1.0 Reminiscing

**darkstarpoet1** · 05-20-2014 12:34 PM

Originally Posted by Aegis

Tell you what, the moment you kill that SOB Dodo that ganked you when you were level 1 was priceless.

Still remember Closed Beta of V1 watching everyone charge out of Limsa (when the servers let you), kill 2 marmots easily then hit that big soft bird over there...

And thus people learned about home points and returning.

i'll never forget my first boat ride from limsa to uldah..... was some of the most fun/frustrating sections of the game for me. rode the boat over, avoided the wolves right outside the boat ramp, ran up and saw the ogre and waited until he turned around and snuck past him, and then got to a "safe area". since it was all low level marmots there i stopped and opened my map to see where to go to get to uldah, found my path, and closed the map.

what did i find? a stupid ant standing over my dead body. home point of limsa and had to return to do it all over.

i'll never forget when they opened the cave with the ants below ground where i killed them over and over and over and over just to get my sweet revenge.

**gornotck** · 05-20-2014 09:20 PM

Originally Posted by Issac

I want to go back to Coerthas.

I want to feel a sense of danger while wandering around Mor Dhona.

I kinda just... Want to play 1.0 again for a month.

Just a month? If they said they were scrapping ARR and going right back to how it was 'pre-Calamity', I would not cry.
Even with the many improvements to the game that they have made, I still find myself feeling angry and betrayed by ARR.
People complained about how 'copypaste' the maps were, or more obnoxiously 'copypasta'. How they felt lost because everything looked similar, but I think that was the point. You were supposed to get lost in the Shroud. You were supposed to be able to stand at the top of the cliff in Thanalan and take in the vista to the sea.
You were supposed to be vomited on by Dodos, because that's how they roll.

**Felis** · 05-20-2014 09:41 PM

There are some epic fights from early 1.0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_NncOPxl9Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEFPpKnvciw

**Elazu** · 05-21-2014 12:53 AM

- Better character models
- Better graphics
- Animations

**Keres** · 05-21-2014 05:33 AM

- Spending more than 30 minutes looking through 100+ lifeless retainers in the 1.00 market wards, hoping to find a belt for my GLA. I never did find one.

- Having my weapon break after 30 minutes of grinding and having to run back to town and pay 25,000 gil to get it repaired to 50%.

- Spending 5 minutes to sell the junk out of my inventory.

- Having to stand in town and shout for 2 hours in the hopes of finding a party for the particular thing I wanted to do.

I have good memories of the friends I made in 1.0...but almost no good memories about the gameplay itself.

**Leira_Raine** · 05-21-2014 06:57 AM

Originally Posted by Keres

- Spending more than 30 minutes looking through 100+ lifeless retainers in the 1.00 market wards, hoping to find a belt for my GLA. I never did find one.

- Having my weapon break after 30 minutes of grinding and having to run back to town and pay 25,000 gil to get it repaired to 50%.

- Spending 5 minutes to sell the junk out of my inventory.

- Having to stand in town and shout for 2 hours in the hopes of finding a party for the particular thing I wanted to do.

I have good memories of the friends I made in 1.0...but almost no good memories about the gameplay itself.

I needed to laugh, especially when the market ward theme because a haunting memory. I gave up looking through so many retainers to the point I just never went back to MW until it was improved.

THE LAAAAAAAAG combined made it just... so awful.

**Shurrikhan** · 05-21-2014 07:03 PM

Coerthas
Smoother transition of zones within zones (Turning Leaf, Sorrel Havens, Nine Ivies; Clearwater, Riversmeet, Providence Point) didn't require 3 keeps and ten thousand doodads each to feel unique.
World felt like a frontier rather than overbuilt.
More diverse mob behaviors.
The first time through Castrum Novum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGdz1gjQPrE

In either case though I wish endgame had more reason to go out into the world, though I'd generally prefer to go out into 1.0's than ARR's, and would have liked to see both worlds improved upon (rather than all resources funneled into closed instances).

**Steadying** · 05-21-2014 07:30 PM

- The OST in the original was just amazing. A lot of the music in ARR, while pretty good, is very....backgroundy. If that makes any sense at all. Like, I don't find myself wanting to just sit there and listen to it or anything. My biggest problem lies with the battle theme. It's repetitive, and it's just nowhere near as good as any of the original's battle themes. You would not see me complaining at all if they just brought back all of the music from 1.0 in an expansion pack. I don't care if it's " lazy ", that soundtrack is far too good to be totally wasted.

- I really miss the way Limsa and Coerthas used to look. Limsa's really yellow-ish now, and Coerthas is just....bleh.

That's about all I miss.

**swordrain** · 05-21-2014 08:09 PM

Choosing a botanist at the start, throwing a rock for 1 damage at the mandatory boss who has hundreds of HP.

Getting to the first town, no idea where to go, what to do, or even a functioning map.

Not being able to jump.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to enjoy 1.0 as I had it installed on launch day, and spent the next two days with my best friend as we tried to force ourselves to like it, to no avail.

**OMG** · 05-21-2014 08:14 PM

I miss having a butt!

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