Final Fantasy XIV 1.0 | FFXIV Lore For Beginners

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  • The story of Final Fantasy XIV 1.0 Lore is the next in my series of videos designed to help new players get into the game, returning players catch up, and give current players something to refresh themselves with.
    I hope you enjoy, so much hard work went into this one!
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    Chapters
    00:00 - Introduction
    00:46 - A Tale of Two Imperials
    08:20 - The Age of Adventurers
    09:50 - The Echo
    11:00 - Louisoix's Plans
    14:28 - The Truth Revealed
    18:20 - The Fall of Dalamud
    20:09 - The Battle of Carteneau
    28:27 - Ending and Thanks
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Komentáře • 577

  • @jessecox
    @jessecox  Před 3 dny +840

    Reminder to my lore nerds, this entire series is designed not to spoil things for people playing through the game. If there’s a fact that we learn later - I will include it when we learn it.

    • @MagHavik
      @MagHavik Před 3 dny +16

      Ok this answers my only question i had through the video haha

    • @happyninja42
      @happyninja42 Před 3 dny +17

      Hey thanks for playing all that 1.0 footage, I genuinely didn't realize that the party of heroes that is introduced after Heavensward, were the poster kids from the original iteration of the game. That makes the later events of some of the other expansions have a lot more impact.

    • @Dracobyte
      @Dracobyte Před 3 dny

      Thank you for another great animation video!

    • @TheDarkFable
      @TheDarkFable Před 3 dny +3

      I do hope next video you "finish" Naels story and the revelations about why did they all this we get from Coils as well as the Encyclopedia Eorzea

    • @adamboyd1132
      @adamboyd1132 Před 3 dny +11

      @@happyninja42 Honestly, it's easy to miss, you don't see that group together until the HW patch content, but once you know, it's hard to miss: they're wearing the artifact gear from ARR for their classes... and the 6th member of the party you don't see between the 1.0 trailer and Shadowbringers.

  • @La3nus
    @La3nus Před 3 dny +788

    Posting a video while we suffer from Maintenance... clever Jesse, very clever.

    • @SilverLuna07
      @SilverLuna07 Před 3 dny +15

      Hahaha, he was very upfront about that on either Geekenders or Twitter.

    • @bassheartstrings
      @bassheartstrings Před 3 dny +14

      My theory is he also wanted to be done with the video before the xpac so he had more time to play haha

    • @4mb127
      @4mb127 Před 3 dny

      Why must we suffer...

    • @Struzzylive
      @Struzzylive Před 3 dny

      But we don’t, we can do something else while we wait

    • @Meun
      @Meun Před 3 dny

      Now only if he could pronounce the names properly

  • @NezeruGaming
    @NezeruGaming Před 3 dny +596

    Jesse this has got to be the cleanest footage of 1.0 we've ever seen.

    • @KitsuneSoup
      @KitsuneSoup Před 3 dny +20

      You can still go play 1.0 if you like. There're discords dedicated to rebirth, and they're releasing much better screenshots and movies.

    • @ToriesgoneofImglad
      @ToriesgoneofImglad Před 3 dny +6

      When 2.0 launched SE aggressively went after people with vid of 1.0 on CZcams. Mine included. Can't imagine why. I mean it looked terrible right? Right? RIGHT?
      So now you know why.

    • @sariarosegold
      @sariarosegold Před 3 dny +14

      @@ToriesgoneofImglad looking terrible was the one thing 1.0 never did. it was everything else that was bad XD

    • @NobuxD
      @NobuxD Před 2 dny +2

      I prefer 1.0 cutscenes... Fight me.

    • @nighteyeswolf
      @nighteyeswolf Před 2 dny +3

      @@NobuxD using actual mocap, movement was soooo much cleaner in 1.0's cutscenes, at the behest of it's massively doggish performance hit.

  • @masterrhyno
    @masterrhyno Před 3 dny +294

    1.0 ending with the scene of Bahamut just obliterating everything is possibly the strongest game endings of all time "Oh btw you failed" servers shut down. I remember watching videos of people gathered around watching Dalamud descend in real time, pretty chilling

    • @JulianSkies
      @JulianSkies Před 3 dny +33

      Sitting there just /waiting/, listening to the heavily distorted version of Answers. Just sitting there with the other players, knowing it's going to end soon and... And...
      And just uncerimoniously seeing that 'connection lost' screen.

    • @Omnomface
      @Omnomface Před 3 dny +13

      They're still on youtube. You can see the moon slowly descending, untill finally...the servers go out and the trailer plays.

    • @RKumono
      @RKumono Před 3 dny +13

      Yea, well, I was there. No real way to describe how haunting it was in those last days and weeks, and especially in the last hours knowing it would all end for good and you, the player--the hero--had failed. So marvelously designed by the team to bring that to and end and bring in what we have now.
      It's cliché, but--you had to be there to truly know what it was like.

