New zone suggestion: The Past!

[Phyllo]

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True, now every single city got the lame "I'm going in town on choco carriage, mute talking to one of the triplet and oh mah gahd an arrow!! I'll just move my arm and make an angry face to warn you! Letsgetoutta here before the beast men kills us!"
Or just skip this all, I got teleported near the city thanks to louisoix, let's not give a care about Bahamut and go to town then talk casually with the bartender like I never met him/her.

Seriously, there's absolutely no life in ARR's cutscene, sure in v1 too you character never spoke, or at least his lines were cut but the animation for some scenes (the ones where stuff happen) actually felt real.
The chase in the black shroud for example was super funny, the fight against gaius was kinda epic too even tho he beat the shit out of you single handedly, now in all cutscenes, most animations are just emotes, talk about laziness.

I know they had to do it because they didn't had much time but, at least the opening scene, this is the first thing a player see, it's supposed to be something epic that makes you pumped up and feel exited about the game, well in arr it bored me to death, except for the drinking moogle, that one was funny, but the rest was bland.

[Galliano]

OP, I'm pretty sure the devs have already said no to this idea in the past.

[Ilenya]

I don't know why, but I can't help but be amused at the singular 'zone' in the title in regards to visiting the 1.0 maps.

[Beetle]

Wouldnt mind them releasing the 1.0 zones.
They would have to do 2 things.
1. Redesign the the zones quite a bit.
2. Make zones smaller to suit how the game is designed now.

I think they should bring them out but keep in mind each region would have to be cut up and edited.
They could rerelease same content + more they had in 1.0.
They could use Praying Stones as teleport points to the past. Before Dalamud crashes.
They could release end of 1.0 like a dynamis zone. Much like how we had enemies attack the city but think larger.

Problem with WotG I found is there wasn't enough new to explore.
Heres some new ideas they could add in.

Blackshroud - has a river based area
Blackshroud - has a Swamp Area
Coerthas - has a Mountain Climb
Coerthas - has boating on its lakes
Thanalan -Cactus Fields
Thanalan - Red Maze Canyons.
Mor Dhona - A way toget to the Crashed Airship and Climb up the Wyrm skeleton.
Mor Dhona - Crystal Cavern
La Nocea - Rocky Beaches you walk around from.

[DefendPopPunk]

1.0 is gone. Let it go. You miss it? That sucks. You missed it? That sucks. Seriously though there are so many times on the forums that I read people's complaints that the devs re-use so much content as it is (primal fights, hm dungeons, etc) and here we are asking for them to do it some more? Make up your minds...

[Morningstar1337]

1.0 is gone. Let it go. You miss it? That sucks. You missed it? That sucks. Seriously though there are so many times on the forums that I read people's complaints that the devs re-use so much content as it is (primal fights, hm dungeons, etc) and here we are asking for them to do it some more? Make up your minds...

broken bases are schizophrenic like that

[Kimikryo]

I need to write it again:

You guys qqqqqqqqing about how bad 1.0 was and that should stay dead.

How about, trying to think a bit?

We are talking about the past, the thing that HAPPENED in 1.0

This includes but is not limited to doing fight that were ONLY possible in 1.0. Not a revival of the old gaming system with all its flaws.

Noel van Darnuss is dust now.
But I still want to put another dent in his armor.


In FFXI we had "past", it was awesome to "go back in time" and do things (don't "correct" me saying it was Shadowrealm or what the real term was).
Abyssea was a parallel dimension, this would be awesome too as setting without implementing the leveling in there. An Eorzea where we still have the chance to stop the descension of Dalamud safe millions of souls. Think about it, abyssea Vana Diel has something in common with nowadays eorza, something went very wrong.


Sometimes I really think people like to post without thinking a bit first

[kidvideo]

This includes but is not limited to doing fight that were ONLY possible in 1.0. Not a revival of the old gaming system with all its flaws.
Noel van Darnuss is dust now.
But I still want to put another dent in his armor.

Yup. It would be fun to explore the history of Eorzea in person, rather than through quest dialog. If we're living in the 7th astral era now... & the battle of cartenu was at the end of the 7th umbral era... what about visiting the 3rd astral era at the height of the allagan empire. Or the 3rd umbral era to witness its destruction. Or the mysterious second eras. I don't suggest reusing maps or zones via cut & paste... or dusting off the old version 1.0 engine.

The past in ffxi didn't use any previous ff engines but it did allow you to access new zones & unlock the Dancer job.

[Nephera]

There were about 5-10 interesting (some were inaccessible without rubbing against a corner for 20 minutes to clip through barriers) areas per map and the rest of it was just copy pasted.

A lot of those areas made the transition to 2.0 in some form as well.

That weird chasm in the northeastern part of the black shroud that was vaguely similar to ash lake from dark souls is still MIA though. A pity, that place was scary as hell.

[Aegis]

V2's Engine couldn't handle the size of V1's maps. At least, not on PS3 anyway.