Thema: 1.0 Reminiscing

I mostly just miss the old Uematsu 1.0 soundtrack, especially such tracks as Navigator's Glory, Born of the Boughs, The Forest's Pulse, On Windy Meadows, Twilight Over Thanalan, The Seventh Gate, Widdershins, Tears for Mor Dhona, and Piece of Mind. (Yes I know ARR reuses a lot of 1.0 tracks, but there's a whole heap of tracks that haven't returned that I really miss.)

The old GUI style artwork and fonts I also miss too - they actually fitted the setting, where as ARR's fonts seem a little too FFXIII-inspired/high-tech for me (although I do not miss the terrible lag with the interface, especially that stupid slide-out FFXI-holdover side menu. I'm glad that's gone).

And the Path Companions. I miss my sultry bisexual miqo'te GLA.

For that matter, I miss the whole Path of the Twelve itself - I think they were a far more interesting and functional organization compared to their successor in ARR the Scions of the Seventh Dawn. Tataru for one wasn't portrayed as a ditzy airhead needing to be rescued all the time.

And speaking of the Path, I really miss how the Echo was portrayed in 1.0 - how it was far more interactive and that there was often even battle scenes within the Echo. It just made it seem much more interesting (in ARR it's just a buff and a way of showing flashback scenes rendered like a grainy old VHS video).