Thread: 1.0 Reminiscing

Anyone ever thought about how quality is always better than quantity? 1.0 failed for a reason, I would not and didn't ever consider playing 1.0, it had better animations, textures, gear, and all that but reputation goes way farther than anything. The reputation about FFXIV 1.0 was that it was a lazy copy paste job and that as a customer I cannot support.

People and organizations need to understand that reputation and integrity matters more than people realize.

I really really miss the 1.0 graphics, gear, and animations though. Scaling back that quality was a bad decision.

Originally Posted by Felis

It seem that you don't have tried to ride the route through central highlands yourself in ARR to compare the time. It takes just as long as in the video (i tested it just now). And at 7:35 it is not in central highlands. The person left the central highlands at 4:35. He enter the "canyon that load the next zone while you ride through it" and reach the next zone at 5:30

Only the hidden areas in Coerthas 'served as load time transitions', or to be more clear, they appear that way only because the subzones were in fact supposed to be hidden (i.e. Feathergorge, if I remember the name correctly, where Garuda's aether was hidden, and the two hamlets). Other areas could look out simultaneously on three subzones each almost the size of current Coerthas.

Originally Posted by faris

/aoe on /aoe off

I wasn't much of a caster, but this.

Remember when you knew a mob's move set because it actually mattered? If you weren't paying attention for impish incantations you were pretty screwed. Or toads' belly flop. Or wolves' sanguine bite...

This one will be a long post.

I miss...

***** Battle system & animation - One thing I never experienced was the hatred towards animation locks. They honestly never bothered me. You had to time your skills right to survive rather than spam buttons. It feels more natural to have your barcher stop, draw the arrow to its limit and unleash a powerful shot that has an almost recoiling impact than do the same while gliding around the field. Another thing that I didn't experience was lag. I live in Europe, but I never got hit by Ifrit's eruptions for example unless it was clearly my fault. Other than that, buffs, debuffs, comboes that split between abilities you used in differently worked way better in my opinion. Yes, the combat was heavier, but it was the very charm of the system for me. Realistic and smooth. (For the mouse users, I can understand your frustration, but keyboard-only option felt natural for me)

**** Toughness - 2.0 feels like a kindergarten playground compared to 1.0. And while I can imagine there's something good to it, I honestly feel very disappointed. Yes, the extreme primals can be tough. Yes, the Coil can be tough and I'm not saying I have cleared it all. But honestly, most of those are just superficially hard. There are no surprises and literally all the toughness is pretty much just how well your group has memorized the patterns.

**** Crafting 1.23 - When being a crafter actually did mean something. To be honest I like the actual crafting better in 2.0, but the way they nerfed crafter's usefulness bugs me. They have an awesome foundation, but they are not using it like they did in 1.0, where crafters were the ones that could craft some really awesome unique weapons from the rarest of materials.

* Skirmish - the fights and the teamwork you had to have. And even the moments when your party was scattered dead along the beach while Chimera ran after the few survivors, who were running around the island trying not to die, enmity hopping between them. Maybe even in hopes of getting a swiftcasted Raise out.

* Mobs that aggroed by sound, sight, HP pool, magic...

* Notorious Monsters - it was always fun to help new people down them, or when you were leveling your battle classes and ran around killing NM's for their drops.

* Beast Tribe camps - namely the notorious Wolf Camp where you got all your spiritbonding business done back when you actually got some worthwhile materia that you needed to accomplish the most time consuming of things.

* Coerthas - The hauntingly beautiful music, the areas, even if just barren fields. They had an amazing feel to them. I can only imagine what they would've done with it if the game had taken wind beneath its wings.

ALSO! The hunt for the items you needed to enter Moogle fight was one of the most awesome gaming experiences I had. You always had that one doofus who accidentally ran one step and you had to walk back to where he died to raise his sorry ass while you all laughed at it. And when you sat around the territory of one of the NM's, talking, joking and waiting for your other party members to walk to you because otherwise trees would've effed them up.

I need to make another post sometime for more...