Reminder to my lore nerds, this entire series is designed not to spoil things for people playing through the game. If there’s a fact that we learn later - I will include it when we learn it. Want to learn more, these videos will help: If you're interested in learning more might I suggest: FFXIV Pre-History Lore - ruclips.net/video/GaQ__5ZBwBc/видео.html Astral vs Umbral - ruclips.net/video/ThahHzMScl4/видео.html
Hey thanks for playing all that 1.0 footage, I genuinely didn't realize that the party of heroes that is introduced after Heavensward, were the poster kids from the original iteration of the game. That makes the later events of some of the other expansions have a lot more impact.
@@happyninja42 Honestly, it's easy to miss, you don't see that group together until the HW patch content, but once you know, it's hard to miss: they're wearing the artifact gear from ARR for their classes... and the 6th member of the party you don't see between the 1.0 trailer and Shadowbringers.
1.0 ending with the scene of Bahamut just obliterating everything is possibly the strongest game endings of all time "Oh btw you failed" servers shut down. I remember watching videos of people gathered around watching Dalamud descend in real time, pretty chilling
Sitting there just /waiting/, listening to the heavily distorted version of Answers. Just sitting there with the other players, knowing it's going to end soon and... And... And just uncerimoniously seeing that 'connection lost' screen.
Yea, well, I was there. No real way to describe how haunting it was in those last days and weeks, and especially in the last hours knowing it would all end for good and you, the player--the hero--had failed. So marvelously designed by the team to bring that to and end and bring in what we have now. It's cliché, but--you had to be there to truly know what it was like.
This is why I love the animation at 23:48 . Since I first saw it, with no knowledge of 1.0, I thought, "This is the hero of all the RPGs you've played, realizing he's failed, thinking this is the end of the world." Beautifully done!
*spoilers for the video* I never even realized that I didn't actually know why the armies were fighting at Carteneau. And Gaius helping stop Nael, what a twist! It's really cool to finally see all these scraps of the 1.0 story brought together after only getting parts of the picture for years.
Honestly, now it really makes sense why Gaius seems weirdly conciliatory even as he professes he sees you as savages to rule over. Unlike most Garlean rulers, he actually would have provided stability to Eorzea (at the price of the tribes not being able to summon Primals for protection) and improved the lands within a Garlean framework, and his rhetoric is not just justification to raze whomever lives there once conquered.
@@iantaakalla8180 I think this also ties a lot into a lot of why he's so bitter to the player during the Praetorium speech and a few of his interactions prior as well. He interprets the actions during the Answers cutscene as nothing more than another Primal summoning instead of basically a once-in-a-lifetime specialized ritual to try and halt a Calamity, and thus grew a lot more incensed at the city-states in kind.
There's something interesting role play wise with that too. It feels like tons of characters who were not able to know the details just assumed it was just Garlemald and Eorzea fighting for land. To the public suffering from amnesia, it'd easily get covered up about the whole moon cult thing.
Help, I still don't understand why they were fighting in Carteneau. If the leader with all the control was dead, and Gaius wanted nothing to do with the moon, why have the army fight there?
Hearing this makes the rest of the Gaius arc make so much more sense! I played a bit of 1.x but was too turned off by the game play so I went back to FFXI. When ARR came out I waited until people were raving about the improvements so I was playing again by 2.1. I wish they included more of this story in ARR! They touched on it at times in the side stories but man, what an intro into the world, I really wish I stuck with it just to hear this story real time. I wish they would do a Eureka type thing where we go back in time and live the events again, maybe cleaned up a bit to fit the current story and story telling cadence.
What you said makes no sense. "I played a bit of FFXI but was too turned off so I went back to FFXI"? HAH?!?! (The joke is that 1.0 and FFXI share a dev team and it recycled a lot of design philosophies from FFXI, while still having its own systems.)
Even though I've experienced this lore from playing 1.0 , seeing it all together in a concise way makes watching the footage at the end hit much more satisfyingly! Great way to get hyped before the new expansion, thanks for the great video!
Thank you for your series on Hydaelyn history up through 1.0. I'm a newly minted sprout who began playing FFXIV about 6 weeks ago, and your videos have really helped me get up to speed with the history of the world I'm playing in.
