This is awesome... Why couldn't we have this?

[DragonSlayer45]

No idea who that is....but I wish he'd supervise xiv

The original FFXIV director/producer. Tanaka also was involved with other Square projects like Final Fantasy III/XI, Chrono Cross and Xenogears. Also, be careful what you wish for. I'll admit, Tanaka may have had a lot of great ideas for the original game, but his execution was much worse than anything Yoshi and his team is doing now. (No, not praising Yoshi-P. Tanaka was worse.)

[AnaviAnael]

No idea who that is....but I wish he'd supervise xiv

I miss Tanaka's vision. This game, especially the crafting system is way too easy. We need to go back to when crafting was timed, you needed specific parts in specific colors in order to finish a product, and the parts were often harder to synth than their finished products. Back in the day, if you didn't have Leatherworker leveled, good luck making certain Weaver items. As for his battle ideas, boy how I wish that stamina bar would come back. Use provoke once, attack twice, and wait for it to recharge. Leveling is too simple too. We need to bring back his vision of the fatigue system. Level for a while, then be unable to gain more exp at a decent rate.

In all seriousness, as much as I loved playing 1.0, it had its flaws (just like this game does). There were reasons why people did not enjoy the game. Tanaka was one of those reasons. Personally, instead of him making more MMOs, I'd have loved to see him continue with SE and make more single player games. He worked on games like Secret of Mana, Xenogears, Chrono Cross and many of the single player FF games. It really is a shame that he got fired, I mean left the company entirely.

[Colorful]

I miss Tanaka's vision. This game, especially the crafting system is way too easy. We need to go back to when crafting was timed, you needed specific parts in specific colors in order to finish a product, and the parts were often harder to synth than their finished products. Back in the day, if you didn't have Leatherworker leveled, good luck making certain Weaver items. As for his battle ideas, boy how I wish that stamina bar would come back. Use provoke once, attack twice, and wait for it to recharge. Leveling is too simple too. We need to bring back his vision of the fatigue system. Level for a while, then be unable to gain more exp at a decent rate.

In all seriousness, as much as I loved playing 1.0, it had its flaws (just like this game does). There were reasons why people did not enjoy the game. Tanaka was one of those reasons. Personally, instead of him making more MMOs, I'd have loved to see him continue with SE and make more single player games. He worked on games like Secret of Mana, Xenogears, Chrono Cross and many of the single player FF games. It really is a shame that he left the company entirely.

I thought I stumbled onto a madman, but then I read the rest of your post. I haven't played the game myself, but from the videos of combat (Garuda specifically) that part of the game was lacking, to say the least. A 4 second long GCD (and I thought 2 seconds was long), that stamina system sounds like they ripped it straight out of Dark Souls and Monster Hunter, plopped it in and thought "Yes, this works in a WoW-like MMORPG". Even simple stuff like the copy pasted terrain wasn't due to the game being rushed out (it was already in the debugging stages I believe) but due to Tanaka's ideals that the world should be massive in size, he stated that it was impossible due to "memory data", even though MMOs like Black Desert and ArcheAge do it while looking far better than 1.0. Smaller areas without loading screens would have been the better solution imho.

Err not to point this out but...... how did the guy have access to 1.0 server with unreleased titan Cs??

The Cs doesn't even look like fc1.0 more like some CGI someone made. The lip sync is to perfect for the voice. Which was not the case in ff11 and not all screens was voiced

He's running the server locally, and the cutscene was in the game's files, he swapped it out with another one to get it to play. The "CGI" look is because for one, it is CG, and two, the lighting in the area. 1.0 had better lighting (not artistically better, just speaking technically). As for the voice acting, it's possible they attempted to amp up the quality of some aspects to get players to come back after the initial failure of the game, or they just put special focus on this one as it was an important cutscene.

[Felis]

We need to go back to when crafting was timed, you needed specific parts in specific colors in order to finish a product, and the parts were often harder to synth than their finished products.

The community decided that dying the gear should be possible after the crafting and not during the crafting with no way to change the color afterwards.

Go look at the opening movie for the game, :P

The opening movie you mean is the movie that started before you even pressed on Start

Within the game, where the Titan CS would have been played, all CS where made with ingame graphic

opening CS after pressing on Start

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2alQwt1fWhI

[Xanikk999]

crafting complaints

I disagree with your views on crafting. Crafting already is complex enough and I like it how it is. The worst thing they could do is replicate FFXI system where you had a minute chance of gaining skill points at any level and you always had a random chance of failure and to lose all your materials. Sorry but I did not find it fun at all.

Back in the day, if you didn't have Leatherworker leveled, good luck making certain Weaver items.

What do you mean? There isn't a single craft that doesn't required materials made by other professions. With leatherworking many recipes require weaving. Many weaving recipes also require leatherworking still contrary to what you are saying. Maybe you could elaborate?

As for his battle ideas, boy how I wish that stamina bar would come back. Use provoke once, attack twice, and wait for it to recharge. Leveling is too simple too. We need to bring back his vision of the fatigue system. Level for a while, then be unable to gain more exp at a decent rate.

Do you enjoy being punished? What is fun or engaging about a fatigue system? It's a punishment for playing the game. Why would you want that?

[Canadane]

Wow...kinda makes me wish we could reason with these primals. :/

Parley was an option in 1.0.
You could complete the main scenario on crafting classes if you so wanted to. Other than chucking rocks at things you could just talk your way though.

[Stormfur]

Parley was an option in 1.0.
You could complete the main scenario on crafting classes if you so wanted to. Other than chucking rocks at things you could just talk your way though.

Haha! Really! That's insane but I bet it would be fun. Charging at enemies with your pickaxe--err--I mean, "negotiating". Crafting and gathering classes are so looked down upon now (see also: Diadem). Why could we not have an instance where we're all working together? Building a giant wall to protect Foundation from dragons. Forging weapons, armor, potions for the first line of defense, etc. etc.

[MicahZerrshia]

Haha! Really! That's insane but I bet it would be fun. Charging at enemies with your pickaxe--err--I mean, "negotiating". Crafting and gathering classes are so looked down upon now (see also: Diadem). Why could we not have an instance where we're all working together? Building a giant wall to protect Foundation from dragons. Forging weapons, armor, potions for the first line of defense, etc. etc.

We kindda built a wall to keep the voidsent out of uldah in v1



But they still made it in....



We took care of it tho...

[Xanikk999]

That video made us look like the Villains and not Titan or his kobolds. Now I feel bad for killing all those kobolds. :/

[Chiramu]

Wow...kinda makes me wish we could reason with these primals. :/

You reasoned with Ramuh, or did you forget already?