While we normally hear about Goons in EVE Online, the group has an enormous presence that spans many, many different games. And when it comes to doing crazy things purely for their own enjoyment, that's absolutely in the Squad's nature. Today, we have a great visual treat from Final Fantasy XIV due to two intrepid Goon Squad adventurers -- Drinkfist and Goth -- who decided to set out on a long, strange trip. Since their note is lengthy, I'll simply say if you'd like to take part in One Shots, send in your screenshot, name, and story to us here at oneshots@massively.com. With that said, on with the letter:
"This is the end result of our three hour hike through the amazing scenic MMO, Final Fantasy XIV. We set out from the island city Limsa Lominsa and landed in a desert that spanned quite some distance. After dropping off the kids at Ul'dah in the desert, we headed north for Gridania, only to have to navigate the labyrinth that is the Black Shroud to reach the city. After changing our Nikes, we set out for a more dangerous zone to the west called Mor Dhona, which looked like a god smote the zone due to all the destruction and insane-looking mobs.
Discovering that Evil Eyes are in fact evil, we fled north to Coerthas. Rather than being relieved to see such a cool looking mountain range, my friend had to open his mouth and ask about the tower labeled on the map 15 malms (clicks) to the north. We raced each other to it, setting death checkpoints at Aetheral Gates and camps -- even the deer of the zone didn't appreciate our presence. (They hit for 4000 when we only have a max hp of 800.) Finally, we reached the spot on the map and bore witness to a locked city that could only be called one of the coolest castles I have seen in a game. That image is what you see here. Now all that's left is exploring the actual zones we just walked straight though. (:sigh:) Lots of area to cover."
Reader Comments (4)
Posted: Oct 29th 2010 5:03PM RogueJedi86 said
Impressive. At first I thought this was a picture of a castle from LotRO, like the Evendim area. I guess people were wrong about FFXIV looking boring and repeating textures and all that. Very pretty.
Posted: Nov 2nd 2010 11:17PM saudrapsmann said
Of course... It's pretty much useless right now.
You can't go into it. Seeing as how its an unfinished game and all.
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You can't go into it. Seeing as how its an unfinished game and all.
Posted: Oct 29th 2010 9:16PM wagonfactor said
ok, i gotta say it.... people were wrong about boring and repeating textures? take a look at the ground, this is what all of the limsa lominsa area looks like. its a decent looking castle, sure. but this makes up for like .01% of the game. i bet when you actually get up to it, its not even all that impressive :P
Posted: Nov 2nd 2010 11:16PM saudrapsmann said
Am I the only one who thinks that actually looks really ugly?
When I saw Jeuno for the first time I thought it was the coolest thing... But this... It just looks too fake and plastic like everything else in FFXIV.
And yes, I have seen it in game. It's actually a pretty simple albeit tedious walk (though everything somehow managed to look like Limsa Lominsa... Of all the things they took out from FFXI, they had to take out variety?) and the crashed airship and Bahamut corpse was MUCH better looking.
When I saw Jeuno for the first time I thought it was the coolest thing... But this... It just looks too fake and plastic like everything else in FFXIV.
And yes, I have seen it in game. It's actually a pretty simple albeit tedious walk (though everything somehow managed to look like Limsa Lominsa... Of all the things they took out from FFXI, they had to take out variety?) and the crashed airship and Bahamut corpse was MUCH better looking.







