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FINAL FANTASY XIV Documentary Part #1 - "One Point O" (Patreon)

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2017-06-23 09:19:02
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YOUTUBE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0yQKI7Yw4

Hey Patrons.

I'm about to make the first part of our FINAL FANTASY XIV video live, but I just want to take a moment to say one thing; thank you so much.

When I started Noclip, I was hoping that a few people around the world would be interested in watching some in-depth interviews around games. I knew that maybe we'd have to stay local to California, and we might not have the resources to do them exactly the way I wanted to. But thanks to your incredible support, we are already making projects that were beyond my wildest hopes.

Flying to Japan with a crew to film for a week is an incredible costly endeavor.  We simply could not have done this project without your support. This story may never have been told by the people we talked to, without your support. I hope you realize, whenever you watch our videos that you made this happen. So once again, from the bottom of my heart; thank you, for making these happen.

I really hope you enjoy the show.

Your grateful host,Danny

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FINAL FANTASY XIV Documentary Part #1 - "One Point O"

In the first video in our three-part series, we tell the story of how the 1.0 version of FINAL FANTASY 14 came to be. How FINAL FANTASY 11 inspired its design, the ways in which the game fell short and how Square-Enix and the development team reacted to its failure. Noclip operates entirely through the funding of its members. To help us tell more stories about video games and the people who make them, please consider becoming a patron: https://www.patreon.com/dannyodwyer Produced by Danny O'Dwyer & Jeremy Jayne @dannyodwyer / @adackmusic Music supplied by Audio Network - Fractured: https://us.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/fractured_140052 - Dream House 3: https://us.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/dream-house-3_18139 - Spheres: https://us.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/spheres_58238 - Future Perfect: https://us.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/future-perfect_73029 - Icy Tundra 2: https://us.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/icy-tundra-2_83525 - Admissions 2: https://us.audionetwork.com/browse/m/track/admissions-2_110841

Comments

Uditt Lamba

Great timing! Right about when I am heading home from work!

B&L

Something for me to watch this evening after work! I can't wait.

Dixavd

Awesome! Going to see if I can watch this with my sister later today. We both love Final Fantasy but never played the MMOs. Excited to share it with her.

pauljeremiah

Oh awesome, can't wait to check this out later.

Liam Harvey

YAAAAAY.. Gonna give this beauty a watch right now. Just wanted to quickly chime in and say that literally (and I mean LITERALLY) I'd just added FFXIV to my Steam cart and thought about the doc probably dropping soon. Seconds later I get this lovely Patreon notification 👌

Amy Gilroy

Looking forward to watching this after work today 😁😁

A Larsson

Looking forward to it, but it'll have to wait until after midsummer celebrations

Korphyn

It's here! Yes! Now I don't know if I should play the game or watch this tonight. Decisions, decisions....

Seva K

Danny this is really great. Really looking forward to the rest of these, and I never even played any FF games!

Nicholas

Besides some subtitle timing problems and a few grammatical/spelling errors, really great first part Danny, looking forward to parts 2 and 3!

Keith A. Lewis

Really been looking forward to this one! Can't wait to catch parts 2 and 3!

Nathan Sanchez

Incredible work Danny. I'm not an MMO player, but the behind the scenes story of FFXIV is one I've been wanting to know for quite a while. At the very least, it's nice to know Squeenix has really good leaders like YoshiP at the helm.

Benjamin Hemmings

This is brilliant, Danny - each doc somehow seems to be better than the last. I know nothing about FFXIV, but found this fascinating.

Alexander Court

I have just recently fallen out with XIV as I really need to focus on actual life and stuff but I'll say that the game is just top notch. Happy to see its unique story being told to people around the world. Thanks for all you do Danny.

Dom Greves

Interviewing a few people outside the company to get a more rounded appreciation of the problems this game faced on release would have been valuable I think. Good to see a contemporary Gamespot review, but hearing Kevin's own recollections might have added perspective. The beta tester's comments on YouTube cast doubt on the executive version. Structurally that localisation guy's backstory sits oddly at a crucial point in the narrative. I enjoyed your own narration and pieces to camera. I know you'd been talking about nailing the captions for some time so not sure what happened there... hectic last-minute schedule? Looking forward to Part II.

Bavo Debraekeleer

Great production quality as always! Love the intro! Can't wait for the other parts. I haven't followed this story at all, so I'm very curious to see what they did to make such an incredible rebound.

Bavo Debraekeleer

Nice idea to have Kevin interviewed as well, but Kevin is living in Ghent, Belgium now working with Larian, so not really an option I'm afraid. I also think this is more about telling the developers' side of the story.

Dom Greves

Sorry, one other thing: please kill the sad/ominous background music - it's unnecessary and distracts from what people are saying.

Dom Greves

I don't see why distance is problematic. And I understand why the developer might not want outsider involvement but 'timeless', authoritative journalism demands it.

Justin Dotson

Man this may make me resub to FFXIV.

Chris McCarthy

This is fantastic Danny, I can't wait for parts 2 & 3.

Kerrald

This is fantastic, well done! So happy to support you fine folks and the work you're doing. FF isn't a series I've ever connected with, but I'm enthralled by the story - the human story - behind it.

Josh in Tampa

Wow. Such a great job Danny. I'm not an MMO player but I found this enthralling. Can't wait for the next 2 parts. Thanks!

B&L

I enjoyed it... But those subs were hard to read and included loads of grammatical and syntax errors. Considering how you spoke about how much effort that went in to them, that effort was not evident on the screen. Also having large portions of quite dry Japanese spoken into camera (while trying to follow the difficult to pass subs) with little commentary or cut away does not make interesting watching. So over all I was a little disappointed but I look forward to part 2 and 3 with the hopes it will be a little more even.

B&L

Well said Dom. It was far from perfect. I felt like their wasn't enough variation in the story that was being told. More voices would certainly have helped and those subs... oh boy.

Clay A Binkley

I can't tell if the scrambling colors are an intentional effect or the video glitching. It's kinda distracting if it's intentional.

Clay A Binkley

Great doc! It would've been nice if there was a version with an English translation voice over during the Japanese parts. It's nice to hear their inflections, but the inflections are mostly lost while reading the subtitles. I love to read, but I leave my reading to books and articles. I can't stand foreign films because I'm trying to watch a film, not read a book. Translation seems like a difficult problem to solve.

Dom Greves

Credit to Danny for attempting such a fully-featured captioning solution but quality control let him down badly here. Literally anyone could have seen the problem on a single viewing. Hard to explain really since Danny knew it was a big issue in advance and has talked about it previously. I can only assume there were major last minute changes. Anyway it didn't ruin my enjoyment of the first episode but it was disappointing. Episode 2 will be flawless I'm sure.

Dom Greves

Those anonymous office backdrops again... Authentic I'm sure, but visually entertaining it ain't. I felt sorry for the people who had to work there by the end of it. No time for set dressing in a foreign city I suppose. The commentary when it came was welcome.

The Classic Games Podcast

I agree. Cool effect in theory. Watching the video, though, it was really distracting.

Tohir Tillyaev

Danny, the production value is up and up! Love the intro and the picture. The story itself is pretty fascinating. I've never played this game but I have a weird feeling of missing out on being part of that crazy roller coaster of emotions that those core players had to go through