Final Fantasy XIV 1.23b - Would you Play it if Available?

[Enkidoh]

Story which mostly isn't even really canon anymore anyway as I've mentioned previously. The only real remaining canon storyline from 1.0 is the 'Seventh Umbral Era' storyline that concerned the summoning of Dalamud and the formation of the Grand Companies to counter Nael van Darnus (which can all easily be told in flashback/Echo scenes within ARR anyway) - everything else SE has basically stated is "no longer canon until we say otherwise", as they're cannibalizing the original 1.0 starting stories and the Path of the Twelve story for ideas and concepts used in ARR, HW and now SB.

So what remains canon for 1.0 would barely be enough narrative to qualify for an expansion pack, let alone a full game. And as SE always intended the 7th Umbral Era story to be short term and never to be accessed again (it's pretty telling when the achievement for completing the 7th Umbral Era storyline in 1.0 was literally called 'Once in a Lifetime!'), I think that's the final nail in the coffin for this debate.

As I've mentioned before, 1.0 is dead and buried. Leave it to rot in peace...

[DaikiKiyoshi]

I would pay a separate sub on top of the current game to be able to play 1.0 as it was back then. I've always felt like I was missing out on something huge as far as the story and seeing and exploring everything before the Calamity. I know I can look up screenshots and videos and stuff but that's nowhere near the same. If SE made it possible for us to play 1.0 again I'd love them forever. This is coming from someone who started the game some time in 2.x.


To everyone calling 1.0 trash and telling us to stop bringing it up, get out. Just because you didn't like the game doesn't entitle you to silence us for wanting to experience something we missed out on, I don't care how bad you thought it was.

[Titor]

I'd play it for the lore

[Dragoon130]

I want to go back and experience it. I didn't have a computer capable of running it when it was originally out either and it wasn't till around 2.4 I was finally able to play which has pissed me off to no end that I wasn't able to just experience the game as it grew.

[Malzian]

Didn't this thread die back in 2015??

[Mysticales]

I think we should have a side instance that could let us relive the CS and some of the epic battles of 1.0. The CS of 1.0 seemed to have so much more depth and development on character then ARR did.

I mean watch Uldah Intro alone. Or even Gridania. You know who the people are. That or even the "Little Ladies Day Parade" etc. Was awesome.

[Singularity]

I've tried watching the story on Youtube. All that's there is a useless disconnected mess of cutscenes. Even placed in the correct order, there's no way to tell how far apart they take place (in terms of both space and time).

I don't care if none of it is canon any more and I'd rather judge for myself how good or bad the gameplay is.

[Malzian]

I've tried watching the story on Youtube. All that's there is a useless disconnected mess of cutscenes. Even placed in the correct order, there's no way to tell how far apart they take place (in terms of both space and time).

I don't care if none of it is canon any more and I'd rather judge for myself how good or bad the gameplay is.

This series well sums it up, for better or worse: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ9CmxaQ3q8

[KisaiTenshi]

I've tried watching the story on Youtube. All that's there is a useless disconnected mess of cutscenes. Even placed in the correct order, there's no way to tell how far apart they take place (in terms of both space and time).

I don't care if none of it is canon any more and I'd rather judge for myself how good or bad the gameplay is.

You're right, there is entire instanced bits that go along with the cut scenes, the cutscenes alone don't tell the entire story, and there are flavor text parts just like in V2.0 that come before and after cutscenes.

For example F'lhaminn is heavily involved with the storyline if you start in Uldah, and there's an instanced part where you are told to use the emotes that looks like just some filler quest but isn't. In the other starting areas nothing is quite as relevant.
Like this is what the cutscene shows you
https://youtu.be/1KuFyQcmNng?list=PL...Ci-3M-hy&t=418

But this is what you actually did
https://youtu.be/gySHO1Be9OM

It's part of this quest sequence
https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Court_in_the_Sands

I feel that that storyline is relevant since it features Ascilia (Minfilia) and F'lhaminn who are otherwise part of the game in V2. Minfilia in v2 keeps talking about Louisoix, who isn't even in V2 unless you play the Coil dungeons. Louisoix is essentially replaced by Alphinaud (Main storyline) and Alisaie (Bahamut Raid storyline) for V2.x . Louisoix is also the game's narrator.

As for the other paths, eg Limsa Lominsa and Gridania

The Gridana storyine does have Yda and Papalymo in it, much like Thancred is in Uldah, and Y'shtola in Limsa Lominsa. However much of what happens in those is forgettable and none the lore appears to have made it into V2.0.

Like for the most part, the opening of V2.0 was a sad disappointment as you got the exact same thing for all three. With some Moogle on top if you start in Gridania.

Edit: Everyone forgets about the Path Companions because AFAIK it was supposed to be like FFXI's Adventuring Fellow, and not storyline relevant at all.

[Sarevok_Thordin]

I would like to visit to see the world before the fall of Dalamud, but that's going to be a bit of a task.