Thread: 1.0 Reminiscing

Originally Posted by Gramul

-High res textures
-Stunning animation
-The lighting effect when going from a dark place to a light one
-Art direction centered around natural material and practical gear. Basically less neon, more class and sophistication
-Glow effects on lights that didn't look like colorful grease stains
-Far more interesting monster behavior
-Being able to buy skill bonuses
-Elemental wheel
-More varying stats
-Dungeon like areas that didn't require you to group up in a timed instance, you could just go there
-Danger
-Corethas being a beautiful spring alps mystery land

That's all I can think of right now from the top of my head.

Definitely all of the above. I'll add:
-Fantastic music that we only partially kept.
-Natural fonts and UI design that actually fits an RPG rather than the overly flashy nonsense we have no.
-Map design that didn't have every single POI five steps from each other.

- Better character models
- Better graphics
- Animations

- 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.

Originally Posted by Leira_Raine

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.

Just reading the earlier posts again and this brought back memories. ^^

Towards the end of v1 about 100 people on our server got together for revenge to go treant hunting. It was crazy, but fun with everyone just throwing themselves at 2 treants trying to take them down (which we finally did).

Originally Posted by Rereyl

I kinda miss the giant expansive zones. Don't even care if it was copy paste, there was still some variety and exploration to be had.

Darn...

Why can't we have this in ARR?

Originally Posted by KokonoeAiyoko

Darn...

Why can't we have this in ARR?

Because you can have huge, expansive environments with sweeping vistas but with repeated textures and few individual landmarks or you can have small, enclosed environments packed full of interesting oddities you can't have both.

Originally Posted by Aegis

Because you can have huge, expansive environments with sweeping vistas but with repeated textures and few individual landmarks or you can have small, enclosed environments packed full of interesting oddities you can't have both.

I'll take the former over the latter any day. I do not find everything being five steps from each other to be conducive to portraying an expansive world at all.