A Night Of Final Fantasy XIV

Good morning everybody,

Last night's stream fully featured Final Fantasy XIV, making it the first time we dedicated an entire stream to it.

We started with the 'Wreath of the Titan' story arc, which saw a lot of going back and forth from place to place, doing literal fetch quests... all in the name of 'proving ourselves' worthy of fighting the second of the games Primal gods, Titan, which is often the Earth based summon in most Final Fantasy games. Now things were going pretty well, outside of one bad encounter in a FATE where I got overwhelmed, but things were going smoothly. Then when I finally reached Titan (and after waiting in a queue for 10 minutes), I get squashed, revived and the knocked off the ledge! The other three people in the party had no issues with Titan... and I got credit for the quest being finished, but I did nothing during that fight! I'm quite mad about that while laughing at the same time at the shock. 

That kicked off the next major part of the story where the Scions are attacked, Minifilia is kidnapped and we find Cid as a monk with amnesia in a church which kicked off the search for his airship, the Enterprise. You know it's not a Final Fantasy game until Cid shows up, with the next goal finding his airship, The Enterprise. I remember back when I played Final Fantasy IV, that the name of the airship in that was also the Enterprise.... it's a good name for a shit, can't dispute that. 

So doing a full stream based around Final Fantasy XIV certainly proved to be more robust than a Star Trek Online stream because of the amount of content, keeping in mind I'm not doing the side quests at the moment, instead focusing on the main story quest line. The biggest draw backs are waiting in queues for dungeons, which can be anywhere from 5 to 10 minutes based on what I've experienced.

Following the stream we sent the fun over to Oldish22 who also was playing Final Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/oldish22! 

Twitch Clip Links

• Well he fell down 
• God god what is that?!
• And it's a dead turtle 
• We got him!
• Finishing The FATE in Time
• It's Huge! 
• First Time Facing Titan...
• I'm sorry but that was funny as hell! 
• Taking Out The Watcher

Now I did continue my trend of doing more Final Fantasy XIV off-stream, knocking out several quests leading up The Best Inventions is one of the final quests in the level 31-40 range of the story.I have noticed that some enemies are starting to be a little tougher out in the field despite the level advantage I have... then again, gear seems to be my biggest handicap.

Is there a more delusional D-list celebrity than George Takei? I mean the guy loves to blame William Shatner for the short gains in his career, but when you actually research Takei's history, you realize he basically justified the hiring of Walter Koenig for Star Trek's second season because Takei signed on to be in 'The Green Berets' starring John Wayne, which cut down on his own screen time, not to mention the fact that Takei only became an 'icon' as a result of becoming a self-parody with a starving need for attention which lead to him being a regular fixture on Howard Stern's program in the 1990s and 2000s.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout lasted 34 minutes and featured Difficult Challenge Combo #1, Difficult Challenge Combo #3 and Difficult Challenge #2 (in that order) for an estimated calorie burn of 645 kcal. For the Free Training we did Defensive Combo #1 and Defensive Combo #2 for an additional 11 minutes with the estimate calorie burn being 172 kcal. So the totals for today were 45 minutes workout time with an total estimated calorie burn of 807 kcal.

For tonight's stream we are continuing The Simpsons Game, we played about 50% of it this past Saturday, so with a bit of luck we'll finish it tonight!

So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!