Please remake 1.0 in New Game+

They would have to dedicate time and resources to recreating these cutscenes and events, time and resources they can be putting towards new content. They can't just plug the old stuff back in, it's a completely different engine.

Considering the amount of time and effort it would take to reproduce it in modern FF14's engine, i'd have to say no. I'd rather the resources be spent on new FF14 content.

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Originally Posted by Espon

They would have to dedicate time and resources to recreating these cutscenes and events, time and resources they can be putting towards new content. They can't just plug the old stuff back in, it's a completely different engine.

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In a game where players can basically make their own cutscenes, this is not something heavy handed in resources. Stop telling me it’s a different engine. I know that. It’s literally a 1-2 person project to sit down, retrieve the script and footage and work on reimagining a few quests and cutscenes. The assests for all of those old characters already exist in the current game, literally nothing needs to be made anew, it just has to be shaped and organized. But okay, you guys are like totally right that every endeavor needs to always go to new content and I should just shut up and leave the topic alone.

As someone who was there, I would also say no. Besides all of the technical reasons that have already been gone over, the game just won't work today and most of what made 1.0 what it was, cannot be reproduced and that was the people who stayed.

The 1.0 experience wasn't just 1000000 poly flowerpots and fully mo-capped cutscenes. It was hunting NMs for hours for a stupid belt or scale mail. Struggling for weeks against Batraal, Nael, or even the final job armor quests because the designers decided that since there's not much content, the content that does exist should be extremely difficult. Drifting through the sea of retainers in the market wards in order to find what you're looking for. Slumming on the side of the streets of Ul'dah with your whole LS since there was no FC housing (or FCs) and everyone gathered in Ul'dah due to the aetheryte and market wards being next to each other and no PF so shouting in the zone everyone gathered in was the only way to get members. Watching the 2nd moon suddenly turn red and get closer and closer every patch and discussing it with friends. It sounds cheesy, but the people who stayed and kept playing stuck with it despite the game being bad because our communities and a shared experience of the frustrations of the game and carrying on despite it all.

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Originally Posted by AceofRains

Let me say it louder for those in the back. The story and lore shouldn’t be buried because 1.0’s engine was shit. The has nothing to do with carrying over old gameplay. And as I said primarily, YouTube is living it vicariously, I’d like to have this literally very small chunk of story on the new system where it belongs. YouTube is not a preservatorium for videos- anything can get deleted per chance and it can be lost forever.

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I don't think you understand that the world was completely different. Even if they just decided to ignore all of the rest of the content of 1.0 and just port the quests, none of the zones at all are the same so they would need to basically recreate the whole game in a new engine. The whole story of ARR is that a calamity happened and the new zones have shards of Dalamud and brand new geographical features and ecosystems that did not exist before.

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Originally Posted by AceofRains

After finishing Endwalker, I so wanted to play it again, but I also found it’s not New Game+ yet. Oh, oh well. Booo. I have not played the current implementations of NG+ but if I wanted to go through this all over again, I would highly appreciate remaking the original 1.0 events, which for the cutscene systems we have now, are not verily complicated to reimagine.

Without 1.0, though it is many times alluded to, I feel there is a chapter in this game that I might never get to see again. The spark that began this whole endeavor. To learn the source of meteor storm hydaelyn shows us, has been roughly ten years in the making and I can not forget the moment I was called to hear, think, feel, and walk.

Many people can only experience these events vicariously on preserved YouTube videos. Please, please, please, reintegrate these scenes and quests so that we ALL can experience Final Fantasy 14 in its full glory and splendor.

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This sounds fun!

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Originally Posted by AceofRains

In a game where players can basically make their own cutscenes, this is not something heavy handed in resources. Stop telling me it’s a different engine. I know that. It’s literally a 1-2 person project to sit down, retrieve the script and footage and work on reimagining a few quests and cutscenes. The assests for all of those old characters already exist in the current game, literally nothing needs to be made anew, it just has to be shaped and organized. But okay, you guys are like totally right that every endeavor needs to always go to new content and I should just shut up and leave the topic alone.

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So speaking as a game designer this just told me you know nothing about game programming workflow. A 1-2 person project to recreate the entire 1.0 MSQ + cutscenes in the new engine. Holy shit.

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Originally Posted by MikkoAkure

I don't think you understand that the world was completely different. Even if they just decided to ignore all of the rest of the content of 1.0 and just port the quests, none of the zones at all are the same so they would need to basically recreate the whole game in a new engine. The whole story of ARR is that a calamity happened and the new zones have shards of Dalamud and brand new geographical features and ecosystems that did not exist before.

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MSQ cutscenes only. Nowhere am I talking about all the bells and whistles of the old system. There are plenty of ambigous and unchanged areas where these scenes can occur without hurting your NG+ immersion.

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Originally Posted by kejakalope

So speaking as a game designer this just told me you know nothing about game programming workflow. A 1-2 person project to recreate the entire 1.0 MSQ + cutscenes in the new engine. Holy shit.

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I’ve tinkered with designing my own games. Making cutscenes and implanting dialogue is not complicated. I just watched the 6 hours of cutscenes from 1.0. It is literally the same motions they use in the the current engine. I’m sorry but I’m not going to make excuses for why things can’t be done. This is a just a suggestion and if you guys don’t like it then whatever, but im not going to pretend like this would be some difficult or long drawn out process.

Or atleast bring back 1.0 cutscenes as dreams/nightmares your character can have while sleeping in a bed.

Wait like 3 years for a 2.0 remake.