One person is transcribing the whole of Final Fantasy 14's massive main quest, just because

pcgamer.com:

The phrase «Final Fantasy 14 has a lot of cutscenes» is a major understatement, like saying that the ocean has «a lot» of water. When asked about the game's story, I always give it a glowing recommendation, followed by a warning that it'll take hundreds of hours to chew through. Astonishingly, u/eriyu of the Final Fantasy 14 subreddit has been trying to write it all down.(opens in new tab)

The average novel is around 50,000 to 110,000 words. Meanwhile, Final Fantasy 14's cutscenes outstrip this number by a few hundred thousand, give or take. This makes the task of digging through the game's titanic word count for lore a tall order. Sure, you can view most of its cutscenes in any Inn via The Unending Journey, but there's no simple way to CTRL+F for key phrases or moments.

Enter the fanbase. u/eriyu's humbly named Final Fantasy 14 Game Script(opens in new tab) has, at the time of posting, just sunken its teeth into the Heavensward expansion. They plan to note down every main quest cutscene, voiced and unvoiced, from the base game to the current patch, as well as any required sidequests for progression such as the Crystal Tower Alliance Raid, which was made mandatory in patch 5.3 

While this titanic ledger isn't the only third-party place you can view FFXIV's quest dialogue, u/eiryu notes that "they're missing some scenes and contain some errors, so that's why I'm primarily getting text from the game itself."

Even playing through the game once is a massive undertaking, let alone penning down the entire experience as you go. It's slow going. «I'm getting 99% of the text directly in-game playing through on an alt, rather than using a text dump or something, so updates won't be super fast.»

While it's fun to think that u/eiryu