Hi All,
I was curious to why Final Fantasy 14 needed a complete rework in the form of a Realm Reborn as normally most games just patch their way out of issues. This video is what I found as I imagine there are a lot of new players who wouldn’t know the history or maybe were wondering the same thing.
If you are a legacy player I would love to hear from you in the comments as this is all the information I could scrap together as naturally most the FFXIV press is all about the 2.0 and onwards versions.
Thank you all as always for watching, and I hope you have a fantastic day.
Timeline:
0:00 Dramatic Intro
0:36 Video Intro
1:42 Graphics and story
3:35 Gameplay and technical
7:56 The Developers
9:54 Conclusion
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it was pretty crazy how incompetent the previous director was.. hell FF11 was horrible, they had no idea what an MMO is, awesome content, yes we wanna see more
What fascinates me the most is the amount of dedication to the game current team has.
And the quality of management.
These people are insane.
Remaking old and bad game into something new and beautiful, and not just redoing that but also trying to save as much of old game as possible… That's some great project management I see.
Again if anyone want to see 1.0 for what it was, I recommend also watching Speakers Network's Fall and Rise videos
1.0 didn't even have auto-attacks at launch. Combat was entirely Skill/Spell based.
Just want to note that there was a successful Japanese MMO at the time: Phantasy Star Online. It was more pure arrogance (something Yoshi-P has stated very openly) that caused them to go so wrong with 1.0.
And there is the saturday video you mentioned haha.
I began playing it when 4.2 was just launching, so I've always been fascinated with how the original game was – actually didn't know about the plant being that intensive xD
Have you considered eventually doing a comparison of the unique lines and bits of dialog, that players who transfered from 1.0 gets in ARR? I am unsure of how much there is, but i know particular characters will recognized you. Just a suggestion ofc <3
I would like to see a ff14 before the fall flashback adventure, where new players can experience the events of 1.0 from the safety of the modern engine. This is not a WoW classic situation where the old game was playable, so it would have to be remade for this to happen, but it would allow new players to experience a story in danger of being lost to time and youtube vids