Getting into FFXI after getting severe burnout from Dawntrail, it makes me wish we could of at least kept the combat system, something different to the same kind of style we've have seen and gotten bored of for decades. But I guess they just really wanted to chase that general audience

Am I the only one that prefers 1.0?

miss 1.0, it had issues.... but it wasent as wow feeling as it is now... still felt like a FF mmo..

They downgraded so hard remaking this

the updated benchmark looks so much better thx for uploading

spineshatter dive used to actually... shatter spines... same with disembowle being a paralysis

I actually like how 1.0 looks more

are you going to post a new video when the benchmark gets updated? the difference in lighting and shadows seems to be huge from the work in progress they showed us a few days ago

I feel like 1.0 combat looked a lot better, for that time period anyway. I kinda wish, now that technology has caught up with it, the new graphical update would make the combat look as lively as this 1.0 footage does. However, that may be quite difficult without make it feel as awful and clunky as 1.0 was. I'm talking about the combat animations, the effects and the details, obviously not about the atrocious controls.

I don’t get how that’s all Trhey came up with when modders have had better shit than this for ages

Glad to see male Viera 1 isn't quite so cross all the time now.

Hrothgar male? 😢

Okay!! That's not so bad! Some of the screenshots that i saw of the benchmark characters looked so weird but it looks okay here. ty for video.

Thanks for this. As a console bum it was nice to at least see a preview of the face that would be my character.

Im dead when all of limsa has that hair style lmao

I might be going mad but I'm pretty sure that battle music from 1.0 is still used in FFXIV - possibly the boss fights from the Hard variants of level 50 dungeons?

Honestly, I wish I got to try this version of FFXIV.

Thank god for ffxi😅 love the video

It was like looking at the real ff14 and then a ff15 upgraded version 😅 and i loved every fking moment..😊

All them bad ass sword attacks and the move that kills it was a shield bash, lmao.

I see a lot of comments of people praising 1.0's combat, saying how good it was and it had "weight to it", and how they would like to see a return, but I have to disagree. I was one of the unfortunate few to have struggled through 1.0 and I don't miss that shit at all. The combat was archaic and sloppy. Movement made character look robotic and confused. I remember getting a laugh many times watching casters facing the wrong direction while casting spells. Even the movement of NPCs and monsters was comical at times. 1.0 was a shit show and I think I'm part of the large majority that don't miss it AT ALL. ARR was needed and it stopped the game from meeting what would have been a disastrous end "no pun intended". So let me be clear one final time here, nothing about the old combat system was good, not one single thing, and those of you that DO miss it, all I can say is, you really need to go back to playing OSRS if you like slow yawn worthy combat.

I remember playing 1.0 when it came out. A very fresh take on MMO’s but plagued by really bad mechanics. I canceled my sub after a month. Props to those who stuck around.

All the movement looks soooo much more weighty and slightly more grandiose in 1.0! Honestly my biggest gripe in modern XIV is how everything appears weightless or feather-light =/

Christ 1.0 was a nightmare.

All this talk in this comment section about the animations in 1.0. If games sold based on animations, it sounds like the original version of FFXIV 1.0 would've been the best selling game of all time. Unfortunately, it sucked in every other respect and everyone hated it, because the animations are irrelevant to a well designed game. They went back to the drawing board, turned it into a World of Warcraft clone, and found actual success.

1.0 animations were on point i like it

I remember this absolute NIGHTMARE!! XD

Ff14 1.0 was like a twist of ff11 and ff12. They changed the way battle systèmes work ,like world of warctaft. I wish it was slower and more tactic than in 2.0. 1.0 was not bad but could have been improved allot to feel like a final fantasy game.

The game felt “more alive” in 1.0 compared to now. 1.0 was ditched for faster pace, flashier combat.

It's funny to me that people have this weird proclivity to pretend things that are bad were good 'in a way'. Like this game just looks awful. From the chatbox spamming random nonsense to the SFX when selecting skills to the tabulated skills to the unnecessary soulslike targeting which would be impossible to make modern fights with. The game was also apparently laggy and the graphics while higher fidelity still look much worse. The character freaking dissapears for a second when you change equipment. Can we stop pretending 1.0 had anything noteworthy? The only thing I would even consider saying I like better is the HuD on the hp/mp/tp. And that's only because the modern one is really ugly.

我喜欢 1.0 的 UI 布局，非常简洁

God I miss having this music when I'm crafting in ARR..... BRING IT BACK!!!

Is this FFXI??

The one thing I enjoy seeing in these 1.0 video is the running, slowing stopping and turning animations. I felt heavy and real where in 2.0 and beyond was instantaneous direction change without momentum loss which made mounts feel very... weird especially clouds bike and the FFXV car.

night and day

1.0 feels more like Final Fantasy, the damage numbers and how they pop up look very familiar.

Petition to make FFXIV more like this:

The sound effects are so good

oh wow is that Nael!?

I love that KZbin is recommending me this 11 years later, this is such a cool window into FFXI - 2: The Squequel

Hey Lirion! I run a Final Fantasy XIV focused channel and wanted to perhaps make a video about FFXIV 1.0. Unfortunately I don't have any footage from that time. Your channel is a goldmine for videos from those days. Would you be open to me using some of your footage if I credit you for it and link your channel?

"And our interface is so bad, that it makes Microsoft look like a piece of art" "Oh. .. But is it nice to look at?" "If you enjoy watching PowerPoint presentations, then yes." "Oh oh."

HAHAHA no way! my 1.0 Character is running past in the background 😂😂 RIP Bobby GUNZ

Belts. Belts everywhere.

i still chuckle to this day remembering how ridiculous this was

I would much rather play this than current FFXIV.

Honestly I kinda like the region being one huge map and I wish they'd bring that back

Inspector Market!

I love seeing videos like this, where one of the worst optimized games *ever* is recorded in high-enough definition at a stable framerate. It just makes me wonder what kind of fucking PC someone had to have to do this

Every single time I watch these 1.0 fights what I remember most is how on point everyone had to be. No room for mistakes! As a main healer I miss protect and stoneskin. 😭 I haven’t see the Garuda ‘cutscene’ in ages. I wonder if it’s changed much at all. 😳 Thank you for this video and the nostalgia! 👍