The Unending Journey

[Enkidoh]

^ What Urthdigger said.

In case you haven't noticed, "actual" cutscenes are those where the dialogue box doesn't show up. And, if it's any consolation, you can usually read up the details in your journal. You can think of the cutscenes in The Unending Journey as the highlights of the story, rather than a blow-by-blow recording of everything you saw in-game.

If you really want to re-live everything, you'd have to do as I do: I take screenshots of almost every line of dialogue. But you'd then end up with several thousands of pictures. I'd usually take some time to curate the pictures and throw away the ones that don't add much to my understanding of the story.

I used to record the cutscenes too, but I abandoned that eventually as it was far too resource-intensive.

This is exactly what I do as well, as it's my goal to eventually create a consistent narrative with screenshots at a later date - I started doing this in FFXI and I kinda continued it into FFXIV. Even now sometimes I fire up the soundtrack and Irfanview and flip through the screenshots of certain scenes and relive the dialogue.

I CAN watch em. No problem with that. But I want to unlock em with my character. For Balipu to see how things were way back, when Limsa was dangerous, crafting and gathering trainers were part of the story, and Y'shtola had a sense of humor.

Except they can't bring back those cutscenes because not only did version 1.0 use an entirelly different engine for it's cutscenes (Crystal Tools), and the 1.0 environment maps were completely changed in ARR, thus many 1.0 cutscenes take place in areas that no longer exist, the 1.0 storyline was completely retconned in ARR anyway (ARR is not just a sequel to 1.0, but a complete reboot), meaning most of those scenes aren't even relevant to the plot anymore (specifically, the 1.0 starting nation storylines and the Path of the Twelve story - these were actually completely reworked for ARR and the same basic ideas were reused, with a lot of concepts and ideas simply abandoned (such as Khrimm's parents and their 'secret mission' in the original 1.0 Gridania storyline).

For that matter, even the way the Echo works isn't even the same in ARR as it was in 1.0 (in 1.0, an Echo user could actually use the power of the Echo at will to extract hidden information from people - here it's just a non-interactive grainy video feed).

Thus sadly, I doubt very much you'll ever see the 1.0 cutscenes return, at least, not in the way you're expecting.