Despite being known as one of Twitch’s most viewedWorld of Warcraftplayers, popular Twitch streamer and YouTuber Asmongold decided to start playing its competitorFinal Fantasy 14for a change of pace. After a month of gameplay and live-streaming, he has finally released his much-awaited thoughts on the surging MMORPG.
Final Fantasy 14is a massive title, featuring three large expansions on top of the baseA Realm Reborngame. As such, Asmongold has only played the initialA Realm Reborncontent and nothing from the followingHeavensward,Stormblood, orShadowbringersexpansions. He startedplayingFinal Fantasy 14at the start of Julyand has fully completed the mainA Realm Reborncontent and most post-game content like raids, although he has not finished any savage-level raids, the game’s most difficult content, at this point in time.
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In a video uploaded to his YouTube channel, ZackRawrr, Asmongold outlined his thoughts on the baseFinal Fantasy 14game. Speaking mainly about the story, he praises the game for its approach to grey morality, nuanced villains, and the overall scope of the narrative. Comparing the title to otherfantasy greats likeLord of the RingsandBerserk, Asmongold says he was surprised by the emotional response the title was able to get out of him.
Asmongold also greatly enjoyed the music and spectacle of the game and found the raid content to be his favorite, despite being easier than similar content in other competing titles. Finally, he had to call attention toFinal Fantasy 14’ssupportive player base, which he praised as being vastly superior to the community ofWorld of Warcraftwhich he has called trashin the past.
Streamers like Asmongold and Summit1G switching over toFinal Fantasy 14has led to an incredible surge of players to the already popular MMORPG. In fact, the game has become so big that developer Square Enix has had to stop selling digital copies ofFinal Fantasy 14to help ease the server load due to high player counts. With former MMORPG kingWorld of Warcrafttangled up in amess of a trial directed at publisher Activision Blizzard,Final Fantasy 14might see its popularity soar even higher.
Of course,Final Fantasy 14isn’t perfect and Asmongold had some mild criticisms of the game as well. He found the combat UI to be inferior toWorld of Warcraft’sand the game’s long global cooldown of 2.5 seconds can make the title feel slow. Still, he enjoyed the game very much and considering that the baseA Realm Reborncontent is thought to be the weakest compared to its expansions, he finds himself excited to continue his journey onward withHeavensward, although he fully admits he still lovesWorld of Warcraftand will continue to play that title as well.Final Fantasy 14continues to break player recordsand its upcomingEndwalkerexpansion is set to end the current story arc.
Final Fantasy 14is available on Mac, PC, PS4, and PS5.
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