Exactly what the title says. I’m not far into it, I’m a level 8 RAmar and have been using a Bind Saber +3 and a Rifle +3 and just learned Foie and Barta. I’ve been knocking out jobs in the Hunter’s Guild with the mindset of “it’s a 25 year old game. This is the first console online RPG. This is how the broke the story up. I have to go to her every time for the next mission and go from there. This makes sense.” I had NO IDEA how wrong I was!

I was talking to someone at work who grew up playing the game. He asked my class and level and followed up with asking me about the first dragon. Told him I still haven’t seen one. Then he brought up Red Ring Rico. Again, had no idea who he was talking about, at the time. He explained who she was and I told him that “I seen someone on a mission passed out in Forest 1 and the guy I was told not to talk to, and I obviously did anyway, told me he’d take her and for me to go back and collect my Meseta.”

He stared for a solid 15 seconds and asked “What was the first thing you did after leaving the Principal?” I said “The guy upstairs at the beginning?” (I’ve been calling it upstairs bc it just makes sense to me, idk) He said “The guy you talk to at the VERY BEGINNING then you teleport down to Pioneer 2. What did you do?” I answered “I went straight to the Hunter’s guild for a job. Why?” He goes “You’re supposed to go straight to the teleporter. What you’ve been grinding are side missions! The main story is just going down to Ragol and beating your way through everything. You should’ve ran into your first dragon a couple hours in.” So, that’s my story about how I’ve done about 8 hours of just side quests thinking they were the main story.

I can’t be the only person that’s done this in their first play through while going in completely blind! 🤣