Hi folks! At time of posting I'm now at the level 89 MSQ about to head to the final zone. I'll be uploading all of the big Endwalker moments soon! I've just been a tad delayed by the news that my wife and I, after 12 years together, are expecting our first child! Hence the delay in RUclips uploads. More coming soon, promise! ❤
OMG, congratulations! I hope you're looking forward to the lack of sleep (pro tip: YOU sleep when the baby sleeps) and struggling to find the time to play games.
"You see it too, yes?" The moment I heard those words from that beautiful man, my first instinct was: "OH NO. OH NO. OH NO. BE CALM. OBEY THE PRIME DIRECTIVE. DO NOT INTERFERE WITH THE FLOW OF HISTORY. DANGER, WILL ROBINSON! EMERGENCY AETHERYTE BUTTON!!" And then... well... Hello, my wonderful new old friend. :D
That first glance Emet-Selch gives you always gives me chills. And then those words! (And later on when a certian someone immediately guesses eh were you’re from) RUN AWAY! IT’S ALL GONE WRONG! 😂
time travel is fickle....you have to be there or for example Argos in Mare Lamentorum would not know and trust you. so it was pretty determined you would go and interact. you went to elpis now because you were there some thousand years ago to set things in motion.
@@Enderlinkpawnu They seriously should have coded that every opening scene for a new location should be clear weather at least in the cutscene. For Elpis, I would have figured for such important location they would have done that.
You have to admire Hythlodaeus' effortless skill at wrangling Emet-Sulk. ... And the way Emet just heaves a dramatic long-suffering sigh every time he realises Hyth has Done It Again.
I'd also like to say, these are quality uploads. The editing, the thumbnails, the outros. Very organized and professional. A lot of streamers just dump the stream and go, but this is next level. Thanks for putting in the effort for easy consumption and quality entertainment.
Thanks! I know people's time is valuable, so if I can cut the chaff and hopefully deliver a compilation of the "best bits" (and if people want something specific there's always the timestamps) then, I may as well :)
I laughed so hard when you asked how people hadn't imploded when they got to this point. I was just about to burst all the way through this zone. It was like getting everything you never knew you wanted for Christmas when you didn't even know it was Christmas lol Was great to watch your reaction!
I lost my shit as well. Just being in this area is insane, and they obviously kept this zone a complete surprise before the expansion released so it was an awesome surprise
By seeing a youtube thumbnail, I knew we were going to run into Emet-Selch again at some point in Endwalker. But I thought it was going to be 1 conversation. This more than exceeding my expectations. I just finished Endwalker and want more, but I also feel so satisfied with what we got.
The lala specific dialogue when Emet adjusts your size is: "Still a touch small, don't you think?" 🥸 Great video as always, Endy! I don't know where you find the time to edit these.
@@theprideling I play femroe and yeah, Hythlo remarks that now the player might be a bit TOO big. In either case, Emet responds with "The size befits the proportions"
All of Elpis is peak storytelling. It is the single greatest zone ever made in an MMO in terms of storytelling. 10/10. I never wanted to leave. Arigato Ishikawa-san 🙇
I love that you get right from the moment they start talking, you can tell azem completes what has to be the best friend trio ever... Or the worst if you're the doctor monitoring emet's blood pressure.
I tell you, launch week, everyone blind, there was nothing like that first step into Elpis The theme of Amaurot hitting its high note right as Emet turns to look at your hidden form, Hyth recognizing you too, opening the gate to reveal the zone, god
I started playing after endwalker was releases. What you mean Launch week LOL.... people were waiting for days to be able to play. 😂 Server issues caused alot of people to not being able to properly enjoy the expansion. But i hope 7.0 will have thos fixed and we ALL can properly enjoying the new expansion without having to sit in a qeue of 7000 people
WOW. You're the first person I've seen immediately make the connection with Azys La! I didn't put it together until I started watching playthrus and it just kind of hit me.