    • @christiansolid1702
      @christiansolid1702 Před 3 dny +3

      My FC still sits around toghether just before servers go down for the 48 hour maintenance 🤣.. Crawlers are crazy 😅

    • @ChatteringApe
      @ChatteringApe Před 3 dny +5

      This is why I love the animation at 23:48 . Since I first saw it, with no knowledge of 1.0, I thought, "This is the hero of all the RPGs you've played, realizing he's failed, thinking this is the end of the world." Beautifully done!

  • @dunethewanderer8944
    @dunethewanderer8944 Před 3 dny +212

    My own memories aren't as clean as that 1.0 footage.

    • @kimaclaret
      @kimaclaret Před 3 dny

      Mine aren't either. My potato computer probably didn't look like that anyway. 😅

    • @ToriesgoneofImglad
      @ToriesgoneofImglad Před 3 dny +4

      Cleaner exists, but you won't find it easily as SE struck down all the 1.0 channels when 2.0 was released. In fact SE actually wound back a 1.0 graphical improvement because it was too good, citing it may cause some players performance issues. (Yeah, 2.0 players!) Yes this actually happened, if you had the machine to see it and the zoneless zone lag vanish that is.

    • @jtabox
      @jtabox Před dnem

      or you can set up a private 1.0 server and record high quality footage yourself

  • @beefkat5370
    @beefkat5370 Před 3 dny +187

    Just dropping Answers in there like that is brave. Straight to demonetization, do not pass Go. But it deserves to be here, and for that, respect.

    • @Jaewing
      @Jaewing Před 3 dny +18

      My man not oly dropped answers uncut, but the whole damn cinematic in one go, mad respect

    • @alanepithet2931
      @alanepithet2931 Před 3 dny +13

      Yeah, that's not just Answers; that's the entire cutscene it came from.
      One of the most important moments in Eorzean history in full cinematic glory.

    • @NobuxD
      @NobuxD Před 2 dny

      Is it coptwrighted heavily?

    • @Draylin41
      @Draylin41 Před 2 dny +4

      @@NobuxD There's a version of Answers on the in-game music player that would get claimed immediately if you were to play it on a livestream, but I think playing it with the cinematic is fine. Something similar with Dragonsong from Heavensward too. The music company behind those songs have caused a lot of problems over the years for FF14 enjoyers.

  • @ryouma1717
    @ryouma1717 Před 3 dny +133

    iam a 1.0 player and i remember the last days of the game as the red moon got bigger and bigger in the sky and you could hear hydaelyns song echo throughout the world then the epic moment when the servers went offline and the cutscene played was glorious it had me in tears and thinking back to those days also brings tears to me eyes

    • @twocatsyelling723
      @twocatsyelling723 Před 3 dny +11

      It was like 2AM here when the servers went offline. I was ready to say "welp, that's that" and go to bed. Then that cutscene starts.
      I didn't sleep much that night lol.

    • @stridera
      @stridera Před 3 dny +4

      I wish I had screen recording software installed. It was amazing and I wish I could remember what I did during those last moments. Just a big group of us sitting around waiting for the end.

    • @ToriesgoneofImglad
      @ToriesgoneofImglad Před 3 dny +5

      And all I got was this lousy tattoo and a misspelled name in the credits.

  • @SuperFlyGhost
    @SuperFlyGhost Před 3 dny +41

    That 1.0 and 2.0 cutscenes make so much more sense now and hit way harder, damn

    • @CooroSnowFox
      @CooroSnowFox Před 3 dny +10

      1.0 stopped at the teleport and had a screen saying "every ending had a new beginning" so the full wasn't for about 2 years until you go to see the resolution.

  • @webaker
    @webaker Před 3 dny +91

    "Thou must live, die, and know" ALWAYS makes me well up

    • @sonoskay
      @sonoskay Před 3 dny +9

      “There has never been a single awnser. You gather pieces of happiness, precious and fragile, only to lose them. Then start again. On and on it goes, until death takes you into its gentle embrace.”
      No one can tell me from start to finish FF14 wasn't about human suffering and struggle.
      😭

    • @argentbast
      @argentbast Před 3 dny +1

      @@sonoskay There is suffering, yes, but there is also hope and joy. Even the full ending of Answers mentions it:
      "Thy Life is a riddle, to bear rapture and sorrow
      To listen, to suffer, to entrust unto tomorrow
      In one fleeting moment, from the Land doth life flow
      Yet in one fleeting moment, for anew it doth grow
      In the same fleeting moment
      Thou must live
      Die
      And know"

    • @AnnoyingSquib
      @AnnoyingSquib Před 3 dny +1

      "Look to those who've walked before. To lead those who walk after."
      I came in during HW. That part usually gives me chills. Answers is such a wonderful heartbreaking song.

