Thread: Stuff I Miss From 1.0

I just wanted another 1.0 run on a better engine with better graphics and design. Same game, just restructured and polished with more content to each areas looks to be more unique. Everything is just too squashed together in 2.0 and there's no level of terrain, like climbing a mountain to find a whole new area. The economy sucks theres no real market value to base your product off of, in 1.0 items had a better Npc price marketing that helped establish the worth of items. Now everything you npc is just worth a few gil, I remember getting rich off treasure runs in that lvl15 cave in limsa sposhae or whats its name just by selling the loot to npc, making 300k or better. Everything is toooo solo catered and hand -fed to you, and very easy to hop in and join any content. I remember having to level a glad to like 36 or so just for the move "sentinel" so I could do ifrit runs, and if you didn't like glad ohh well it was a necessity.

I miss having quests that needed 2 to 4 people to complete and being in a party often to progress through the game. I miss open-world grinding on mobs or NM's; I absolutely hate Fates as a replacement; i'm not saying get rid of them, just saying they shouldnt be the main source of open content, even if theres all kinds of them it still feels stale. I miss Natalan raids for sentinel gear and a mask for THm, having to move precisely and plan every step you take and pull just the right mobs to even move from camp to camp, many failures happen, but it was fun when you finnaly achieved your goal. 1.23b battle system still rocks way better and is more strategic.

I miss sheep sleep bubble pop skill. Never forget.

1) I also miss the less-restricted armor system from 1.0. It was awfully balanced, but it allowed you to wear what you wanted (vanity tab plz!).
2) Waist/belt piece actually having a visible component... understandably removed for performance reasons.
3) Liberal cross-ability selection. In early 1.0, only a few abilities were exclusive to the class and most were cross-classable. You could create some fun combinations (I created a staff fighter by equipping a THM staff and slotting MAR abilities).
4) Open world dungeons. Arguably bland at times, but with 2.0's vision, these could've been highlights of the 2.0 experience.

1.0 had a lot of great ideas tons o' potential. Most of those great aspects were either highly undeveloped (ex: dungeons) or poorly executed (ex: original armory system). While I wish the 2.0 team would've embraced some of the original ideas behind the armory system, I am far happier with this version. It is much more polished, performant and enjoyable.

There are many things I like about ARR and I'm still having fun, but...

• Fluid animations and inertia. This is what I miss most. The old ones were so real, so lifelike and and so beautiful. ARR's animations are largely clunky and artificial by comparison.
  
• Not having to change zones within cities.
  
• Coerthas. The v1 Coerthas was HUGE and you could really explore. Most of it was never used, but I think that's because the original team's time was cut short and they never got a chance to do many of the things they wanted. Old Coerthas was rugged and beautiful. The ARR Coerthas is also quite beautiful at times and I really like it on a sunny morning with snow falling off the trees... but I wish we could have kept some of the old Coerthas as well... maybe in the lower areas.
  
• Music. I miss the old music a lot. In ARR the music is too short and the silence too long. To be honest, I can't even remember a lot of the music in ARR even though I've been playing every day. And there are small zone-specific music tracks that just quickly fade in and fade out as you pass through them (sanctuaries and the Unholy Heir come to mind)... interesting concept, but a bit wasted.
  
• Anti-Alias settings. We used to be able to set them higher if our computer allowed it. I've figured out how to override ARR's settings with the graphics card properties, but it doesn't help screenshots which still look jagged.
  
• Belts. The newer armor pieces with built in belts look really nice, but some of the other pieces (robes!) really need belts.