Never followed the story (Up to ShB spoilers)

Just kind of seeing if there is anyone else like me out and about?

I am just, for literally the first time since HW, trying to pay attention to the story. It is actually kind of hilarious to see all these people, who I am positive are supposed to be important banter on about things I don't remember. My group on discord does not believe me when I say:

* I have no idea who G'raha Tia is beyond something to do with the Crystarium.
* I have no clue who Emet-Selch is/was. (Later learned from a friend he was an ascian)
* The Grand Companies are apparently still a thing that somehow matters?

Like when I say I skipped every cutscene after that horrible post ARR grind, I freaking mean it.

For anyone in my boat, try paying attention to the story now. It is really a fun sort of mystery novel and exercise in inferencing to try and grasp what on god's green earth is going on right now.

That's like skipping to the last season of a long running show. Why would you do that?
I mean I get it, you want to be at max ASAP, but then I7d make a new character just for the MSQ.

yeah there are more people like you out there. altough most of these people who i know personally regret it and used one or the other way to catch up with it for EW or even ShB two years ago

In your defense, I needed to remind myself who the red-eyed catboy was when his hood flew off on Mt. Gulg. Even when it said 'say his name' all dramatically, they didn't actually say his name.

I love that they brought him back since I loved his character in post-ARR, but... damn if they didn't wait their sweet time to do so.

To be fair, I did pay attention to the story and this expansion is still one weird as can be fever dream of a FF story.

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Originally Posted by Asari5

yeah there are more people like you out there. altough most of these people who i know personally regret it and used one or the other way to catch up with it for EW or even ShB two years ago

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I got absolutely torched by the ORIGINAL post ARR 180 quest nightmare slog of nonsense. It ruined the story for me.

dont worry I forgot most of the story it was 10 years ago

My friend who used to play this game is a notorious cutscene skipper and he marked out when they revealed G'Raha. I told him to try to pay attention with Shadowbringers and he did up until after you fight the last boss. After that he went back to not caring again. But that was a cool moment because like you he hit that ARR wall and stopped caring and bought a skip to Shadowbringers. Granted it didn't last long, but he seemed like he got into it for him. But he was always a big Wow player anyway which is why he hasn't come back.

The Final Fantasy RPG series has always been story driven. It's as much about the journey as the destination.
Agreed, there is a lot of filler content in 2.0 that feels like a slog when you're progressing through it, but it's important for world and character building.

Not only that, but at the time the dev team was essentially working on 2 mmos. They were simultaneously adding 1.xx content and creating ARR so there wasn't a lot of end game content.

And it wasn't only 1.x content they had to create but also fix the game mechanics like no auto attack or mini map to name a few. Which is why I quit 1.0 after a couple of months.

I agree that running back and forth across all of Eorzea collecting food for a banquet while Tidus, err Titan was reeking havoc seems unproductive but they needed some way to slow the progression of players while more content was being created.

The ARR slog is still better than the fatigue system from 1.0 in my opinion.

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To be fair, I did pay attention to the story and this expansion is still one weird as can be fever dream of a FF story.

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To be fair, FF do tend to become fever dreams.

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In your defense, I needed to remind myself who the red-eyed catboy was when his hood flew off on Mt. Gulg. Even when it said 'say his name' all dramatically, they didn't actually say his name.

I love that they brought him back since I loved his character in post-ARR, but... damn if they didn't wait their sweet time to do so.

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Well, to be fair, our character isn’t voice-acted; and we’re supposed to be a blank-slate, self-insert sort of entity—so it kind of makes sense in that regard why we weren’t voiced there. It’s more so just implied we say his name, kind of like it’s implied we’re saying any of our other dialogue choices when those options come up.

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Well, to be fair, our character isn’t voice-acted; and we’re supposed to be a blank-slate, self-insert sort of entity—so it kind of makes sense in that regard why we weren’t voiced there. It’s more so just implied we say his name, kind of like it’s implied we’re saying any of our other dialogue choices when those options come up.

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Yeah, but it didn't even change his nameplate or his name in dialogue. He was the Crystal Exarch, from the moment we met him to the moment we dragged his [REDACTED] back to the Source.

some of ARR is really mundane and boring no doubt, it picks up in heavensward and then lull's again in stormblood- there is so much meaningless dialogue that you get lost and forget what it was originally over, now not all of it is like that - just anything to do with MSQ. Also the most annoying boss lines in the history of FF. *forced maniacal laughter* "RRRRHIP AN TEAARR: MOAR, MOAR, MOAR"
i still dont remember stormblood, other than a certain future enemy's hard-on crush on our character. i do recommend trying to pay attention to it as best as you can, and recap when needed.

start a new character and dont skip anything. You're welcome.

Use New Game+.

Endwalker touches on a lot of stuff all the way back to ARR. You will appreciate it far more if you go back.

I was following most of it up until I hit that duty where I played as a random person in Garlemald . I was so mad over that duty because it never explained one thing and I hate play as another character any way, that I skipped the cut scenes after I finally finished it. And since then I have just been skipping everything. Still having fun though despite that, I always did enjoy quests, just stopped caring about the story.

Are you aware the in your Inn rooms, there's a book called The Unending Journey? You can watch all the cutscenes you've unlocked in that book. It'll get you aware of the story.

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Are you aware the in your Inn rooms, there's a book called The Unending Journey? You can watch all the cutscenes you've unlocked in that book. It'll get you aware of the story.

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Does The Unending Journey actually have *all* cutscenes you've unlocked/viewed? I seem to recall I tried looking through it once and couldn't find several scenes I'd wanted to have play over again. Is there a website or YouTube resource with a library of all those cutscenes? It'd be fun to revisit some of those past story moments.

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Does The Unending Journey actually have *all* cutscenes you've unlocked/viewed? I seem to recall I tried looking through it once and couldn't find several scenes I'd wanted to have play over again. Is there a website or YouTube resource with a library of all those cutscenes? It'd be fun to revisit some of those past story moments.

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It should have every cutscene you've viewed, though they are split up annoyingly. Story significant end-of-dungeon cutscenes are in a separate 'dungeon' tab instead of in with the story, for example.

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It should have every cutscene you've viewed, though they are split up annoyingly. Story significant end-of-dungeon cutscenes are in a separate 'dungeon' tab instead of in with the story, for example.

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Ah thanks, I'll check it again - on my next successful login. :-)

feel sad that u sat through all of ARR then never did heavensward. heavensward is like the payoff for the suffering

I paid attention the whole time from ARR onwards but I didn't know who the redhead catboy was lol. That went over my head completely.