Stuff I Miss From 1.0

[Enkidoh]

I have to chuckle at everyone requesting the old Coerthas when all it was was a mostly empty copy and pasted version of Konschat Highlands from FFXI (right down to the windmills and stone circles!).

Like all the zones in 1.0, it looked good at first, but once you spent just ten minutes running through it, the textures started to noticeably repeat - seeing the same rocky outcrop, the same tree model, the same patch of grass, got on the nerves. It made points of interest stand out because everything else was so samey - they looked like they didn't belong (and most such 'points' were just there deliberately to break up the monotony - having no story/gameplay connection at all, like the white willow tree that was in the Black Shroud (and seems to have disappeared in ARR).

Also looking at the map the old wooden bridge entrance to Gridania seems to have been abandoned - the Blue Otter Gate just links directly into the Central Shroud and bypasses the old route (presumably because of all the damage the area took during the Calamity).

However, there are a lot of things I do miss from 1.0, but they're just little things that I can live without, things like:

some of the original soundtrack (but I have the soundtrack album so I can listen to that anytime I want
the old GUI graphic style (but not the lack of functionality it had )
the original scenario (especially the Path of the Twelve story, and the related Path Companions)
some of the missing abilities from 1.0 like the GLA's Red Lotus, Aegis Boon and Phalanx (I can only speculate that the later have been removed because they're planned to be added at higher levels/for new classes or Jobs.)

But I can live without these things as they're just icing on an already overly sweet cake.