This is just my opinion SHB is better than EW because - The base story of Endwalker for me it feels to be cramped into base game, and i think the story should've ended in a patch - The choice between sharlayan and thavnair MSQ shouldn't exist, and i was lucky because many told me that i choose correctly to start with Sharlayan first - (personal nitpick) The moon during MSQ made me for the first time to say I WANT TO FLY ALREADY. The quests were great, but walking from point A to point B was a draaaag, and i didn't complain about Camp Cloudrop - *SPOILER FINAL QUARTER OF ENDWALKER STORY* ULTIMA THULE was predictable and didn't have any tension Not only did i predicted how scions will be literally stepping stones for WoL, but i also couldn't take seriously the Scions grief over lost comrades, especially that Yshtola said that we have the Azem Crystal empowered by Mommy Crystal to get them back Edit: Also i want to point out that it can be made predictable AND enjoyable but here wasn't so much
@@MrSpiderspider12 I disagree with the expansion feeling cramped. Ending the story in a patch would be torture, and the wait between 6.0 and 6.3 would kill the pacing far more than fitting it into the base game (which is also significantly longer than previous expacs). I already think EW spends a frustratingly long amount of time messing about with loporrits on the moon, which feels entirely unnecessary, and then again in Labrynthos. ShB has many more instances of these forgettable filler zone quests than EW, it's just... people forget about them. I started with Thavnair and had zero issues with how the story played out, making perfect sense. I'm not sure why you think there's a "correct" choice. This seems like something you've just heard other people tell you, and not something you've actually tried yourself. Additionally, there's a very good reason why you have a choice here and it's to make sure people playing day 1 aren't all funnelled into the same zone and instances, causing a bottleneck that prevents progress. (This happened in StB, and it was a serious problem.) *Spoilers:* And I don't think the writers really expected most people to think the worst in Ultima Thule (maybe have a tiny bit of anxiety). That's not really the point. It's still a complete mystery about HOW you're going to reunite with everyone. It's about feeling the weight of total responsibility. But I agree it did err on the side of being slightly too melodramatic, and I felt like it took a bit too long in general.
"how did people not spontaneously combust" I LITERALLY cried and half to take like 15 minutes to recover for what was happening. I was ****overflowing***** with emotion
My reaction after the elpis gate reveal was literaly: "WAIT WHAT, THIS IS A WHOLE ZONE???" I also checked the map to be sure, I couldn't believe they really made a zone with aetherites and all in the past 🤣
I still can't believe it!? If you notice on the corkboard I show during the video I jokingly say "...unless we have a Delorean we're not going to be able to find out all we want to know about the ancients & their society..." because who could've called we'd TRAVEL BACK IN TIME!? AHHHH!! Definitely need to go back and do all the optional quests at some point :)
The aetherytes do not surprise me. The sightseeing log of the aetheryte in kugane mentions that aetherytes were made by mysterious group of people or individual. My guess is that ascians used these and shared some of this knowledge so people could make them for them to use. At the time not knowing the sundered cud make use of them too. It wud also make sense then to see them in the past as well as the shards such as the first. Due to ascians and ancients
@@cherrydragon3120 my guess is the aetherytes came from the ancients, passed down to the allagans trough fandanny/amon, and then rediscoverd/reverse engineered by current day aetherologists
@@internaut4257 Also don't forget Hades is responsible for most of their advanced tech beforehand especially in imperial nations. He is responsible for magitek being adopted from allagan tech.
The first 30 seconds were pretty much my exact response. I burst into tears when you first hear the familiar stranger's voice at the aetheryte. This game's story has a chokehold on my emotions lol
Now imagine, we, long time players waiting for about two years in between Shadowbringers and Ednwalker and getting to see our "Old new friend" and "Man with a familiar voice" once again, in their own time. I'm not gonna lie, I shed a tear of happiness that day, and the impact was many times as strong! I am happy you are enjoying this story, it is the best I have ever experienced in any media. ☺
@@WalkerRileyMC Some of the safer paradoxes. Pre destination for one is heavy in here. Things exist as they are because the fiddling itself is part of the flow of time. Alexander had a lot of that mixed with a sprinkling of boostrap paradox.
how the heck do you only have 2.7k subscribers! your video was awesome and i love how much you enjoy the story! cant wait to see more. also congrats on the baby! been there done that. they are awesome.
"How have people not not spontaneously combusted when they got to this part?" I DID. My landlord was VERY cross about the noise and the burn marks (I actually legitimately woke him up with by paroxysms of geek.)
"Chat, look! I can talk to Emet-Selch! This is amazing!" Your excitement is infectious! Recently found you and have enjoyed all your videos. Thanks for uploading these! You are a delight to watch!
Venat's walk is the best cutscene in all of gaming. There, I said it... Literal culmination to the whole story! Everything's perfectly encapsuled in it thematically. I cannot rewatch it without at least tearing up... But mostly I'm crying. lol
Naw, she deserved all the pain she got. She was the biggest mass-murderer of all of the Ancients and caused more pain and suffering for "good" than anything the Ascians could have done.
You actually get some unique dialogue for the size changing part if you play as a Lalafell or Roegadyn. *Lalafell:* Hythlodaeus: "Still a touch small, don't you think?" Emet-Selch: "The size befits its proportions. Besides, bigger is not necessarily better." Hythlodaeus: "I will defer to your experience." *Roegadyn:* Hythlodaeus: "Quite large, don't you think?" Emet-Selch: "The size befits its proportions. Though I personally wouldn't be averse to smaller." Hythlodaeus: "No, no, this will suffice, I'm sure."
The 'Reinforcements' line is for Au'ra, it's in reference to their scales. Hroth, Vierra and Miqo get lines about animalistic features idk about others
@@CanisMythson The "reinforcement" line is for all other races (including Hrothgar, for some reason). You can fine the transcript for the quest on Gamer Escape which shows all alternate dialogue options. They copy all their information on their directly from the game's files via bots, so it's definitely accurate.
