Nostalgia Central (FFXI/FFXIV)

[NefarioCall]

Return campaign, free until the 29th

If i do, i'd need to take care to make it work for me, circumstantially ... like starting up the Beastmaster job, since that's the way to go in XI for Solo. That would make much of the content (Old storyline stuff etc i have not yet completed or just general exploration) much much more accessible. Then kinda just latch onto a linkshell that's shouting in the city zones and see what adventures crop up from there.

Actually, watching some videos about the 2017 environment gives me a lot of confidence. Those NPCs at the city gates are huge, creating a hub to track your progress on all the games quests/story stuff, what you have and haven't finished etc. A way to get gear tomes style through them. Can sell it for gil to NPCs as well. That whole very simple system just makes the game so much more accessible to someone who wants to play it for a couple hundred hours, rather than say, a couple thousand LOL. Which imo is really important for a game 15 years into its life cycle. That plus you can now fast travel *-* I mean, hey, i loved the epicness of the old days, and i long for a game in today's world that can make me feel that way again, but i totally support these changes that make XI accessible without having to necessarily dedicate your life to it. The game is 15 years on now. ... and as i understand it, the end game still exists, ... and i'm sure that bunnies still kill.

And i guess you can create a full party with NPCs now? Again, love it, thanks. No need to concern myself with shouts for party for 10 year old content. Just go ahead and go play it, experience it, enjoy it. It doesn't interfere with the end game. Same reason i support its inclusion in XIV come 4.1

Honestly, i'm loving what i'm seeing here. Very easy to walk in and focus on experiencing it strictly as a core offline game, which, frankly, was pretty tough in the old days, lets be honest. Not that it's a bad thing it was how it was, but yeah, in 2017, it needs to be a game you can pop fresh into and just play the story and then find other adventures outward from there, and it looks like it does that now. $10 isn't very much for literally everything.

If they shut down the servers today and started selling it as an offline Final Fantasy, any player could play the main story through, and that's exactly how it should be in 2017. So good on the devs.

[Dzian]

Lots of things for me. Right down to getting my kazham keys and airship pass. Boarding that airship and stepping into the jungles for the first time. Like I'd really earn the the right to be there. Nothing in xiv feels like that he'll the world map is dead.

Clearing the promis and emerging in lu fai meadows again that sense of accomplishment.

Accidently pulling shikigami weapon in rorder meave doing one of the story line missions and managing to kill it nabbing the robe for a friend.

Or he'll one of the first quests I did where I ventured out of Bastok to visit a miners monument. Top of a hill only a few minutes out of town but it felt like an epic journey at the time..

It's like everything you did felt like an epic milestone in xi. But in xiv everything's just an obstacle gets in the way. Because there's no satisfaction from clearing it or passing it

[Pixiehawk]

Airship rides that you had to wait for, then ride on. Not instant, then instant. If you do them at all after the first time.

[Leory]

for me in ffxi it was meeting goddess altana


and this is a old ffxiv picture dalamud was still in the sky

[Paradedc]

It was well before the big nerd to CoP expansion. Myself and my friends decided we were going to clear CoP no matter what. I believe we were part way through chapter 5 or right after that. We started around 11am and set out on our adventure. Buying all the items we needed for the fights and getting broke as can be. Every thing was running smooth, we had a few wipes but we carried on. Around midnight we unlocked Sea and could taste the end. And so we pressed on. Leaving the torn and defeated bosses behind us one by one. Then we finally broke, 1 boss until the end. One guy fell asleep, so we killed him off on purpose and just moved his corpse with us because he was going to get the clear with us no matter what. As the sun was starting to come through the blinds and a man down we beat the last boss. I have never had a more memorable time as a gamer in my entire life. Man do I miss that...

[odette]

also FFXI was my frist MMORPG, play many years, i quit at 2013...
i miss so much ffxi.
i wish have endgame from ffxi to ffxiv

[Silverquick]

Oh geez, Crawler's Nest. Gotta love zoning in, then loading up dead on top of a corpse pile. Lol.

You know I never had a party die on me in there.

Admittedly though As an RDM/BLM I always had Chainspell + Warp ready to go if crap hit the fan... which it did sometimes. Plus I did have the Invisibility and Sneak...

And of course my old standby... Sleep, Sleep II, and Sleepga...

So luckily for me none of my parties ever got wrecked, but I know without that... it could be a serious disaster, and a full party wipe.

[Cidel]

Damn, would love to spam thread with XI memories pics but I'll hold back.

First ever screenshot. Pretty sure we were all waiting for parties outside of the Garlaige Citadel:


The Duty Finder queue for the NPC adventuring buddy quest fight:


Dem tarutaru breed like rabbits:


Common aftermath of running D(ie)ynamis:


Would not let this glorious bastard die during Besieged; SCH was absolutely broken at healing NPCS in XI:


Would post my XIV 1.0 stuff, but lodestone is down due to maintenance...

[AnaviAnael]

You know I never had a party die on me in there.

Admittedly though As an RDM/BLM I always had Chainspell + Warp ready to go if crap hit the fan... which it did sometimes. Plus I did have the Invisibility and Sneak...

And of course my old standby... Sleep, Sleep II, and Sleepga...

So luckily for me none of my parties ever got wrecked, but I know without that... it could be a serious disaster, and a full party wipe.

You lucky lucky man. Heck one time I had a crawler link and asked the blm to sleep it. They replied, "I don't have it."

[NefarioCall]

Now that i've discovered the trust system is in the game i'm totally going in for one last journey through Vana'diel.
I've got a bunch of unfinished business, by which i mean, story content to clear.
Plus just the nostalgia trip of just walking through that spectacular world again.
But yeah, knowing it is now possible to just pick up and clear the main story solo with an NPC party.. SOLD.
If i meet some new friends (or old)along the way... bonus.

(Plus, the Windower add-on still works, *-* )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkHbpBLBYV0
^^The best video i've found basically describing how FFXI can now be played as an offline entry with NPCs who are the actual storyline characters up till end game.