Thread: 1.0 Reminiscing

Originally Posted by Keith_Dragoon

*hugs Talia* I'll edit with more later but I miss epic fights with random people who become friends you never forget!

I will add more later but OMG that makes me want to cry so much ;-; I miss that!

P.S.S.

I remember trying to get that stupid win for Jasin. Took a total of 80 + attempts, despite me going with my LS for my first time and got it after 3 attempts. Oh those were the days...

I can't tell if I miss that or not. XD

5 major things i miss on top of the ones mentioned.

1. the vastly superior way the 1.x controller was setup to run on the mouse and keyboard bars with FULLY customizable keys. it was vastly superior to the current hotbar we have with a controller in many ways.

2. incaps that actually had meaning. things like incapping the horn of the great buffalo before there was a chance to have the horn drop. even just the visual incaps were amazing. hit buffalo with flashfreeze and watch it fall on its face, hit a toad and flip it upside down, take a skele's head completely off for the eyepatch.

3. why oh why did they destroy coerthas? especially the area around camp glory. there were many days i just sat on the lake southwest of glory fishing because it was one of, if not the, most beautiful places in any game made. now it's a stupid barren wasteland covered in that cold white stuff.

4. going out to challenge difficult mobs in the open world just because i could do it solo and have some of the best times ever. how many went and solo'd dodore, bloatbelly, and elder mosshorn nm's? it was so much fun to go out and claim those high level mobs and not have to worry about everyone and his brother coming to "help". it was the challenge i loved and even things like redrip ogre, the banemites, and the goblin that were all lvl99 you would go with a group and down them.

5. the biggest thing i miss about the game is the original thm. between the movement while casting, the elemental wheel, the aoe toggle switch, and the superior quantity and quality of the skills you had made the original thm vastly superior to the static fire spamming blm we have in game now.

I wondered about that too. I actually remember being so for the wintry change in Coerthas, but now I look back at it and wished it was like 1.0 Coerthas again. I think it's just the lack of an area that looks like Coerthas. I hope they do create an area similar again.



Other things:

How Dalamud appeared menacing in the sky.



When I appeared drunk in my own inn room after a night at the bar with my buddies.



When lightning and camera and such were just... awe-inspiring.





Ishgard! I missed being able to get closer shots like this.



When Mor Dhona seemed so vast and unexplored in the horizon.

Originally Posted by Leira_Raine

I wondered about that too. I actually remember being so for the wintry change in Coerthas, but now I look back at it and wished it was like 1.0 Coerthas again. I think it's just the lack of an area that looks like Coerthas. I hope they do create an area similar again.

i always felt that 1.0 coerthas is what gridania should have been on release instead of the jumbled maze it was. coerthas was a big open forest. it had trees, lakes, nice views, rivers, and wild animals. it had some of the most beautiful views i have seen in any game.

I remember when...

- ...there was light attack and heavy attack.
- ...archers had to actually get into range to attack, otherwise they just stood there, even when the mob was standing next to you.
- ...if you took a wrong turn in a beginner zone, you nearly crapped yourself because a level 99 mob was staring at you in the face.
- ...you chocobo'd past a level 99 drake only to die around the corner because it spat at you sometime 1 minutes ago.
- ...Wild Boars had true sound so you couldn't sneak past them.
- ...only a handful of people had Relic Weapons.
- ...there was the fatigue system.
- ...Aureum Vale was just one poisonous clouded zone and there were only pockets of safety.
- ...you had to have a full pt of 6 to get your final AF armor piece.
- ...trying to get to Good King Moggle Mog Instance was terrifying and deadly.
- ...storyline quests (United We Stand, To Kill a Raven) royally kicked your @$$.
- ...all everyone ever killed were squirrels along the main road.
- ...Sposhae existed.
- ...Grand Company gear actually meant something.

...more memories than I can post...but alas...all a memory. Happy to be here though. ^^d

Originally Posted by Delsus

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Ahahahah! I remember that. That was the most fun ever. And probably enraging too! I remember just casually walking by and dying to a treant anyway because it had no other reason.

Was such a badass treant.

Then I loved going with friends to go NM hunting. I can do the same with FATEs but for some reason no one wants to do them with me anymore.

There was a lot more that put people together. That I do remember. Like going out farming for the key items for primal entering with friends.

Also, you could enter Moggle Mog, but you wouldn't get anything out of it if you didn't have keystones.

That's another thing. Moggle Mog was like the most farmed thing in the century and everyone went at it for such a long while just to get the goodies. 48 wins with no spear drop back then

Now hardly anyone wants to do it ;-;

Also: Cassiopeia Hollow. Please tell me people remember this XD

Originally Posted by Genjuro

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Sorry for double posting, wanted to add onto here but kinda went a bit lazy and decided to make a new post in regards to this.

I wanted to laugh when you mentioned the archer thing. I definitely laughed when I blanked out at nights when exhausted, so I would scream, "WHY CAN'T I KILL ANYTHING! AHHH!!!"

Relic Weapons... oh man they were so hard to get. I didn't even try in the end, because of having really cruddy luck on materia...

Back when you'd not only lose the materia, you'd lose the weapon. Which meant a potential 4 mil down the drain and you wanted to scream at the SE gods.

I thought it was 8 though for the final job quests.

Oh with the BRD final job quest was a pain in the ass. When it was on two elevations...

OH!

How can anyone forget the lack of jumping!?