Originally I planned to run thru the expansion with friends, but I ended up having surgery the day of launch. So by the time I felt okay enough to play my friends had finished or were close to finishing MSQ. I just remember complaining about how much I missed Emet while running around Radz-at-Han.. shoulda known something was up when my friends in VC laughed at me. Elpis was definitely the highlight of EW for me and I’m glad others share that opinion lmao.
I still remember when I first saw this zone, this land of unbridled beauty, and it being 'just' a research facility and having a 'can I even say the Ascians were wrong for desperately wanting this back?' moment.
One thing I find funny about this bit of the expansion, everyone(even the player character included) assumes that elibius is saying you mustn’t alter the future, but he’s actually saying “you can try, it won’t work tho”
I love the Nagrand comparison! I think for me it rivals arriving in the Howling Fjord for the first time, that sense of awe and bewilderment is something I’ve not felt since in an MMO, but FFXIV has come close to several times, most of all that first trip to The First, and now Elpis 😄
@@EndyD20 I don't think any zone reveal in WoW ever made me feel the way a lot of the zone reveals in FFXIV often do. WoW's story never took itself seriously enough for me to get even half as invested in it as I was in FFXIV since I first stepped off the boat in Limsa. Though Elpis was special. I consider the zone title card for Elpis being revealed to be one of the best moments of Endwalker, as silly as that may sound. it was certainly a fantastic example of how to use the medium of video games for effective storytelling.
I just realized that Ryne is like G'hara and the WoL. That being they are 9/14ths of a soul, not 8/14ths like everyone else, or 1/14th like the 1st. She absorbed Minfilia. So she should be as powerful (or soul dense) as G'hara and the WoL.
G'raha didn't merge with his counterpart of the First. He traveled with the Crystal Tower into the First and went back in the crystal with the WoL. Back there, his two souls merged into one but possibly kept the same density as before. I's not very clear, but it's possible that what was brought back was just his memories, which were infused into his younger body. And Ryne and Minfilia are not the same sundered soul. Ryne inherited her powers, but Hydaelyn took Minfilia's soul back to the lifestream in the Source. She mentions it explictly in Endwalker.
If you're a lala or a roe then Emet and Hythlo get into a brief argument about scale. "Bigger isn't always better!" "Well, I'll defer to your expertise."
@@EndyD20 Oh, I binged all the big moments this morning! Looking forward to your Dawntrail reactions! Jumped into your stream this afternoon, too. You were doing Hildy (my 2nd favorite content after the MSQ)!
I agree with this. When I first played ShB it was good. Very good. Then (I think I started in february this year?) I replayed ShB and then EW, side by side, and OMG I LOVED ShB EVEN MORE. I was very partial to Emet, but now I love him with my heart and soul, and well, don't get me started on how much I love Hyth because I can stay here all night xD
When i walked into Elpis and I saw the whole zone lit up I knew I couldn't stop marathoning the game until I completed the expansion lol. Went and did all the role quests for each job at the same time too 😅 From here to the end is such a wild ride. Only beat it a month ago
Ah, good times at the start of the video remembering chat spamming ROLE QUEST LOL when he contemplated for two seconds if he should do them or not right before this big sexy arc.
6:30 LMAO. And by “Another,” Hydaelyn actually meant three (3) people. xD 34:50 Welcome to why Time-travel is universally considered FORBIDDEN. While it can be possible, it’s something that should never be allowed as one simple thing, even the simple act of time-traveling, can drastically alter the events of a specific timeline. Even if everything were exactly the same and you were hella cautious. Conjunctions can form creating possible impossibilities.
We literally have a fog counter in chat because it's ruined *so* many moments during my playthrough - the first cinematic shot of the Crystal Tower back in 2.0 was just... fog. You couldn't even see the tower. I like to think all of that bad luck made up for the good luck here :D
>How did people not spontaniously combust when they got to this point in the story I was part of the opening wave on launch week, like had trouble queuing as any job for the latest dungeons because so few people had cleared up to that point yet opening wave, shout chat exploded every few minutes in this zone for the whole opening week straight as people had their entire worldview upended.
We literally have a "ruined by fog" counter in my chat and, last time I checked, it was somewhere near 40? The Crystal Tower and The Azim Steppe were the worst culprits. I'd like to think all of the bad fog luck I've had was to ensure clear skies in Elpis :D
This was the only curve ball EW was able to throw at me, but I definitely did not see it coming. Though let's be honest, that's mostly because it's a complete ass pull. (Not that it's a bad one.)
It's kinda funny when you realize just how much the Ascians are responsible for. SPOILERS **** Primals, Azys Lla, Garlemald, not to mention all of the Umbral Calamities.
