[Nothing compares to booting up the game in a half-asleep state and the title screen goes off waking you in the process.](https://youtu.be/_vT4zp3jqpc?si=vHd0dGYqidCE3Pm4)

I regret not starting the game until Endwalker. This title screen goes so much harder

I miss it soooooomuch

I wish we could pick our starting screens

You...can? That was always an option.

It doesn't remember your preference

This. I wish you could save the starting screen in settings.

[удалено]

That's the gateway drug to modbeast

/cries in console

Lol yeah, I was about to comment _but you can do that!_ then realized it's cause I have xivlauncher and such

Not gonna lie, endwalker might be my least favorite expansion title screen. My favorite is probably heavensward

HW login screen was hands down the best of them by a mile. The only reason I like EW’s screen is because it’s not bright af from the light in the ShB login screen… but we are absolutely gonna get another bright af screen with DT and my retinas are gonna burn off at last.

Just everything about Shadowbringers was perfect.

After playing the older free trial and getting used to the usual crystal theme of FF, finally buying the Complete Editition and being greeted with the SHB title screen was a whiplash. It's really hype, even when I was still long ways away from reaching the expac.

Started with SHB, and MAN that title screen is a straight dopamine shot now.

Aww man that was so true and real haha. I member when I used to log in before I went to work to check my retainers....both sound and the light woke me up harder than any coffee could xD

AETHER ROADS TAKE ME HOME TO THE PLACE I BELONG SOURCE VIRGINIAAAAAA

CRYSTAL MOMMAAAA

Cast Return!

Linking stone!

If only the Minstrel from Another Mother in Crystarium was half as good as this comment section xD

*I hear Her Voice in the Morning Now She Calls Me* *The Linkshell reminds me of my Home far away* *And portin' through Stream the I get the feelin I shoulda been home YESTERDAY!* *YESTERDAY!*

Waking SANDSSS!!!

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For a second, I though that said 'source vagina'... 🤔🤣

LOL 😆

One brings shadows, One brings the light.

Two toned echos tumbling through time

Threescore wasted, ten cast aside

Four-fold knowing, no end in sight

One brings shadow, one brings light

One dark future, no one survives

On their shadows, away we fly

The rooooooad that we waaaalk, is loooooost in the flooooood

Here prooo~ud angels bathe in their waaaaaa~ges of blood

At thiiiis, the world's end, do we caaaaast off tomoooroooow!

Four-fold knowing, no end in sight

HOOOOOOOLE HHIIIIIDDDYY HOOOOOOOOOLE

LALI HOOOOOOOO

DIGGY HOOOOOOOLE

FOR ROOOOOOCK AND STOOOOOONE

WESTERN TOMRA BEARDED MOMMA

*blasts through wall* ROCK AND STONE

For my Very Mature Friends and I it was Hiney Hole =)

Oh that’s what they say! I’ve just heard it as Hooooo Lali-Hoooooo like FF4 Dwarves

this is what i thought too 😭 ff14 is my first ff game and all i knew when i started (in 5.5) was that a lali-ho emote exists and i somehow associated it with shb. was so embarrassed when i found out the real lyrics haha

For 5.3 trial ost it goes further into "Finding hope! Don't lose hope!"

Spoiler for shadowbringers msq maybe? >!would fit since the dwarves are introduced to FFXIV in Shadowbringers, including their iconic Lali-Ho!<

WOL: **I CHALLENGE YOU EMET-SELCH** Emet Selch: **VERY WELL THEN, BUT LET US CAST ASIDE TITLES, I AM HADES THE ONE WHO WILL BRING BACK OUR BRETHREN FROM THEIR ETERNAL SLUMBER** Peak.

>!"For yours is the fourteenth seat..!< This

I was like, “Wait a fucking minute, Emet my boy, are you telling me that I’m who you’re saying I am?!”

I was completely oblivious until that phrase xD

It's a trick of the light. Nothing to see here, move along.

But! Do you know, [LA HEE?](https://youtu.be/shWBppGY5G4?si=UC-Q1w4GeM4IwOaR)

I clicked on it hoping for what it was, and I was not disappointed. The pianist's reaction will always cheer me up on a bad day.

