Thread: Stuff I Miss From 1.0

Originally Posted by Alhanelem

Don't miss this one bit. who the hell wants to wait like 15 minutes to travel anywhere?

Also, new coerthas is way better. we needed a snowy zone. I don't want "soothing." Also, that music was gloomy, not soothing.

Here I was thinking I was alone in this. I don't know how anyone found 1.0 Coerthas' music to be soothing. It was quite melancholic to me. And the zone itself was a pointless mess that was huge for no reason at all (like most of the zones in the game). There were very few places that were actually used, and that was all centered around Dragonhead and the attached aethershards. If you compare the two maps, Central Highlands is pretty much the used area from 1.0.

There's some strong tinted glasses when it comes to Coerthas 1.0. I must have missed out on getting a pair.

Originally Posted by Meier

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...

As much as I enjoyed the game from 1.2x, including the battle system, I wouldn't consider it deep in any sense. Skills had their own cooldowns, so you basically went from the strongest combo down to the weakest, whilst waiting on the strongest to be used again. Throw in a few buffs (like you do now) as you went. It was also incredibly slow. Marauder's average weapon skill use time was about 37 seconds, I think, with the lowest cooldown being 10 seconds (outside of skills like Overpower which could only be used after Parrying). And people complain about a 2.5s GCD being too long.

I miss the guild marks, where you could save up and then spend them on abilities like "fleet of foot" or add a HP buff. I still don't know why they took that out back in the day. Made it nice to cross-train different classes to gain certain abilities and stats to benefit a main class.

Originally Posted by Eshura

* Actually traveling by boat from Thanalan to LimLom and not by cutscene.

Ooo I nearly forgot. I REALLY miss the cutscene walking onto the elevator.

I was also surprised that the cutscene of when you first get your chocobo didn't survive, when it was even requested back into the game. I really liked that scene.

Coerthas
Yoshida's absolutely freaking gorgeous art direction for characters and armor.
A reserved and natural tone that wasn't the terrible grit and bloom most "realistic" fantasy worlds have these days.
A sense of momentum and weight to animations.
Coerthas
Wasn't obsessed with being just fanbait and more with its own lore and world.
Coerthas
Open world caves and dungeon like places.
Free way to get in and out of LL.

Why did you completely destroy Coerthas?
It was my favorite thing about the game. And you killed it.
Nothing remains of its beauty. You scorched it and covered it in endless snow. Now it's a generic ice land. Why did you do it?

But I like most of the other changes. Especially the variety in world design.


Oh. And belts. I miss being able to choose my own belts. But that's a tiny thing.

Originally Posted by calamityz

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.

Don't feed me dismissive nonsense.
I was playing it not more than a year ago. I can pretty clearly remember what it was like.

Originally Posted by Gramul

Why did you completely destroy Coerthas?
It was my favorite thing about the game. And you killed it.
Nothing remains of its beauty. You scorched it and covered it in endless snow. Now it's a generic ice land. Why did you do it?

So much this

Awwe yeah that first ride with your personal chocobo cutscene was awesome. I miss Mor Dhona and how it used to be. Before it was pure terror manifest. Simply the idea of going there filled you with dread and all the while there no matter how powerful your character was, one wrong turn could be the end for you. It also felt massive with plenty of twists and turns to get lost in. And invading the imperials base there was an epic adventure in and of itself. A real nightmare to traverse. It was really special before. Now....it's just any other zone....cramped and safe. *sigh*