It'll be uploaded very soon!! I beat the game and then just needed time to sort of "soak it all in" I guess, and I think it's now been enough time that I'm ready to get it all edited :)
Thanks for replacing the spoilery thumbnail btw! I've already finished EW so wouldn't have been a spoiler for me but I appreciate the work it takes to make a thumbnail that's draws attention without being a spoiler. (At least I hope my memory is correct that there was a previous thumbnail that was more spoilery, otherwise I'll just come across as an ass, lol)
Yes! As I'm not able to "study" other thumbnails, I'd blindly worked off of the same logic as chat had given me with the 5.0/5.3 thumbnails and figured it was all fair game. After it had been brought to my attention I looked to fix it ASAP; a lapse of judgment and a major oversight in retrospect, but I'm glad we were able to fix it within an hour of the old thumbnail going live, so no damage should have been done!
I absolutely love it when someone says "This is everything I could've asked for" literally moments before they discover where they're going next. Then to say "you let my hopes and dreams down" after he says no ruins are left of the place. BUT THEN. LITTLE DID YOU KNOW, ISHIKAWA IS ALWAYS WATCHING I've already watched this more once before but here I am again just to hear your reactions and in the moment theorycrafting lol, very entertaining
Hi folks! At time of posting I'm now at the level 89 MSQ about to head to the final zone. I'll be uploading all of the big Endwalker moments soon! I've just been a tad delayed by the news that my wife and I, after 12 years together, are expecting our first child! Hence the delay in RUclips uploads. More coming soon, promise! ❤
congratz! good thing you didn't combust then :D
Are you going to upload more reactions specifically to the earlier parts of Endwalker like the snow region and some more Elpis ?
OMG, congratulations! I hope you're looking forward to the lack of sleep (pro tip: YOU sleep when the baby sleeps) and struggling to find the time to play games.
Congratulations! Look forward to having your first bundle of joy ❤
Who knows, get them a FFXIV onesie or a plushie :)
Congrats and take ur time!
"You see it too, yes?"
The moment I heard those words from that beautiful man, my first instinct was: "OH NO. OH NO. OH NO. BE CALM. OBEY THE PRIME DIRECTIVE. DO NOT INTERFERE WITH THE FLOW OF HISTORY. DANGER, WILL ROBINSON! EMERGENCY AETHERYTE BUTTON!!"
And then... well...
Hello, my wonderful new old friend. :D
That first glance Emet-Selch gives you always gives me chills. And then those words! (And later on when a certian someone immediately guesses eh were you’re from) RUN AWAY! IT’S ALL GONE WRONG! 😂
time travel is fickle....you have to be there or for example Argos in Mare Lamentorum would not know and trust you. so it was pretty determined you would go and interact.
you went to elpis now because you were there some thousand years ago to set things in motion.
At least you finally weren't cursed with fog for once.
That happened to me when I got there. My friends were all hype for my reaction and I couldn't see anything.
Elips definitely suffers more than most zones at that opening pan from the fog weather.
@@Enderlinkpawnu They seriously should have coded that every opening scene for a new location should be clear weather at least in the cutscene. For Elpis, I would have figured for such important location they would have done that.
You have to admire Hythlodaeus' effortless skill at wrangling Emet-Sulk.
... And the way Emet just heaves a dramatic long-suffering sigh every time he realises Hyth has Done It Again.
I'd also like to say, these are quality uploads. The editing, the thumbnails, the outros. Very organized and professional. A lot of streamers just dump the stream and go, but this is next level. Thanks for putting in the effort for easy consumption and quality entertainment.
Thanks! I know people's time is valuable, so if I can cut the chaff and hopefully deliver a compilation of the "best bits" (and if people want something specific there's always the timestamps) then, I may as well :)
@@EndyD20I agree that they are very well edited. The effort shows.
I laughed so hard when you asked how people hadn't imploded when they got to this point. I was just about to burst all the way through this zone. It was like getting everything you never knew you wanted for Christmas when you didn't even know it was Christmas lol Was great to watch your reaction!
I lost my shit completely, I was SO excited when I got here.
@@EvraeFrelia Same here hahahaha. I think I even screamed very loudly the first time xD
@@cyatha on top of Elpis being unlocked, later on with Venat… man… I was absolutely the happiest I had been. Such a wonderful part of the Endwalker
I lost my shit as well. Just being in this area is insane, and they obviously kept this zone a complete surprise before the expansion released so it was an awesome surprise
By seeing a youtube thumbnail, I knew we were going to run into Emet-Selch again at some point in Endwalker. But I thought it was going to be 1 conversation. This more than exceeding my expectations. I just finished Endwalker and want more, but I also feel so satisfied with what we got.
The lala specific dialogue when Emet adjusts your size is: "Still a touch small, don't you think?" 🥸
Great video as always, Endy! I don't know where you find the time to edit these.
