What 1.0 Did Better...

[KisaiTenshi]

Alright... I want to end this idea that FFXIV V1.0 looked or played any better than V2.0 does. Seeing as how V1.0 really can't be played anymore, I have to be a lot more selective...

Let's kill two birds with one stone and also address Miqo'te butts


V1.0 DX9 Maximum settings



V3.0 DX10 Maximum Settings


V3.0 DX9 Maximum Settings

Of note:
Hair styles and Eye colors are not directly transferable between V1.0 and V2.0. For the purpose of staging the screenshots I want you to look at the outfit, because it's the same outfit.

Also when you zoom in:

V1.0 DX9


V3.0 DX10

[VarinaVashai]

Alright... I want to end this idea that FFXIV V1.0 looked or played any better than V2.0 does. Seeing as how V1.0 really can't be played anymore, I have to be a lot more selective...

Let's kill two birds with one stone and also address Miqo'te butts

V1.0 looked better then V2.0. Maybe your computer wasnt able to handle V1.0 and thats why you never got to experience and see that, and im sorry that you didnt.

V2.0 characters proportions have been simplified, to make armor scaling simpler and easier to do. Even though alot of armor on certain races gender look misplaced due to spacing issues. So keep on convincing yourself that 2.0 looks so amazing and 1.0 didnt, it will still be wrong.

[Zyrusticae]

V1.0 looked better then V2.0. Maybe your computer wasnt able to handle V1.0 and thats why you never got to experience and see that, and im sorry that you didnt.

V2.0 characters proportions have been simplified, to make armor scaling simpler and easier to do. Even though alot of armor on certain races gender look misplaced due to spacing issues. So keep on convincing yourself that 2.0 looks so amazing and 1.0 didnt, it will still be wrong.

Again, the only things 1.0 did better were textures and character animation (and a small number of assets, but the difference here is too small to even be worth noting). Everything else was better in 2.0 and indisputably better in 3.0.

If only they'd give us a high-res texture pack and give us back some of those sweet running animations, this silly debate could finally be put to rest...

[VarinaVashai]

Again, the only things 1.0 did better were textures and character animation (and a small number of assets, but the difference here is too small to even be worth noting). Everything else was better in 2.0 and indisputably better in 3.0.

If only they'd give us a high-res texture pack and give us back some of those sweet running animations, this silly debate could finally be put to rest...

When you say everything you mean what exactly, the combat? the content? you do understand that all the content related to combat is rinse repeat repeat in 2.0 and 3.0 and will forever be the same. And the superior content Fates hunts quests ? those are all quests, fates are quests in the same way as optional quests in swtor, active events in gw2, rifts in well rift. They are quests automaticly accepted and auto completed when done. Hunts are fates without the icon. Superior content yes so superior.

You know there are many games that has this "Superior" "Varied" "Exciting" "thoughtful" content, Wow, Aion, Swtor, Gw2, FFXIV Yoshida edition and so on.
But hey its flashy, there are so much content with different names (even though its all based on the same content type mechanic). And dont forget the instances so many instances eventhough they are all just fundementaly the same, they are instanced content. So thankfully 2.0 brought with it a revamped world that is used for crickets and tumbleweed, not entierly true woops there is the players that love doing fates over and over and over. But very few of them will talk to you i guess bots dont carry a conversation.

[KisaiTenshi]

V1.0 looked better then V2.0. Maybe your computer wasnt able to handle V1.0 and thats why you never got to experience and see that, and im sorry that you didnt.

V2.0 characters proportions have been simplified, to make armor scaling simpler and easier to do. Even though alot of armor on certain races gender look misplaced due to spacing issues. So keep on convincing yourself that 2.0 looks so amazing and 1.0 didnt, it will still be wrong.

V1.0 Mor Dhona - Renevants Toll (Camp)


V3.0 Mor Dhona - Renevants Toll (Camp)



V1.0 Gates of Judgement



V1.0 Gates of Judgement (Ishgard in the background)


V1.0 Bonus pic Ishgard from another character/angle


V3.0 Gates of Judgement


V3.0 Gates of Judgement (Ishgard in the background)

The point I'm trying to make here, is that some of you go "oh the character animations were better"... yeah but the world was not as great as you think it was. V1.0's lighting was actually pretty terrible, and weather/day effects (like the Mor Dhona gloom) were actually terrible.