I just saw a clip of Matthew Bomer (Bomer plays Neal Caffrey
on White Collar) singing Gotyes’ “Somebody that I used to know”. A song that I
love, not the least because it reminds me of the second series of a show called
Misfits. I could explain it, but maybe if I write all mysterious more people
will watch it. It’s a great show, at the very least, for the first two seasons.
Anyways my mind wanders from that to FFXIV; A game I played for a few months
last year. It was free while they were cleaning up the train wreck it was, in
hopes of it becoming the something great that it could be.
If I'm going to write about Final Fantasy XIV though, then I
have to start at the beginning. The beginning starts at FFXI, but really it should
start before that. I hadn't really given much thought of Squaresoft's, as the
company was known back then, FFXI. I was caught up in WoW and EQ2, the bright
new shiny MMO's on the horizon. My PC at the time could only handle WoW so even
though the Warcraft universe meant little to me that was going to be the game I
played. I don't remember exactly when I started reading it but somewhere along
the way I fell in love with the FFXI I read about in James 'Milkman' Mielke's
blog about the adventures of Gyogi and Milkman and his friends the Roundabouts.
Somewhere in a MMO only a mother could love I found something extraordinary,
and I had to see myself if it was truly as magical as he described. So I bought
the game for the 360. Loaded it up and I was off. A year later, hundreds of
hours poorer I hung up my spurs with a smile. When I loved it, when I hated it,
FFXI had won me over.