I think he also has something to say if you’re a Roe! Ahhh always a critic…
@@theprideling I play femroe and yeah, Hythlo remarks that now the player might be a bit TOO big. In either case, Emet responds with "The size befits the proportions"
I was hoping he would say that to Fem au ra too
there's an NPC later that also comments on you having beastly traits if you're a Miquo'te, Hrothgar, Viera, or Au Ra
All of Elpis is peak storytelling. It is the single greatest zone ever made in an MMO in terms of storytelling. 10/10. I never wanted to leave. Arigato Ishikawa-san 🙇
I love that you get right from the moment they start talking, you can tell azem completes what has to be the best friend trio ever... Or the worst if you're the doctor monitoring emet's blood pressure.
"Ill happily be your mysterious little lifeform" That is a pretty good pickup line.
I tell you, launch week, everyone blind, there was nothing like that first step into Elpis
The theme of Amaurot hitting its high note right as Emet turns to look at your hidden form, Hyth recognizing you too, opening the gate to reveal the zone, god
I started playing after endwalker was releases. What you mean Launch week LOL.... people were waiting for days to be able to play. 😂
Server issues caused alot of people to not being able to properly enjoy the expansion.
But i hope 7.0 will have thos fixed and we ALL can properly enjoying the new expansion without having to sit in a qeue of 7000 people
WOW. You're the first person I've seen immediately make the connection with Azys La! I didn't put it together until I started watching playthrus and it just kind of hit me.
This is where endwalker leaves shadowbringers in the dust for me 😊
Yep! I can’t understand people who say ShB was better than EW. They are one in the same story and can’t happen without the other.
This is just my opinion
SHB is better than EW because
- The base story of Endwalker for me it feels to be cramped into base game, and i think the story should've ended in a patch
- The choice between sharlayan and thavnair MSQ shouldn't exist, and i was lucky because many told me that i choose correctly to start with Sharlayan first
- (personal nitpick) The moon during MSQ made me for the first time to say I WANT TO FLY ALREADY. The quests were great, but walking from point A to point B was a draaaag, and i didn't complain about Camp Cloudrop
- *SPOILER FINAL QUARTER OF ENDWALKER STORY*
ULTIMA THULE was predictable and didn't have any tension
Not only did i predicted how scions will be literally stepping stones for WoL, but i also couldn't take seriously the Scions grief over lost comrades, especially that Yshtola said that we have the Azem Crystal empowered by Mommy Crystal to get them back
Edit: Also i want to point out that it can be made predictable AND enjoyable but here wasn't so much
This is where I felt that this should have been another expansion. Having too many story beats made the previous zones feel like after thoughts.
@@MrSpiderspider12 I disagree with the expansion feeling cramped. Ending the story in a patch would be torture, and the wait between 6.0 and 6.3 would kill the pacing far more than fitting it into the base game (which is also significantly longer than previous expacs). I already think EW spends a frustratingly long amount of time messing about with loporrits on the moon, which feels entirely unnecessary, and then again in Labrynthos. ShB has many more instances of these forgettable filler zone quests than EW, it's just... people forget about them.
I started with Thavnair and had zero issues with how the story played out, making perfect sense. I'm not sure why you think there's a "correct" choice. This seems like something you've just heard other people tell you, and not something you've actually tried yourself. Additionally, there's a very good reason why you have a choice here and it's to make sure people playing day 1 aren't all funnelled into the same zone and instances, causing a bottleneck that prevents progress. (This happened in StB, and it was a serious problem.)
*Spoilers:* And I don't think the writers really expected most people to think the worst in Ultima Thule (maybe have a tiny bit of anxiety). That's not really the point. It's still a complete mystery about HOW you're going to reunite with everyone. It's about feeling the weight of total responsibility. But I agree it did err on the side of being slightly too melodramatic, and I felt like it took a bit too long in general.
@@MrSpiderspider12 Yeah, you summed up how I feel nicely.
"how did people not spontaneously combust" I LITERALLY cried and half to take like 15 minutes to recover for what was happening. I was ****overflowing***** with emotion
well, there is a cutscene at the end of our elpis adventure...nobody was prepared for it.
I love your editing!! Bringing back those references, good stuff!! 👍
My reaction after the elpis gate reveal was literaly: "WAIT WHAT, THIS IS A WHOLE ZONE???"
I also checked the map to be sure, I couldn't believe they really made a zone with aetherites and all in the past 🤣
I still can't believe it!? If you notice on the corkboard I show during the video I jokingly say "...unless we have a Delorean we're not going to be able to find out all we want to know about the ancients & their society..." because who could've called we'd TRAVEL BACK IN TIME!? AHHHH!! Definitely need to go back and do all the optional quests at some point :)
The aetherytes do not surprise me. The sightseeing log of the aetheryte in kugane mentions that aetherytes were made by mysterious group of people or individual.
My guess is that ascians used these and shared some of this knowledge so people could make them for them to use. At the time not knowing the sundered cud make use of them too.