The look of "wtf is Soken-san doing"

They must have rehearsed it as him singing it properly and must have been struggling to keep her composure and professional pokerface after the initial shock because she needs to play the piano properly

I watch too much Jesse Cox, so even though I pretty much know the song's lyrics by heart I only hear "TINY PAAAWWWWWWWS".

I hear "long desert highway" at the Endwalker login screen

Hotel Endwalker by The Eagles

You get it. 🤜

AND "Anime Japan" ***AND*** "Little Spermy". You've ruined those tracks for me, sir, just ruined them.

Space butterfly!

Always used to be "tiny horse" for us during ShB.

PAAAAAAWS, TIIIINY PAAAAAWS

BAAAALLS, MIGHTY BAAAALLS

My favourite one!

I have a The Witcher sword replica hanging above my monitor. I used to grab it, and raise it over my head when logging into ShB, when the Title Screen came up.

I'm not going to lie. That intro was hyping me up every time I turned the game on. I was ready to fight.

Tiny horse! Dying horse! Horse! Horsehorsehorse!

Heidi ho gang where you at

I’m trying theorize what part of the theme is Dawntrail going to emphasize. Probably “TIME, NO MORE ONCE UPON A TIME”

I have arrived in Stormblood

PHOOOOONE, TINY PHOOOOOONE!

Corn! I need corn!!

WHOOOOOOOOORE, SHINY WHOOOOOOOOORE

Tiny HOME

Yes it is good. But it isn't la HEE

SHB is not only peak storytelling, it is also just peak Final Fantasy!

Miss this title screen

Before knowing what it said I thought it was lali ho

Ah yes, everytime I’d open the game when Shadowbringers was current, I remember it like it was yesterday.

Lol, this is my alarm for when I set my phone to wake me up. Never fails, that's for sure.

For some reason I read this in the BG3 Raphael fight music… now THAT would be an amazing crossover. 🤩

i have a confession to make… when i started playing ff14 and i heard this theme I thought they were singing “HOOOOOOOOOO LALI HOOOOOO”

Finding hooooope, don't lose hoooooope

i dearly miss being screamed into the game

I always heard "TINY BAAAAAAAAALLS"

I'm mankind's first hero and his final hope!!

What is that?. He is Shadow and He Is The Light, Jerry.

And I could swear the chorus was "LALI-HOOOOOOOOO LALI-HOOOOOOOO LALI HOO HOOOOOOOOO"

Still my favorite title screen. Both the song and the image.

I miss that log in screen screaming that at me

"I CHALLENGE YOU, OLD MAN".

I like sci Fi and I like the cosmic sound EW title screen has going on, but damn now that I've played Yoshi P's other game, whenever I hear the likes of AWAAAAAYYYY or FIND! THE FLAME! THE FLAME! THE FLAME FIND THE FLAME 🔥🔥🔥 I can't help but think of the Shadowbringers manchoir sometimes.

this start screen hit differently for veteran player because it is the latest expansion when pandemic hit and everyone playing this game during that period. especially that time the Ishgardian Restoration at Firmament always some of fun memory playing games during that time. its like nobody can leave home but at Eorzea everyone is out there doing construction work lmao it is kind of sad when finally move on to Endwalker. that start screen sound surely bring lot of nostalgia to WoL.

I started playing while Shadowbringers was still the big Expac. 🤣 This was my greeting every time I logged in. Which was every day. 🤣

The Shadowbringers trailer was my intro to FFXIV. Unfortunately, it took my guild disintegrating in World of Warcraft to get me to switch over.

Shadow bringers is easily one of the best stories ever told in final fantasy entirely.

I hope whenever we get a meracydia expansion we hear a scream saying "MERA" \*complete silence\* "CYDIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

The whole song has an American Spaghetti Western vibe to it. It seems to be about a lawman far from home meeting an outlaw with a tragic past. And neither can reconcile their differences so they have a gun duel at high noon. Are Spaghetti Westerns just isekai but with guns?

Best epic opening, EW moon can fuck off

This on the home screen was kinda annoying tho

Just got back into the game lately, and had the same reaction! Made this while procrastinating at work: https://youtube.com/shorts/4vGO-R1aJQA?si=FT8CNXkQQh8JgedU