FFXI Nostalgia/Why did I ever stop playing!?/Let's all go back to 2009/Never forget Kujata Thread

[dejet]

Because when he says "starting over as a newb," he means experiencing the game as though he has never seen it before, reliving all of those first experiences and explorations. Yes, absolutely anyone can start over today and play the game, but everyone here already knows the game. We'll never be able to go back to when the game was brand new to us and experience it that way again.

I remember being a newb myself and I remember some of those feelings, but logging in and starting a toon in San d'Oria today would not feel the same way as it did in 2004, because I've done it before - several times, in fact. Not the same.

I started the game pre NA release, at the age of 13 and ended up lost in windy woods for over a day. Could not find my way out of the zone till some random Japanese guy who spoke some English pointed me in the right direction lol . my nobles tunic was crafted from a sky drop. Stuff like that won't happen if you restart

[Corrderio]

Holy fucking feels. I wish I was around for the final ride. The landscapes of this game being back so many memories my god. It's like I played so long I was actually in those places physically. Nice metaphor for what the game is to many of us now. Empty, vast memories of landscapes.

Oh god yes the zones. Only MMO I've played that came close to that adventurous feel is GW2.

It was always fun finding those hidden areas/amazing landscapes. I still remember that waterfall in that one area you access after completing the 3 promyvion zones.

[Aragon of Odin]

Anyone have a link to the greatest quote that ever came out of the FFXI drama threads?

[Aragon of Odin]

I'm referring to the one where buddy was boasting talking about how when he walks by your girls on the street he can smell her puss getting wet etc...

[Ghost_Wheel22]

Had a few things I wanted to say before I hit the gym tonight. First of all, I just got out of the shower with my bitch Sandy. She's 90 pounds, 5'3 and the has the body and face of a goddess. You know how I pulled her? By being the alpha male. Something you nerds don't know shit about. All you know about is sandworm and ixion, while I'm out there in the club popping bottles and cheating on my bitch every night with the finest dimes in Jersey.
Did I fuck my bitch in the shower just a minute ago? Yea, it was clutch, and that bitch would never cheat on a greek god looking specimen like myself, I give it to her so good. Don't believe me? Ask your girlfriend. Know what I'm saying? Face, pussy.
I am the most attractive man any of you will ever have the privilege of being amongst. I bench 240 pounds now and do 2,500 sit-ups a day. My abs are hard as a rock and my dick is the size of a cucumber. When I walk down the street I can smell your girlfriend's pussy getting wet. She wants to fucks with a real boss, not a chump change coward like yourself. Just playin, you ain't even got a girl. All you got is FFXI. You play that shit, imma be playing with my girls tits in the club.

You betcha.

[Buffy]

Oh god yes the zones. Only MMO I've played that came close to that adventurous feel is GW2.

It was always fun finding those hidden areas/amazing landscapes. I still remember that waterfall in that one area you access after completing the 3 promyvion zones.

Best part of Lufaise meadows was before access was common the ram camp was boss for exp. You needed a mage that was quick on the trigger to take the HP down move off though cause it would follow bleat with charge and kill the tank if you didn't.

[Mythe_Seraph]

Damn, completely forgot about that exp spot. Ram/Big Birds was pretty good EXP and Gil at first too, those mats were in demand for some reason, can't remember why

[Corrderio]

I remember that spot back when I experimented on STR/ACC for weaponskills on my PLD before windower had all the features and the WHM not too thrilled with me blinking like a christmas light.

[Aksannyi]

I had people who told me I blinked too much, which was funny to me because I always played WHM, RDM, or BLM, and almost never needed heals so who the fuck was targeting me enough for it to matter?

[Corrderio]

I wish I could have got windower to work when I played. Not sure what happened but my framerate was so bad I could have sworn I was on a Windows 95 era machine when I ran it.

[Moss]

I was doing dynamis (and everything else) on aol dial-up for a long while. good times

[Anoat]

Anyone who still plays want to provide a summary of what this conclusion entails?

And also summarize the last expansion if necessary..

I am greatly spoiling and over simplifying things here but the gist of it is:

Spoiler: show

In the future after you retire from adventuring, you and Tenzen become best buddies, you are training his teen/young adult daughter Iroha as your pupil, and the Emptiness comes back via plot shenanigans and basically takes over the world. You and Tenzen use Phoenix to send Iroha back in time to warn your younger (present day) self about whats happening and how to stop it. Unfortunately the Emptiness has also sent back a team of baddies to stop you. I'm skipping over a LOT of fluff here but suffice to say you go on a world tour and reunite with pretty much every major character through the history of the game before it comes to a crazy-even-for-Final-Fantasy final act where you become a god (two gods, actually), hop a few dimensions, kill a few bosses, and finally...FINALLY meet Altana face to face...when the game throws you a twist and you figure out that it WASN'T the Emptiness that destroyed the world after all but rather the interdimensional/multi-FF game appearing villain The Void and/or Cloud of Darkness who was pulling the strings. Vanadiel was kept safe because of its constant conflict but because you have kicked so much ass over the years killing bad guys, it swung too far into the light and it attracted the attention of the Void who wants to eat it up/destroy it. You get a scene with basically every avatar in the game in a LOTR style "And you have my axe!" moment where they give you their power (and yes, Phoenix finally appears as an avatar instead of a sword) and you go kill the last boss. Iroha disappears off to FF14, the song plays, long credits, game devs thank you in the credits for your years of playing, etc. And thats about it.

