{"id":74067,"date":"2015-04-13T07:30:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T05:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=74067"},"modified":"2015-04-13T10:13:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T08:13:55","slug":"a-realm-reborns-opening-cinematic-has-us-excited-all-over-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/74067-a-realm-reborns-opening-cinematic-has-us-excited-all-over-again","title":{"rendered":"Heavensward&#8217;s Opening Cinematic has us excited all over again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you been playing <em>Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn?<\/em> No? Well you\u2019re missing out. <em>Final Fantasy XIV<\/em> was a tragic mess, frustratingly generic as well as poorly designed, and far from worthy of your time. But Square Enix\u2019s attempt to get its act together, to fix what needed to be fixed and revive <em>Final Fantasy XIV<\/em> has largely been a massive success. <em>Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn<\/em> is far from perfect, but it\u2019s easily one of the best MMO\u2019s of the moment. And its first expansion, <em>Heavensward<\/em>, with the addition of flying mounts, new classes and an expansive new land, definitely looks to be worth our while.<\/p>\n<p>Just one thing, this video does contain <strong>SPOILERS<\/strong> and assumes you\u2019ve completed the story of <em>A Realm Reborn <\/em>thus far.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EFUx6xH1VlA\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If anything, we\u2019re excited at the size of <em>Heavensward<\/em>, if only because the continual addition of expansions like it, as well as content updates, should mean a game worth investing in for a while to come. For those unsure of what the big deal is, you should probably check this video out for a tour of <em>Heavensward<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/okypXypR80U\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn\u2019s<\/em> first expansion, <em>Heavensward<\/em>, releases on June 23<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As opening cinematics go, Heavenward&#8217;s is pretty solid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":74069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13503,13505,469,1969,15397,1239,1853,211,183],"class_list":["post-74067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-final-fantasy-xiv-a-realm-reborn","tag-heavensward","tag-mmo","tag-news-2","tag-pc","tag-playstation-4","tag-playstation4","tag-square-enix","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}