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Mr. Neutron posted:Speaking of ex, is there a rhyme or reason behind some having the Minstrel's Ballad moniker while others are simply called <name> (Extreme)? as a general trend MSQ trials get the Minstrel's Ballad treatment while optional trials get the (Extreme) treatment, but even that is inconsistent at best
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I'm sure it's been done to death but you can do old EXs just use party finder not duty finder. No one queues for those and people are gonna dodge if they somehow accidentally mentor into it. That doesn't mean you need to get carried by a 90 either, there's people who'd be happy to do it synced but you need to advertise it and get people who actually want to do it
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Apr 23, 2024 12:45
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If it's lost on anyone, the wandering minstrel, et. al., are Yoship self insert characters.
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Apr 23, 2024 16:14
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Which is obvious because he's the only character in the entire game world who wears more than two rings.
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Apr 23, 2024 16:31
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they made him the game's producer because he was the guy at the office who looked the most like a Final Fantasy character
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Apr 23, 2024 16:33
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Considering the state he inherited the game in it was as good reason as any to hire him on to the job.
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Apr 24, 2024 01:32
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That's not really what happened, of course. What really happened was an executive ran into the room and screamed "Does anyone here play WoW????" and the whole office turned to point at Yoshida
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Apr 24, 2024 03:42
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FuturePastNow posted:That's not really what happened, of course. What really happened was an executive ran into the room and screamed "Does anyone here play WoW????" and the whole office turned to point at Yoshida And drat if it didn't pay off also do not speak ill of WoW in front of Yoshi-P he is actually a huge WoW fanboy and you will hurt his feelings
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Apr 24, 2024 03:45
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Well he's driven to make a WoW killer and for the most part he's succeeded as well as can be expected. He didn't kill WoW but he successfully carved out a profitable niche in the MMO landscape by taking parts of what WoW did correctly and combining them with his own design to make a unique fun game. To this day he still sanity checks the final build of each version of the game by playing it solo, if he can't beat it then it's back to the drawing board for tweaking and he does it on BLM. (I assume he's got some duty actions like variant or criterion dungeons)
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Apr 24, 2024 12:17
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yoship is also a master at actually managing the team to get things out the door which is his true talent. He had a vision for the game and the leadership skills to actually pull it off.
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Apr 24, 2024 15:59
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Watching Tataru attempt the level 1 Archanist quest was very cute. I'm pretty sure the quest also recognizes if you've done it yourself and the text is changed accordingly too. That's a nice touch.
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Apr 25, 2024 23:24
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Nitrousoxide posted:Watching Tataru attempt the level 1 Archanist quest was very cute. Not just that, the quest even has alternate dialogue for if you have started that quest to do it yourself but not completed it, for the .001% of players that would ever happen to.
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Apr 26, 2024 00:06
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Nitrousoxide posted:Watching Tataru attempt the level 1 Archanist quest was very cute. That whole episode then gets referenced later in one or my favorite moments (STB trial series spoilers) when you’re in that one trial and Tataru tries to summon her carbuncle but can’t control it. Suddenly she’s running around panicking and chasing you with AOE markers like a total sprout
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Apr 26, 2024 04:04
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reversefungi posted:That whole episode then gets referenced later in one or my favorite moments (STB trial series spoilers) when you’re in that one trial and Tataru tries to summon her carbuncle but can’t control it. Suddenly she’s running around panicking and chasing you with AOE markers like a total sprout Then there's the final payoff in EW where a Studium researcher references a weird alone Carbuncle in the wild in LaNoscea that seems to have been summoned for a very long time, but only a summoner with giganormous reserves of aether would be able to pull off such a feat https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/rpmpl2/what_actually_happened_to_tatarus_carbuncle/
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Apr 26, 2024 12:48
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Tataru and carbuncles like wizards and shotguns
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Apr 26, 2024 13:03
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just more proof that tataru is the most powerful scion
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Finished ARR. There’s some real goofy Gary’s Mod faces at the end there where I don’t know if they were intending those to be serious scenes but I just busted out laughing. RIP the sultana, you were a real one. Kinda dumb though since you didn’t even tell your right hand you were planning to blow up the whole government of your city that evening and had zero practical plans to transition to a republic other than hopes and dreams. Honestly probably better that you got assassinated than you got a chance to go through with that dumb plan which would have just had your city dissolving into a civil war. When they pop up a confirmation box saying “hey yo, you better be ready to set aside some time here. You sure bro?” They mean it. That had to be like a 40 minute cutscene. Real jarring to go from that to the new VA’s in the next quest since I was used to them.
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Apr 27, 2024 11:08
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Nitrousoxide posted:Finished ARR. There’s some real goofy Gary’s Mod faces at the end there where I don’t know if they were intending those to be serious scenes but I just busted out laughing.  Welcome to Heavensward!
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Apr 27, 2024 11:17
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Nitrousoxide posted:Finished ARR. There’s some real goofy Gary’s Mod faces at the end there where I don’t know if they were intending those to be serious scenes but I just busted out laughing. The whole "I'll establish a Democracy to take the power out of the wealthy assholes" had me cynically chuckling over her naivety. Yeah no way the ultra wealthy could exploit that.
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Apr 27, 2024 12:00
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Or just start murdering.
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Nitrousoxide posted:Real jarring to go from that to the new VA’s in the next quest since I was used to them.
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Apr 27, 2024 13:01
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Nitrousoxide posted:Finished ARR. Regarding the faces, it's something they've been playing with over the course of the game. If you do the Hildibrand quests they're kinda a testing ground for that thing, playing with facial rigging in a setting where it's okay to look weird. The ones you noticed were definitely at the limits of what they could manage at the time, and there's a reason they don't stick around onscreen for long.
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Nitrousoxide posted:When they pop up a confirmation box saying “hey yo, you better be ready to set aside some time here. You sure bro?” They mean it. That had to be like a 40 minute cutscene. Those pop up confirmation boxes will soon become a source of excitement, anxiety, and drat near any other emotion you can think of 
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