    • @aSmolGoth
      @aSmolGoth Před 2 dny

      Loved the duality of Answers. When you start, you think it's simply about the Calamity. Until you progress so much further in the story, it takes on such a deeper meaning and all the voices that echo the lyrics to the song.

  • @Lycox15
    @Lycox15 Před 3 dny +22

    Everything I hear about the gameplay of 1.0 makes me glad I never had to suffer through it, but anytime I hear about the story and how it leads into ARR, I start to wish I was there to experience it.

  • @jimjam7928
    @jimjam7928 Před 3 dny +134

    13:10 "Ardbert Derpland"
    What a name.

    • @matthewkrumlauf9990
      @matthewkrumlauf9990 Před 3 dny +4

      Thank you for drawing my attention to that, I assume it is an edit or an edited gift from someone on the ff14 team.
      (I wonder if some of this is archived footage from the team, because I do not see footage like this from 1.0 often.)

    • @firefly1509
      @firefly1509 Před 3 dny +11

      @@matthewkrumlauf9990 mmm, my other thought would be... datamining-slash-thirdparty-server (which I think is quite fair for a discontinued game)

    • @In-Midnight-Clad
      @In-Midnight-Clad Před 3 dny +12

      ​@@matthewkrumlauf9990 Well we know Jesse didn't put hours and hours into getting 1.0 running somehow, then recreate his Derpland character just so he could get good footage to make this video for us. That would be crazy!

    • @HikingFeral
      @HikingFeral Před 3 dny

      @@firefly1509 There's a software server of 1.0 available to download and play for free. It's very unfinished and an extremely large file size. All you can do is walk around and see some cutscenes. Most everything in it is broken or unusable.

    • @Raganui
      @Raganui Před 2 dny

      When I saw him I went 'hey, it's Ardbert'

  • @NCamico
    @NCamico Před 3 dny +40

    My favorite thing about actually being there during the end of 1.X was during the final couple of weeks during the Fall of Dalamud. They basically let the reins loose on the GMs and they would go to various aetherytes as Garlean legates, talk smack to players then spawn hordes of troops.

    • @KisiroKitsune
      @KisiroKitsune Před 3 dny +30

      There was one incident where GMs spawned a bunch of monsters outside Ul'dah and players blocked them with goobbue mounts to protect the city. This actually got mentioned in ARR as the "great goobbue wall".

    • @Sketchblopp
      @Sketchblopp Před 3 dny +5

      Have you met one of the reporters? I heard in another video reporters from the local in game news papers appeared here and there, handled by GMs of course, and were asking the players for statements and gossip and stuff.

    • @nyu3801
      @nyu3801 Před 3 dny +4

      @@KisiroKitsune Iirc, its also what the dead goobbue in thanalan is a reference to :')

    • @mb2001
      @mb2001 Před 3 dny +1

      1.x had GMs?

  • @speedyconkiwi
    @speedyconkiwi Před 3 dny +27

    the battle of carteneau will always make me tear up. no matter how many times i've seen it, there's so much emotion in those scenes and the music and now after we wrapped up this insane storyline, it makes it even better. thank you for including the entire cutscene! my little lala lady is a proud carteneau survivor and i can't wait for the adventures that await her next!

  • @coolciaran69
    @coolciaran69 Před 3 dny +53

    Does Jesse secretly have a personal 1.0 remastered server hiding somewhere with all that quality lore footage.

    • @knightsolaire5351
      @knightsolaire5351 Před 3 dny +17

      There is currently a way to set up a 1.0 server to explore the world and whatnot

    • @Fojabass
      @Fojabass Před 3 dny +12

      I imagine he used Project Meteor, which is a server emulator for v1.23b (the final version of 1.0).

    • @xivlore
      @xivlore Před 2 dny

      Private servers or AI upscaling.

  • @KalanArkais
    @KalanArkais Před 3 dny +55

    *spoilers for the video*
    I never even realized that I didn't actually know why the armies were fighting at Carteneau. And Gaius helping stop Nael, what a twist! It's really cool to finally see all these scraps of the 1.0 story brought together after only getting parts of the picture for years.

    • @iantaakalla8180
      @iantaakalla8180 Před 3 dny +12

      Honestly, now it really makes sense why Gaius seems weirdly conciliatory even as he professes he sees you as savages to rule over. Unlike most Garlean rulers, he actually would have provided stability to Eorzea (at the price of the tribes not being able to summon Primals for protection) and improved the lands within a Garlean framework, and his rhetoric is not just justification to raze whomever lives there once conquered.

    • @trigunner6968
      @trigunner6968 Před 3 dny +15

      ​@@iantaakalla8180 hence the line, "Such devastation, this was not my intention." - Gaius Van Baelsar

    • @gratuitouslurking8610
      @gratuitouslurking8610 Před 3 dny +10

      @@iantaakalla8180 I think this also ties a lot into a lot of why he's so bitter to the player during the Praetorium speech and a few of his interactions prior as well. He interprets the actions during the Answers cutscene as nothing more than another Primal summoning instead of basically a once-in-a-lifetime specialized ritual to try and halt a Calamity, and thus grew a lot more incensed at the city-states in kind.

