#oneaday Day 778: Quiet Day

S-Rank Patrons, don't forget to get your questions in for the January Q&A! Click here for details.

I decided to have a quiet day on MoeGamer today as I had a very busy day at the day job, and worked a little later than normal to get something out of the way that I'd been meaning to do for a couple of days. It was already getting a bit late by the time I finished, so I just wanted to sit and relax. Hope you don't mind! You got a video at least!

Two super-fun pieces up on Rice today, though — firstly, a bit about the upcoming Root Film, which is a game I'm very excited for, and secondly, a big interview with the ever-lovely Matt Papa from Inti Creates on the subject of Gal*Gun's tenth anniversary. If you have a sec to go enjoy those and perhaps share them that would be very much appreciated! Good viewing figures help me look good — and confirm to my new employers that hiring me was indeed the correct decision.

I dove back in to Final Fantasy XIV this evening, since I have a good idea for an ongoing column about it. Ongoing columns are good! Regular content so I don't have to rack my brains every week for inspiration. I'll write more about this in the first installment of the new column (which I'm planning for Friday or Monday, haven't decided yet) but I've been giving the game's "New Game Plus" mode a try; this is a really nice idea, which allows you to replay the entire main scenario quest at your current level, letting you re-experience the story as it was first time around, but without any need for grinding, gearing up and all that sort of thing.

You can even run the dungeons single-player unsynced if you want to, and I won't lie, it's exceedingly satisfying to use the Samurai job's super-powerful hit to flatten bosses in a single blow. You don't get any meaningful rewards for running New Game Plus — not that the quest rewards for the main scenario would likely be any use to you by the time you'd be making use of New Game Plus — so it's purely a means of revisiting the story. After several years away, it's exactly what I both needed and wanted; I wasn't relishing the idea of starting a brand new character.

Anyway, I'm going to be limiting my Final Fantasy XIV time to probably twice a week so I still have time to do other stuff. I'll definitely play on Wednesday evenings, as that's when the wife and our guildmates do stuff together online, and perhaps one day of each weekend, too. We'll see. I have little to no intention of taking the game "seriously" again, but I do want to see the Shadowbringers story and enjoy some of the new stuff. So I'm looking forward to that.

Now, though, it's time for bed — as tempting as it is to see quite how far through A Realm Reborn's main quest I can get in a single evening! For reference, after an evening's play, I'd cleared up to the point where you run Sastasha, Tam-Tara and Copperbell, so that's the equivalent of playing up to about level 18 or so. Without the need to grind, I should be able to plough through the various storylines and enjoy them at a good pace, which will be nice.

But yeah. Bed now. Perhaps with a touch of Final Fantasy V before sleep…