multiple jobs as well within about a month- month and a half. I tend to get lazy with things too, so I could have pushed myself harder. If you're completely new to the game, it may take longer as your'e figuring out the game as well, but you can get A LOT done in that game now in a relatively short period of time.

If you did the XI event in the game one of the lines the NPC says is verbatim of what the guy says in the XI opening video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TGe6PC-Tk4

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

The other problem with FFXI's story is unlike here in FFXIV where the story does actively involve you as the main protagonist (the Warrior of Light), FFXI... you were treated generally as more of a sidekick to the real stars of the narrative like Aldo, Lion, Prishe and Lisette. A nameless adventurer that just happened to be in the right place at the right time to become involved in battles for Vana'diel's future, and who never really was given the proper credit, the story npcs always taking the lion's share of the narrative time. We were there just along for the ride basically. Ah well, I still loved FFXI's story either way, despite these brickbats.

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this is the best part of XI and unlike the WoL in FFXIV, that means you do a lot less dumb stuff that's out of character and forced on you by the story. in comparison to the FF series in general, you're kind of like Vaan in Ashe's story.

and it's not as much as you're in the right place at the right time, you earn your Rank for your starting nation and you represent them most of the time as one of their heroes/champions. that's how you end up in most of those situations, it's not by accident.

also you get tons of credit from the Rhapsodies missions.

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

The other problem with FFXI's story is unlike here in FFXIV where the story does actively involve you as the main protagonist (the Warrior of Light), FFXI... you were treated generally as more of a sidekick to the real stars of the narrative like Aldo, Lion, Prishe and Lisette. A nameless adventurer that just happened to be in the right place at the right time to become involved in battles for Vana'diel's future, and who never really was given the proper credit, the story npcs always taking the lion's share of the narrative time. We were there just along for the ride basically. Ah well, I still loved FFXI's story either way, despite these brickbats.

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WoW did that too, until around WoTLK, you were another generic 'hero' that fought alongside the real ones. After that, your character just kept getting inflated until you have what they are bringing out in the next expansion.

If anything, I prefer the nameless part of the past, as we were essentially just another figure in a group/raid taking part in the story; it gives a feeling of real involvement, unlike the 'everyone is a special snowflake' path FFXIV and current WoW seems to be taking. Things get really disinteresting when everyone has "World Savior" on their nameplate.