There is also the Path of the Twelve, who were all gifted with the Echo and were an organization dedicated to gathering and protecting them. They merged with the Circle of Knowing to become the Scions. Though there were Path of the Twelve members in 1.0 that you could recruit and they will help you; I think you could even make them into retainers if I remember correctly. The ones you couldn't recruit were seen helping with especially dangerous missions in the later patches of 1.0 and they reappear in 2.0 in the Waking Sands. They were dejected that no one know who they were as they were the original Warriors of Light that everyone forgot about if you didn't have a 1.0 character yourself. Sadly, they perished during a particular event, symbolizing the death of the 1.0 warriors of light and paving the way for the 2.0 warrior of light if your character didn't progress in 1.0.
This is such a well made video. I will always appreciate the former history teacher giving lessons about one of my favorite games. These 1.0 cutscenes were really something else, especially the WoL and the Archon's confrontation with Gaius. Much more fluid than what we currently have right now. Hope we can come back to this style again some day. 18:33 This little tidbit kinda makes me wish that this was mentioned during the Myths of the Realm Alliance Raid - if not by the NPC scholars then by the actual characters and bosses in the raids themselves. That transition from 1.0 to ARR is definitely a once in a lifetime thing that you had to be there o fully experience what the hell just happened. From the server shutdown to the eventual reveal of 2.0, pulling off that kind of miracle is such a monumental feat. Makes me wanna rewatch the Noclip documentary all over again.
damn got chills at 20:00. I remember playing and seeing this as the servers went down. even the great Gobbue wall fell.. But we WoL returned and been kicking ass ever since.
Bro, Holy crap!! You did some damn good work here. This was obviously a lot to take on, so thank you so much!! Wonderful video. Sharing to everyone I know.
I will never not get shivers any time that small flute tune plays, the one when the WoLs reappear after the battle of Carteneau. It's such a simple theme but it's FFXIV's most iconic sound for the wonder of adventure.
Haven't seen any of your videos before, but i have to say. This one was amazing! You earned a sub! Also, the footage from 1.0 used was just incredible. Kind of made me want to at least try 1.0 :D
Maaan this is the summary I had been missing!! I didnt learn any of this context around Dalamud, Cid, and the Empire until I stumbled into the Bozja questline. Then I asked a veteran friend to fill in the blanks... First time I really felt liked I'd missed out in not being around for 1.0!
As someone who missed out on 1.0 and was uh...less than invested in 2.0, thank you. Thank you thank you thank you for all the effort, the footage, and the care put into this video. I only hope you have the means to continue, because this is absolutely brilliant and a wonderful way to brush up on lore!
I think, in my opinion, the coolest part from 1.0's end was the fact that, for a period of time before the final moments, there was a final battle versus Bahamut and a small sneak into ARR. At least, if I remember correctly XD I watch one of my favorite youtuber's at the time challenge it, and it really made me want to play ARR and be part of the story beyond it. Of course, it took my years before I actually did, but since then, I've found my love for the story, made numerous friends, and have had nothing but fun, fury, and fright throughout all of ARR, HW, SB, ShB, EW, and recently DT.
As I recall, Nael is meant to be a Sephiroth reference. Hence the meteor, the walk through flame, and the Latin boss music. They also head the Seventh Legion.
This is amazing and I never knew any of this despite being a huge story person in ffxiv, thank you Jesse this was great research and an amazing job and telling it too.
Excellent video Jesse. It hits all the major plot points of the end of the story. I think if there was perhaps two things I would consider including (which may be an interesting point in a focused video of each of the individual city-states of Eorzea), it would have been the internal politics of Ul'dah, Gridania, and Limsa Lominsa prior to the formation of the grand companies and how the grand companies were founded. There's a lot of interesting character moments in that of the political leaders establishing themselves beyond their country's borders. The other thing that I would have included would be just how terrifying the descent of Dalamud was, how with each new patch (every couple months or so) the damn thing kept getting bigger... and bigger... while perhaps minor in the grand scheme of themes, it set the tone of anticipation of what was going to happen -- ending in what is probably the best send-off to an MMO on the brink of collapse. Anywho, those are my two cents!