    • @seablade214
      @seablade214 Před 3 dny +5

      There's something interesting role play wise with that too. It feels like tons of characters who were not able to know the details just assumed it was just Garlemald and Eorzea fighting for land. To the public suffering from amnesia, it'd easily get covered up about the whole moon cult thing.

  • @NabaniSaa
    @NabaniSaa Před 3 dny +36

    Thancred praying at one of the sigils that, now finding out Loisoix made, hits so much different in the ARR cinematic, sheeeesh.

  • @1Vergil
    @1Vergil Před 3 dny +43

    Everytime I see that Bahamut scene... goosebumps. Truly incredible.
    I love this series and I can't wait till you get to Heavensward.

    • @matthewhostetter8974
      @matthewhostetter8974 Před 3 dny

      Answers will always go hard. Also, I always forget theme used for the Tweleve has been with us since ARR as well.

  • @SilverLuna07
    @SilverLuna07 Před 3 dny +59

    Ever since learning that scene played for people at the end of 1.0, it's had so much more impact. It's an amazing cutscene and extremely sad.

    • @Sketchblopp
      @Sketchblopp Před 3 dny +2

      Afaik it also wasn't the full scene, from what I heard you didn't get the happy ending part...? (Take it with a grain of salt though, I wasn't there.)

    • @chickenspy1854
      @chickenspy1854 Před 3 dny +5

      @@Sketchbloppyeah it cut just after the MC was teleported out. And we were all left there to wait and hope the game came back as planned.
      And when we came back for ARR, the entire scene played out. Very cool idea for the transition.

  • @warllockmasterasd9142
    @warllockmasterasd9142 Před 3 dny +18

    In other words 1.0 ended its story on a letteral cliffhanger.
    Well played Yoshi.

  • @Saragraph
    @Saragraph Před 3 dny +17

    Funny detail that was probably cut for time reasons is that 1.0 players who rested at, I think it was inns? They could actually be shown a special cutscene that foreshadowed the calamity! And iirc a hauntingly distorted version of Answers, which is the song that plays during that final 1.0 cutscene, would play throughout most of the world as the plot got super close to the calamity and the game to shutting down in transition to 2.0. A version that is very like 1.0's distorted Answers is still played every year during the annual Rising event in certain locations in the three starting cities.

    • @IrideaeSnowbloom
      @IrideaeSnowbloom Před 3 dny +2

      Answers - Reprise appears to be the song title of the hauntingly reverbating version

    • @Saragraph
      @Saragraph Před 3 dny +1

      @@IrideaeSnowbloom Thank you!

    • @Telris86
      @Telris86 Před 23 hodinami

      Yeah it was crazy. It was not resting though. It was an actual log out function by using your bed. Next time you log in you would see the cutscene that basically acted as a nightmare you had while you were sleeping. Caught many people by surprise.
      1.0 had its major flaws but overall it was an unique experience that made it special. It's kind of sad that so many people never got to experience it. I also remember fondly the rumors and speculations going around what that small red dot in the sky is. Before the corresponding patches hit and nobody knew what it was there were major discussions ingame and in forums about it. You could even notice it getting bigger from patch to patch and speculations ran wild. The entire buildup to the end of 1.0 was just magical.

  • @1candondor
    @1candondor Před 3 dny +19

    Man Gaius even in 1.0 was a secret hero in waiting. So true to his character to "unite" the world for the better in the way he believed. Rad

    • @bl00dm0urne
      @bl00dm0urne Před 2 dny +1

      "And so, Gaius learned not to listen to the words of someone who clearly lost their marbles that he forgot he had a memory of a goldfish and decided to listen to the words of someone who clearly lost their marbles, but this time they were wearing a black hood and red masks."

  • @heliosknight2126
    @heliosknight2126 Před 3 dny +11

    Even though I've experienced this lore from playing 1.0 , seeing it all together in a concise way makes watching the footage at the end hit much more satisfyingly! Great way to get hyped before the new expansion, thanks for the great video!

  • @anydaynow01
    @anydaynow01 Před 3 dny +10

    Hearing this makes the rest of the Gaius arc make so much more sense!
    I played a bit of 1.x but was too turned off by the game play so I went back to FFXI. When ARR came out I waited until people were raving about the improvements so I was playing again by 2.1. I wish they included more of this story in ARR! They touched on it at times in the side stories but man, what an intro into the world, I really wish I stuck with it just to hear this story real time. I wish they would do a Eureka type thing where we go back in time and live the events again, maybe cleaned up a bit to fit the current story and story telling cadence.

