FFXIV 1.0 Running Animations

aaaaaaand now I want to play 1.0 :(

As has been mentioned before it had a boatload of problems but there was so much to like too! I miss it

PS3 limitation....

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Originally Posted by Averax

A lot of the things people seem to miss from 1.0 are the graphics (along with some story elements). When PS3 support gets discontinued, they can do more with this game's graphics engine without worrying about PS3s everywhere exploding.

Something to look forward to.



Didn't the game perform so horribly back then because of the god-awful optimization? Rather than the graphics. The graphics played their part, though.

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Yeah, it was more bad optimizations for an engine that didn't seem to be designed for a PC let alone an MMO. Then there was the early release to beat Cataclysm causing bugs everywhere. On the graphic side, the models had high poly counts even for mundane things which chugged GPUs. Animations themselves aren't graphically intensive.

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Originally Posted by Kajidourden

aaaaaaand now I want to play 1.0 :(

As has been mentioned before it had a boatload of problems but there was so much to like too! I miss it

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Despite all the love for 2.0, yeah I miss it too :) . I hope 2.0 recaptures some more of its animation aesthetics one day.

From my perspective all I see are unnecessary flourishes that would go right out the window when streamlining the game. I can't help but remember the infamous flower pot when i see that run animation.

The old movement animations are the reason I can't watch 1.0 videos anymore. I miss it too much, every time it makes me really sad.

The animations look good and all, but don't forget that one of 1.0's downfalls, was that they put graphics and all that ahead of actual game-play...

Yoshi-P and the others had very little time to work on 2.0, and rather than limiting their player base (not selling for PS3), or come up with some way to have other options for PC... they focused on what matters, which is making a game that's fun to play, and that is accessible to a lot of players. Easiest way to do that, was to simply cut out this.

It was the right decision IMO considering the circumstances.

It is kinda annoying that 2.0 had to come out during a change of console generations though... PS4 hadn't come out yet, so they couldn't really just do it for that, and at the same time, PS3 was really out-dated, and PS4 came out shortly after.

I don't know when they can really cut off PS3 players, but at some point it has to happen... PS4 is limited enough, but PS3 is just... *sigh*

If consoles and PC's can handle games like Far Cry 4 nowadays, I'm sure it can handle 1.0 much better. From what I understand, most of the animations and visuals were removed because of the strain it put on the system. Secondly, the butt thing was changed to make it easier on the devs when designing armour. Make everyone have the same butt for the sake of an easier time rather than have everyone have differen sizes. I understand where the devs are coming from, it just seems a tad lazy to me.

While we're at it can I please have the race specific combat stances back? Elezen should never be as low to the ground as they are on NIN, ever.

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Originally Posted by Kiroh

While we're at it can I please have the race specific combat stances back? Elezen should never be as low to the ground as they are on NIN, ever.

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So conflicted...the me of the past would say yes to the first , but I love me that nin, SE has a habit of making Elezen dainty. I want more dangerous than dainty >_<