There's just something about that cutscene, man. I think it's a serious contender for one of the best of all time. And it sets you up so perfectly to understand and respect Louisoix, even if you didn't play 1.0. That moment when he lets go and smiles gets me every time. Not that Answers doesn't draw an ugly cry from me EVERY time I hear it, but I digress... It'd be one thing to let all the NPCs talk him up in ARR, but showing him stepping up to face Bahamut like that, his persistence in protecting the Adventurers, gah, gets me in the feels every time, too. Also, it lets ARR players somewhat understand the shoes everyone is trying to fill and why that's a nigh-impossible task. Oooh, hey, on that note, it's been a while since I watched it, but the fact that Thancred is dourly praying near the symbol Louisoix set up, in contrast to the other Archons just enjoying being alive nicely teases his arc in ARR.
I hope you continue this series this was really cool! I have been an avid player since ARR but I did not get into it till right before HW released. I like this series would like to see more please continue the entertaining history of this MMORPG
Actual shivers. For me FF14 1.0 was always the MMO that failed and then had to be rebooted but having watched this I can tell how much effort and soul still went into it and its story. That end was absolutely bombastic and what a great way to prepare the game and the story for a whole new beginning.
Jesse, you already know this but… this is good stuff and i(and many others) appreciate it! You mentioned covering ARR so that gets me excited that eventually you’ll do all expansions INCLUDING dawntrail and following(I hope!) love this content… rock on sir! “You got coxed!”
I’m most grateful of this explaining the lore of 1.0, as I’m a new player I felt pretty disappointed of hearing how it’s impossible to find this kind of stuff but this really explains well and I love it!
They were so great when the game ran higher than 15 fps. The OG 1.0 ran sooo badly though. In part because of too many polygons on everything. Flower pots in cities had more polygons than actual player characters.
@@NaturesFlame - I can also understand why they leaned more on using the canned animations from ARR onwards, they didn't have much time to redo the game and besides it made it easier to produce more content at a faster rate. Here's hoping we get more of the high quality motion capture in DT's main cutscenes.
Excellent work Jesse ❤ Truly top notch 👌 The Final 1.0 scene has always been my favorite Cinematic and has only doubled so after Endwalker ❤ Can't wait for all the rest !
The Battle of Carteneau is my and many other 1.0 players' version of "I was there Gandalf, I was there 3000 years ago. A lot more standing around in lines than documented."
Absolutely love how you just... let the Answers FMV play out without a word. Because it needs none. Dalamud had a dragon the size of manhattan in it, it blasted a hole in the continent, the end, see you in a year then 2.0 drops.
Showing this godsdamned cinematic at the end of the video is a low blow, Jesse! Worse of all - it works. Again it worked on me. It always does. Every. Single. Time...
Thanks Jessy! thought as a more vet player at this point id love to see a complete story line from the beginning. as is in timeline wise not story wise.
27:23 i just heard this song during dawntrail, i was trying to figure out the time signature because its fairly unique 6/10 or something, but i really like it
It's crazy how the party of adventurers that fought at Carteneau look exactly like the warriors of darkness from Heavensward, yet were confirmed to be different people.
When you started with the "how will you explain the story of an MMO in a short video" question I kind of expected something like a punch line that 1.0 barely had any story ^^; Oh, and nice use of the "haunted radio song" in one of the bits about Garleans.
Awesome! A lot of great footage! I look forward to the 2.0 breakdown the day before 8.0 (Afternoon Road or whatever it will be called) releases! Thanks for doing this!
Hey jesse, I just wana say ive been following this for a while, been a long term fan. And ive finally started playing a relm reborn and having a blast. Chose a lalafell of-course. Every scene is 20x better. Talking to the starting lady in adventurers guild where you can just barely see over the counter slayed me.
Goddamn. Bravo Jesse. I loved this video so much. From the editing and the clear presentation of info to the fact none of this is spoilers, I was watching close despite already knowing the overall story of 1.0. I can't wait for your 2.0 video, especially since - let's face it - some ppl are going to buy a skip(s) since DT is coming out. Keep being awesome. I love your work 👌
I just started ffxiv and have a terrible habit of skipping through dialogue despite how much I love lore and worldbuilding (it's probably an adhd thing) so this series has been awesome! I hate that I watched it while I'm away from my desktop for a while because I am more motivated than ever to play
I just beat arr and got this video in my recommended and I feel like you're a scion historian who has decided it's finally time to let me know how it all really happened lmao
The reality was 1.0 didn't have much of a story or end game. I do kinda miss those events though. The necessity of DoL and DoH to succeed was a fun, interesting way to use those jobs. Then Bahamut came and changed it all.
