Reminiscing of 1.0 Dungeons

[Surian]

I did play 1.0, but the diffirence with dungeons now and dungeons back then is simple.

2.0 dungeons have a path you take from A to B with no deviations. This allows for bosses to show up at set intervals, makes coding a lot easier and especially allows for the developers to put a lot of details in/around just that one path.

1.0 dungeons are completely diffirent. They might have had an entrance which was your starting point, but the rest of the dungeon was a maze. There was no ending, nor any direct route through it all. Considder it a big open area, not unlike for instance Southern Thanalan now. Many paths to take, many corners and rooms, lots of things to explore and see. But that was the beauty of it. You could lock yourself inside for hours and kill the respawning monsters with a group or even solo for EXP, or search around the map in search of bosses that spawned for the loot they dropped. While i myself was never ever bothered by it, people's main gripe with it was that the amount of details were lacking due to it being a large spread out area and that they had to re-use certain objects more than once opposed to making them unique. Which is silly really, but with a game so interesting, i guess people really needed to look hard for atleast -something- to complain about. Which is rediculous really if you look at the maps from back then...

I'd much prefer our dungeons to return to the 1.0 format any day, but that's just not going to happen anymore. Perhaps they could, one day, re-introduce the 1.0 dungeons as a sort of "free mode" that you can enter solo. I know i'd love to roam around Sastasha again by myself or with my Chocobo. But with the reception and complaints about the old dungeons, i dont think they're ever going to touch those even with a 10 feet pole ever again.

For example, Old Sastasha: