Thread: Stuff I Miss From 1.0

I miss...

1.) Seeing a level 77 enemy and thinking "Oh crap that thing would kick my ass!" (Coupled with this - I do *not* miss randomly running into said enemy because I took a wrong turn at level 20.) 1.0 instilled fear in you, even at level 50; 2.0 has yet to do that to me. The removal of Stealth mechanics didn't help in this regard, either.

2.) The open-world dungeons. I liked being able to wander deep inside cave systems and such and see small interesting mechanics that made the place unique from the rest of the game world.

3.) Black Mage not sucking. No, seriously, I absolutely hate THM/BLM in its current iteration. It lacks all sense of "Boom" whereas the original THM/BLM had it in spades. In particular, I miss Lightning being direct damage, and I miss Burst. And Freeze not being utterly useless.

4.) Companion NPCs. Their dialogue was hilarious! I had a particularly flirtatious personality on mine, and her conversations were amazingly well-done. I'm hoping they bring them back at some point!

5.) /RANDOM!

Other than that, I really don't miss a whole lot. XIV 1.0 wasn't terribly memorable for me; I didn't hate it, but I'm also easily entertained in MMOs. It did some things well, but so much was done badly. 2.0 has been a hugely welcome upgrade, minus a few small quarrels.

I somehow feel relieved that so many people feel the same or in a similar way as I do about ARR and 1.0.

And yes, not ever in my wildest dreams I see any dev/rep posting in this thread. Their PR team would eat them up.

Originally Posted by Choyi

Other then that I can't think of too much I miss from 1.0, I always found the armory system a bit dumb and the animation lock combat(while it look aestheticly pleasing) felt realy clunky and slow most times, 1.0 crafting was just a terrible chore and I much approve of the new crafting system we have in 2.0.
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Yes they definitely have a better crafting system for 2.0, but most of the gathering and levequests you haveta do is more tedious, for example, there's a lot mats that you don't have to fulfill job orders for levequests in crafting, when 1.0 gave you all the mats you needed .In 1.0 you'd get a ton of shards from every kind of monster, but now there's barely any. Like wind shards be on birds like dodo, earth on moles, fire on coblyn,ice on spriggin, etc. Alchemist you could craft tons of stacks of shards from fish. I remember even making 400k off of selling 999 stacks of wind shards.
As for animation lock, especially for mages, it didn't exist till about the end of 1.0, which really ruined mages especially doing ifrit.

i miss the ability to meld materia without stat caps. also miss the depth of the AF quests; i remember getting DRG AF was a total pita. but once it was all said and done, it felt good to be able to wear it.

See-through, colored shades/goggles/etc. Those were nice and added a bit of life to certain styles you could come up with.

Randomized blinking animations and inquisitive eyes (aka: eyes that look around when not focused on a target). It added a ton of believability to characters.

I don't know in what thread I read (maybe this one, maybe another) that someone was talking about the FF feel that the old Coerthas gave to some players, and why v1.0 felt way more than a real FF than ARR, and I think I have the answer.
It was the huge grass extension filled with monsters where you felt alone. just like in the old FF's when you were just a group of adventurers travelling alone through the world map without loading screens and you were just walking through a large green field where monsters could pop up with a relaxing music, but in this sense it even had more to to do with FF I, II and III (not anymore so much after IV when they started to streamline everything), where at any wrong turn, you could just enter a higher level area without knowing and a gigas or any other monster could appear to kick your ass, just like it happened in v1.0 or XI.

And all that feeling is lost completely in ARR.

I miss tp gain then weapon skill. Starting with 100 tp and every move being a skill seems too much for me. I know the tp gain use special was slow, but man I feel like it was so much better. You noticed things more like critical hits and misses, now it's just hit key move to next key.