Please remake 1.0 in New Game+

[AceofRains]

1.0 is available right now, today, on YouTube. The game itself should remain buried.

Let me say it louder for those in the back. The story and lore shouldn’t be buried because 1.0’s engine was shit. The has nothing to do with carrying over old gameplay. And as I said primarily, YouTube is living it vicariously, I’d like to have this literally very small chunk of story on the new system where it belongs. YouTube is not a preservatorium for videos- anything can get deleted per chance and it can be lost forever.

[MikkoAkure]

As someone who was there, I would also say no. Besides all of the technical reasons that have already been gone over, the game just won't work today and most of what made 1.0 what it was, cannot be reproduced and that was the people who stayed.

The 1.0 experience wasn't just 1000000 poly flowerpots and fully mo-capped cutscenes. It was hunting NMs for hours for a stupid belt or scale mail. Struggling for weeks against Batraal, Nael, or even the final job armor quests because the designers decided that since there's not much content, the content that does exist should be extremely difficult. Drifting through the sea of retainers in the market wards in order to find what you're looking for. Slumming on the side of the streets of Ul'dah with your whole LS since there was no FC housing (or FCs) and everyone gathered in Ul'dah due to the aetheryte and market wards being next to each other and no PF so shouting in the zone everyone gathered in was the only way to get members. Watching the 2nd moon suddenly turn red and get closer and closer every patch and discussing it with friends. It sounds cheesy, but the people who stayed and kept playing stuck with it despite the game being bad because our communities and a shared experience of the frustrations of the game and carrying on despite it all.

Let me say it louder for those in the back. The story and lore shouldn’t be buried because 1.0’s engine was shit. The has nothing to do with carrying over old gameplay. And as I said primarily, YouTube is living it vicariously, I’d like to have this literally very small chunk of story on the new system where it belongs. YouTube is not a preservatorium for videos- anything can get deleted per chance and it can be lost forever.

I don't think you understand that the world was completely different. Even if they just decided to ignore all of the rest of the content of 1.0 and just port the quests, none of the zones at all are the same so they would need to basically recreate the whole game in a new engine. The whole story of ARR is that a calamity happened and the new zones have shards of Dalamud and brand new geographical features and ecosystems that did not exist before.

[AceofRains]

I don't think you understand that the world was completely different. Even if they just decided to ignore all of the rest of the content of 1.0 and just port the quests, none of the zones at all are the same so they would need to basically recreate the whole game in a new engine. The whole story of ARR is that a calamity happened and the new zones have shards of Dalamud and brand new geographical features and ecosystems that did not exist before.

MSQ cutscenes only. Nowhere am I talking about all the bells and whistles of the old system. There are plenty of ambigous and unchanged areas where these scenes can occur without hurting your NG+ immersion.