New zone suggestion: The Past!

[Achtzen]

I'm just a copypasta girl, living in a copypasta world.

[BLaCKnBLu3B3RRY]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti2AIhEoH9Y

this... aside from the lack of variety in theme or color. this is actually not bad. maybe better then the current Black Shroud. sure it would have been easy to get confused or lost. but IMO that 1.0 Black Shroud is far more aligned to the term 'Shroud' then the current Black Shroud. i never understood why it was called the Black Shroud. but i do now, after watching that video. thank you.

[Tupsi]

Uh, no, it will never happen - the whole reason ARR was made in the first place was because 1.0's zones were badly designed

I can promise you ARR was designed because the engine choice for XIV was terrible, it wasn't done because of badly designed zones when some ARR zones have even less to them at times. They're prettier, but largely just as useless.

I mean, Yoshi deliberately brought down Dalamud so that there would be a narrative reason for the completely redesigned maps

And to give a reason to copy WoW even further (let's not kid ourselves, he flatout said ARR will be designed after WoW for the Japanese audiences.)

[Cyrus-Wallace]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti2AIhEoH9Y

Oh, wow, more than 10' of nothing but passageways and few monsters (A marginal amount of monsters) during the trip. Yet, it looks like a forest. For a MMO game, that kind of things don't work for sure. Now I wonder the OP talks about bringing these maps back or very specific places on these maps/dungeons. It's impossible to bring a whole map like that back.

[kidvideo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti2AIhEoH9Y

Reminds me of Yuhtunga Jungle... I always get lost in that damned zone.

I just found this... If they remade past zones it would be a way to allow 2.0 players experience 1.0 quests, store & lore. OF course, pre-Dalamud only one moment of the past...

http://youtu.be/aU5N24_5VIk?t=2h55s

[Morningstar1337]

Uh, no, it will never happen - the whole reason ARR was made in the first place was because 1.0's zones were badly designed - in order to make them large and seamless (and to be able to be rendered on the Crystal Tools engine)

Wait you mean to say that Final Fantasy XIII was so bad even its engine can ruin games?

Not that I hate FFXIII, I just liked its sequels more./unpopularopinionpuffin

[BLaCKnBLu3B3RRY]

FF13 was... well not very Final Fantasy-like. the story was what would have expected from a FF game. but there were almost zero hardcore elements to the game. and almost zero challenge. the only challenge there was is how much time you was willing to spend on it.

i enjoyed the game. it was fun to play and learn about the world and the characters. the story was as immersive as you would expect from any FF game.(except FF9) and lets not forget at the time of release the visuals were considered to be state-of-the-art. aside from having almost no hardcore elements. and that a 10 year old could complete a perfect save... it was still a great FF game.

[Felis]

Here is another Coerthas video without Chocobo music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h18KVbpcRMI

[Auron_Wolf]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti2AIhEoH9Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCoI2gAVvCU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKUynGGV7Dk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKUynGGV7Dk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eZD2m9WtGE

seeing those videos I found this:

http://youtu.be/3TbMKC8QZo0

were was that?

[Alukah]

It's normal to have nostalgia, but 1.0 was a terrible game and it's better to pretend it never happened.