I'm kinda looking forward to it, although, like the author I've purposely kept myself in the dark. Combat reminds me of Xenoblade Chronicles X from the little I've seen. I have a feeling I'll spend more time with XV though.  Mixed feelings on the whole Bro thing, could be interesting or annoying, guess we shall see.  The weapons magically appearing in your character's hand is kind of annoying me already.  But there's still a chance it won't get added to my backlog of games that get played for a couple weeks and never finished.  I don't know, I might try to get back into FF XIV tbh.  Both XI and XIV are my favorite vision of the Final Fantasy universe (even though the solo playstyle fits me better).

Enjoyed the Multiplayer anxiety topic.  Glad i'm not alone.  I've been playing MMO's (mostly solo) for years and I still can't shake the anxiety I feel when grouping for dugeon instances.  I think it's mostly that fear of screwing something up, which is silly but does have merit. The other thing is time constraint.  I have a family and I can't dedicate hours to something, as someone mentioned in the podcast.  So I don't play MMO's much these days ;).  But I do like how Rift and now FFXIV borrowed the public quest system Warhammer introduced.  I need more nerdy friends...