  • @MythrilZenith
    @MythrilZenith Před 3 dny +37

    Yay more FFXIV lore!
    Edit: Gosh dangit Jesse, how did you know I wanted to watch the full ARR cutscene at the end of all that? Actually got me to cry. Knowing all the leadup makes it SO MUCH more impactful.

    • @anydaynow01
      @anydaynow01 Před 3 dny +2

      I know right, the WHM watching after us as we dash back off into battle like a worrying mother watching her son go to war uppercuts me in the feels every since time I see it!

  • @Kyle8122
    @Kyle8122 Před 3 dny +17

    As someone that played since the original 1.0 beta, the final event they did culminating in the cutscene as they shut the servers down was such a moment.

    • @CooroSnowFox
      @CooroSnowFox Před 3 dny +1

      For it was definitely a move to decide to shut down the game and do what Yoshi-P was doing at the time.

    • @Kairamek
      @Kairamek Před 3 dny +5

      "The heroes failed" is a common enough backstory to a game. But to actually play through that failure? I envy you just a little. Not too much, 1.0 was a hot mess.

    • @chickenspy1854
      @chickenspy1854 Před 3 dny +2

      @@Kairamekvery true, but by 1.21, the game was pretty enjoyable. I remember that specific version number because that’s the one I recall the game truly turning around for the better in so many ways.

  • @Lewdiculous
    @Lewdiculous Před 3 dny +15

    Man, the 1.0 cutscenes motion capture is fantastic. The shots are so cinematic.

    • @NaturesFlame
      @NaturesFlame Před 3 dny +5

      They were so great when the game ran higher than 15 fps. The OG 1.0 ran sooo badly though. In part because of too many polygons on everything. Flower pots in cities had more polygons than actual player characters.

    • @Lewdiculous
      @Lewdiculous Před 3 dny +5

      ​​​@@NaturesFlame - I can also understand why they leaned more on using the canned animations from ARR onwards, they didn't have much time to redo the game and besides it made it easier to produce more content at a faster rate. Here's hoping we get more of the high quality motion capture in DT's main cutscenes.

  • @SgtSandflea
    @SgtSandflea Před 3 dny +10

    This video should be watch for all those who are thinking about coming into the game. I've seen so many people lost because they don't know what's going on. This could help create a nice stable base for new players. Though watching this... the nostalgia was palpable...

    • @ChatteringApe
      @ChatteringApe Před 3 dny +1

      Yes, as I understand it, this is Jesse's purpose for the series. This is why he only covers what was known at the time each video addresses, not everything we know today. Part of what's great about the writing is that we sometimes learn things we thought were true are wrong, or at least not the whole story. Jesse wants people to be able to watch up to whatever point they want, and play from there on without spoilers. I expect this will hold in the ARR video (e.g. he won't mention what happens to people after ARR) and for later expansions.

  • @harryc8462
    @harryc8462 Před 3 dny +49

    I finally made it to the Shiva fight after several attempts of trying to get into XIV and that phase transition as sealed the deal on getting me hooked. Looking foward to watching this to recap the main quest!

    • @Ronandthecamelspiders
      @Ronandthecamelspiders Před 3 dny +3

      Exact same here, the track kicking it made me realise there was a bit more going on design wise

    • @KisiroKitsune
      @KisiroKitsune Před 3 dny +3

      The Shiva music transition is what hooked me in back in the day too. It's so good.

    • @melting7912
      @melting7912 Před 3 dny +1

      No way, that's the point that got me hooked as well! Now I'm an Ultimate raider all the way at the end of Endwalker, waiting for tomorrow for Dawntrail to release 3 years later. Have fun playing through the game!

    • @kimaclaret
      @kimaclaret Před 3 dny +1

      Welcome on in! Enjoy the journey!

    • @adamsbja
      @adamsbja Před 3 dny +1

      That gets a lot of folks, though of the people I know most of the ones playing back when ARR was new got hooked by Titan. Under The Weight never really hit me the same way, for me it was Garuda.
      Anyway, music good.

  • @herebejamz
    @herebejamz Před 3 dny +24

    Ya know, I just realized the leader of the VII Legion literally trying to summon a "meteor" that he worships is an extremely blunt reference. Even with a fire walk.

    • @KisiroKitsune
      @KisiroKitsune Před 3 dny +13

      Yeah the numbers the Legions are named after always reference that game. Like the VIth Legion were the ones after the Warring Triad in Heavensward.

    • @Dracobyte
      @Dracobyte Před 3 dny +1

      Nice FF 7 reference!

  • @ajzekind
    @ajzekind Před 3 dny +21

    Loremaster Coxstradamus has blessed us with LOOOOORE. We love you, Jesse!

  • @DTCubone104
    @DTCubone104 Před 3 dny +13

    The Moogle on Nyquil speaks to my soul

  • @Rayweo
    @Rayweo Před 3 dny +19

    Uploads this while servers are in maintenance? He knows what he's doing! Thanks Jeese!