As someone who's never played 1.0, this was a phenomenal watch ^_^ For all its faults, 1.0 seems to have had a pretty cool story. Now knowing what I do about the 1.0 story and the Seventh Umbral Calamity, I can say I have a deeper appreciation for how A Realm Reborn follows up on the plot threads left behind by 1.0.
Maybe he figured it out from Nael talking about summoning his god? Or maybe the ritual was originally just meant to contain Dalamud or its destructive effects
@@KalanArkais Yeah, it works either way. Especially with what we know after Coils. Even that ritual might have not been what he was gathering all those prayers and stuff for. His other idea instead.
I don't want another DLC, I want 1.0 to be remade, even if it's a stand alone title, for all those that didn't get to experience the story first hand. It is one of my biggest regrets not getting into the game before Heavensward. There is just so much detail that begins to make sense once you know some of the lore points from 1.0, like Gaius's obsession with trying to get Cid back, don't think that's ever really explained that he use to work under Gaius, at least not well.
The server shutdown and the release of coils (and savage coils) in 2.0 had so much meaning to those who played 1.0. That round of savage content was the equivalent of the ultimate today. And before you say it, no doing it today with Minimum Item Level and No Echo, it is not the same. Job mechanics, rotations, and the way the game played have changed so much since AAR and HW. Imagine having to stop DPS'ing because you run out of TP. Today it's impossible to run out of MP on a healer unless you just recently died and you are spamming raises. GCD and DPS rotations also did not line up on the same or near same timers. Let's not get into caster-bard either ... Yeah, that was a thing. The change from 1.0 is insane but in a good way as one might think going from a dumpster fire of a game to the most popular MMORPG today.
Reminder to my lore nerds, this entire series is designed not to spoil things for people playing through the game. If there’s a fact that we learn later - I will include it when we learn it.
Want to learn more, these videos will help:
If you're interested in learning more might I suggest:
FFXIV Pre-History Lore - ruclips.net/video/GaQ__5ZBwBc/видео.html
Astral vs Umbral - ruclips.net/video/ThahHzMScl4/видео.html
Ok this answers my only question i had through the video haha
Hey thanks for playing all that 1.0 footage, I genuinely didn't realize that the party of heroes that is introduced after Heavensward, were the poster kids from the original iteration of the game. That makes the later events of some of the other expansions have a lot more impact.
Thank you for another great animation video!
I do hope next video you "finish" Naels story and the revelations about why did they all this we get from Coils as well as the Encyclopedia Eorzea
@@happyninja42 Honestly, it's easy to miss, you don't see that group together until the HW patch content, but once you know, it's hard to miss: they're wearing the artifact gear from ARR for their classes... and the 6th member of the party you don't see between the 1.0 trailer and Shadowbringers.
1.0 ending with the scene of Bahamut just obliterating everything is possibly the strongest game endings of all time "Oh btw you failed" servers shut down. I remember watching videos of people gathered around watching Dalamud descend in real time, pretty chilling
Sitting there just /waiting/, listening to the heavily distorted version of Answers. Just sitting there with the other players, knowing it's going to end soon and... And...
And just uncerimoniously seeing that 'connection lost' screen.
They're still on youtube. You can see the moon slowly descending, untill finally...the servers go out and the trailer plays.
Yea, well, I was there. No real way to describe how haunting it was in those last days and weeks, and especially in the last hours knowing it would all end for good and you, the player--the hero--had failed. So marvelously designed by the team to bring that to and end and bring in what we have now.
It's cliché, but--you had to be there to truly know what it was like.
My FC still sits around toghether just before servers go down for the 48 hour maintenance 🤣.. Crawlers are crazy 😅
This is why I love the animation at 23:48 . Since I first saw it, with no knowledge of 1.0, I thought, "This is the hero of all the RPGs you've played, realizing he's failed, thinking this is the end of the world." Beautifully done!
*spoilers for the video*
I never even realized that I didn't actually know why the armies were fighting at Carteneau. And Gaius helping stop Nael, what a twist! It's really cool to finally see all these scraps of the 1.0 story brought together after only getting parts of the picture for years.
