What 1.0 Did Better...

[ScarecrowJames]

1.0 failed for a lot of reasons but there were some things in 1.0 that I enjoyed but even in 1.0 some of the things I enjoyed still needed work only for it to be completely abolished or changed outright.

Animations were smoother, Running and even hitting the enemies felt like i hit the enemies. Attacks though did not look as flashy but I liked that. I really dislike the blue twirls and stuff.

Open world was open. It was huge but sadly...copy and pasted largely. I will admit though that limsa lominsa bridge was awesome. I understand going to a instance based them park is easier to do. Im fine with that. I accept this with the good and the bad for the better.

Companions....in 1.0 your companion was a retainer that participated on you in the story. Cool right? well not exactly, well executed. Your companion would only appear on very few story quest. You also could not summon them on the fly like here or FFXI signal pearl. Also now Companions were replaced with Chocobo companions which was cool imo for about a day. Then I realized they didn't partake in the story and didn't mean jack squat in any other way other than hey we got chocobo companions... while unlike FFXI could appear in story related certain quest or even talk to you based on random stuff like Leveling up and what not. Here its a mindless bird that you must withdraw if you want to ride on 1 of your many mounts this game includes...Sadly according to the last live letter its gona be more chocobo related and Magitek.

1.0= better cutscenes- Heavensward improved on ARR cutsenes but even the ARR looks very choppy and cheesy and no where smooth as 1.0 or imo epic(1.0 starting quest was amazing). 1.0 story line though was shit but they looked better. 2.0 arguably is a better story line but imo I find them both forgettable as they are nothing more than pages of text with bad voice actors without much going on the screen. Its an ADHD users worst nightmare.

2.0 is a better Solid game. Sadly 2.0 isn't as Soloable as we wanted. I know MMOrpg= Players. but the fact these players don't appear on my screen in the story yet im the only 1 there engaging in this single player story-multiple player required instance game.

SWTOR had a great engaging story where the combat is basically the same, managed on cool downs with a bit more movement involved. but man their end game was horrendous.

ps this post limit to 1000 characters is really really bad. its like they expect players only to be capable of small quips to other players discussions.
having to edit a post should not be the way to exceed this lmit.

[Gramul]

ps this post limit to 1000 characters is really really bad. its like they expect players only to be capable of small quips to other players discussions.

Editing your posts after you make it allows you to circumvent the limitation.

No idea why they bothered to implement it in the first place.

[ScarecrowJames]

Editing your posts after you make it allows you to circumvent the limitation.

No idea why they bothered to implement it in the first place.

thanks. It makes no sense. we need to engage in discussions. Not make an anger inducing quip

[Dualblade]

thanks. It makes no sense. we need to engage in discussions. Not make an anger inducing quip

Apparently back when the forums were in Beta there was a giant problem with very long posts (usually involving heated arguments), as well as multiple posts happening very fast (which were also very long.) Atleast that is what I have seen others say here on the forums about why the limits are in place.

[KisaiTenshi]

1.0= better cutscenes- Heavensward improved on ARR cutsenes but even the ARR looks very choppy and cheesy and no where smooth as 1.0 or imo epic(1.0 starting quest was amazing). 1.0 story line though was shit but they looked better. 2.0 arguably is a better story line but imo I find them both forgettable as they are nothing more than pages of text with bad voice actors without much going on the screen. Its an ADHD users worst nightmare.

2.0 is a better Solid game. Sadly 2.0 isn't as Soloable as we wanted. I know MMOrpg= Players. but the fact these players don't appear on my screen in the story yet im the only 1 there engaging in this single player story-multiple player required instance game.

Just to repeat...

I played V1.0 beta... the developers were not receptive to ANYTHING. I bought V1.0 anyway and once I got to play longer than a week, the copy-paste scenery and the overtly-long starting quests were a real downer. Adding into that I loved that the maps were huge, but I hated that they were copy-paste.

What finally did it in for me was seeing this:


Everywhere.

I loved the V1.0 starting quests, but I hated that you never really got into any of the game content (remember v1.0 release) even after 60 hours of play.

Like if you back to the thread in this forum about people wanting to skip the storyline entirely, you know there is a problem. I'd rather people play the storyline and be able to skip it if you've seen it. But V1.0 tried to cram like 10 minute cutscenes in, at every opportunity (go look up the v1.0 starting quests on youtube) and there's at least and hour and 15 minutes before you even get to the path companion.

By comparison FFXIV has nothing after the 10-minute opening if you defer your class quests until after you choose a Grand Company.