I came back for the final world-ending event, when Dalamund fell. I was there for the few days that the staff allowed normal non-legacy members to reactivate their account.
The most important thing I could say, was... do you know what Armageddon feels like?
The entire situation felt extremely dire. I saw Garlean airships fly across the night sky, the intimating Dalamund rock breaking atmosphere, giant processions of military battalions and people of all flocks, ages, and genders picking up what weapons they could feel and all taking positions in the cities and where the battlefield was in ready for the fight of their lives.
The music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZITw3Ub-K0 Imagine hearing that during a thunderstorm with Garlean airships everywhere. ) Was incredibly atmospheric in giving me a sense of dread, a sense of lost hope, a sense of every man woman and child holding a gun in their arms. Kind of like on the brink of losing a world war, except the war was against the world.
It was really a sense of, everyone knew they were going to die, the situation was incredibly dire, there was huge mobilizations and I had the sensation that I was a single individual that was scared and nervious as hell like a little child, but knew that I had to do something, I had to not just die. I had to do something and die doing something.
OOC'ly, it was the best moment I've had in a MMO since Star Wars Galaxies. I mean.. people logged onto the server for the first time in years like myself and.. the entire server (I was on Balmung of course) unified. It was an entire community effort. I last saw that in Galaxies almost ten years ago. People were marching. Marching. Entire guilds with hundreds of members marched. Giant processions of people marched. In all directions, to all of the cities and the impact zone. I was a part of that too. Surreal.
And then the hoards came.
So that was how it was.
Really surreal. Blew my mind. Props to Square Enix for making it so atmospheric. It was incredible. It REALLY felt like the end of everything. The world, your life, everything. Armageddon.
I wish I could live through it again.
The most important thing I could say, was... do you know what Armageddon feels like?
The entire situation felt extremely dire. I saw Garlean airships fly across the night sky, the intimating Dalamund rock breaking atmosphere, giant processions of military battalions and people of all flocks, ages, and genders picking up what weapons they could feel and all taking positions in the cities and where the battlefield was in ready for the fight of their lives.
The music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZITw3Ub-K0 Imagine hearing that during a thunderstorm with Garlean airships everywhere. ) Was incredibly atmospheric in giving me a sense of dread, a sense of lost hope, a sense of every man woman and child holding a gun in their arms. Kind of like on the brink of losing a world war, except the war was against the world.
It was really a sense of, everyone knew they were going to die, the situation was incredibly dire, there was huge mobilizations and I had the sensation that I was a single individual that was scared and nervious as hell like a little child, but knew that I had to do something, I had to not just die. I had to do something and die doing something.
OOC'ly, it was the best moment I've had in a MMO since Star Wars Galaxies. I mean.. people logged onto the server for the first time in years like myself and.. the entire server (I was on Balmung of course) unified. It was an entire community effort. I last saw that in Galaxies almost ten years ago. People were marching. Marching. Entire guilds with hundreds of members marched. Giant processions of people marched. In all directions, to all of the cities and the impact zone. I was a part of that too. Surreal.
And then the hoards came.
So that was how it was.
Really surreal. Blew my mind. Props to Square Enix for making it so atmospheric. It was incredible. It REALLY felt like the end of everything. The world, your life, everything. Armageddon.
I wish I could live through it again.
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