[Corrderio]

That actually sounds pretty awesome.

[Serra]

I am greatly spoiling and over simplifying things here but the gist of it is:

Spoiler: show

In the future after you retire from adventuring, you and Tenzen become best buddies, you are training his teen/young adult daughter Iroha as your pupil, and the Emptiness comes back via plot shenanigans and basically takes over the world. You and Tenzen use Phoenix to send Iroha back in time to warn your younger (present day) self about whats happening and how to stop it. Unfortunately the Emptiness has also sent back a team of baddies to stop you. I'm skipping over a LOT of fluff here but suffice to say you go on a world tour and reunite with pretty much every major character through the history of the game before it comes to a crazy-even-for-Final-Fantasy final act where you become a god (two gods, actually), hop a few dimensions, kill a few bosses, and finally...FINALLY meet Altana face to face...when the game throws you a twist and you figure out that it WASN'T the Emptiness that destroyed the world after all but rather the interdimensional/multi-FF game appearing villain The Void and/or Cloud of Darkness who was pulling the strings. Vanadiel was kept safe because of its constant conflict but because you have kicked so much ass over the years killing bad guys, it swung too far into the light and it attracted the attention of the Void who wants to eat it up/destroy it. You get a scene with basically every avatar in the game in a LOTR style "And you have my axe!" moment where they give you their power (and yes, Phoenix finally appears as an avatar instead of a sword) and you go kill the last boss. Iroha disappears off to FF14, the song plays, long credits, game devs thank you in the credits for your years of playing, etc. And thats about it.

Much appreciated. Kinda makes me want to play through it all..

[Draylo]

It was really amazing, and the final music in the BCNM with whats going on is really tear jerking. One thing about that snippet he posted:

Spoiler: show

It wasn't the emptiness that sent back those people gathering darkness, but it was the players dark side when he became a god. It realized there needed to be darkness to equal the light to bring back balance so he was going around and collecting from all the sources of darkness.

[Corrderio]

I still hope at some point SE makes the game F2P now that it's "over", but I know that's wishful thinking since it's still a cash cow for them.

Sucks too. I really miss how awesome of an offense/support role Corsair was back when I played.

[Mythe_Seraph]

They could literally remake the entire game just updated graphics etc and I would pay to play it on current gem consoles or PC. Miss it so much sometimes.

[Appie]

Damn, completely forgot about that exp spot. Ram/Big Birds was pretty good EXP and Gil at first too, those mats were in demand for some reason, can't remember why

I want to say Icarus Wings which could be made with Big Bird drops? Also Light Crystals which they dropped were a decent chunk of cash in early COP? Rams I think dropped some item for Aegis?

I am greatly spoiling and over simplifying things here but the gist of it is:

Spoiler: show

In the future after you retire from adventuring, you and Tenzen become best buddies, you are training his teen/young adult daughter Iroha as your pupil, and the Emptiness comes back via plot shenanigans and basically takes over the world. You and Tenzen use Phoenix to send Iroha back in time to warn your younger (present day) self about whats happening and how to stop it. Unfortunately the Emptiness has also sent back a team of baddies to stop you. I'm skipping over a LOT of fluff here but suffice to say you go on a world tour and reunite with pretty much every major character through the history of the game before it comes to a crazy-even-for-Final-Fantasy final act where you become a god (two gods, actually), hop a few dimensions, kill a few bosses, and finally...FINALLY meet Altana face to face...when the game throws you a twist and you figure out that it WASN'T the Emptiness that destroyed the world after all but rather the interdimensional/multi-FF game appearing villain The Void and/or Cloud of Darkness who was pulling the strings. Vanadiel was kept safe because of its constant conflict but because you have kicked so much ass over the years killing bad guys, it swung too far into the light and it attracted the attention of the Void who wants to eat it up/destroy it. You get a scene with basically every avatar in the game in a LOTR style "And you have my axe!" moment where they give you their power (and yes, Phoenix finally appears as an avatar instead of a sword) and you go kill the last boss. Iroha disappears off to FF14, the song plays, long credits, game devs thank you in the credits for your years of playing, etc. And thats about it.

That sounds pretty awesome.

[Acevalefor]

I had people who told me I blinked too much, which was funny to me because I always played WHM, RDM, or BLM, and almost never needed heals so who the fuck was targeting me enough for it to matter?

So you were the mage that caused my cursor to reset every time I tried to tab or scroll the pt list. Shame on you!

[Serra]

Yeah.. think I'm gonna reinstall and binge through the last expansion and Rhapsodies over the holidays >.>;