It's the End of the World as we know it

After a night of reminding everyone why they're moving to new servers in the first place (the current servers could not handle the load of everyone logging on to make one last stand against the Empire as they marched from Clastrum Novum), Square Enix released the End of an Era video on YouTube tonight which featured the fall of Dalamud.

Watch it here.

One of the best cutscenes I have ever seen in a game. Just epic. Totally epic. Watched it a few times already.

Holy smurfing Jesus bloody Christ. Well done, SE.

That was amazing.

Originally Posted by Loony BoB

One of the best cutscenes I have ever seen in a game. Just epic. Totally epic. Watched it a few times already.

You mean the best ending.

I really wish I could have been playing when this happened. But... Wow. That was absolutely amazing. One of the best looking game endings ever right there.

The little smile on Louisoix's face at the end was one of the most epic and depressing things I've ever seen in my life. Not gonna lie, even I had to hold back a few man tears.

Dammit, I got home late last night and went to bed completely forgetting about this (although if the servers were as bad as Ouch! said, maybe I didn't miss much). But that was an incredible ending scene.

Also completely forgot. :/ But definitely epic. Needs moar MNK though. >____>

For the record, playing when this happened is irrelevant. At 3:00 AM the servers shut off. The log-in page then directed you to this video. It was never in-game, and most everyone who tried to participate in fighting the waves of Imperials (which were trash mobs just like the imperials appearing randomly in certain areas for the past month and a half) were faced with constant disconnections.

Yeah, the event was fairly underwhelming if only due to the congestion lag. But we did down an absolute buttload of high level mobs with many members. Mor Dhona was terrible but it was alright in Ul'dah, despite the mobs being a higher level. Defeated four Bixie mobs, stormed Castrum Novum, crashed a couple of times, fought a few more enemies, enjoyed chatting with a few LS friends and then it crashed right at the end and we watched the video.

That video was incredible! And having heard Answers live twice now, it still gets better with every listen! Especially when coupled with that video.. Looks like it's certain that I'll be upgrading my computer in time for A Realm Reborn! And I'll need to sit and research the backstory to all of the original FFXIV (just so I don't feel like a complete noob when playing. I'm sure you won't need it, but completionalism OCD is a bitch)

You can bash SE all you want but they really know how to make epic cinematics! LIKE HOLY MOLY that was so freaking awesome.

It usually takes way less awesome than this to bring out tears for me, so you can imagine how I was doing while watching this.

The only real thing SE has left is awesome cutscenes. But it's not enough to redeem them.

The internet is blowing up about this cinematic. I keep seeing it talked about/linked

Building hype for version 2.0. Square Enix is doing it right.

Originally Posted by Ouch!

Building hype for version 2.0. Square Enix is doing it right.

They ended a world literally and had most probably the saddest and most epic death ever, and yet I still encounter people who go meh to the trailer somehow.

Since it seems like Bahamut breaks free of the last ditch effort to trap him back in Dalamud, and since it was the Empire that summoned him, do you think that means they have their own primal now? :o

Well it was more Nael van Darnus who summoned him more than anything, since the empire seems to be pretty anti-primal, so I'm assuming they had no idea what Dalamud really was.

What I want to know is, are they going to keep what happened in here in the story and we get our chance to avenge Louisoix?