It wud also make sense then to see them in the past as well as the shards such as the first. Due to ascians and ancients
@@cherrydragon3120 my guess is the aetherytes came from the ancients, passed down to the allagans trough fandanny/amon, and then rediscoverd/reverse engineered by current day aetherologists
@@internaut4257 Also don't forget Hades is responsible for most of their advanced tech beforehand especially in imperial nations. He is responsible for magitek being adopted from allagan tech.
The first 30 seconds were pretty much my exact response. I burst into tears when you first hear the familiar stranger's voice at the aetheryte. This game's story has a chokehold on my emotions lol
Now imagine, we, long time players waiting for about two years in between Shadowbringers and Ednwalker and getting to see our "Old new friend" and "Man with a familiar voice" once again, in their own time. I'm not gonna lie, I shed a tear of happiness that day, and the impact was many times as strong!
I am happy you are enjoying this story, it is the best I have ever experienced in any media. ☺
Slight aside, you have an AMAZING voice. It was such a joy listening to you as you played through this part of Endwalker. I look forward to more!
Honestly the best part about Elpis is the lore in every side quest... past, present and future parts of the game have so many connections to Elpis.
We, as the WoL, directly affected SO much of the present by meddling in Elpis.
@@WalkerRileyMC Some of the safer paradoxes. Pre destination for one is heavy in here. Things exist as they are because the fiddling itself is part of the flow of time.
Alexander had a lot of that mixed with a sprinkling of boostrap paradox.
how the heck do you only have 2.7k subscribers! your video was awesome and i love how much you enjoy the story! cant wait to see more. also congrats on the baby! been there done that. they are awesome.
"How have people not not spontaneously combusted when they got to this part?"
I DID.
My landlord was VERY cross about the noise and the burn marks (I actually legitimately woke him up with by paroxysms of geek.)
"By "paroxysms of geek," am I correct interpreting that as screaming and wailing?
"Chat, look! I can talk to Emet-Selch! This is amazing!"
Your excitement is infectious! Recently found you and have enjoyed all your videos.
Thanks for uploading these! You are a delight to watch!
I love how when the amaurot theme kicks in, it doesn't fail to make me cry. It's a happy moment, but it's a touch sad....knowing what happens.
47:45 The sound of PURE joy. And yes, it is the whole freaking zone.
that first optional text box from Emet Selch is the most perfect line they could have possibly written for him in that moment
And now, the stage is set.
Venat's walk is the best cutscene in all of gaming. There, I said it... Literal culmination to the whole story! Everything's perfectly encapsuled in it thematically. I cannot rewatch it without at least tearing up... But mostly I'm crying. lol
I think its ment to do that.
Agreed.
Naw, she deserved all the pain she got. She was the biggest mass-murderer of all of the Ancients and caused more pain and suffering for "good" than anything the Ascians could have done.
@@Turamwdd So much Edge.
Love your passion for the story! This is my favorite part of the entire game.
This man has an infectious joy :)
You actually get some unique dialogue for the size changing part if you play as a Lalafell or Roegadyn.
*Lalafell:*
Hythlodaeus: "Still a touch small, don't you think?"
Emet-Selch: "The size befits its proportions. Besides, bigger is not necessarily better."
Hythlodaeus: "I will defer to your experience."
*Roegadyn:*
Hythlodaeus: "Quite large, don't you think?"
Emet-Selch: "The size befits its proportions. Though I personally wouldn't be averse to smaller."
Hythlodaeus: "No, no, this will suffice, I'm sure."
The 'Reinforcements' line is for Au'ra, it's in reference to their scales.
Hroth, Vierra and Miqo get lines about animalistic features
idk about others
@@CanisMythson The "reinforcement" line is for all other races (including Hrothgar, for some reason). You can fine the transcript for the quest on Gamer Escape which shows all alternate dialogue options. They copy all their information on their directly from the game's files via bots, so it's definitely accurate.
I couldn't stop smiling watching you experience this amazing journey❤🎉
fun fact
Endy likes the Ancient's lore
I love to see people react to the first cutscene of Hythlodeus and Emet-Selch.
Most times, it's a roller-coaster of emotions. :)
The Elpis arc is by far FFXIVs best arc.
Wow that rainbow behind the crystarium that was pretty never saw that!
glad you made it here, wholesome reactions.
Originally I planned to run thru the expansion with friends, but I ended up having surgery the day of launch. So by the time I felt okay enough to play my friends had finished or were close to finishing MSQ. I just remember complaining about how much I missed Emet while running around Radz-at-Han.. shoulda known something was up when my friends in VC laughed at me. Elpis was definitely the highlight of EW for me and I’m glad others share that opinion lmao.
"Give me your aether." That sounds so dirty, and I love it lmao.
Its amazing how much of a difference patch 5.2-5.3 made to how people see Elidibus as a character compared to everything that came before.
Love seeing your reactions!
I still remember when I first saw this zone, this land of unbridled beauty, and it being 'just' a research facility and having a 'can I even say the Ascians were wrong for desperately wanting this back?' moment.
