"Yoshida-san, the 1.0 version of our game is terrible, how can we improve it?"
"I'll have a giant dragon nuke it to start fresh."
"You'll wha-"
"NUKE IT"

Fans have done calculations and primal bahumut is at least as tall as the Empire States building, with a wing span of at least twise of that. He so big that when they are trying to seal him, you can see the curvature of the world

"Imagine as a soldier on the ground... they didn't matter" - then the game goes SUPER HARD to show you why that statement is wrong.

Honestly every cinematic trailer for this game goes just as hard. If you even have the slightest inclination to check out the rest of them I second that

Louisoix's sacrifice has to be one of the best deaths in media history. Absolute bad ass gramps

Dude, it makes me so happy to see you react to this NGL, FFXIV is too freaking dope

even now, over 10 years later, this cinematic still gives me chills

10 years old and it still looks great

This event was called "The Calamity" for good reason.

It's actually called "The 7th Umbral Calamity" there were six similarly destructive or world changing events prior to this one.

This event in the game terms was in-effect the transition from the original game to the new version going forward, out with the old world, in with the new, including a new lead developer and director.

That ball was one of the planets moons, they didn't know there was a dragon inside it. Mr. Darth Vader on his airship there was part of a plan to drop the moon onto this continent and kill/subjugate everyone here.

Didn't go as planned, as you can see.

Fun you mentioned the song FF14 is the mmo and has been running for about 10 years now and the most recent expansion just added more context to the lyrics from this song from almost a decade ago.

just found this vid, it NEVER gets old seeing people react to this trailer.

FFxiv is my favorite game of all time. Glad you reacted to this

"IS THAT A GIANT BAKUGAN? " made me crack up so hard

There's a couple of other cinematic trailers worth reacting to Final Fantasy XIV Heavensward, Stormblood and Endwalker. (By the look of the video you've already done Shadowbringers :D) There is also the original cinematic trailer

and thus ends the Battle of Carteneau; a littered wasteland of glowing, dangerous magics and distorted aether and two armies completely annihilated - but the world itself, outside of the range of the cataclysm, still miraculously alive. it could have been (was suppose to have been) so much worse.

Oh this was the first cinematic after they remade the game, it was depicting the end of the old game world. The sequence with the grandpa after it cuts off is a hidden cutscene you get in the game to show the full story of what happened between him and the Dragon (named Bahamut).  

In case nobody has told you, this game is free to play to a certain point 😉(up to the end of the first expansion).  Really cool you reacted to this because I've been playing this game since before it was remade in 2013 (specifically since 1.0 alpha in 2011).

So the follow-up cutscene wasn't in this trailer specifically. Those five heroes the wizard teleported away were sent five years into the future. You see the land has mostly healed from the dragon's rampage, though has been changed significantly with new threats prowling the world, new adventures.

Y'know the most nuts part about this video? The second half, after it fades to white, is actually from a separate cutscene you only get to see if you complete the raid tier released with A Realm Reborn.

Bro that's the fkng reaction I was searching for!!!! Really great reaction like I wanted to see! You actually felt the battlefield and what's happening in it!

I wish this cinematic showed the lyrics, they perfectly match what's going on but mostly the voices are drowned out by the battle noise and explosions. Just the first verse:
"I close my eyes, tell us why must we suffer
Release your hands, for your will drags us under
My legs grow tired, tell us where must we wander
How can we carry on if redemption's beyond us?"

"Your will drags us under" refers to the Garleans' will to conquer, unintentionally bringing about the destruction of both sides. "Redemption's beyond us" says it plain; we're all doomed.

And the final one:
"Thy Life is a riddle, to bear rapture and sorrow
To listen, to suffer, to entrust unto tomorrow
In one fleeting moment, from the Land doth life flow
Yet in one fleeting moment, for anew it doth grow
In the same fleeting moment
Thou must live
Die
And know"

This is talking to the characters and by extension the players behind them, "entrusted unto tomorrow" by Louisoix (and by the developers) who sent them into the future (closed the servers for a full game reboot) where they'd have a chance of helping the world to recover (playing a game that isn't terrible and failing.) Rapture and sorrow is exactly what the players at the time would have felt, and the whole cinematic really nails the feeling of just absolute sadness that the Garleans' greed for power ended up destroying the world, where normally you might expect things to focus on the world-ending dragon-god being stood up to by the protagonists in a big, showy battle. All but the power of all the gods combined never stood a chance.