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1.0 looks more fun to explore, and those animation also looks really satisfying too the world itself looks much bigger and from what I've seen there's less loading zone in the game too. they really did a really great job remaking the game, especially battle system wise and also the optimization but I'm really curious to try 1.0, because of how cinematic it all feels like, it feels more immersive in a way

This is basically XI-2 it's a shame it failed but maybe if it was successful SE would have shut down XI by now

This is so comforting

This is so comforting

Pff I so much want these fluid animations to be a part of the game again nothing else

I've never played FFXIV 1.0 but gosh, do I love the soundscape and just the general look and feel of the game. For instance: the visual and audio difference between walking on grass, sand, and stone. How the stone path at the top of the hill is visually brighter due to being in the suns rays then it's toned down the further downhill you go. I'm a sucker for detail when it comes to games, and many of these details unfortunately are absent from the current FFXIV we have today. I still love the game, but man do I wish I played 1.0 in it's prime. Maybe someday I'll give FF11 a try and revisit Everquest 1 again.

I miss 1.0 so much

Ahh, I remember doing this. I started the game in limsa, not realizing the only way to advance as a conjurer would be to walk allll the way to gridania, pre aetheryte travel. I was blown away the first time I hit thanalan, looking up at those glittering stars with that moving score that is still my favorite track to this day! I'm sure this game had it's issues, but I don't think it's as bad as people say, just not quite what they wanted. And of course now it feels worse as it's dated. But it was so immersive, and I loved that. The ambience and weightiness of the characters feels like a big loss watching these old vids, would have loved if they brought them back with the graphics overhaul, since console limitations aren't really a big deal anymore.

The movement felt nice and heavy but I guess lighter movement works for an mmo

this game was so amazing. the world was so immersive and it would suck you in and i swear sometimes i would get lost because it was so huge.

The game is so pretty in all the wrong, most pointless aspects while everything else, from the grass to the battle animations look so crusty What a weird game

I wish they would do 1.0 servers so I could see what it was like

i wanted to play this game so bad, no internet or pc at the time. heard it was coming to ps3 and was hyped to go to my moms who had internet and just playing the heck out of this game... then it never came to ps3 and it died... and then ARR signed up for that beta finally had internet and it was coming to ps3 and still playing it today

The part of me that has nostalgia for ffxi in its hayday loves this.

looks like naverius from pso2

After being obsessed with XI I did whatever I could to play XIV, figuring out how to get windows on my girlfriend’s Mac just to play. 1.0 is a Distant Memory…

Flying mounts ware a mistake. You loose connection with the world when you can just fly everywhere. I played XIV first and waaaaaay more than XI but I have much more of a connection with Vana'diel

Oh, if you only knew what was in store for you in the coming decade.

that map is an anxiety nightmare.

Little tidbit of info. The in-game canonical reason for the Black Shroud being a maze of pathways was to discourage outsiders from entering the forest. It was an illusion created by the Elementals to protect the Black Shroud in that those who intend harm would become lost. After the Calamity however the forest was severely damaged weakening the Elementals thus breaking the illusion.

I like how weighty the movement looks, a lot more immersive

wow, I didnt had the chance to play this version, at least it feels like your character actually has weight instead of just floating around

1.x sucked hog farts but no one can deny that Twilight Over Thanalan is a gorgeous composition

11 years later, I'm pleased to inform you that SSD technology has come far enough that once more you don't have to wait for a loading screen to finish between overworld zones.

While being able to explore regions without loading screens was pretty cool (and is now the standard for most modern games), I can totally see why this was a bad idea for the hardware at the time as the compromise was that the regions contained a lot of barren areas and long tunnels to hide the loading screens

The walking animation is so satisfying, kind of wished they brought it back

this game had weather effects too that were great, paired with good lighting effects at the time it was very immersive

i would appreciate female miqo'te more if they had more realistic voices like this one here, unlike the anime girl noises they make that really turn me off from miqo'te in general. although, i think the latter is more of the kinds of toxic players that miqo'te attract

Just footsteps. Nonstop footsteps

It may sound crazzy, but being someone who puts GW1 on a pedestal, I think I would've liked 1.0 ^^°

Holy shit that minimap would of drove me nuts. Tera also had a minimap that updated slow slow of your location.

my thoughts watching this as someone who started playing XIV late Shadowbringers 1. Camp Tranqil is looking a lot less swampy than I remember 2. God that minimap is not helpful. 3. Oh my god Drybone... Like the hole its built in isn't even there!

i miss taht song outside of ulda

It is JARRING how different this is compared to current FFXIV.

twilight over thanalan playing in the overworld seems like it made for such a nice atmosphere. way better than pretty much anything a realm reborn did (and i do mean 2.X, i think heavensward got the soul back pretty fast)

Man I loved 1.0. Was so much fun. 2.0+ is so boring and lifeless now.

I’m seeing so much of FFXI here, even the big, repetitive and complicated map. Funny to see how something that was perfectly acceptable in 2004 with FFXI was so viscerally rejected with XIV just 6 years later. Of course in between those two games this little indie title called World of Warcraft came out and everything changed.

Hello Ian Dale! Please share the psarc file. Been unable to buy it anywhere. Cheers!

awww nice Vid and some fun memories of V1.0 ! I was on Shadowlord server that began March 2010 with the first closed Alpha test. There was immense issues but as the game was being patched it was improving little by little and I preferred it. We gave constant feedback as testers but the game was released in a bad buggy state along with no new content. I have lots of lovely memories the weather the ambience the whole overall character look and the music was by far better along with free roaming NM's and people in the world in parties. When we saw Dalamud getting bigger and the ships flying over the map it was something else and then the Calamity. I love 14 but it is becoming more and more from what it was. I loved FFXI and it did feel it was going in that direction but that was lost sadly.

This must have been such a shock logging back in to A Realm Reborn after the calamity

*Cries in FFXI* But no, I had thought the world was one open world. So, I guess it's just open for the region?

Yes I am 6 years late to the party. But as they say better late than never. I started playing FFXIV a couple of months ago, all that being said. Does anyone know if a legacy character still gets a different opening, even after 6.2, 6.3?

I was watching another video of ffxiv 1.0, I am AMAZED how there is literally no fucking loading screens at all UNTIL YOU GO INTO A DIFFERENT CITY STATE?! THATS WILD!! Now in current FFXIV there are lots of loading screens going anywhere, and you had to que for instances now too while you could have just WALKED INTO A DUNGEON?!?! My brain keeps being blown away by 1.0, I wish I had got to experience it when it was still around!!! It’s also wild to me that the music in 1.0 were just overworld music!! Alot of these old over world music have been brought back but more so for major story plots and events in current ffxiv, and like, it’s just amazing. It’s amazing there are no words to describe how in awed I am of ffxiv 1.0 Because of the song choice, like I have no nostalgia for 1.0 but hearing this song while you walk around brings me to literal tears cause 1) we can’t experience 1.0 anymore. And 2) again them emotional moments with this song being used brings me to tears because this song just WRECKS MY BODY AND SOUL AUUGH

damn... 1.0 looked boring as hell to play...

There's a sense of scale here that current FF14 definitely lacks.

Ten years Later: Tranquil to Drybone!

god 1.0 wasw rough but id be lying if i said i didnt enjoy my time playing it.

You can feel the FFXI in this one a whole lot more

1.0 looks more organic. The many hills and random dense foliage really makes this place come alive.

Why is E at the bottom? It is incredibly confusing :D