@58:00: We did. Several of us were in voice just screaming like the fanboys/girls we are with every new line fed to us.
One thing I find funny about this bit of the expansion, everyone(even the player character included) assumes that elibius is saying you mustn’t alter the future, but he’s actually saying “you can try, it won’t work tho”
lovely to see someone this enthused get paid off for paying attention.
Hythlodaeus has no business being as pretty as he is, I swear
Heh, same reaction as mine, upon entrance to Elpis. Gorgeous zone, even better then my first look at Outland Nagrand. Same feeling just better.
I love the Nagrand comparison! I think for me it rivals arriving in the Howling Fjord for the first time, that sense of awe and bewilderment is something I’ve not felt since in an MMO, but FFXIV has come close to several times, most of all that first trip to The First, and now Elpis 😄
@@EndyD20 I don't think any zone reveal in WoW ever made me feel the way a lot of the zone reveals in FFXIV often do. WoW's story never took itself seriously enough for me to get even half as invested in it as I was in FFXIV since I first stepped off the boat in Limsa. Though Elpis was special. I consider the zone title card for Elpis being revealed to be one of the best moments of Endwalker, as silly as that may sound. it was certainly a fantastic example of how to use the medium of video games for effective storytelling.
This was such a great stream, I'm here for the whole video rewatch
It is always a pleasure to watch someone that gets geniune joy from a game.
I kinda headcanon that Elpis was in roughly the same place Azys Lla or Sea of Clouds are.
I love your reaction, i can finally do the "THAT WAS LITERALLY ME"
So happy I was able to see this part of Endy's Wild Ride live.
Caught all this on the vods, but it's worth a rewatch to me.
58:05 Totally spontaneously combusted when I got to this part, and many times before.
Then I went total ded when I went outside…
I just realized that Ryne is like G'hara and the WoL. That being they are 9/14ths of a soul, not 8/14ths like everyone else, or 1/14th like the 1st. She absorbed Minfilia. So she should be as powerful (or soul dense) as G'hara and the WoL.
G'raha didn't merge with his counterpart of the First. He traveled with the Crystal Tower into the First and went back in the crystal with the WoL. Back there, his two souls merged into one but possibly kept the same density as before. I's not very clear, but it's possible that what was brought back was just his memories, which were infused into his younger body. And Ryne and Minfilia are not the same sundered soul. Ryne inherited her powers, but Hydaelyn took Minfilia's soul back to the lifestream in the Source. She mentions it explictly in Endwalker.
If you're a lala or a roe then Emet and Hythlo get into a brief argument about scale. "Bigger isn't always better!" "Well, I'll defer to your expertise."
I've spent the past few days binge watching your EW playthrough. Looking forward to your 89 and 90 streams!
I reacted the same way when I heard G'raha saying "Elidibus".😂
When I met Hythlodaes in Elpis and he introduced himself, I flailed in my chair and said “YOU! AMOUROT! ZODIARK! WHY ARE YOU SO ATTRACTIVE?!?!?!?”
I found your videos today, and I can't help but be *delighted* at your reactions to... well, everything. This game is a joy, isn't it?
It’s pretty amazing! If you haven’t already I can highly recommend my 5.3 & 6.0 videos - by far my favourite moments in this glorious game.
@@EndyD20 Oh, I binged all the big moments this morning! Looking forward to your Dawntrail reactions! Jumped into your stream this afternoon, too. You were doing Hildy (my 2nd favorite content after the MSQ)!
My input about what your talking about at around 57:00 - Endwalker is amazing, but retroactively made Shadowbringers SO much better.
I agree with this. When I first played ShB it was good. Very good. Then (I think I started in february this year?) I replayed ShB and then EW, side by side, and OMG I LOVED ShB EVEN MORE. I was very partial to Emet, but now I love him with my heart and soul, and well, don't get me started on how much I love Hyth because I can stay here all night xD
What a roller coaster!
Not gonna lie... the first thing i said was "OMG, this is Azys La, if it was PRETTY!!!"😂
my first thought was the kingdom of Zeal from Chrono Trigger- which, to my understanding, was the actual inspiration for Elpis's design.
When i walked into Elpis and I saw the whole zone lit up I knew I couldn't stop marathoning the game until I completed the expansion lol.
Went and did all the role quests for each job at the same time too 😅
From here to the end is such a wild ride. Only beat it a month ago
Will there videos for the prior portions of the MSQ as well? Loved seeing your reactions and excitement!
I'm assuming there are VoDs on Twitch, but I'd definitely prefer to watch them on RUclips personally
yes, he said he posted this one earlier, but he'll go back and keep posting the rest
his vods are all archived on twitch in collections all the way back to ARR
Believe me, I absolutely DID spontaneously combust at that part. I watched the video on my TV but I HAD to come to my pc and post this hahahaha
Man its too bad Endy doesn't care about Ancient lore. ;)
What's an "ancient"?