    • @anydaynow01
      @anydaynow01 Před 3 dny +2

      Yep, crazy how with this maintenance we are starting a brand new arc from one that began with the story from this video over ten years ago! I mean like I played this game after just getting out of the military and there are people I play with now who were babies then!
      And the game lore just keeps getting better at that! Can't wait for more of these videos!

  • @matthewmacomber6278
    @matthewmacomber6278 Před 3 dny +10

    Can't help but tear up during that Bahamut scene that ended 1.0. I barely even played it, yet it's just so heart wrenching to see the collapse of a society and the heroes to truly fail.

  • @thegneech
    @thegneech Před 3 dny +10

    Watching the ARR opening cinematic post-Shadowbringers is like "Go, Warriors of Darkness, go!"

  • @DecimusGaming
    @DecimusGaming Před 2 dny +2

    Thank you so much for making this video, Jesse ❤
    As someone that's helped code and rebuild 1.0 from the ground up (even in my own very small way), I'm super happy from seeing people take such an effort at making sure all the great lore and story from those days isn't forgotten to time, and I love seeing everyone here take an interest in this.
    Looking forward to seeing the rest of the series.

  • @mizzanni
    @mizzanni Před 3 dny +2

    I'm so glad you included the ARR cinematic uninterrupted. It's honestly one of the most impactful pieces of media in the Final Fantasy franchise as a whole. Gives me chills EVERY time.

  • @Tom-Pendragon
    @Tom-Pendragon Před 3 dny +20

    Saved me from Maintenance pain, Jesse. Thank you ^^

  • @CastorGaming
    @CastorGaming Před 3 dny +3

    Thanks! I love your FFXIV lore videos, because they are well written and easily digestible primers into what had become one of my favorite games.

  • @grimscriven
    @grimscriven Před 3 dny +9

    That cinematic still gives me goosebumps and makes me cry.

    • @Emulcool
      @Emulcool Před 3 dny

      answers is just ...something else.

  • @Spookybluelights
    @Spookybluelights Před 3 dny +7

    I can't believe Jesse got away with putting the entire "End of Era" trailer in there.

  • @PostTimeskipSam
    @PostTimeskipSam Před 3 dny +2

    Thank you for this video! I had no idea, they really fleshed out Gaius character like this in 1.0! Very cool!

  • @Stuppern
    @Stuppern Před 3 dny +4

    Aahhh that cutscene is still my all-time favorite. I'm still glad I was a part of the 1.0 gang, but boy the game was not very good before ARR.
    I remember when ARR was announced - how I did not at all believe they would be able to relaunch the game and be successful, how very wrong I was!
    And here we are, one day till another great expansion

  • @joshkupka
    @joshkupka Před 3 dny +2

    The editing and animations in this are sooo cute! Hats off to the editors and animator!

  • @RoseAlchemist22
    @RoseAlchemist22 Před 2 dny

    I will never not get shivers any time that small flute tune plays, the one when the WoLs reappear after the battle of Carteneau. It's such a simple theme but it's FFXIV's most iconic sound for the wonder of adventure.

  • @missteriouskitty
    @missteriouskitty Před 3 dny +2

    Maaan this is the summary I had been missing!! I didnt learn any of this context around Dalamud, Cid, and the Empire until I stumbled into the Bozja questline. Then I asked a veteran friend to fill in the blanks... First time I really felt liked I'd missed out in not being around for 1.0!

  • @broadwayfreak678
    @broadwayfreak678 Před 3 dny +3

    the goosebumps I had when the End of an Era footage started, man.
    I never got to play or even touch 1.0, so finally having some concise context for everything was absolutely wonderful and made me remember just how much I love this game. I cannot *wait* for the rest of the lore vids!!

  • @1DayInTheLifeOfA
    @1DayInTheLifeOfA Před 3 dny +4

    Jesse that was OUTSTANDING. Thank you for giving me something to get me to the next dawn!

  • @Squallcloud95
    @Squallcloud95 Před 2 dny +3

    I could have the greatest day ever then suddenly hear Answer and become sad.

  • @SpacedogD
    @SpacedogD Před 3 dny +2

    I followed your first 2 videos years ago when i first started ffxiv.
    Glad to finally see a 3rd video, please make more.

    • @Scapemaster00
      @Scapemaster00 Před 3 dny

      We'll just have to wait for the next expansions release maintenance for the 2.0 lore.

  • @TheoVorster
    @TheoVorster Před 3 dny +2

    I've always been meaning to get around to watching a MSQ compilation of a 1.0 play-through (and still do), this is such a nice informative booklet sized summary of 1.0, and in only ~20 minutes.

