ffxiv 1.0 question

**Canadane** · 09-10-2015 02:16 PM

There's less so secret areas but there is the sightseeing log.
Even if all the caves were structurally the same, I do miss them...

The caves of La Noscea. The underground areas of Thanalan. The winding trails of the black shroud. I'm probably the only one to miss that one...

**gornotck** · 09-10-2015 05:15 PM

Not at all. The Black Shroud was always my favorite area.

**PiedPiper** · 09-10-2015 08:37 PM

For all its copypasta, I always thought the approach to ul'dah was so beautiful in 1.0. Especially if you were coming from the black shroud at night. The city just appeared like a jewl in the sand. Isgard and Midgardsomr both also suddenly rose up from behind hills in a very breath taking way.

I will never again eagerly await passing black bush aetherite :/

**Raxxon** · 09-10-2015 11:28 PM

Even with all the pasted areas in the Shroud it looked a lot better color-wise. Much richer green and it was a bit darker with the closed canopy. It felt like a dense forest you could get lost in. The pillar area in Thanalan with the tunnel down to it and wolves (can't remember what it was called) was really nice too.

**Felis** · 09-11-2015 01:18 AM

Originally Posted by Raxxon

Even with all the pasted areas in the Shroud it looked a lot better color-wise. Much richer green and it was a bit darker with the closed canopy. It felt like a dense forest you could get lost in.

It was more like a wall maze with a forest on the other sides of the wall.

**Raxxon** · 09-11-2015 02:48 AM

Originally Posted by Felis

It was more like a wall maze with a forest on the other sides of the wall.

I said it felt like it, not that it was. It felt like a dense forest with a lot of trees and now it feels like a field with a few big trees here and there

**Nyalia** · 09-10-2015 11:33 PM

I... really don't get the intense nostalgia some people on this forum feel toward a game that was so poorly received that it was one of the biggest flops in MMO history. The areas were big, yes, but they were random collections of copy/pasted map sections, and the "forest" was mostly made up of unrealistic tunnel-like corridors. There was a single secret area copy/pasted throughout the map. The whole game had a claustrophobic feel to it despite the areas being "bigger." Each world zone (Black Shroud, Thanalan, etc) was all one enormous zone, but the game ran abysmally and couldn't handle lots of people in one place because of it. As far as I can tell, the reason everywhere was so claustrophobically designed was because it couldn't handle very many people/mobs in line of sight, so they couldn't have large, open areas with the super-zones.

Seriously, FFXIV 1.0 was not a good game. If it was, it would never have been completely rewritten. The zones were not well designed in 1.0. If they were, 2.0 would have had the same zones. They were terrible, and they were fixed, and they are better now.

**MilesSaintboroguh** · 09-10-2015 11:45 PM

Originally Posted by Nyalia

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It's one of those "You don't know how good it was until it's gone" sort of things. Least that's what I think.

**Velthice** · 09-10-2015 11:55 PM

Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

It's one of those "You don't know how good it was until it's gone" sort of things. Least that's what I think.

No it's more rose tinted glasses. People only remember the few good parts and completely ignore/forget the avalanche of horrible parts of 1.x. The game that these people are "remembering" never actually existed. The reality was much much worse.

**Sapphic** · 09-11-2015 01:19 AM

Originally Posted by MilesSaintboroguh

It's one of those "You don't know how good it was until it's gone" sort of things. Least that's what I think.

It's one of those "You don't realise how bad it was until you get better" Sort of things.

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