Thread: I Miss 1.0

Originally Posted by mario710

For all of the criticism 1.0 receives it really was a masterpiece. The only thing XIV has on it is the trust system (and that's being generous).

Someone using 1.0 and masterpiece in the same sentence. Wow. Are we thinking of the same game here? I never played 1.0—I didn’t have a PC to even support it at the time—but I’ve heard from all the 1.0 veterans I know that it was anything but a masterpiece. “Hot mess” is usually how they refer to it, even if some of them have things they liked from it (e.g., animations, some of the zone designs, some of the content present, etc.).

I guess if you want to refer to a game that cost SE a crapload of money and hurt their profits by a 90% estimate a “masterpiece”, have at it. I’d wager to say that they disagree, though; and that’s why they dropped a red moon carrying Bahamut on top of it.

Originally Posted by mario710

Additionally, it would be awesome if after a xenoglossy my character would enter a state of aetheric meditation (60 seconds of no movement), channeling a 2k potency ST spell while everyone around me frenzies to keep my spell from being disrupted.

You’d want a lot higher than 2,000 potency to make up for the amount of GCDs you’d be losing during your full minute of standing around.

Never played 1.0 but from what I've seen, I really liked the animations in general. Things like running and your character stopping with adequate momentum. Shifting your weight as you're about to make a turn. That kind of thing. Everything else can burn... which it did, technically.

Originally Posted by Annah

The devs explained why they removed that.

If they continued with that animation our current battle system would not work as timing is everything in a fight.

Yes, I know why they removed them. I'm just commenting on how nice they looked.