  • @MoiselleTheFae
    @MoiselleTheFae Před 3 dny +1

    I'm so glad to see you back on this! You did a fantastic job here Jesse. Kudos for just straight up playing the final cutscene. Very important, not just for context but for tone as well I feel.

  • @AnaRustenholtz
    @AnaRustenholtz Před 3 dny +3

    I'm really glad you're back Jesse. I remember watching you back in the early Skyrim days and I loved your content and humor so much. It made me sad when I saw your content fall off and hoped you'd one day find something new to focus your immense passion on. And now you create content for my favorite MMO. Thank you for sticking to your hard work and dedication and being here today. Glad to have been a long time subscriber of yours.

    • @LoopStricken
      @LoopStricken Před 3 dny +1

      Man's never stopped, he just does Twitch now.

  • @lolman123121
    @lolman123121 Před 3 dny

    I love these lore videos so much! Thank you for putting in the time to make this!!

  • @valkyriebait136
    @valkyriebait136 Před 3 dny

    Glad to see this series starting back up! I kind of love it.

  • @thisisnotargun
    @thisisnotargun Před 3 dny +1

    Yes Jesse! I've been waiting for this video since your other beginner lore videos!

  • @HoodedLefty
    @HoodedLefty Před 3 dny +3

    I think we all know that the “certain gentleman” deserves his own video to himself (might work better as a series of shorter videos though)

  • @In-Midnight-Clad
    @In-Midnight-Clad Před 3 dny

    This was so good. Thanks for all the hard work and time that went into this, Jesse!

  • @forensicfanatic1
    @forensicfanatic1 Před 3 dny

    Gorgeous and informative video, Jesse. Impeccable work as always!

  • @Seedmember
    @Seedmember Před 3 dny +4

    1.0 might have been bad in terms of gameplay, but it had some good story bits. It's also amazing that the devs didn't forget the 1.0 story and added all those throwbacks in Endwalker.

    • @KoujiTamino
      @KoujiTamino Před 3 dny +2

      It makes sense, everything involving Project Meteor and the impending Calamity was added during patches after Yoshi-P became the new head of development. The actual 1.0 story was very light as the original devs weren't quite sure what direction they wanted to go in and they were so focused on trying to make something of the mess of a game they had on their hands.
      Some of the original 1.0 story does remain relevant, however, like Minfilia's backstory which gets called back on in the 2.x patches and the Stormblood Alchemist quests.

  • @MeThorvald
    @MeThorvald Před 3 dny

    Seriously - the "you know which" song, really hits differently now. I've always loved it since I've heard it all those years ago.

  • @benh5541
    @benh5541 Před 3 dny

    Amazing summary and footage. Also the scene at the end never fails to make me cry.

  • @Sprakenheit
    @Sprakenheit Před 3 dny

    I've been waiting for this since the last lore video. Amazing work as always

  • @Dom380
    @Dom380 Před 3 dny +1

    Love these lore videos Jesse

  • @Tbrekke
    @Tbrekke Před 3 dny

    Excellent video; the ARR trailer's second half always brings me tears of joy.

  • @4mb127
    @4mb127 Před 3 dny +2

    Thanks Jesse. Love your lore videos.

  • @Rakshasaka
    @Rakshasaka Před 3 dny

    Thank you so much for this Jesse, very clean, very nice.

  • @ZeniteZero
    @ZeniteZero Před 3 dny +1

    Thank you, Jesse. This reminded me of how much I love this game.

  • @OniMochi
    @OniMochi Před 3 dny

    Your lore videos are always a joy to watch.

  • @ExiaBlade
    @ExiaBlade Před 3 dny +1

    Immaculate video. Brilliantly put together

  • @perunarieska9182
    @perunarieska9182 Před 3 dny +12

    Finally we have continuation for Jesse's lore videos! ❤Been waiting for this

  • @Von223
    @Von223 Před 3 dny

    I watched this last night, and all i can say is good job, Jesse!

  • @EvolvingShadows
    @EvolvingShadows Před 3 dny

    Thank you Jesse for making these! Very entertaining and informative! Expertly edited!!

  • @MistressInferno
    @MistressInferno Před 3 dny

    This was so well done, brilliant and concise. Thank you so much for this, needed this refresher. Bonus for putting the Answers cinematic at the end. Love it!

  • @paladinbrewer
    @paladinbrewer Před 3 dny

    Thank you I was hoping for more Lore videos

  • @bigcountryluke571
    @bigcountryluke571 Před dnem

    This video is awesome. Fills in knowledge gaps and presented with great footage. Thank you for the hard work!

  • @twocatsyelling723
    @twocatsyelling723 Před 3 dny +1

    Been playing since 1.0, and never saw the history put so clearly and concisely.
    Very nice job!

  • @rezanhiraga5191
    @rezanhiraga5191 Před 3 dny

    It's been a minute, but I'm glad this video series is continuing.

