Thread: Please remake 1.0 in New Game+

Originally Posted by Hayden

You're not missing much...honestly. We did a lot of fetch quests, stood around while our Path Companion did all the talking, then played a "dodge the aoe" mini game while the Scions faught Gaius for us...thats really it.

You forgot to mention the walking. Oh the walking.

Originally Posted by van_arn

You forgot to mention the walking. Oh the walking.

Running out of anima and being unable to use an aetheryte, having to walk across half the Black Shroud, getting lost, getting killed by random overworld mobs that were legitimately a threat, having to start over walking through the Black Shroud a second time...

*gnaws mouse cord out of frustration*

Honestly, my personal feel of 1.x was that it was a lot of really interesting ideas that never quite gelled into a cohesive, functional whole. Like, the idea of renting market stalls? Kind of cool. The actual implementation of it? That made me want to scream any time I needed to go buy something. The idea of teleportation being something that depleted your own aether enough that it became dangerous (or impossible) after doing it too often, until your anima replenished? Really neat, from a lore perspective, and made the distances you needed to cross in the world meaningful. In practice? Well... see my ranty bit about the Black Shroud.

So it felt to me like a lot of "huh, that's a neat idea" combined with constant low-grade frustrations with the actual implementation of said ideas. And for many people—including, eventually, me—it seems the frustrations eventually came to outweigh the "huh, that's a neat idea" factor.

The things that made 1.x interesting weren't in the story, generally, but rather all the weird systems; for all the flawed systems, the game was very good at generating experiences. Many of those experiences were born of frustration and trying to find ways around it (muttermutter Black Shroud mutter), but they were memorable nonetheless. But that all? I feel like that's something you can't recapture without literally recreating the old game.

They would have to completely rework it including said cutscenes it was created on crystal tools engine as opposed to the luminous engine and still the coding itself is giving issues to the game as it is again NO. Yoshi P said Nightmare for a reason and it is!

Originally Posted by AceofRains

So it’s a nightmare to look at the dialogue and reproduce it? I don’t buy that, not by a long shot. If they can’t reproduce and reimagine a few cutscenes and make a few very simple quests then I fail to understand how they even got this far. Remaking those scenes has nothing to do with the old engine.

Your choice to buy it or not it's a fact and new game plus isn't just "cutscenes and dialogue" it literally acts like you're starting the game over without quests.

Originally Posted by Caselia

Then they could use that journal we all forgot about if it still even exist in the inn rooms that let us view cutscenes from the past. That's how we viewed old cutscenes before and was part of the argument of not waiting for people to finish cutscenes "they can watch it at the inn".

Now as for recreating 1.0 cutscenes and dialogue in the NG+ mode as much as I would like that because 1.0's story was very very good that would be like creating an expansion's story because 1.0's story wasn't short if you recall playing it but those fights were epic and extremely challenging, partially due to the latency but also due to the fact that you had to be geared to the teeth to even beat Darnus at the end.

Read my post before yours... actually no ill reiterate. We were TOLD to record what we wanted of the cutscenes as they WERE NOT going to be able to put them into 2.0