Honestly, now it really makes sense why Gaius seems weirdly conciliatory even as he professes he sees you as savages to rule over. Unlike most Garlean rulers, he actually would have provided stability to Eorzea (at the price of the tribes not being able to summon Primals for protection) and improved the lands within a Garlean framework, and his rhetoric is not just justification to raze whomever lives there once conquered.
@@iantaakalla8180 hence the line, "Such devastation, this was not my intention." - Gaius Van Baelsar
@@iantaakalla8180 I think this also ties a lot into a lot of why he's so bitter to the player during the Praetorium speech and a few of his interactions prior as well. He interprets the actions during the Answers cutscene as nothing more than another Primal summoning instead of basically a once-in-a-lifetime specialized ritual to try and halt a Calamity, and thus grew a lot more incensed at the city-states in kind.
There's something interesting role play wise with that too. It feels like tons of characters who were not able to know the details just assumed it was just Garlemald and Eorzea fighting for land. To the public suffering from amnesia, it'd easily get covered up about the whole moon cult thing.
Help, I still don't understand why they were fighting in Carteneau. If the leader with all the control was dead, and Gaius wanted nothing to do with the moon, why have the army fight there?
Everytime I see that Bahamut scene... goosebumps. Truly incredible.
I love this series and I can't wait till you get to Heavensward.
Answers will always go hard. Also, I always forget theme used for the Tweleve has been with us since ARR as well.
Hearing this makes the rest of the Gaius arc make so much more sense!
I played a bit of 1.x but was too turned off by the game play so I went back to FFXI. When ARR came out I waited until people were raving about the improvements so I was playing again by 2.1. I wish they included more of this story in ARR! They touched on it at times in the side stories but man, what an intro into the world, I really wish I stuck with it just to hear this story real time. I wish they would do a Eureka type thing where we go back in time and live the events again, maybe cleaned up a bit to fit the current story and story telling cadence.
What you said makes no sense. "I played a bit of FFXI but was too turned off so I went back to FFXI"? HAH?!?!
(The joke is that 1.0 and FFXI share a dev team and it recycled a lot of design philosophies from FFXI, while still having its own systems.)
Even though I've experienced this lore from playing 1.0 , seeing it all together in a concise way makes watching the footage at the end hit much more satisfyingly! Great way to get hyped before the new expansion, thanks for the great video!
I will never be able to watch that cinematic without crying ugly tears, while also singing along to "answer"
You are not alone, my friend
I can't believe Jesse got away with putting the entire "End of Era" trailer in there.
Finally we have continuation for Jesse's lore videos! ❤Been waiting for this
The editing and animations in this are sooo cute! Hats off to the editors and animator!
Thank you for your series on Hydaelyn history up through 1.0. I'm a newly minted sprout who began playing FFXIV about 6 weeks ago, and your videos have really helped me get up to speed with the history of the world I'm playing in.
Man, that opening to the cutscene with the deep voices singing Answers STILL gives me goosebumps.
There is also the Path of the Twelve, who were all gifted with the Echo and were an organization dedicated to gathering and protecting them. They merged with the Circle of Knowing to become the Scions. Though there were Path of the Twelve members in 1.0 that you could recruit and they will help you; I think you could even make them into retainers if I remember correctly. The ones you couldn't recruit were seen helping with especially dangerous missions in the later patches of 1.0 and they reappear in 2.0 in the Waking Sands. They were dejected that no one know who they were as they were the original Warriors of Light that everyone forgot about if you didn't have a 1.0 character yourself. Sadly, they perished during a particular event, symbolizing the death of the 1.0 warriors of light and paving the way for the 2.0 warrior of light if your character didn't progress in 1.0.
This is such a well made video. I will always appreciate the former history teacher giving lessons about one of my favorite games.
These 1.0 cutscenes were really something else, especially the WoL and the Archon's confrontation with Gaius. Much more fluid than what we currently have right now. Hope we can come back to this style again some day.
18:33 This little tidbit kinda makes me wish that this was mentioned during the Myths of the Realm Alliance Raid - if not by the NPC scholars then by the actual characters and bosses in the raids themselves.
That transition from 1.0 to ARR is definitely a once in a lifetime thing that you had to be there o fully experience what the hell just happened. From the server shutdown to the eventual reveal of 2.0, pulling off that kind of miracle is such a monumental feat. Makes me wanna rewatch the Noclip documentary all over again.
