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  1. Sylas

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    i've bitched for the last 10 pages about not having enough skills to even know if I like this class or know how it plays and how boring it is pressing 1, then 2 over and over again between cut scenes and your solution is start a 2nd class at level 1 and repeat that experience for another 32 (34...
  2. Sylas

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    you guys really should start a brand new character so you experience the game as it stands currently :p Guess what, you get no skills for like 30 levels. and you level past the MSQ quick. Hence my questions in this thread. per all the new player guides/recommendations in this thread I have...
  3. Sylas

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I'm 31, i have the first 4 newbie dungeons unlocked? I also found that palace of the dead thing someone was talking about in this thread but I didnt go in it.
  4. Sylas

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Well that's kinda hard since its my first time in any of these dungeons. I am just following someone who knows where to go and when we get to a room i pull aggro on everything. The first 4 newbie dungeons didn't really have many adds, like a hallway/room with a pack or 2 then miniboss/boss...
  5. Sylas

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    It's interesting reading about skills ill eventually have or skills that i already have that i will eventually use, but when? Are they only used in raiding, or will i eventually use them in higher level party dungeons? Like an estimate, around what level will i need to start using defensive...
  6. Sylas

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    well I'm running all these dungeons for the first time and so i'm watching the cinematics, and by the time the cut scene is over i'm all alone in the instance and in the party. I didn't realize I even had any until I was trying to figure out where the seals were for the mount quest and clicked...
  7. Sylas

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    couple of questions: What are commendations? are they like a currency or some sort of badge, like a thumbs up from people i've grouped with? can people see them and do they do anything? beast gauge? So i finally unlocked warrior and I can see the skills I will eventually get and some of...
  8. Sylas

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Ah ok red flash on cast bar, got it. The way you describe telegraphs is how most tab target games with telegraphs work so no surprises there.
  9. Sylas

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Thanks ill check it out. Unrelated question about interrupts. Ive used this ability successfully once, on the first boss, primal guy ifrit? Or whatever. In the open world ive fought plenty of things with telegraphs and the interrupt doesnt seem to do anything, from trial and error the...
  10. Sylas

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I see. You think me asking when i got enough skills for this game to be considered a game instead of a walking stimulator was me shitting on the game? trust me if i were shitting on the game you would know it. Theres a fuckton of shit i could go off on about the overall game. No i was...
  11. Sylas

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Not quite, 29 and a half. much cut scenes, many many cut scenes. So again lets break it down. Not counting sprint or teleport or any non-combat shit just Like I dont count hearthstone as a skill in WoW. Defiance. Provoke. Some long CD defenses like Rampart, Reprisal. I guess Thrill of...
  12. Sylas

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Never once mentioned any of that shit, gear, speedrunning, ddr? yeah not once. absolutely nothing to do with what i'm talking about. You also seem to be conflating story and gameplay. Story is not gameplay, story does not supplement gameplay. Story is a movie. They did that already...
  13. Sylas

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    By level 10 in classic WoW I would already have my core skills and have an understanding on how that class is going to play. Things would change as I got higher level abilities of course, hell you don't get your talent capstones til like 40, but you'd have the core abilities down. For example...
  14. Sylas

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Umm yes, actually. What you are describing is called efficiency, which implies choice. You are given a bunch of options and based on that selection of options, you choose the one that is the most efficient/makes the most sense in the context of the fight, etc and so forth. That is depth, and...
  15. Sylas

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Uhh i played mystic quest back on snes? Never really got into jrpgs but i have to imagine they are more complex than press 2 buttons, cus even though they are turn based rpgs even mystic quest required more thought than pressing the same 2 buttons in order on repeat. Im going to take the...
  16. Sylas

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Yeah im not overly concerned about end game i rarely dabble in those activities these days, im talking core gameplay loop. Every mmo, hell every game really introduces the core gameplay loop early on in whats considered the tutorial. Heres your abilities heres how they interact with each...
  17. Sylas

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    That is...disappointing to say the least. So basically treat the first 60 levels as a tutorial. Gotcha. At least i don't have to reroll. How hard is it to level a new job?
  18. Sylas

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    So they opened up and let you buy this game now. I guess on the 25th of jan but i was retreading swtor at the time. Doesnt look like free trials are open yet tho. I went ahead and bought the game and finally got my SE account unfucked (i free trialed this game back in 14 and couldnt remember...
  19. Sylas

    The Book of Boba Fett

    Morrison isn't the original actor. He's never played Boba Fett before. He was Jango Fett in the prequels. "oh but he's a clone" yeah but he's also supposed to be 30, 35 years old. The "backlash" over hiring an age appropriate look a like who could still do action sequences would of been far...
  20. Sylas

