Thread: Stuff I Miss From 1.0

I miss :

- combat system
- crafting system
- harvesting system
- real open world
- OST
- animations
- high quality graphic

Actually, V1.23 with gears sets and interface of ARR could have been a great deal for me >.>

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Originally Posted by Cynthis

...How are you an adventurer when there are constantly lots of people around doing the same thing?

It is a MMORPG.

I miss the battle system. It was so in depth, and the gear stats to go with it. Now everything is so simple and boring as far as battle is concerned Team jump rope...

While I wasn't around for 1.0 *slowly weeps in the corner* and so can't talk about the gameplay I did look up a few story cutscenes to better understand what's going on.
My reactions were the following:
-Yaaay, Answers, I love this song
-Yaay , we are traveling with Y'shtola, not that stupid salesman
- Wait, Leviathan? In ARR we are attacked by lame sahagin.
- Wow, we didn't get a voiced cutscene so soon in ARR.
- Hey, since when does Y'shtola have a sense of humor?
- Wait, here the crafting and gathering skill trainers play a part in the main scenario? Neat.
- Wait, Y'shtola can do THAT?! Did she become less badass in ARR?
- Hmm, Lominsa seems more like a pirate city and less like Birmingham.
- Wait, Hildibrand introduces us to inn rooms? Sweet.
- Wait, what? Hildibrand met Urianger? Before he was a Scion? And ARR makes no mention of this? Oh, someone is going to BURN for this.

I still love ARR and think it is the best MMO currently on the market, but I did notice these things.

I never played FFXIV 1.0 and if I did, I probably wouldn't be playing ARR, but instead of explaining what I missed in a game I haven't obviously played, I'm going to more talk about the things in 1.0 that interested me that makes me...for a lack of a better phrase puzzled on why it wasn't added back or skimped so heavily:

1. The storyline being more of a cog in a much bigger machine than just another Chosen One story.
This one perplexes me because in the first scene you meet Hydelean, you see other adventurers gliding around the crystal too, giving off the sense that you are not the only one chosen by her to help save the world...yet EVERYWHERE ELSE in the story, you are treated as the genuine chosen one. This gets me because it honestly makes having multiple alts just that much more ridiculous to sit through. 1.0 apparently had it that you WASN'T the Chosen One, but just another Joe Adventurer looking to make a name for themselves and got caught up in something huge. The funny thing is that ARR had the perfect setup to continue on with this, but didn't...

2. The horrific cutback on character detail.
Do I need to talk about this? Not just on clothing and makeup options, but even the character models themselves suffer far too heavily from the cutbacks that it's just sad on so many levels. What does the character models in this game remind me of? Lighting Returns and that was virtually a budget title at the point it came out with the EXACT. SAME. PROBLEM! How was it difficult to make a proportionate rear end for the characters? How is that difficult at all? But then, we mainly have hairstyles that play it WAY too safe(there is so little Shoulder Length hairstyles in this game, let alone anything longer than that), etc.
It's a damn shame when even the most crappy 3D F2P MMO can have proportionate models...

Atm, that's mainly my biggest pet peeves looking back on what was taken out of FFXIV. I haven't seen the environmental differences for obvious reasons and I don't care for the extremely powerful monsters that can make places "unsafe". But those 2 really get me bad.