Thread: 1.0 vs ARR Areas - A Visual Comparison

Originally Posted by NekoMataMata

Feeling really nostalgic for things I've never experienced.

If you want to get a basic grasp at how 1.0 played like then just watch these two tutorials for dungeons back then and some other stuff. watch these and you will understand the jist of how it like once you got past the tutorial.

Dzemael Darkhold

Part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJAkyH7Xtj8

Part 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1ONBtLq77I

Part 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKq3R0BqEFA

Part 4:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2352GZ-WgCA

Part 5:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JSdb2dcD1c

Battle Regime

Tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llfFDu10rds
Example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub0bsD-Icxg

U'Ghamaro Mine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGWw4cYpcEg

Synthesis Guide

Part 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qh55GNK03A

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

Party Recruitment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbya17PW25E

User Interface Customization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CEGfOwYQQI

incase you are wondering, yes. I use to be a 1.0 content creator and kept track of what others creators uploaded at the time. so that's why I can pull up these types of videos so easily.

Btw everyone 1.0 Gridania jackanapes says Hello!!!!

Originally Posted by Shougun

The 1.0 ascians stood out to me

Travanchet hasn't been addressed, even though we're wrapping up with the Ancients. Last we heard of him he was causing trouble in Alexander, but after that... who knows.

The West Shroud - It was completely destroyed in the Calamity. This is what's left of it, as seen in the distance from the Central Shroud in ARR


There isn't really an equivalent view in 1.0 but here's a place called Lichenweed in the West Shroud as it was then.


It'd be kinda cool if the West Shroud was re-introduced in 7.0 or something...

"Ah, Warrior of Light... our scouts have finally found a path to the West Shroud. There's a strange concentration of aether in the area and two of our scouts have gone missing..."

Originally Posted by DiaDeem

Travanchet hasn't been addressed, even though we're wrapping up with the Ancients. Last we heard of him he was causing trouble in Alexander, but after that... who knows.

If there is any one thing left from 1.x that I would like payoff on—beyond the blink-and-you-miss-it "hey, remember that thing he stole from Y'shtola and you all on Seal Rock? Look what he did with it!" moment we got during the Alexander quests—it is Travanchet. We don't know what Ascian he was—one we've seen in another form? One we've heard about? Just one of the lesser ones? He's certainly the only Ascian I can think of who we've seen take a host that wasn't a Hyur (or, I suppose, a Garlean), what's up with that?

I have so many screens from V1.0 from the first closed alpha test and lots of others. They are all on my old PC and I play on PS5 now but if I get chance sometime I will try and upload some.

I loved the style of V1.0 way more and I have a lot of love for the memories and also the journey of 12 years. The one thing I do miss is the world feeling and looking more alive and I feel the modern glams do not really fit with what the game began as but times change I guess and I am getting old haha <3

There's also a bit of a caveat when it comes to map size.

1.0 had no sprint or jump, and only got mounts (Chocobos) later in its life. Go to any HW+ area and navigate it only on base running speed and every single map will suddenly feel massive. Not as massive as a 1.0 map but this is does contribute to the sense of how big a map can be. I imagine if flying ever made it to 1.0 that many areas would have suddenly felt way smaller.