The Rising Event! 1.0 Experience

[Jynx]

Sounds terrible and a good way to make people uninstall.

trolololing aside.

The event was pretty easy to avoid if you didn't feel like experiencing it, but also considering they shut the servers down afterwards wouldn't uninstalling the game be a good thing? It made me uninstall it afterall...to free up disc space for 2.0.

Do you *HAVE* to tear down anything and everything related to FFXI and FFXIV 1.0??? Like seriously!

I can't believe I am about to say this, but I will. I wish Rokien was still here.

(!) It's he who shall not be named!

[radhaz]

I too was a 1.0 player. The end of that game was awesome. I was on Sargatanas. We did our best to fight off the empire and the void, but it was just too much. I'll share some screenshots, maybe.

[Reynhart]

Giving an opinion of whether or not I find something fun is not tearing down the game.

Considering you said "Sounds terrible", it mean you weren't there at that time.
So, you're basically giving an opinion of something you know nothing about...just for the sake of bashing the game.

[Boterote]

I too was a 1.0 player. The end of that game was awesome. I was on Sargatanas. We did our best to fight off the empire and the void, but it was just too much. I'll share some screenshots, maybe.

Don't be shy with them :P The young ones need to see them!

[Qojon]

I really hope to see events like that in the future.

Reminds me of the undead invasion prior to the Wrath of the Lich King expansion in WoW.

It's really great for meeting new people and forging new bonds.

[Aryalandi]

I wish I could have played 1.0, i will always regret not having a good enough computer/internet connection for it, it kind of hurts honestly knowing that at every turn there is more stuff like this that I never got to experience just because I couldn't afford a monster computer and only had dialup internet x.x especially when I did infact own a physical copy of the game...

would be nice if they had streamlined the story and had it be a part of the current game atleast so that people who were unable to play it could do so now..

But yeah, this is amazing. It reminds me alot of besieged in XI, only on a massive scale. So jealous lol.. it would be nice if they do something like that again, maybe even just in the newly introduced areas in the new expansion.

[Canadane]

Considering that all of this Deathga'ing and insane interactivity was based around the fact that they were killing the game to make it, going the distance and making a lore-based reason why is actually pretty damn amazing. I will miss being able to kill things as crafter/gatherer by stoning them to death with that critical hit rock throw.

A well timed Wrist Flick for the stun was a life saver at times hah!

[Archaell]

Great post, really interesting read... tho it kinda makes 2.0 look like a boring version made for toddlers ._.

[Mikita]

Great post, really interesting read... tho it kinda makes 2.0 look like a boring version made for toddlers ._.

The way v1 came to a close was very well done, and I think many of us who played through that story remember it fondly.

But I've been watching some of my old v1 gameplay videos -- and it sure looks slow compared to 2.0 and beyond. You might even say it was closer to a turn-based game where you had more time between attacks to queue your next move (and sometimes it took a while to FIND your next move with the old interface) and watch the animation play out.

The motions felt slower, character movements had more weight, and it seemed more centered around individual attacks and lighting effects (but it was quite beautiful!).



Anyway, here are a few more photos. ^^

One of my favorites from (during) the White Raven confrontation.



And a wide shot of Mor Dhona and the Eorzean "Milky Way" as Dalamud neared.

[Reynhart]

But I've been watching some of my old v1 gameplay videos -- and it sure looks slow compared to 2.0 and beyond.

Yes, it was slow...and it has flaws. But for me, it would have been more interesting to fix the flaws without remaking the whole game to feel like any other MMO out there.
Even though ARR has a lot of brilliant ideas.