I've played many RPGs over the years and FF14 is one of the best.

I finished the main story earlier today and let me tell you, what started as a decentish story in 2.0 built towards something cool by the end of the 1-50 arc just to get absolutely awesome by the end of 2.55.

I never thought I'd play an MMORPG with such well presented and most importantly easily accessible even for casual players like me story. My only complaint about the story presentation is that I believe all of it should be voiced and the English voice acting is a bit so so at times, though recently it's gotten better.

This is hands down one of the better stories out there and definitely one of the best FF stories. It's a story that is not afraid to deal with death, political tensions between countries and inner conflicts between allied nations, it's an amazingly written and presented story with a much more serious and mature tone than say, FF13 series was for example which I did enjoy but the story was all over the place.

The character limit on this forum is very ...old school to say the least.

Anyway, just a few more things.

FF14 even has a lovely side story with the Hildabrand quest line, something I have yet to complete since I leave it for when I have nothing else to do and what little I have played of it was wonderful.

I hope to God the developers always make the main story easily accessible and beatable for us casuals, that Steps of Faith trial put me off a bit and I firmly believe it needs to be balanced better in favor of less experienced players, but other than that fantastic ending to the current story.

you can edit your post to circumvent the post-count. (i agree that it's odd that it is restricted, but hey. loopholes!)

SE went absolutely crazy with the end scenario. The very, very last twist after the credits wasn't really a big surprise though. I hope we resolve the 'issues' brought up in the scenario rather than just leave it as it is when we go to Ishguard in the expansion.

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Originally Posted by Saccharin

SE went absolutely crazy with the end scenario. The very, very last twist after the credits wasn't really a big surprise though. I hope we resolve the 'issues' brought up in the scenario rather than just leave it as it is when we go to Ishguard in the expansion.

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Considering that the 2.55 story is what leads right into 3.0, I would assume that we'll at least see the beginning of a resolution to the cliffhanger by the end of 3.0's launch content.

In the next live letter the full length trailer to Heavensward come online, that suppose to be the ending movie to 2.0 and the beginning movie to 3.0

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Originally Posted by Felis

In the next live letter the full length trailer to Heavensward come online, that suppose to be the ending movie to 2.0 and the beginning movie to 3.0

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Yes, just 7 days to wait...... Can't wait !

I didn't know this, I'm pumped.
This is like the JRPG that keeps on giving.

Again, hope to God they never make the mandatory/main story non casual friendly, I'm a casual and this is very important to me.

One of the best RPGs?

Jesus, dude, this isn't even one of the better Final Fantasies. I want to know whatever the hell it is that you're taking that made you come to that conclusion.
I can understand really liking the game, sure, if you look past a lot of it's faults, but to say it's one of the best? For shame.

ShinigamiKiba, you should visit the lore sub-forum. There're a lot of background lore that you might enjoy, specially the ones related to Dravia, Meracydia and the allagan people.

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Originally Posted by Mistoltin

One of the best RPGs?

Jesus, dude, this isn't even one of the better Final Fantasies. I want to know whatever the hell it is that you're taking that made you come to that conclusion.
I can understand really liking the game, sure, if you look past a lot of it's faults, but to say it's one of the best? For shame.

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... in your opinion* All opinions are not equal, he has different preference/standard than yours and that's all. You should't really judge him for that.

FF14 was already my favorite MMORPG, and I"ve been playing these blasted things since EverQuest when it only had 1 expansion. With the conclusion in 2.55, it's not only re-affirmed its spot as my favorite MMORPG, but shot itself up to one of my top favorite Final Fantasy titles (all of which were within the first 6 ;p).

But I certainly consider my assessment of the game to be subjective. I know others like/hate it to different degrees and for different reasons. But all that's important to me is that I have a blast while playing. All the facts and figures can't change the fact that I enjoy the game.

I love this game a lot. I woudln't dare to compare it to RPGs as this game is MMO and these 2 types are too different but it is definitely the best MMO I have played. :)
I hope for Heavensward to be even better than whole ARR.

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Originally Posted by Mistoltin

One of the best RPGs?

Jesus, dude, this isn't even one of the better Final Fantasies. I want to know whatever the hell it is that you're taking that made you come to that conclusion.
I can understand really liking the game, sure, if you look past a lot of it's faults, but to say it's one of the best? For shame.

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You are extremely rude. People are allowed to like what they want no need to force your opinions on them.

^ thanks, will do

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Originally Posted by Mistoltin

One of the best RPGs?

Jesus, dude, this isn't even one of the better Final Fantasies. I want to know whatever the hell it is that you're taking that made you come to that conclusion.
I can understand really liking the game, sure, if you look past a lot of it's faults, but to say it's one of the best? For shame.

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It's my favorite FF alongside FF6, 9 and 12, yes 12 sue me.
I'm 31 and got into RPGs 1st year of high school, over the years I've played hundreds of JRPGs and WRPGs and my list of favorites is huge, I'm glad FF14 is on that list.

Well the story is pretty cool when you look at how you started out as just some random noob to being the hero! I mean i think its the best mmorpg story line i played and i have played SWTOR and thought it was good. Now comparing ff14 to the other FF stories i say its up there......u kinda gotta use your imagination in FF14 a little bit. If FF14 was a single player experience the quests would be more fleshed out and wouldnt be so fetchy type. For instance im sure the raid on castrum would have been more epic in a single player rpg vs the mmorpg. it was still cool though!

Among all the FFs I've played, all of them have yet to beat FF4, my top personal favorite among the FFs. Though I will say that FFXIV is defiantly among the better ones IMO, especially considering I'm not much into MMO's. Heck, among MMO's, it's one of the very few MMO's to actually keep me interested long enough that even the grind treadmill doesn't bother me that much.

The only other MMO's to accomplish this with me so far are Guild Wars and Dungeon Fighter Online, both of which I fell out of, since I make it a rule to try and just stick to only one MMO at a time. Also, in separate details, I simply just... fell out of Guild Wars after the first expansion pack, and Dungeon Fighter Online I had no choice BUT to fall out of it due to the American servers being shut down for a time. I hear it's supposedly come back in full force though. I should look into it.

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Originally Posted by ShinigamiKiba

This is hands down one of the better stories out there and definitely one of the best FF stories. It's a story that is not afraid to deal with death, political tensions between countries and inner conflicts between allied nations, it's an amazingly written and presented story with a much more serious and mature tone than say, FF13 series was for example which I did enjoy but the story was all over the place.

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All FF games deal with political tensions between countries. Not sure what part of FF13 wasnt mature.

Your welcome to enjoy what you like, but I see no reason to downplay other games in the process. That's just asking to get flamed.

Rule #1 about Final Fantasy: Never talk about which is the best.

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Originally Posted by Felis

In the next live letter the full length trailer to Heavensward come online, that suppose to be the ending movie to 2.0 and the beginning movie to 3.0

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I would love that.

I am happy to hear it OP. For me it has mostly been a dissapointment in every way, but that is just because my taste is different, not because the game itself is not good. Hope they keep on delivering for all the XIV fans out there and honestly I wouldn't be worried after seeing some of the Heavensward info.