Been playing since 1.0, and never saw the history put so clearly and concisely.
Very nice job!
damn got chills at 20:00. I remember playing and seeing this as the servers went down. even the great Gobbue wall fell.. But we WoL returned and been kicking ass ever since.
the fact that what bahamut did is still one level below a spell Donald Duck used is still very funny to me.
Bro, Holy crap!!
You did some damn good work here.
This was obviously a lot to take on, so thank you so much!! Wonderful video. Sharing to everyone I know.
I will never not get shivers any time that small flute tune plays, the one when the WoLs reappear after the battle of Carteneau. It's such a simple theme but it's FFXIV's most iconic sound for the wonder of adventure.
Lost hope Jesse would come back to this. Glad the series lives on.
Haven't seen any of your videos before, but i have to say. This one was amazing! You earned a sub!
Also, the footage from 1.0 used was just incredible. Kind of made me want to at least try 1.0 :D
Thank you, Jesse. This reminded me of how much I love this game.
Maaan this is the summary I had been missing!! I didnt learn any of this context around Dalamud, Cid, and the Empire until I stumbled into the Bozja questline. Then I asked a veteran friend to fill in the blanks... First time I really felt liked I'd missed out in not being around for 1.0!
As someone who missed out on 1.0 and was uh...less than invested in 2.0, thank you. Thank you thank you thank you for all the effort, the footage, and the care put into this video. I only hope you have the means to continue, because this is absolutely brilliant and a wonderful way to brush up on lore!
I think, in my opinion, the coolest part from 1.0's end was the fact that, for a period of time before the final moments, there was a final battle versus Bahamut and a small sneak into ARR. At least, if I remember correctly XD I watch one of my favorite youtuber's at the time challenge it, and it really made me want to play ARR and be part of the story beyond it. Of course, it took my years before I actually did, but since then, I've found my love for the story, made numerous friends, and have had nothing but fun, fury, and fright throughout all of ARR, HW, SB, ShB, EW, and recently DT.
As I recall, Nael is meant to be a Sephiroth reference. Hence the meteor, the walk through flame, and the Latin boss music. They also head the Seventh Legion.
Wow a lore drop video during maintenance! Not all heroes were capes! Thanks Jesse! ❤
I was not ready for Answers to start playing, always brings a tear to the eyes.
This is amazing and I never knew any of this despite being a huge story person in ffxiv, thank you Jesse this was great research and an amazing job and telling it too.
it has been such a joy watching jesse fall in love with xiv and become a lore nerd hahaha one of usssss
Excellent video Jesse. It hits all the major plot points of the end of the story. I think if there was perhaps two things I would consider including (which may be an interesting point in a focused video of each of the individual city-states of Eorzea), it would have been the internal politics of Ul'dah, Gridania, and Limsa Lominsa prior to the formation of the grand companies and how the grand companies were founded. There's a lot of interesting character moments in that of the political leaders establishing themselves beyond their country's borders.
The other thing that I would have included would be just how terrifying the descent of Dalamud was, how with each new patch (every couple months or so) the damn thing kept getting bigger... and bigger... while perhaps minor in the grand scheme of themes, it set the tone of anticipation of what was going to happen -- ending in what is probably the best send-off to an MMO on the brink of collapse.
Anywho, those are my two cents!
There's just something about that cutscene, man. I think it's a serious contender for one of the best of all time. And it sets you up so perfectly to understand and respect Louisoix, even if you didn't play 1.0. That moment when he lets go and smiles gets me every time. Not that Answers doesn't draw an ugly cry from me EVERY time I hear it, but I digress... It'd be one thing to let all the NPCs talk him up in ARR, but showing him stepping up to face Bahamut like that, his persistence in protecting the Adventurers, gah, gets me in the feels every time, too. Also, it lets ARR players somewhat understand the shoes everyone is trying to fill and why that's a nigh-impossible task. Oooh, hey, on that note, it's been a while since I watched it, but the fact that Thancred is dourly praying near the symbol Louisoix set up, in contrast to the other Archons just enjoying being alive nicely teases his arc in ARR.
I hope you continue this series this was really cool! I have been an avid player since ARR but I did not get into it till right before HW released. I like this series would like to see more please continue the entertaining history of this MMORPG
The end cutscene for 1.0 is one of the most powerful cutscenes in gaming history, possibly even cinematic history in general.