Yeah, he really misses a lot by not taking two hours per stream -stalling- thinking deeper on anything.
SO LUCKY!! It was foggy and at night for the reveal of the zone for me 🤣
Involuntarily tearing up at the reveal again. Damn, Amaurotine onion ninjas.
Ah, good times at the start of the video remembering chat spamming ROLE QUEST LOL when he contemplated for two seconds if he should do them or not right before this big sexy arc.
6:30 LMAO. And by “Another,” Hydaelyn actually meant three (3) people. xD
34:50 Welcome to why Time-travel is universally considered FORBIDDEN. While it can be possible, it’s something that should never be allowed as one simple thing, even the simple act of time-traveling, can drastically alter the events of a specific timeline. Even if everything were exactly the same and you were hella cautious. Conjunctions can form creating possible impossibilities.
Aight, you're getting to the good part of the game :)
Hope you love it sofar. The endwalker patches are great too
I remember the first thing when Im out of cut scene is press M
You do an amazing beq lugg, Endy. Spot on.
Ayy you got lucky and it wasn't foggy as fuck. Yeah, the Elpis arc is insane and is probably where Endwalker starts to edge out Shadowbringers.
We literally have a fog counter in chat because it's ruined *so* many moments during my playthrough - the first cinematic shot of the Crystal Tower back in 2.0 was just... fog. You couldn't even see the tower. I like to think all of that bad luck made up for the good luck here :D
Are you gonna upload the zodiarc fight? I'd love to see it
Where is all your runs? I was to see your post all in RUclips or stream here.
It is very interesting to watch all this again, knowing how it ends, and what the root of all of this is. (Obviously, I'm not saying any more.)
think it was over a year ago i played ff14 prehaps time to try and give it a go agien even if i have 4000h in it XD
"We can't say anything! Time travel rules!!"
Oh, you poor thing. If you only knew...
>How did people not spontaniously combust when they got to this point in the story
I was part of the opening wave on launch week, like had trouble queuing as any job for the latest dungeons because so few people had cleared up to that point yet opening wave, shout chat exploded every few minutes in this zone for the whole opening week straight as people had their entire worldview upended.
Level 86 MSQ, also known as the very, VERY, delayed "Welcome to Endwalker" moment.
We ate well in this expansion.
I just got here today and everytime Emet was an asshole to me, I felt giddy, LOL
The ONLY gripe I have with Endwalker and in particular, this sequence, is that we never call Hythlodaeus "Our new, old friend."
You were lucky that weather in elpis was not foggy that day. Some people got there and saw nothing, lol.
We literally have a "ruined by fog" counter in my chat and, last time I checked, it was somewhere near 40? The Crystal Tower and The Azim Steppe were the worst culprits. I'd like to think all of the bad fog luck I've had was to ensure clear skies in Elpis :D
This was the only curve ball EW was able to throw at me, but I definitely did not see it coming. Though let's be honest, that's mostly because it's a complete ass pull. (Not that it's a bad one.)
Endwalker really is THAT good, isn't it?~ ;3
30:41 "this is everything I could have wanted and more"... no not yet xD
57:40 NOW it is :D (almost)
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45:15 I have a strong suspicion that these two are Loghrif and Mitron.
It's kinda funny when you realize just how much the Ascians are responsible for. SPOILERS **** Primals, Azys Lla, Garlemald, not to mention all of the Umbral Calamities.
So, wheres the rest of Endwalker x) or to ashamed of showing us how tearjerking the journey was? :D
It'll be uploaded very soon!! I beat the game and then just needed time to sort of "soak it all in" I guess, and I think it's now been enough time that I'm ready to get it all edited :)
this whole section I was just incoherent screaming lol xD
Thanks for replacing the spoilery thumbnail btw! I've already finished EW so wouldn't have been a spoiler for me but I appreciate the work it takes to make a thumbnail that's draws attention without being a spoiler. (At least I hope my memory is correct that there was a previous thumbnail that was more spoilery, otherwise I'll just come across as an ass, lol)
Yes! As I'm not able to "study" other thumbnails, I'd blindly worked off of the same logic as chat had given me with the 5.0/5.3 thumbnails and figured it was all fair game. After it had been brought to my attention I looked to fix it ASAP; a lapse of judgment and a major oversight in retrospect, but I'm glad we were able to fix it within an hour of the old thumbnail going live, so no damage should have been done!
@@EndyD20 Absolutely, I appreciate your theories and the work you put into your videos!
Oi Oi
I absolutely love it when someone says "This is everything I could've asked for" literally moments before they discover where they're going next. Then to say "you let my hopes and dreams down" after he says no ruins are left of the place. BUT THEN.
LITTLE DID YOU KNOW, ISHIKAWA IS ALWAYS WATCHING
I've already watched this more once before but here I am again just to hear your reactions and in the moment theorycrafting lol, very entertaining