Final Fantasy 14's In-Universe Tural Tourism Board Invites You to Take a Tropical Holiday

Man, this guy shows up everywhere. New Zealand does seem to have impressive cultural clout given its size though, even if I’d rather they were known for their 80s jangle pop than for a rather egotistical director who completely flopped after a brief sniff of success.

Oh, the manager from flight of the concords.

@nessisonett Assuming you mean Taika? I still rather like him. His films still have his unique brand of whimsy, even if the last few have not been great.

On the main topic, I love stuff like this. Shows there’s a lot more effort put into the world building.

@Mikey856 It has plenty of players, especially during the release of an expansion or patches with new content. And a lot of the content you can play solo ( or with npc's ), so i would give it a try. The base game and first 2 expansions are included in the free trial, thats already more than enough content to keep you busy for months. You can play the trial as long as you want, you just cant go past lv70 and have some limitations like joining guilds.

I'm thinking it's not a coincidence he was in a jungle in the Rock's Jumanji film, no?

Rhys Darby is a treat. Our Flag Means Death is also superb.

I think I tried playing this once or twice but I could never get past the Squenix sign in despite having an account with them practically forever. MMOs aren’t really my thing so it wasn’t like a priority or anything, there’s always something else to play.

@nessisonett are you referring to Peter Jackson?

@Mikey856 More players than Fortnite? I find that somehow hard to believe unless they're taking the entire 10 year history and double counting it or something. Fortnite is a pop culture phenomenon among kids. XIV is FF. Like, real FF, not fake FF like certain other FFs.

You'd have to be insane trying to "platinum" an MMO, though. Especially when it's basically a collection of 5 full games spanning a decade of releases. I think it's very much a case of "it has trophies because the platform made us." And the game has it's own achievements and achievement trackers, too, internally.

Even though it's an "MMO", it's really mostly a single player game that you pay monthly for. Most of the actual progression content actually requires you to disband any parties and enter solo, and dungeon/raid content you now have to select if you want to play with bots, or actual humans, although playing with humans is usually way faster, unless you're playing the tank role (where you're supposed to lead), except if you have a long wait for a lobby. More stressful though because you know you've screwed them over if you mess up. Especially if you're tank or healer lol. The "MMO" stuff is available, but really stands aside from the story/jobs/questing content.

For multiplayer I mostly feel bad because playing with controller I'm kind of silent protag, while the rest of the group is on PC and typing away and being helpful. Ironically I'm also on PC as often as console, but on my Legion, so still no keyboard lol. But you can do all the multiplayer content with bots, single player. But it's soooo slow vs multi where you usually get paired with some tank that's been playing for 8 years that memorized the dungeon and flies through at lightning speed.

@ShadowofSparta Every movie being terrible after splitting with your producer wife and trading in for Rita Ora is not a good look.

@nessisonett 80s jangle pop eh. We talking The Chills, The Verlaines, The Clean or something completely different?

@hi_drnick Love The Clean, Look Blue Go Purple, The Bats and the like. Basically anything off Flying Nun Records!

@nessisonett jangly indeed.