Actual shivers.
For me FF14 1.0 was always the MMO that failed and then had to be rebooted but having watched this I can tell how much effort and soul still went into it and its story. That end was absolutely bombastic and what a great way to prepare the game and the story for a whole new beginning.
Immaculate video. Brilliantly put together
Jesse, you already know this but… this is good stuff and i(and many others) appreciate it! You mentioned covering ARR so that gets me excited that eventually you’ll do all expansions INCLUDING dawntrail and following(I hope!) love this content… rock on sir! “You got coxed!”
Love these lore videos Jesse
my favorite story/ cinematic in all of 14... I think.
The movie with the song and the war and everything, its just so expertly done.
I’m most grateful of this explaining the lore of 1.0, as I’m a new player
I felt pretty disappointed of hearing how it’s impossible to find this kind of stuff but this really explains well and I love it!
Man, the 1.0 cutscenes motion capture is fantastic. The shots are so cinematic.
They were so great when the game ran higher than 15 fps. The OG 1.0 ran sooo badly though. In part because of too many polygons on everything. Flower pots in cities had more polygons than actual player characters.
@@NaturesFlame - I can also understand why they leaned more on using the canned animations from ARR onwards, they didn't have much time to redo the game and besides it made it easier to produce more content at a faster rate. Here's hoping we get more of the high quality motion capture in DT's main cutscenes.
Excellent work Jesse ❤
Truly top notch 👌
The Final 1.0 scene has always been my favorite Cinematic and has only doubled so after Endwalker ❤
Can't wait for all the rest !
Holy crap, 1.0 actually had a very interesting story! I wish I could've played back then. Thank you for this video, Jesse!
The Battle of Carteneau is my and many other 1.0 players' version of "I was there Gandalf, I was there 3000 years ago. A lot more standing around in lines than documented."
Absolutely love how you just... let the Answers FMV play out without a word. Because it needs none. Dalamud had a dragon the size of manhattan in it, it blasted a hole in the continent, the end, see you in a year then 2.0 drops.
No mater what you’re doing, as soon as the ARR trailer starts I always find myself stopping what ever I’m doing. Gosh this trailer.
awesome video, makes me appreciate the salvaged story arc of the game. There is still soooooo much to this game setting
Showing this godsdamned cinematic at the end of the video is a low blow, Jesse! Worse of all - it works. Again it worked on me. It always does. Every. Single. Time...
Thanks Jessy!
thought as a more vet player at this point id love to see a complete story line from the beginning. as is in timeline wise not story wise.
Sprout over here, this is amazing thank you!
Excellent video; the ARR trailer's second half always brings me tears of joy.
Great video, can't wait for the next one
27:23 i just heard this song during dawntrail, i was trying to figure out the time signature because its fairly unique 6/10 or something, but i really like it
I'll never forgive square and Yoshi-P for taking away 1.0's story, but I understand why.
There was a quest in 1.0 where Urianger summons dogs to kill you. It's funny to think about that considering where we are in EW
It's crazy how the party of adventurers that fought at Carteneau look exactly like the warriors of darkness from Heavensward, yet were confirmed to be different people.
Gorgeous and informative video, Jesse. Impeccable work as always!
Seeing that ending to this day makes me cry
7:14 I may not be as familiar with Animal Crossing, but I'm pretty sure Nael's using Isabelle's vocal tone. Nice touch.
An excellent video all round!
Answers is still haunting even to this day for me. After knowing the context behind this and the path we walked. Still.
When you started with the "how will you explain the story of an MMO in a short video" question I kind of expected something like a punch line that 1.0 barely had any story ^^;
Oh, and nice use of the "haunted radio song" in one of the bits about Garleans.
Great video! This is definitely good for new people
Awesome! A lot of great footage! I look forward to the 2.0 breakdown the day before 8.0 (Afternoon Road or whatever it will be called) releases! Thanks for doing this!
Hey jesse, I just wana say ive been following this for a while, been a long term fan. And ive finally started playing a relm reborn and having a blast. Chose a lalafell of-course. Every scene is 20x better. Talking to the starting lady in adventurers guild where you can just barely see over the counter slayed me.