    The Book of Boba Fett

    I mean yeah I guess, lol (Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens) He'd still be a better choice than old man boba.
  21. Sylas

    The Book of Boba Fett

    Actually im arguing the opposite. They are going balls deep maintaining prequel canon by hiring the guy who played jango to play boba to the detriment of the show, for memberberry points from kids who grew up on the prequels and recognize the actor. I would have rather they hired a 30...
  22. Sylas

    The Book of Boba Fett

    The first 4 episodes "sucked" because it wasn't what people were expecting. His reintroduction is mandalorian s2e6. He starts off old man hermit in tusken gear, recovers his armor and then goes beast mode and saves the day. We see him a few more times and learn more about boba, his values...
  23. Sylas

    The Book of Boba Fett

    holy fuck are you really that retarded? repeat this again to yourself, really, really slow, until it sinks in. When you realize that you are proving my point for me, feel free to kill yourself. who am I kidding you are too stupid to get it, you don't even have to try to earn that asshat...
  24. Sylas

    The Book of Boba Fett

    rewatching those grogu scenes really cements how much I hate what the prequels did to Yoda, and thus, what filoni did to Grogu in this episode. Grogu is effectively a half trained 5 year old child, yet his species is especially force sensitive as he clearly demonstrates. With training he could...
  25. Sylas

    New World

    The 25 mil was a troll post on their forums mocking smedley. The 16mil was a projection based on 4 months worth of opening month performance. This game had a total of between 4 and 6mil users at most. I dont care how big your backlog is, 21mil ppl didnt buy the game and never once logged in.
  26. Sylas

    New World

    Yeah there estimates are a total crock of shit. Read their methodology, based on launch numbers only and online "sentiment" at the time (prior to/ at launch) If the game maintained 1 million peak players each month despite losing 90% of their players each month, then you could assume they must...
  27. Sylas

    The Book of Boba Fett

    Welp chalk me up as not a fan of filoni. I never watched the animated clone wars but heard great things, but it seems he made them to continue and expand upon the prequels rather than to course correct them. Cgi yoda doing flips and shit ruined yoda as a character and invalidated everything he...
  28. Sylas

    New World

    oh wait, lol, i forgot this game sold for $40 not $60... It may have lost money they cleared probably 25-27 bucks per sale, and if they only sold 4 million copies that means they just about broke even ignoring opportunity costs. so yeah colossal failure as a game and as a financial investment...
  29. Sylas

    The Book of Boba Fett

    welp the youtube deepfake dude definitely a good call to hire him. so much better than the de-aging from mando last season. who was the blue dude with red eyes.. Oh and rewatched those scenes in mando season 2, boba definitely not a mandalorian and he states as much several times in ep 6-8...
  30. Sylas

    New World

    No idea about the number of boxes sold but it was at least 4 million given the peak concurrent users and number of servers released. Avg server can support 2k players (some more some less) and they had 500 servers, so they could support up to 1 million players online, and they peaked around...
  31. Sylas

    The Book of Boba Fett

    Whoosh. Uh not quite. Might need to rewatch mandalorian but iirc it made jango mandalorian for the canon, but as a test tube baby it made boba fett a joke. None of the mandalorians respect him at all, to them hes just another clone trooper. They go out of their way to mock him and his voice...
  32. Sylas

    The Book of Boba Fett

  33. Sylas

    New World

    Financially it was a massive success. It sold a fuck ton of boxes and it got people to play it just long enough to no longer be able to get a refund on steam, so they get to keep all that money. It's buy to play with no real cash shop, so initial sales is about the only revenue stream it was...
  34. Sylas

    The Book of Boba Fett

    We're not in disagreement here, lucas is an asshole. The EU was always just fanfic to him. As long as the checks cleared, he just ignored it. Most of it was shitty fanfic so he didn't care. But if the lore was good, like the mandalorian shit? He took it personally, like how dare someone come...
  35. Sylas

    The Book of Boba Fett

    Exact opposite. To lucas, Boba fett was effortless cash from toy revenue. The fans created all this bullshit backstory, basically invented the entire mandalorian culture mythos from a throwaway character in a cool suit of armor. George went out of his way, in what you call his "subplot" in...
  36. Sylas

    Event Horizon (1997)

    have you seen annihiliation/the color out of space? Not exactly in this genre but similiar.
  37. Sylas

    The Book of Boba Fett

    Except no, it wasnt. George would put his stamp of approval on anyone writing him a check but even he claimed that none of the eu shit was ever canon. Most of the EU shit was such shitty fan fic that even fans and authors maintained lists of which books the fandom considered "canon" vs...