  • @JHa
    @JHa Před 3 dny

    I have been waiting for this for so long!!!!

  • @TheKabukimann
    @TheKabukimann Před 3 dny +13

    the fact that what bahamut did is still one level below a spell Donald Duck used is still very funny to me.

  • @Violinoknight
    @Violinoknight Před 3 dny

    It's been so long since you mentioned this. This is awesome!

  • @Balekkar
    @Balekkar Před 2 dny

    I could listen to you recite lore to me all day. The more you make of this, the better.

  • @tinybee7780
    @tinybee7780 Před 3 dny

    This is such a well made video. I will always appreciate the former history teacher giving lessons about one of my favorite games.
    These 1.0 cutscenes were really something else, especially the WoL and the Archon's confrontation with Gaius. Much more fluid than what we currently have right now. Hope we can come back to this style again some day.
    18:33 This little tidbit kinda makes me wish that this was mentioned during the Myths of the Realm Alliance Raid - if not by the NPC scholars then by the actual characters and bosses in the raids themselves.
    That transition from 1.0 to ARR is definitely a once in a lifetime thing that you had to be there o fully experience what the hell just happened. From the server shutdown to the eventual reveal of 2.0, pulling off that kind of miracle is such a monumental feat. Makes me wanna rewatch the Noclip documentary all over again.

  • @andywilson3717
    @andywilson3717 Před 2 dny

    An excellent video all round!

  • @CetteSara
    @CetteSara Před 3 dny

    Perfect timing! Thank you for the video!

  • @garchompteeth
    @garchompteeth Před 3 dny

    THANK YOOOOOU SO MUCH I WAS HOPING FOR THIS

  • @Ironnz
    @Ironnz Před 3 dny

    Woah 😯excellent Video Mr. Cox! I was engaged the entire time and eagerly look forward to the future Lore videos.

  • @Dracobyte
    @Dracobyte Před 3 dny

    I missed these great animation videos, thank you!

  • @zidaryn
    @zidaryn Před 2 dny

    Love the vid. Love how you put the Answers vid in here like that. It's amazing. I just hope you don't get a copyright strike.

  • @diamondmagus
    @diamondmagus Před 3 dny

    Excellent video Jesse! That 1.0 footage is great. I also appreciate that you addressed my own immediate follow-ups, which are a few of the more specific story beats that get referenced in 2.0 and later but aren't recreated, specifically Thancred, Minfilia and F'lhaminn and how their little found family gets started (which really impacts Thancred's later story arcs), and for a more light hearted side, Hildebrand's 1.0 adventures.

  • @Doom2soon
    @Doom2soon Před 3 dny

    Been waiting for this one!

  • @LunnchBoxx45
    @LunnchBoxx45 Před 2 dny

    Bro, Holy crap!!
    You did some damn good work here.
    This was obviously a lot to take on, so thank you so much!! Wonderful video. Sharing to everyone I know.

  • @matthewhostetter8974
    @matthewhostetter8974 Před 3 dny

    I always love it when Jesse Lore deep dives or goes into crazy theory crafting. With Dawntrail a day away I can't wait to see how much Jesse gets right. Also no matter how many times I've seen the Answers opening and theme it always hits hard. It really it is one of Uematsu's greatest pieces.

  • @Everene
    @Everene Před dnem

    Damn that Battle of Carteneau, it get's me crying each time. Being there in game with the Moon ever approaching knowing the game was close to it's end, unaware of Yoshi-P's plans it hit's me so hard each time. The music and visual's were and still are the best.

  • @kendric99
    @kendric99 Před 3 dny

    I've been pretty seriously playing 14 for the past 5 years, and had looked into some 1.0 lore so I knew a bit of this. But even so you managed to lay it out so clearly and cleanly that I learned a few new things. Bravo sir! Outstanding!

  • @Autumn-Dragon
    @Autumn-Dragon Před 3 dny

    I have been waiting for a good while for the next lore video! Thanks Jesse for saving me from the maintance pain and to help me write my fanfic! ❤‍🔥

  • @Titanius_zos_Aires
    @Titanius_zos_Aires Před 3 dny

    Jesse, this was amazing. I've been playing 14 for 2.5 years now and the 1.0 stuff has always been somewhat known to me...but never organized so I could actually understand it. You did that. Thank you.

  • @2powerstar
    @2powerstar Před 3 dny

    Yessssss, love these videos. Thank you Jesse!

  • @JackTheFoxVA
    @JackTheFoxVA Před 3 dny

    So good! Thank you for these wonderful videos- they do a lot to help understand things that were lost on me the first time around. Eagerly awaiting the one that goes into the calamity

  • @SeraphixD3
    @SeraphixD3 Před 3 dny

    Thank you Jesse, for this excellent recap!

  • @diofalso7956
    @diofalso7956 Před 3 dny

    Great video! I'm sharing this bad boy.
    Thank you Jesse!