I'm telling you it only gets better
Goddamn. Bravo Jesse. I loved this video so much. From the editing and the clear presentation of info to the fact none of this is spoilers, I was watching close despite already knowing the overall story of 1.0. I can't wait for your 2.0 video, especially since - let's face it - some ppl are going to buy a skip(s) since DT is coming out. Keep being awesome. I love your work 👌
It's been so long since you mentioned this. This is awesome!
Praise be! Content during maintenance!
THANK YOOOOOU SO MUCH I WAS HOPING FOR THIS
Hope everyone has a fantastic Dawntrail launch!
I just started ffxiv and have a terrible habit of skipping through dialogue despite how much I love lore and worldbuilding (it's probably an adhd thing) so this series has been awesome! I hate that I watched it while I'm away from my desktop for a while because I am more motivated than ever to play
I missed these great animation videos, thank you!
Now to wait 2 more years for the next lore video.
I've been binge watching 1.0 videos for days now so you must have the same idea as me during our downtime lol.
great job jesse
If only I discovered this game when 1.0 was out
This is so beautiful, thank you so much!!
it's been two years!
YESSSS I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS
Yessssss, love these videos. Thank you Jesse!
0:35 wait a secound.. you say "Wow 1.0 is..." xD
PLEASE tell me you’re planning on doing one of these for each expansion/part of the story 🙏🙏
This is already too cool to just listen to
Ima have to finish it later! Lol
I just beat arr and got this video in my recommended and I feel like you're a scion historian who has decided it's finally time to let me know how it all really happened lmao
The reality was 1.0 didn't have much of a story or end game.
I do kinda miss those events though. The necessity of DoL and DoH to succeed was a fun, interesting way to use those jobs.
Then Bahamut came and changed it all.
its kinda funny how 1.0 cutscene animations are miles ahead of current FFXIV.
While true it was to the game's detriment. They were too good for the time, computers couldn't handle the game back then.
As someone who's never played 1.0, this was a phenomenal watch ^_^ For all its faults, 1.0 seems to have had a pretty cool story. Now knowing what I do about the 1.0 story and the Seventh Umbral Calamity, I can say I have a deeper appreciation for how A Realm Reborn follows up on the plot threads left behind by 1.0.
LOL Nael, he. Hahaha yes kinda until someone didn't check a misunderstand. LOL
Spoilers for SHB...
Nael: I can control the moon!
The Emperor: lol, no, you can't. But it's useful to me if you believe you can.
Nael Van Darnus, a ruthless "man". Are you sure about that?
How is the 1.0 footage so good??
Wait... so no one knew Bahamut was in the moon, but Louisoix prepared a spell specifically to contain him?
Maybe he figured it out from Nael talking about summoning his god? Or maybe the ritual was originally just meant to contain Dalamud or its destructive effects
@@KalanArkais Yeah, it works either way. Especially with what we know after Coils. Even that ritual might have not been what he was gathering all those prayers and stuff for. His other idea instead.
Dang, 1.0 Minifilia looked so different.
I don't want another DLC, I want 1.0 to be remade, even if it's a stand alone title, for all those that didn't get to experience the story first hand. It is one of my biggest regrets not getting into the game before Heavensward. There is just so much detail that begins to make sense once you know some of the lore points from 1.0, like Gaius's obsession with trying to get Cid back, don't think that's ever really explained that he use to work under Gaius, at least not well.
If you know you know... Answers just hits different anymore...
Thank u 😭🙏
The server shutdown and the release of coils (and savage coils) in 2.0 had so much meaning to those who played 1.0. That round of savage content was the equivalent of the ultimate today. And before you say it, no doing it today with Minimum Item Level and No Echo, it is not the same. Job mechanics, rotations, and the way the game played have changed so much since AAR and HW. Imagine having to stop DPS'ing because you run out of TP. Today it's impossible to run out of MP on a healer unless you just recently died and you are spamming raises. GCD and DPS rotations also did not line up on the same or near same timers. Let's not get into caster-bard either ... Yeah, that was a thing. The change from 1.0 is insane but in a good way as one might think going from a dumpster fire of a game to the most popular MMORPG today.
I'm only liking and commenting because I want more.
okay fine I'll do it :P
Bahamut still has the best enrage.
Guy got stuck in orbit for so long he reshaped the game.
Gather 'round, everyone, it's time for the regaling!