Quote Originally Posted by Malzian View Post
A lot of good qualities unfortunately don't make up for the deep fundamental flaws the game had. The game was broken at its core and, while Yoshida was able make the game better, there was no way that it ever could have survived. The menu system was ungainly, the maps were a copy-paste mess (the Black Shroud being the worst offender), crafting eventually got better as did the player shop system but both of these were so far behind its contemporaries that it was almost laughable. Those "fully connected, no loading screen" maps were also a joke since they just hid the loading times under a really long corridor, a trick pioneered by Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver a whole generation prior which worked there because the graphics were so simple. 1.0's graphics, however, ended up giving you some seriously excessive corridors to get in and out of cities (looking at you, Ul'dah).

The game's main saving grace was that the graphics (on the surface) were astonishing even for now, but the graphics were also a major downfall since most systems of the time simply couldn't handle it. Flower pots had more polygons than player characters. The game couldn't render shadows since there was no dynamic light source. There are so many other technical flaws that just drove the game to its knees that nothing could really ever make up for it... Sorry, but the game just wasn't good. If you enjoyed it, that's fine, but let's call a spade a spade.
Ok? But again, the game being bad doesn't mean it didn't do some good things. If people discredited the plane because the wright brothers built it backwards we wouldn't have the planes we have today. The class system was fun and had potential, no one is asking for 1.0 back here, just mentioning one of the things that was fun in it.