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  1. Chris

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    The theory is that the JP actors work more closely with the devs and the rest are outsourced, not always being given the context to do a good job. This time EN voice acting is outsourced to a Californian company to get the accents and not an English one. I get the feeling that some EN actors...
  2. Chris

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I think it's not that these writers have studied these things, it's that the last writer did that (Amarot is from Thomas Moore's Utopia from 1515, what the FUCK) and they are trying to find a formula in what she did. Which is why so much old ground is retread in Dawntrail. It's like how the new...
  3. Chris

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I never thought Lyse was bad, but I started in Gridania so you have her throughout the starting zone. May as well be a different character though since she drops the weird accent and cameltoe shorts, still I felt some investment in her. I just found Ala Migho to be extremely boring, it's not...
  4. Chris

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Is this the same game or a cut down mobile version? Doesn't seem clear which it is? I already play on my phone by using PSPlay and a Razor Kishi strap on controller, I can't see the advantage to having my phone do the processing or having a gimped mobile friendly port. I have double delay from...
  5. Chris

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Hey I lost 3 hours of play this afternoon because you want to pay two subs to use your inferior machine. On the positive side I got a bunch of minor chores done.
  6. Chris

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Felt like a budget cut expansion. Endwalker had a different voice cast for each zone , "This is Thancred" and stuff like the Venat cutscene.
  7. Chris

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I think they can all do that? Definitely done it as Paladin at least, I guess it's easiest as Warrior? May try that.
  8. Chris

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    I've always been a centrist and vote to balance whatever excesses of the left and right. People think I'm a leftist for culturally being against gun ownership/private healthcare, that's just a UK thing. I actually had my mind changed here about gun ownership lol. Now this is off topic, so...
  9. Chris

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I keep wiping out my gil on dye. I only have two lv100 glams so I don't know how I managed it. Starting a tank to lv100 tonight. Red Mage was a great choice as DPS main, really carried some first time clears for healers by ressing them. White Mage has been solid as healer too with the zero...
  10. Chris

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    Haligtree is harder than the DLC dungeons imo. Malenia herself is about the same as a lot of the DLC bosses, her issue is that her moveset isn't as predictable and she leeches life. I would do the first DLC area (upto and including Belurat), then do Farum Azula, then do the second DLC area...
  11. Chris

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    No!? I voted for Nigel Farage's party. I get these snarky leftist comments and you guys don't know a fucking thing. I think they could benefit from more stats on armour to make armor more rewarding, and some kind of gold currency system. So when you go on a detour and get a mushroom for it...
  12. Chris

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    I literally voted the furthest right I could today.
  13. Chris

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    I usually make female characters and wasn't always sure why, it just looked better. I figured it out in Cyberpunk. My second playthrough was as the male character and I noticed that I basically just made myself and wore subdued colours and designs like what I would wear as an introvert. In my...
  14. Chris

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Saw a comparison of EN and JP voice actors on reddit for Wuk Lamat and the JP one has vocal range. California wanted a tranny and as usual talent isn't a consideration.
  15. Chris

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Someone asked what the point of levelling Trust vs Duty Support. New Scion Glams every 10 levels. https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/s/X8xiNzxodc
  16. Chris

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    He's one of the easiest major bosses in the game right now because of all the NPCs lol.
  17. Chris

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Did the two optional lv100 dungeons and farmed the lv97 one a bit, I continue to be amazed at how difficult and unique they made these bosses. They literally have what would have been raid bosses as dungeon bosses, it's really fun.
  18. Chris

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    First thought I had in the cowboy zone when it turns out they are extracting ceruleum is "why aren't these people Garlean refugees?". That would have set up some conflict. I don't think they are any good. I've done 4/5ths of one and 3/5ths of another and I have no idea what they are about...
  19. Chris

    Ancient Civilizations

    Again, there's probably something similar it eats so it wasn't a huge leap. The chemistry of plastic molecules is very similar to the chemistry of organic molecules. After all, plastic is made from oil which is made from trees (please don't meme me, I know it's an oversimplification).
  20. Chris

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Lol at the low roll on the unique power.
  21. Chris

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    The issue with the friendship stuff is this: In Heavensward everyone hates each other, so it feels earned when you quest to build trust/depose leaders and get everyone working together at the end. In Endwalker you never quite get the Garleans on side, killing yourself to avoid being helped...
  22. Chris

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Skip everything until you get to the third aetheryte in the 4th zone. Don't torture yourself trying to understand these people, there is no deeper meaning or payoff. Transfurry Wakka wants to be Hokage. Latino Graha Tia wants to outsource everything to Sharlayan, destroying the local economy...
  23. Chris

    House of the Dragon

    The entire point of the scene is that it's too late to stop the war, there are now multiple heirs on both sides so killing her isn't quite as civil war ending as you claim. Yeah stupid dithering bitch is dead, now action man Daemon is in charge? Great!? The other point is that Rhaenyra's...
  24. Chris

    House of the Dragon

    It's not even a proper book, it's a few pages in a fake history book.
  25. Chris

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Dungeons and raids are great.
  26. Chris

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Well it's finished. For story: ARR 5/10 Heavensward 8/10 Stormblood 6.5/10 (Doma is a 7, Ala Migho is a 6) Shadowbringers 9/10 Endwalker 9.5/10 (Lose half a point for Labyrinthos) Dawntrail 4/10
  27. Chris

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Grand Company was worth it for speed levelling 1-50 since you could direct them to chain pull. Trust I don't think so, just level in Bozja.
  28. Chris

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Had a server stutter on lv100 dungeon boss, died at 16%. Moved from Gilgamesh earlier on though. That boss is a trial boss. I must have done it 20 times with NPCs. Mechanics are understandable, but I missed two tiny mechanics that kept wiping me at random. I'm fine with higher difficulty...
  29. Chris

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    She has Hispanic SJW voice acting, where this person is the avatar of all hispanic people so can do no wrong and always must be 100% friendly. Thankfully she's not dropping in random spanish words, but she does have the taco obsession the trope normally has. Imagine if Doma had Japanese accents...
  30. Chris

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Someone said ingame... She's ARR "Crystal Braves" era Alphinaud and there's no Heavensward to develop the character. Worst thing is that she's going to show up randomly from now on, like Aymeric or Hien does. Wait. Just had a thought. Didn't we already do this succession stuff in Azim Steppe...
  31. Chris

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Hit 100 but hardly touched the last zone yet. It seems like all the story is contained in the 5th zone, it is very interesting and I stopped skipping the story scenes, but I don't know why the other stuff is here. They should have combined the first two zones, have half a zone of succession...
  32. Chris

    Elden Ring - From Software + George RR Martin

    I heard that the Scadu both carries over and respawns, so you kinda need to get all 20 levels before NG+ so you can get more levels next time.
  33. Chris

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    It's not Yoshi. Ishikawa is the story genius behind Shadowbringers/Endwalker and for whatever reason she isn't working on this expansion. I just did minimal research and it seems like they put the guy who did the Dwarf/Pixie tribal quests in charge for the shit half, and the guy who did Werlyt...
  34. Chris

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    There's about x1.5 what you need from MSQ. I have levelled two jobs, WHM 98 and RDM 97 at the start of Zone 4. You can do the dungeons a few extra times or hit some FATES.
  35. Chris

    MTG thread

    What the fuck is wrong with these people? It's not hard to figure out a starter set you periodically update, it's just their greed in wanting to product to also be attractive to their whales. They must be past 10 rebrands by now.
  36. Chris

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    No spoilers, just when the main plot starts: