This has been my dream for damn ever! Add in some multiplayer to take on dungeons and maybe raids and you'd have an AMAZING game! (it'd be even cooler if you could import your characters from the MMO and completing it gave you something cool back in the MMO. like a lesser version of the orignal Legacy character tatoo or something.
@@0Fyrebrand0 This. I'm actually kind of surprised it hasn't already happened, though it now leads me to believe it'd be something they do before they finally decide to end the game and move on to another sequel.
Looking back, the color palette used in 1.X does seem a bit drab to me. That said, the animations used in cutscenes were SO good. I understand that we're using canned animations nowadays to save costs, but man, it's hard not to miss the fluidity of those original animations.
This was the first thing I noticed as well. Cutscene animations are fluid and much more animated in 1.0. I personally think this is one of the areas they need to step up their game for the next expansion. My character seems to use the same 3 emotes and it is getting drab.
Game with 1.0 cutscenes and ARR gameplay would be perfect the people romanticizing 1.0 need to realize there's a reason it was down to 1000 players. the main story was great, and it had some really promising world flavor, but the gameplay itself was horrible. quests were just random pain in the ass fetch quests, and most often the best way to level was grinding. and even that was tough because monster levels were haphazardly paced. combat felt slow and clunky, and there was almost no endgame content. ARR brought much needed improvements across the board, and considering how little time they had to redo everything they did amazingly well. One has to assume that they rushed the 2.0 main story and cutscenes, investing most of their development time on mechanics and npcs.
+skykid The two things I really liked about 1.0 was the cut scenes were a lot more interesting and you really got an awesome sense of atmosphere. Seriously, I would take little "vacations" with my fairly low level character and just explore and see what new things and beautiful sights I could find. I kind of miss that honestly. The world felt more alive to me in 1.0.
Its kind of hypocritical to bash 1.0 for fetch questing when 80% of the story in 2.0 forward basicaly circles around fetch questing before going into a dungeon
@@asra-5180 There were behind the scenes problem that players could not see. I am thankful that this is up so new players will be able to understand the references to 1.0
I love ARR, but I hope somewhere down the road that the game eventually goes back to this level of cut-scene quality. They were way less stiff and your character participated a whole lot more in them.
These are really amazing and I'm so glad they exist in an accessible form now that FFXIV is as successful as it is for archival purposes However a lot of these comments are really missing that the quality of the cutscenes (iirc they used the engine from 13, a single player, _extremely_ linear title) for 1.0 was a huge factor in how unstable and genuinely unplayable the game was. Limsa's opening scene is notorious for being basically a slide-show. Even if the gameplay & overall design had been remotely passable that wouldn't have saved it if people's pcs melted halfway through the first cutscenes. It was also likely why they staggered msq level requirements as much as they did, because they simply couldn't afford to have their super expensive, super nice cutscenes as often as it would call for if you could get through the story like we can in 2.x+ with very minimal grind, which domino-ed into the terrible gameplay design choices that made up the rest of the 1.0 dumpster fire. Yes getting a cutscene or two like this would be _fucking fantastic_ (s/o to Bahamut's Coils) but they can just as easily save that for trailer work & spend the resources on the writing and gameplay features instead, which is what's kept the player base around more than just pretty cutscenes.
yep,, doing lipsync for every language and unique animations (which in 1.0 often used mocap) is very expensive and,, more importantly for ARR,, very time-consuming -- ARR was made in an incredibly short amount of time so they just did not have the time for all this intricate stuff. sure it's pretty but I would gladly take the substance and the volume of ARR and beyond. also 1.0 was indeed made in 13's engine, crystal tools. not only was it very much not made for the demands of an mmo but also a lot of key programmers on 14 were removed from the project just to work on crystal tools,, which is definitely part of the reason that 14 had such an overemphasis on pretty graphics and show-offy cutscenes and a barely functioning foundation. sorry for the ramble I just think all this stuff is neat!
The biggest issue with Crystal Tools was that it was developed for games like Final Fantasy X. The devs assumed the engine would be used for a turned based world tour style narrative rpg game. But the series quickly started evolving away from that. With FFXIII one of their main goals was to have the gameplay feel like Advent Children. In the end this is what killed Crystal tools. They desinged the perfect game engine for the type of games square was known for when the engine began production but then the scope of the franchise changed leaving the engone dead in the water.
Yep. That and into the models. Everything was so expansive for the time that it was almost as impossible to create new assets and cutscenes without takin full weeks of work.
Having just finished 5.3 and loving Shadowbringers, I'm genuinely shocked at how much motion capture seems to be in these 1.0 cutscenes. While I think ARR was necessary due to the weirdness of 1.0, it is fascinating to see how certain areas of 1.0 clearly had more time/money put into them than other areas. That being said XIV seems to be now slowly returning to more involved cutscenes like this with characters doing motion capture movement.
As much of a FF fanboy I am, I was disappointed I didn't get to play 1.0, But I have recently gotten into FFXIV after buying the base game +all the expansions so far when it was on sale(I think I paid about $55). I never got to play XI either. I loved just exploring the areas in ARR, I still haven't beaten the MSQ but I'm getting there! Thank you for sharing this!
I've finished my MSQ and currently waiting for Endwalker. I love the FFXIV story so so much. But now I'm watching this. And.. And it's pure bliss.. I'm watching the history of my favorite game of all time. So much happened. So much lost. So much gained. The game becomes deeper with every 1.0 video. Square Enix you bastards. How dare you make something so emotional, so powerful?! ;_;
The cutscenes in 1.0 seem like they have a ton of personality! Fascinating as someone that didn’t join until 2.0. I’d love to see this in the current iteration of 14, but if it’s better the way it is for budgetary reasons or something I can’t complain y’know?
They were prerendered using Crytal Tools. Alot of mocap and asset work needed to be done for them. Sadly this takes so much work and time not to mention eat away so much of the budget of the game to do every cutscene like this. They still do some more involved cs like these in the modern game but they are fewer and more sparse. One that comes to mind is thancred and yugiri invading the sahagin camp in arr and shinryu vs omega at the end of hw.
This version seems a lot moodier. Love how there’s voice acting too. There are some parts where the graphics does look better. I love the overall atmosphere
@@Zayindjejfj which is why I really, REALLY want 1.0 redone as a single player RPG with multiplayer elements like co-op duengon crawling and raiding. They could even bring back the open world map and go for a BOTW level of integration to the areas. The map size should be somewhere between 1.0 and 2.0+'s size since 1.0's areas were far too big, though maybe in a single player rpg they could fill in the landscape more with npcs, random cabins, etc. It all went to hell in a handbasket with the Calamity anyway so any lore/narrative inconsistencies are rectified by remembering that it probably got blown tf away like everything else did. They could even expand on areas they ditched from 1.x that they never returned to in ARR. Like the weird circular shrine area in the Black Shroud that was caught in a landslide in 2.0 that they barely did anything with afterward (it was supposedly the entrance to the ruins of one of the old civilizations, the underground elf one). That and an area in Mor Dhona was originally the tomb of a long dead emperor/king that was speculated to be the entrance to a raid they never added (I suspect it was going to be the original version of the crystal tower raid or something at least similar) and the area in some expansion of 1.x, like around 1.2x it was turned into a shrine for one of the Twelve that Luisoix needed the now-scions to pray at to rouse the gods for his sealing spell to try and stop the calamity.
v1.0 seemed to focus more on the graphics and presentation then actually fleshing out the world. The game had so much potential but was ruined because it got rushed out to try to beat those warcraft sales. We all told the devs the game isnt ready, there are too many "blank" spots where nothing happens for a long time. The world.. well they had the right idea of seamless loading it made it seem more "real" but at what costs? Copy and paste areas. No real landmarks to help you navigate you literally walked around using the mini-map. a glorified pac-man. Dont get me started on a MMO that had crafting as a major feature from the get go and relying on going to an external website to find out how to craft things. We all hoped it was just teething problems but we all knew it wasnt going to last. I tried to love v1.0, I played it a lot despite its flaws. But it was a broken mess.
Thanks very much for compiling these. I only got into some of the purification quests earlier and had only seen Mor Dhona briefly in its old form. Definitely helps being some closure to what I saw in 1.x.
I'm gonna say this right now, (keep in mind I'm 8 minutes in, I'll reply afterwards if I'm wrong) these cinematics seem just, so much more detailed than ARR. They're smoother, less choppy, and they feel like they have more depth. And so far the protagonist in this has made more noise than yours in like, the entire game (ARR). And while sure the silent protagonist is nice, I'd like some kind of vocal reaction other than stoic nods and voiceless looks of surprise.
I won't lie, I am actually fond of the cutscenes in 1.x more than 2.x. While overall, 2.X graphics and UI have improved in the cutscenes, there are a lot of things from the 1.X that has a charm to it. 1) The NPC around you are more involved besides sitting around. Just the beginning of the video showed me a couple of things that I wish were kept; a) The humorous interaction between Yda and Papalymo which added a bit to them, b) the entire scene of the tree monster eating the wolves and the chase scene, c) the residents of Gridania jumped in to save you. While the player is important, the NPCs jumping in added quite a bit to the atmosphere. They definitely feel more involved in 1.X than they did in 2.X. 2) The zoning out had a nice echoy song to it. You didn't really get that with 2.0, sadly.
I've been dreaming of a day we can replay this story and purchasing it as a stand alone game gave you some kind of code to use in XIV online that gives you all of the legacy charactwr cutscenes, items and custimizations.
it's fantastic to see the differences the devs made between 1.0 and ARRs engine, 1.0 had a more fluid animation style and completely different lighting system - added a much different feel to the scenes...
@Joker dats not Lyse. That's actual Yda. Lyse was basically a background character you barely knew existed till near the end and beginning of ARR onwards
Love how expressionless and pointless every character was animated. Honestly, I appreciate the warmth and expressivity they put on the actual game making characters more vivid and giving them a soul. Also, back to the date the graphic engine was shameful and most players couldn't play it comfortable and fine.
That was a great intro for Gridania. Meeting the Guildmaster of the Conjurer guild, who doesn't even have a speaking role in the new game was awesome. If you thought that little tarutaru was bad before then though this voice actor is far worse.
@@HawkinaBox to be fair, they used motion capture only on important parts of ARR onwards. most particularly on shadowbringers (The final cutscene of 5.3 is one of the examples). This could probably be cuz they already have a lot more budget on the cutscenes by shadowbringers.
the major gap I can feel through the cut scenes compared with the ones we have today is the major lack of emotions on our own characters. The motion capture from before ARR is just
Seeing these cutscenes, where your character just stand there, blankly staring at everything that is going on, while almost no cutscene is voiced and everything looks stiff af And then reading that people perfer this over Shadorbringers hurts my heart so much.
I think people are just amazed by the cutscenes bc its nothing like we have now, but the overall ENTERITY of the game as of SHB has improved so vastly in comparison to 1.0 where the best thing to write home about was these animations and physics, AKA the only thing being shown in the video. So while it does feel like we did lose a bit in terms of "fluid animations" even now in 5.0, no one can say 1.0 beats what we gained in better story, quest structure, clothing, classes + options, and overall QoL.
@@wolfhackzx I'm up to date on shb and still prefer my old 1,0 story. I feel like one of the only people who genuinely enjoyed 1,0 for what it was and think the story was way better expressed back then. Sure they've improved the game a lot, but they also stripped a lot from the game that was good. Almost everything relating to 1,0 was stripped barren so when you play 2,0 and see things like titan just wanting to kill you because.... no reason is ever given. In 1,0 he wants you dead because you kill his children and he sobs morning them. In 2,0 and even now you might as well be a stick standing there doing jack shit 99% of the time in a cutscene while everyone else is also a stick minus the person(s) who are the current focus who might get some unique animations occasionally. In 1,0 that was never the case be in MSQ or in side cutscenes. The story in 1,0 was by far the biggest focus and as such it excelled far better than anything up till shb has done since. Only now with shb I feel us legacy players are starting to get that 1,0 story telling feel again. Though I'd still play a legacy serveur if ever was made. Miss those times back then where it felt like the world was alive and dynamic around you. Now its just kinda stiff and made to look pretty with no real substance until shb.
thank you for this video. i have been playing FFXIV ARR and always wanted to see the 1.0 story. i read up on it but it is better seeing that actual cutscenes.
My pause button has never seen so much use The uploader either reads really fast or .. well not even that. Sometimes a lot of text is up for less than half a second and hardly any text up for ages. So inconsistent.
Thank you for posting this... I wish I could watch my old 1.xx videos. I have the "Before Meteor" Blu Ray music soundtrack. 6hours of music from 1.xx and every time I listen to it I feel so.. sad. I LOVE ARR but... I miss the times I had in 1.xx too. Times I won't get back.
I somehow get the feeling that this game was originally intended to be a single player entry in the series. But when the management at Square realized that XI was their most profitable Final Fantasy, they ordered Tanaka and his team to make an MMO out of what they had already done, and didn't give him the proper time necessary to do it right. I could be completely wrong, of course, but it's just so hard to believe that one of Square's best producers would make such a bad game.
***** What? Of course it's relevant. Only two Final Fantasy's have been released since that article was published, Lightning Returns and A Realm Reborn. Both haven't done near the profit of 11 years worth of monthly subscriptions.
***** So does Square have another 10 years old MMO that we don't know of? That's the only way that the 2 years old article wouldn't still be true this day. And even without the article, XI is an 12 years old subscription based MMO that's still running, of course it's the most profitable game in the series, use your brain a bit.
wait what, I just finished shadowbringers and this was recommended by youtube. holy shit the cutscene quality is so much better and actually had custom animations.
Square Enix has only ever made a handful of movies. There'd be more except one of those movies bombed so hard at the box office it's considered the reason they closed the movie development studio they'd just created for the purpose of making Final Fantasy movies, and apparently might have actually put the merger between Square Soft and Enix at risk. Apart from KingsGlaive the last one, I think, would either be Advent Children or Spirits Within(the movie that bombed).
Love the fact you did this as it makes it awesomely easier going into XIV Reborn since it does not remake the story but carrys on from this one :). Meant to be 1.x's only strong point :D.
27:45 I laughed so hard at the camera movement here. holy hell that shit is so gold. the shakey camera. feels like something out of a south park scene.
Thanks for posting! I'm going to have to sit down and watch this sometime! There are some parts of the Realm Reborn and Heavensward storyline that I get confused by because I don't know the back story that was the original game.
I literally THOUGHT if there was a video like this somewhere. I didn't ask anyone or even speak it aloud. Just a passing thought. And now, twelve hours later, youtube puts this 10 year old, 2 hour long video in my recommendations. I am terrified, but I'll just watch this.
First off, I just want to say that I appreciate the video, I really do. Not a lot of people recorded V.1's story and I want to thank you for taking the time to do so. However, I literally had to pause the video every single time the text changed because you clicked way too quickly. I am not a slow reader, but there is no way I can keep up with your 1-2 seconds per paragraph click rate. This made viewing it a bit of a chore instead being a fully enjoyable experience. If you decide to do something like this again, please, please, please ease up on the clicking. Give people a chance to read the text comfortably without having to manually pause the video constantly.
the animations were nice to look at and the models were top notch... but the backgrounds and zones were bland and lifeless, which is why people like to pretend it was 'seamless' in their transitions. of course they were, there was barely anything there to transition. the models and animation, they get a 10, but the backgrounds get a 1. Now both are about a 5 and more people can play without having to buy some high powered rig. Id rather a nice looking game I can play over a picture perfect game that runs like ass on anything less than a supercomputer.
I would assume Papalymo living through the calamity and Yda dying such that Lyse acting as Yda does that to characters, but being that 1.0 is so detached from the rest of FFXIV I am amused at the shift in personalities.
It seems like every one says this, but have any of you actually watched and read the cut scenes in ARR? A kid lightning a tree on fire is what you use your power of the echo for, seriously!? At least in ARR they make you feel somewhat important to the story, in 1.0 cut scenes it's mostly the your toon standing to the side, watching everything happen.
I feel like saying cut scenes are better in version 1 just comes from some sort of it doesn't exist any more so it has to be better mentality. I mean, in ARR the camera actually moves around and we see way more character expression and most importantly your character actually matters. You are the 1 warrior of light. In the Version 1 cut scenes they completely negate you out by giving you a partner that has the exact same powers but is actually able to talk like a real person. And the End boss battle cut scene is worse than a sick joke. I see every one saying these cut scenes are better than ARR but I don't see a single reason.
Thanks very much for putting this together! I never got around to playing through the story before they took it down. My computer wasn't the best for it. What I really wanted to see was story about Dalamud, that red thing in the sky. Do you know if there's a similar video covering that storyline? I want to get a better understanding of that End of an Era video.
Jesus the animations look so good compared to the current game. Such a shame they rarely make cutscenes with this much effort anymore... I'd watch them much more willingly if they stopped reusing stock emotes ad nauseam.
Literally the cut scenes are the only things I miss from 1.0. The attention to detail was incredible. Even the fancy animations at the end of 5.3, while nice, are not quite on par with the old scenes. They're close but not quite there, and no doubt that level of animation will not be the new norm anyway. The audio work, the animation, the action. I miss it.
I'd prefer better gameplay over good cut scenes any day... 1.0 was horrendous! The interface was atrocious and the actual in game animations lacked character and depth... imagine a cure spell looking like a sprinkle of colors and that's it... it was bad!
I'm now sad that I didn't get to play FFXIV before 2.0. These cutscenes makes the game look and feel more like another FF game rather than 2.0 making it feel like another MMO that just forces you to go through a non stop talkative story.... even the fight scenes in 2.0 were dull as hell. I actually wanted to rewatch the fight scene at the end of this. Even the way Ifrit was summoned was WAAYY more fun to watch rather than the way they did it in 2.0.... This truly saddens me....
no. be glad you didn't play 1.0. it was the worst pc game I've ever played. I bought a new pc and the collector's edition to play it, and it enraged me to no end. It was bad bad bad.
Wow Yda and Papalymo were truly an important part for the Warrior of Light adventure. Wish the have more and more develop in Dawntrail (I’m still going to start Stormblood MSQ). Anyone knows if any TH-camr had uploaded gameplay of the 1.0 story to not see just the cutscenes but as a let’s play with battle, dungeons and world traveling?
Even in 1.0 the Warrior of Light looks fragile and helpless in cutscenes, just like in realm reborn until the other scions looks like they're coming to the rescue. Am I the only one who feels like the Warrior of Light is just a side character in cutscenes while the Scions have more main character traits and moments? 2:02:01 ''bullet incoming, oh no *hides behind my arms''
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Papalymo's voice sounds like a Monty Python old woman voice.
"HE'S NOT THE WARRIOR OF LIGHT, HE'S A VERY NAUGHTY BOY!"
A floating crystal handing out magical power ain't no basis for a system of government!
RIP Papalymo...
@@benjaminbierley2074 "I'm your Warrior of Light!"
"I didn't vote for you"
Yda even sounds like one of the Castle Anthrax women.
Nearly died of laughter. I said this exact thing before looking at the comments.
He sounds like the mother in Life of Brian
It would be cool if an offline RPG was released as a prequel to A Realm Reborn, telling this story.
This has been my dream for damn ever!
Add in some multiplayer to take on dungeons and maybe raids and you'd have an AMAZING game! (it'd be even cooler if you could import your characters from the MMO and completing it gave you something cool back in the MMO. like a lesser version of the orignal Legacy character tatoo or something.
Or just integrate it back into the current FFXIV as a time-travelling side-quest..?
@@0Fyrebrand0 This. I'm actually kind of surprised it hasn't already happened, though it now leads me to believe it'd be something they do before they finally decide to end the game and move on to another sequel.
@@0Fyrebrand0 such a good idea !
@@0Fyrebrand0 they actually changed the ARR zones ALOT for 2.0 so might not even be possible
Looking back, the color palette used in 1.X does seem a bit drab to me. That said, the animations used in cutscenes were SO good. I understand that we're using canned animations nowadays to save costs, but man, it's hard not to miss the fluidity of those original animations.
The cutscene quality is slightly going up with each expansion.
It might not be at this point yet, but it's improving.
This was the first thing I noticed as well. Cutscene animations are fluid and much more animated in 1.0. I personally think this is one of the areas they need to step up their game for the next expansion. My character seems to use the same 3 emotes and it is getting drab.
@@ArthurRVega *brings fist into open palm*
@@JJMomoida bruh u_u
@@JJMomoida *awkward nod*
Thanks for posting these. Neat to see them since I never played the original.
HOLY SHIT. Its an inferno comment in da wild. BLAST FROM THE PAST BTW
Wao you play ff14?
i played it but didn't got far
When u making cursed XIV?
Game with 1.0 cutscenes and ARR gameplay would be perfect
the people romanticizing 1.0 need to realize there's a reason it was down to 1000 players. the main story was great, and it had some really promising world flavor, but the gameplay itself was horrible. quests were just random pain in the ass fetch quests, and most often the best way to level was grinding. and even that was tough because monster levels were haphazardly paced. combat felt slow and clunky, and there was almost no endgame content. ARR brought much needed improvements across the board, and considering how little time they had to redo everything they did amazingly well. One has to assume that they rushed the 2.0 main story and cutscenes, investing most of their development time on mechanics and npcs.
+skykid The two things I really liked about 1.0 was the cut scenes were a lot more interesting and you really got an awesome sense of atmosphere. Seriously, I would take little "vacations" with my fairly low level character and just explore and see what new things and beautiful sights I could find. I kind of miss that honestly. The world felt more alive to me in 1.0.
Anne Bright Well, things tend to not look very alive when you drop a megadragon on them.
pwnorbepwned more like a bad excuse to scrap everything and remake it. They could have just edited the gameplay but let the story etc. Stay the same.
Its kind of hypocritical to bash 1.0 for fetch questing when 80% of the story in 2.0 forward basicaly circles around fetch questing before going into a dungeon
@@asra-5180 There were behind the scenes problem that players could not see. I am thankful that this is up so new players will be able to understand the references to 1.0
Were they just saved by a moogle marching band? That made my day.
That made me really wonder "what were they smoking" either the characters or the devs
I love moogles. I wish they were real
I love ARR, but I hope somewhere down the road that the game eventually goes back to this level of cut-scene quality. They were way less stiff and your character participated a whole lot more in them.
***** I could have sworn the ps2 servers were down :O
***** FFXI's PS2 servers are the exact same thing as the PC and 360 servers, so they won't be cutting support for it any time soon.
booho1 I might have to hook up the PS2 again and play on that :D
I actualy did some reasearch since I posted that message. The PS2 and 360's support is getting cut next year. PC's still good tho.
***** When Heavensward will be over and 4.0 will start. PS3 users will have to move to PS4/PC :)
These are really amazing and I'm so glad they exist in an accessible form now that FFXIV is as successful as it is for archival purposes
However a lot of these comments are really missing that the quality of the cutscenes (iirc they used the engine from 13, a single player, _extremely_ linear title) for 1.0 was a huge factor in how unstable and genuinely unplayable the game was. Limsa's opening scene is notorious for being basically a slide-show.
Even if the gameplay & overall design had been remotely passable that wouldn't have saved it if people's pcs melted halfway through the first cutscenes.
It was also likely why they staggered msq level requirements as much as they did, because they simply couldn't afford to have their super expensive, super nice cutscenes as often as it would call for if you could get through the story like we can in 2.x+ with very minimal grind, which domino-ed into the terrible gameplay design choices that made up the rest of the 1.0 dumpster fire.
Yes getting a cutscene or two like this would be _fucking fantastic_ (s/o to Bahamut's Coils) but they can just as easily save that for trailer work & spend the resources on the writing and gameplay features instead, which is what's kept the player base around more than just pretty cutscenes.
yep,, doing lipsync for every language and unique animations (which in 1.0 often used mocap) is very expensive and,, more importantly for ARR,, very time-consuming -- ARR was made in an incredibly short amount of time so they just did not have the time for all this intricate stuff. sure it's pretty but I would gladly take the substance and the volume of ARR and beyond.
also 1.0 was indeed made in 13's engine, crystal tools. not only was it very much not made for the demands of an mmo but also a lot of key programmers on 14 were removed from the project just to work on crystal tools,, which is definitely part of the reason that 14 had such an overemphasis on pretty graphics and show-offy cutscenes and a barely functioning foundation.
sorry for the ramble I just think all this stuff is neat!
The biggest issue with Crystal Tools was that it was developed for games like Final Fantasy X. The devs assumed the engine would be used for a turned based world tour style narrative rpg game. But the series quickly started evolving away from that. With FFXIII one of their main goals was to have the gameplay feel like Advent Children. In the end this is what killed Crystal tools. They desinged the perfect game engine for the type of games square was known for when the engine began production but then the scope of the franchise changed leaving the engone dead in the water.
Everytime the npc opens the map it's like glancing at hell
Huh, they weren't kidding when they say SE pour everything in the cutscene
Yep. That and into the models. Everything was so expansive for the time that it was almost as impossible to create new assets and cutscenes without takin full weeks of work.
31:28 OMG THAT RUN XD
😂
That was the most unholy thing I've seen.
Gotta go fast ⏩
Having just finished 5.3 and loving Shadowbringers, I'm genuinely shocked at how much motion capture seems to be in these 1.0 cutscenes. While I think ARR was necessary due to the weirdness of 1.0, it is fascinating to see how certain areas of 1.0 clearly had more time/money put into them than other areas.
That being said XIV seems to be now slowly returning to more involved cutscenes like this with characters doing motion capture movement.
As much of a FF fanboy I am, I was disappointed I didn't get to play 1.0, But I have recently gotten into FFXIV after buying the base game +all the expansions so far when it was on sale(I think I paid about $55). I never got to play XI either.
I loved just exploring the areas in ARR, I still haven't beaten the MSQ but I'm getting there!
Thank you for sharing this!
Hear. Feel. Think.
I really love how they kept details like that going even from 1.0 and into Endwalker.
Damn can we have good cutscenes like these with our characters panting and screaming when ever we fight or scream
every time I see the map pop up it's like vietnam flashbacks going off in my head.
Reading comments from 5 years ago, I'd like to know how everyone feels now.
Reading comments from 5 years ago in Dawntrail and I'm talking to Wuk Lamath
I've finished my MSQ and currently waiting for Endwalker. I love the FFXIV story so so much. But now I'm watching this. And.. And it's pure bliss.. I'm watching the history of my favorite game of all time. So much happened. So much lost. So much gained. The game becomes deeper with every 1.0 video. Square Enix you bastards. How dare you make something so emotional, so powerful?! ;_;
I wish they had choreographed cutscenes like this in FFXIV...
They weren't just choreographed, they were mocapped...
The cutscenes in 1.0 seem like they have a ton of personality! Fascinating as someone that didn’t join until 2.0. I’d love to see this in the current iteration of 14, but if it’s better the way it is for budgetary reasons or something I can’t complain y’know?
I think they wouldn't be able to get the patches out quickly enough if this were the case. Can't wait for 5.3
They were prerendered using Crytal Tools. Alot of mocap and asset work needed to be done for them. Sadly this takes so much work and time not to mention eat away so much of the budget of the game to do every cutscene like this. They still do some more involved cs like these in the modern game but they are fewer and more sparse. One that comes to mind is thancred and yugiri invading the sahagin camp in arr and shinryu vs omega at the end of hw.
its nice to see what the game was like before ARR.Never played 1.0. the animation really look good
Anyone watching this after going through 5.2? Holy crap, watching this has different meaning now
*starshower flashbacks*
If they kept making cutscenes with this quality level, we wouldn't be getting patches at the consistent rate that we do now.
Or having this much content either. The model quality and mocapped cutscenes were one of the biggest reasons why 1.0 couldn't stop bleeding money
I'd prefer that
Tbh I would prefer quality over quantity lol
@@AlexDivaX then get to shadowbringers. Honestly the expansions def have better cutscenes then 2.0
I would enjoy FFXIV:AAR 100% more if the cutscenes were nearly this good.
never heard eng paparimo sounds so old..
i love ida's voice
ty for the upload, good memories
This version seems a lot moodier. Love how there’s voice acting too. There are some parts where the graphics does look better. I love the overall atmosphere
It really feels like a more proper Final fantasy game with the cutscenes involving voice acting.
@@Zayindjejfj which is why I really, REALLY want 1.0 redone as a single player RPG with multiplayer elements like co-op duengon crawling and raiding. They could even bring back the open world map and go for a BOTW level of integration to the areas. The map size should be somewhere between 1.0 and 2.0+'s size since 1.0's areas were far too big, though maybe in a single player rpg they could fill in the landscape more with npcs, random cabins, etc. It all went to hell in a handbasket with the Calamity anyway so any lore/narrative inconsistencies are rectified by remembering that it probably got blown tf away like everything else did. They could even expand on areas they ditched from 1.x that they never returned to in ARR. Like the weird circular shrine area in the Black Shroud that was caught in a landslide in 2.0 that they barely did anything with afterward (it was supposedly the entrance to the ruins of one of the old civilizations, the underground elf one). That and an area in Mor Dhona was originally the tomb of a long dead emperor/king that was speculated to be the entrance to a raid they never added (I suspect it was going to be the original version of the crystal tower raid or something at least similar) and the area in some expansion of 1.x, like around 1.2x it was turned into a shrine for one of the Twelve that Luisoix needed the now-scions to pray at to rouse the gods for his sealing spell to try and stop the calamity.
ARR has a lot more voiced cutscenes from 2.1 patches onwards.
v1.0 seemed to focus more on the graphics and presentation then actually fleshing out the world. The game had so much potential but was ruined because it got rushed out to try to beat those warcraft sales.
We all told the devs the game isnt ready, there are too many "blank" spots where nothing happens for a long time. The world.. well they had the right idea of seamless loading it made it seem more "real" but at what costs? Copy and paste areas. No real landmarks to help you navigate you literally walked around using the mini-map. a glorified pac-man.
Dont get me started on a MMO that had crafting as a major feature from the get go and relying on going to an external website to find out how to craft things.
We all hoped it was just teething problems but we all knew it wasnt going to last.
I tried to love v1.0, I played it a lot despite its flaws. But it was a broken mess.
Wow this is actually amazing, I hope someday the quality of these cutscenes return to the game.
Thanks very much for compiling these. I only got into some of the purification quests earlier and had only seen Mor Dhona briefly in its old form. Definitely helps being some closure to what I saw in 1.x.
I'm gonna say this right now, (keep in mind I'm 8 minutes in, I'll reply afterwards if I'm wrong) these cinematics seem just, so much more detailed than ARR. They're smoother, less choppy, and they feel like they have more depth. And so far the protagonist in this has made more noise than yours in like, the entire game (ARR). And while sure the silent protagonist is nice, I'd like some kind of vocal reaction other than stoic nods and voiceless looks of surprise.
I won't lie, I am actually fond of the cutscenes in 1.x more than 2.x. While overall, 2.X graphics and UI have improved in the cutscenes, there are a lot of things from the 1.X that has a charm to it.
1) The NPC around you are more involved besides sitting around. Just the beginning of the video showed me a couple of things that I wish were kept; a) The humorous interaction between Yda and Papalymo which added a bit to them, b) the entire scene of the tree monster eating the wolves and the chase scene, c) the residents of Gridania jumped in to save you. While the player is important, the NPCs jumping in added quite a bit to the atmosphere. They definitely feel more involved in 1.X than they did in 2.X.
2) The zoning out had a nice echoy song to it. You didn't really get that with 2.0, sadly.
I think 2.0's cutscenes suffered from having less development time. The story additions in the patches are a lot better (Especially Syrcus Tower)
What do you mean. Papa and Yda were hilarious even in ARR.
I've been dreaming of a day we can replay this story and purchasing it as a stand alone game gave you some kind of code to use in XIV online that gives you all of the legacy charactwr cutscenes, items and custimizations.
The action scenes are actually quite amazing.
it's fantastic to see the differences the devs made between 1.0 and ARRs engine, 1.0 had a more fluid animation style and completely different lighting system - added a much different feel to the scenes...
2:04 Actually cried at this shot with Yda, it's beautiful.
@Joker Sure
@Joker dats not Lyse. That's actual Yda. Lyse was basically a background character you barely knew existed till near the end and beginning of ARR onwards
@@Aeririn No it isn't. The real Yda died a year before the events of 1.0. The real Yda is only ever shown in Echo cutscenes.
Yda is beautiful what a shame she wasnt yda
I wish SE would release a CS viewer for those of us that were in 1.0 so I can experience it all again with my character.
This! 👏🏽
Love how expressionless and pointless every character was animated.
Honestly, I appreciate the warmth and expressivity they put on the actual game making characters more vivid and giving them a soul.
Also, back to the date the graphic engine was shameful and most players couldn't play it comfortable and fine.
That was a great intro for Gridania. Meeting the Guildmaster of the Conjurer guild, who doesn't even have a speaking role in the new game was awesome. If you thought that little tarutaru was bad before then though this voice actor is far worse.
The npc's feel like they have more emotions in the cutscene lmao
Thats because they are hand made animations not using emotes but motion capture.
Why didn’t they do that in rrb then?
To cut costs
@@lukangel For real?! WTF?!
@@HawkinaBox to be fair, they used motion capture only on important parts of ARR onwards. most particularly on shadowbringers (The final cutscene of 5.3 is one of the examples). This could probably be cuz they already have a lot more budget on the cutscenes by shadowbringers.
the major gap I can feel through the cut scenes compared with the ones we have today is the major lack of emotions on our own characters. The motion capture from before ARR is just
Do remember that they release new story content very fast in the grand scheme of things so I’m fine with it personally
I hope expansions from the newest one forward work on the cutscenes for characters and I hope at some point the fluid animation system comes back.
Seeing these cutscenes, where your character just stand there, blankly staring at everything that is going on, while almost no cutscene is voiced and everything looks stiff af
And then reading that people perfer this over Shadorbringers hurts my heart so much.
I think people are just amazed by the cutscenes bc its nothing like we have now, but the overall ENTERITY of the game as of SHB has improved so vastly in comparison to 1.0 where the best thing to write home about was these animations and physics, AKA the only thing being shown in the video.
So while it does feel like we did lose a bit in terms of "fluid animations" even now in 5.0, no one can say 1.0 beats what we gained in better story, quest structure, clothing, classes + options, and overall QoL.
Comment from 4 years ago saying they prefer these cutscenes to ARR.
Comment now:
How can people prefer these to ShB.
(・へ・)
@@wolfhackzx I'm up to date on shb and still prefer my old 1,0 story. I feel like one of the only people who genuinely enjoyed 1,0 for what it was and think the story was way better expressed back then. Sure they've improved the game a lot, but they also stripped a lot from the game that was good. Almost everything relating to 1,0 was stripped barren so when you play 2,0 and see things like titan just wanting to kill you because.... no reason is ever given. In 1,0 he wants you dead because you kill his children and he sobs morning them. In 2,0 and even now you might as well be a stick standing there doing jack shit 99% of the time in a cutscene while everyone else is also a stick minus the person(s) who are the current focus who might get some unique animations occasionally. In 1,0 that was never the case be in MSQ or in side cutscenes. The story in 1,0 was by far the biggest focus and as such it excelled far better than anything up till shb has done since. Only now with shb I feel us legacy players are starting to get that 1,0 story telling feel again. Though I'd still play a legacy serveur if ever was made. Miss those times back then where it felt like the world was alive and dynamic around you. Now its just kinda stiff and made to look pretty with no real substance until shb.
Thank you this wonderful video! ❤️ So many memories! 🥹 The music stayed the same. ☺️
thank you for this video. i have been playing FFXIV ARR and always wanted to see the 1.0 story. i read up on it but it is better seeing that actual cutscenes.
As a new FFXIV player, thank you very much for saving and posting these.
Differences between cutscenes :
0:00 - Day
2:20 - Night
2:40 - Day
Holy cow, Geva got one heckova makeover in ARR.
Really love the cutscene direction, especially at 27:35 . It feels frantic
I wonder if we'll ever get this quality now or in the future... Damn
I love the eerie-nest of this version. Papalymo is so cute 🙈❤️
The personality and detail they added to these back then is amazing.
You are a lifesaver ♥ Finally I can learn what happened in 1.0 :D
*FOOTSTEPS INTENSIFIES*
If you aren't a speed reader, remember you can slow the video down ;)
My pause button has never seen so much use
The uploader either reads really fast or .. well not even that. Sometimes a lot of text is up for less than half a second and hardly any text up for ages. So inconsistent.
Thank you for posting this... I wish I could watch my old 1.xx videos. I have the "Before Meteor" Blu Ray music soundtrack. 6hours of music from 1.xx and every time I listen to it I feel so.. sad. I LOVE ARR but... I miss the times I had in 1.xx too. Times I won't get back.
You're my hero! Thank you for sharing!!
I somehow get the feeling that this game was originally intended to be a single player entry in the series. But when the management at Square realized that XI was their most profitable Final Fantasy, they ordered Tanaka and his team to make an MMO out of what they had already done, and didn't give him the proper time necessary to do it right. I could be completely wrong, of course, but it's just so hard to believe that one of Square's best producers would make such a bad game.
***** Yes I did, and it's true. Look it up.
***** he's right, FFXI has net them the most profit over the years. don't just assume things based on popularity. MMO's are cash cows.
***** What? Of course it's relevant. Only two Final Fantasy's have been released since that article was published, Lightning Returns and A Realm Reborn. Both haven't done near the profit of 11 years worth of monthly subscriptions.
***** So does Square have another 10 years old MMO that we don't know of? That's the only way that the 2 years old article wouldn't still be true this day. And even without the article, XI is an 12 years old subscription based MMO that's still running, of course it's the most profitable game in the series, use your brain a bit.
klopsasaurus Not all MMO make money
wait what, I just finished shadowbringers and this was recommended by youtube. holy shit the cutscene quality is so much better and actually had custom animations.
Yup that's where all the budget went.
Then they changed to the FFXIII graphics engine altering EVERYTHING.
@@chanceoneal2010 OG FFXIV uses the XIII engine, They changed to the engine that XV used for RR
Would be nice if they would add 1.0 story line back. They could explain it as just being a dream of the past or something.
START THE PETITIONS!
Square Enix has only ever made a handful of movies. There'd be more except one of those movies bombed so hard at the box office it's considered the reason they closed the movie development studio they'd just created for the purpose of making Final Fantasy movies, and apparently might have actually put the merger between Square Soft and Enix at risk. Apart from KingsGlaive the last one, I think, would either be Advent Children or Spirits Within(the movie that bombed).
@@Japaneseanimeguy tfw I actually really enjoyed the spirits within as a kid
3 years later and I'm so glad you're wrong
This is like something a 12 year old would think is cool. What a waste of time lol
Thanks for uploading this, a true gem o culture. I begin FFXiV with Heavensward so for me this is very interesting
Love the fact you did this as it makes it awesomely easier going into XIV Reborn since it does not remake the story but carrys on from this one :). Meant to be 1.x's only strong point :D.
Damn, really wish we can get cutscenes quality like this again. These are mad. The closest we can get is the end of 5.3.
Great vid! the character model in 1.x cs definitely still looks better for some reason, i don't know how, maybe more polygons or sth.
5:38 Me and the boys in music class
Very nice upload. Glad someone did this. Sharing this for future reference
27:45 I laughed so hard at the camera movement here. holy hell that shit is so gold. the shakey camera. feels like something out of a south park scene.
Thanks for saving this, now I can catch up on the story I never got to play.
Excellent video!
music in this game is so beautiful take me every time, every time
The old cut-scenes are so much better.
Wow... just wow.... this part of the storyline speaks wonders of the trailer before ARR. So the meteor WAS a premonition after all.
I am so sad that I missed all of this.
Thanks for posting! I'm going to have to sit down and watch this sometime! There are some parts of the Realm Reborn and Heavensward storyline that I get confused by because I don't know the back story that was the original game.
Thanks so much for posting this! Always wanted to know what the story was and it's the only way to really see it nowadays.
Wtf, these cutscenes were everything. Lmfao
Looks soo much better
I literally THOUGHT if there was a video like this somewhere. I didn't ask anyone or even speak it aloud. Just a passing thought. And now, twelve hours later, youtube puts this 10 year old, 2 hour long video in my recommendations. I am terrified, but I'll just watch this.
First off, I just want to say that I appreciate the video, I really do. Not a lot of people recorded V.1's story and I want to thank you for taking the time to do so.
However, I literally had to pause the video every single time the text changed because you clicked way too quickly. I am not a slow reader, but there is no way I can keep up with your 1-2 seconds per paragraph click rate. This made viewing it a bit of a chore instead being a fully enjoyable experience.
If you decide to do something like this again, please, please, please ease up on the clicking. Give people a chance to read the text comfortably without having to manually pause the video constantly.
5:27
star platinum
*ZA WARUDO*
the animations were nice to look at and the models were top notch... but the backgrounds and zones were bland and lifeless, which is why people like to pretend it was 'seamless' in their transitions. of course they were, there was barely anything there to transition. the models and animation, they get a 10, but the backgrounds get a 1. Now both are about a 5 and more people can play without having to buy some high powered rig.
Id rather a nice looking game I can play over a picture perfect game that runs like ass on anything less than a supercomputer.
Tyvm! My friend always said they should re-release this story. Now he can just watch the cutscenes for it
These animations are amazing! O.o
Hard to believe Yda used to be smart one and Papalymo funny one.
I would assume Papalymo living through the calamity and Yda dying such that Lyse acting as Yda does that to characters, but being that 1.0 is so detached from the rest of FFXIV I am amused at the shift in personalities.
1.0 cutscenes are better than ARR cutscenes imo :(
It seems like every one says this, but have any of you actually watched and read the cut scenes in ARR? A kid lightning a tree on fire is what you use your power of the echo for, seriously!? At least in ARR they make you feel somewhat important to the story, in 1.0 cut scenes it's mostly the your toon standing to the side, watching everything happen.
I feel like saying cut scenes are better in version 1 just comes from some sort of it doesn't exist any more so it has to be better mentality. I mean, in ARR the camera actually moves around and we see way more character expression and most importantly your character actually matters. You are the 1 warrior of light. In the Version 1 cut scenes they completely negate you out by giving you a partner that has the exact same powers but is actually able to talk like a real person. And the End boss battle cut scene is worse than a sick joke. I see every one saying these cut scenes are better than ARR but I don't see a single reason.
Gotta say though because of squares graphic obsession, it lead 1.0 to a development disaster
beautiful cutscene starts 2:01:28
Was the subtitles for cutscenes in 1.0 like that, man I prefer that than the text bubbles
Thanks very much for putting this together! I never got around to playing through the story before they took it down. My computer wasn't the best for it.
What I really wanted to see was story about Dalamud, that red thing in the sky. Do you know if there's a similar video covering that storyline? I want to get a better understanding of that End of an Era video.
They would never think of the troubles ahead, their pitiful local squabblings. It's weird looking back at this after beating endwalker.
Jesus the animations look so good compared to the current game. Such a shame they rarely make cutscenes with this much effort anymore... I'd watch them much more willingly if they stopped reusing stock emotes ad nauseam.
Literally the cut scenes are the only things I miss from 1.0. The attention to detail was incredible. Even the fancy animations at the end of 5.3, while nice, are not quite on par with the old scenes. They're close but not quite there, and no doubt that level of animation will not be the new norm anyway. The audio work, the animation, the action. I miss it.
I love how animated the player characrer is, we don't really see that from our current character until like ShB lol
the visions that main person saw at the beginning and that song it was visions of their world being caught by the calamity :O
I watched 10 minutes. And these cut scenes are way better than the ones in ARR.
I'd prefer better gameplay over good cut scenes any day... 1.0 was horrendous! The interface was atrocious and the actual in game animations lacked character and depth... imagine a cure spell looking like a sprinkle of colors and that's it... it was bad!
You don't Hildebrand much, do you?
Robbie Olivo The good part about having good cut-scenes here, is the story was built on instead of literally scrapping all this.
Seven hells. Papalymo sounded so much worse than ARR's, which was quite tolerable.
Red General he is a lala. Do you expect them to sound manly? No i wouldn't.
@Nichijou Bot and she's what 16/17 somewhere in there?
@@Ladywizard Nanamo is 20
@@edushi1051 Before or after ARR? Remember ARR is +5 years from 1.0
I'm now sad that I didn't get to play FFXIV before 2.0. These cutscenes makes the game look and feel more like another FF game rather than 2.0 making it feel like another MMO that just forces you to go through a non stop talkative story.... even the fight scenes in 2.0 were dull as hell. I actually wanted to rewatch the fight scene at the end of this. Even the way Ifrit was summoned was WAAYY more fun to watch rather than the way they did it in 2.0....
This truly saddens me....
no. be glad you didn't play 1.0. it was the worst pc game I've ever played. I bought a new pc and the collector's edition to play it, and it enraged me to no end. It was bad bad bad.
FUCK. The animations were so good!
Miounne was my first waifu in the game
Good times.
She was my first mommy too. And Yda was gorgeous in these cut scenes.
So many mocap animation for each scenes. I can't imagine how they can finish every cutscene until Shadowbringer.
I didnt get the chance to play 1.0 so im grateful for this
Wow Yda and Papalymo were truly an important part for the Warrior of Light adventure. Wish the have more and more develop in Dawntrail (I’m still going to start Stormblood MSQ). Anyone knows if any TH-camr had uploaded gameplay of the 1.0 story to not see just the cutscenes but as a let’s play with battle, dungeons and world traveling?
Even in 1.0 the Warrior of Light looks fragile and helpless in cutscenes, just like in realm reborn until the other scions looks like they're coming to the rescue. Am I the only one who feels like the Warrior of Light is just a side character in cutscenes while the Scions have more main character traits and moments?
2:02:01 ''bullet incoming, oh no *hides behind my arms''
Trying to know as much of the story as I can. Thank-you
the opening for 1.0 was quite a bit more exciting lol