Nostalgia or...?

[Artamie]

I think 1.0 set the bar a bit high. You start with these incredible pieces and suddenly you find yourself on a crafter/gatherer chucking rocks at enemies that didn't do much, not that it was much better on a fighting class. Maybe in 2.0 we work up to the awesome cutscenes rather than, for lack of a better term, get "falsely advertised" to how the game will be first.

[Alwryn]

Thing about 1.0 was that the opening, cinematics, and the like were incredible.

But everything else was terrible. You really can't understand how bad input lag can really be, intill you've experienced 1.0 and its menus.

[Shigaru]

1.0: Better opening with 0 to do once it ended

2.0 Slightly worse opening that you'll not care about once you get into the fantastic game.

Only one problem... With the intros being more boring... LET US SKIP IT!

[Genz]

Totally agree. Cut-scene in ARR are some years late animation-wise.
Some cut-scene in FFXI:Wotg are better.

And I don't understand why. It can't be a resource problem, since we also had good cut-scene in v1.18~1.23, when the dev team was crushed by the parallel development of both the v1 and v2.

[Welsper59]

1.0 was not impressive.

That's why 1.0 is gone.

It had many problems, but just as is the case with FFXI, story is not one of them.

[Fated]

I liked the 1.0 openings a lot better. However, just about everything else is shaping up better in ARR thus far.

[Seig345]

I agree the opening for the cities were pretty good, but the opening video, as beautiful as it was, seemed to sum up the entire 1.0 version far more than they'd know... The game's leveling focused mostly on Levequests, and whatever companions you started off with will likely be gone before you get to cap 'cause they didn't like the game. (he gets whisked away to the group of adventurers you see him with at the End of an era video/ARR opening video, with the elezen and miqo'te at the table no where to be seen) There's cool crap doing down but it hardly makes any sense what so ever, it just looks awesome.

Personally, I really liked the attitudes of the elezen and miqo'te that were with the Human character in the beginning and end of that video, but was disappointed that they more or less just fell off the map after their few seconds of screen-time.

[Vensaval]

I do agree that the opening seem better than what we have now.

I think part of that has to do with the time constraints Yoshi-P and the others had on them to produce a full and complete product in a reasonable amount of time. For what we have now, I feel it was worth it, but I do wish we had cutscenes with as high a quality as 1.0's.

[Syfin]

Let's not compare the two. 1.0 was terrible and let's leave it at that.

[SodRansom]

Yeah, I was telling a friend, imo ARR is superior to 1.0 in every way except for the opening Cutscenes. 1.0's were really really exciting, and drew you into the game right away. Lol..it was all downhill after that though. 2.0's cutscenes, on the other hand didn't really do much for me. I suppose on the flip side...it's all uphill from there