Meteor Survivor Day

[KaMuiSouZou]

Wow, 2 years already! Seems like a good thread to share these again. These are various videos I created to celebrate the end of 1.0 back when it closed down. Enjoy~

Version 1 Tribute Video
Posted on the last save day, this video roughly covers the entire 1.0 storyline in a music trailer format.
Version 1 Tribute Video (End of an Era version)
Same video as above but remade to include scenes from "End of an Era" after it came out.

Before the Fall of Dalamud
A nostalgic look back at the world of 1.0. Includes scenes of all my time lapses of various areas around Eorzea.
Dalamud Time Lapse
Highlighting my Dalamud Time Lapse, since this one was especially popular and relevant to this thread.
Time Lapse Playlist
Playlist of all my time lapses, starting from La Noscea.

[xnonamex]

Before the Fall of Dalamud
A nostalgic look back at the world of 1.0. Includes scenes of all my time lapses of various areas around Eorzea.
Dalamud Time Lapse
Highlighting my Dalamud Time Lapse, since this one was especially popular and relevant to this thread.
Time Lapse Playlist
Playlist of all my time lapses, starting from La Noscea.

Just looking at some of the videos there. Some places just look so much better than they do now :/ The reality looks of some scenes there is amazing.

[Fornix]

Just looking at some of the videos there. Some places just look so much better than they do now :/ The reality looks of some scenes there is amazing.

A lot of the 1.0 sceneries are terribly bland. Yes, the texture resolutions may be higher. But the worlds are vastly empty. It looks far from amazing, or realistic. It has the appearance of any random Korean grind MMO. I'm glad they took the current direction in terms of graphics. Yes, the texture resolutions may be lower however the world is much less empty in return.

And even with that, performance for many players is minimal. If they'd throw in higher resolution textures on top of it the PS3 would be far from the only limitation holding the graphics of this game back. Many PC gamers would end up being forced to upgrade into more current-gen gfx cards.

[Coris]

A lot of the 1.0 sceneries are terribly bland. Yes, the texture resolutions may be higher. But the worlds are vastly empty. It looks far from amazing, or realistic. It has the appearance of any random Korean grind MMO. I'm glad they took the current direction in terms of graphics. Yes, the texture resolutions may be lower however the world is much less empty in return.

Maybe I'm nostalgia-driven, but I'd give a lot to run through the old 1.x world again.
I'm no Gridania fan (Limsa all the way!) but the old Shroud is way more to my liking since playing in the new one for over a year now. It was a green Labyrinth-like forest with huge, old trees and really eerie, especially with that "music box" music during thunderstorms. Just like in Thanalan it could happen that you ran into a group of 60+ mobs and just wished they didn't see, hear or smell you!
That's also what I miss about Thanalan. It had those random caves with either tiny bats in it or high leveled monsters. Then again, yes it might've been 'empty' for some people, but what do you expect of a desert? I am actually a bit sad that only Southern Thanalan has some dunes in it and then it's just such a small area.
Mor Dhona was simply dangerous and the pink/purple mist just added onto it and told you: Better stay in the camp. At least it was that way when I started playing in 2011.
Oh and don't get me started on the old Coerthas. Let's say I only wish that the snow will melt anytime soon and we get that great Alpine area back with its nice music and mostly clear view of Ishgard.

P.S.: And is it just me, or do the clouds in ARR not even move? 1.x's sky looked quite good imho. Even with that red pulsating pimble in it.


Nevertheless, more pics!

Old THM <3



Nael all the way! Compared to him Gaius was kind of.. lame >.<










Visible belts!

[BobbinT]

Maybe I'm nostalgia-driven, but I'd give a lot to run through the old 1.x world again.
I'm no Gridania fan (Limsa all the way!) but the old Shroud is way more to my liking since playing in the new one for over a year now. It was a green Labyrinth-like forest with huge, old trees and really eerie, especially with that "music box" music during thunderstorms. Just like in Thanalan it could happen that you ran into a group of 60+ mobs and just wished they didn't see, hear or smell you!
That's also what I miss about Thanalan. It had those random caves with either tiny bats in it or high leveled monsters. Then again, yes it might've been 'empty' for some people, but what do you expect of a desert? I am actually a bit sad that only Southern Thanalan has some dunes in it and then it's just such a small area.
Mor Dhona was simply dangerous and the pink/purple mist just added onto it and told you: Better stay in the camp. At least it was that way when I started playing in 2011.
Oh and don't get me started on the old Coerthas. Let's say I only wish that the snow will melt anytime soon and we get that great Alpine area back with its nice music and mostly clear view of Ishgard.

This!

This is what I attracted to the world of Eorzea for the 1st time!

[Ramen]

here, because dev team said so:
now is 5 years after meteor ET 1577, maybe several "moons" passed and not derail too much:

Before I move onto question two, allow me to veer off onto a little tangent: there have been several threads about Hydaelyn’s timeline not matching up with Earth’s. If it has been two years since the release of the game, why is it still 1572 in Eorzea at the time of patch 1.23? This is a dilemma faced by a lot of MMOs. To allow everyone that joins the game, regardless of when they do, to experience the full story, there simply has to be a stoppage of time. Okay, not really a stoppage, but more of a time bubble in which a span of about a year is contained. This is why that for the duration of 1.0, Eorzea was in a perpetual 1572. Think of it as the same thing that’s happening in the Simpsons. 23 seasons gone and Lisa’s still 8, Maggie’s still a baby, and the gummy Venus still tastes oh, so sacrelicious. Pushing time along would also mean changing 1000s of lines of NPC dialogue, updating quests, webpages, etc. with every patch. Meaning it would take more than double the time to release updates, and I’m sure most people wouldn’t want to wait. In a book, movie, offline game, a strict timeline can be set without too many complications. In an online title, there are just too many variables, so we ask that you bear with our bending of space-time. It’s for the greater good!

[DarkEboreus]

Here's some of the ones I took during the last few days of 1.0


The Great Goobie Wall


The last screen shot I took just before service ended...

[Enkidoh]

Hard to believe it's been two years already...

Although I have plenty more pics taken that day, this is the only one I have uploaded on my photobucket (just Enki in Limsa looking up as Dalamud bears down on her):


Also, the last shot taken on the other last day of service (when the servers were temporarily reactivated for a month and a bit), on December 31st, 2012:

[Eirwen]

I sure as hell enjoyed the cutscenes near the end of it, like when first facing Nael van Darnus.



I recorded several cutscenes and after meteor struck, I made a video remembering my character from 1.0 on the song Stand Out
http://youtu.be/R9gC2QnqxxM

Never forget... How great their camera work and positioning was.

[Nandalowell]

Here's the last one I took before minutes before the server went down:



Can't believe it's been so long already..