La3nus: Posting a video while we suffer from Maintenance... clever Jesse, very clever.
NezeruGaming: Jesse this has got to be the cleanest footage of 1.0 we've ever seen.
masterrhyno: 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
dunethewanderer8944: My own memories aren't as clean as that 1.0 footage.
beefkat5370: Just dropping Answers in there like that is brave. Straight to demonetization, do not pass Go. But it deserves to be here, and for that, respect.
ryouma1717: iam a 1.0 player and i remember the last days of the game as the red moon got bigger and bigger in the sky and you could hear hydaelyns song echo throughout the world then the epic moment when the servers went offline and the cutscene played was glorious it had me in tears and thinking back to those days also brings tears to me eyes
webaker: "Thou must live, die, and know" ALWAYS makes me well up
SilverLuna07: Ever since learning that scene played for people at the end of 1.0, it's had so much more impact. It's an amazing cutscene and extremely sad.
harryc8462: I finally made it to the Shiva fight after several attempts of trying to get into XIV and that phase transition as sealed the deal on getting me hooked. Looking foward to watching this to recap the main quest!
KalanArkais: spoilers for the video
coolciaran69: Does Jesse secretly have a personal 1.0 remastered server hiding somewhere with all that quality lore footage.
1Vergil: Everytime I see that Bahamut scene... goosebumps. Truly incredible.

I love this series and I can't wait till you get to Heavensward.
NCamico: My favorite thing about actually being there during the end of 1.X was during the final couple of weeks during the Fall of Dalamud. They basically let the reins loose on the GMs and they would go to various aetherytes as Garlean legates, talk smack to players then spawn hordes of troops.
MythrilZenith: Yay more FFXIV lore!

Edit: Gosh dangit Jesse, how did you know I wanted to watch the full ARR cutscene at the end of all that? Actually got me to cry. Knowing all the leadup makes it SO MUCH more impactful.
NabaniSaa: Thancred praying at one of the sigils that, now finding out Loisoix made, hits so much different in the ARR cinematic, sheeeesh.
SuperFlyGhost: That 1.0 and 2.0 cutscenes make so much more sense now and hit way harder, damn
herebejamz: Ya know, I just realized the leader of the VII Legion literally trying to summon a "meteor" that he worships is an extremely blunt reference. Even with a fire walk.
ajzekind: Loremaster Coxstradamus has blessed us with LOOOOORE. We love you, Jesse!
speedyconkiwi: the battle of carteneau will always make me tear up. no matter how many times i've seen it, there's so much emotion in those scenes and the music and now after we wrapped up this insane storyline, it makes it even better. thank you for including the entire cutscene! my little lala lady is a proud carteneau survivor and i can't wait for the adventures that await her next!
Tom-Pendragon: Saved me from Maintenance pain, Jesse. Thank you ^^
Rayweo: Uploads this while servers are in maintenance? He knows what he's doing! Thanks Jeese!
1candondor: Man Gaius even in 1.0 was a secret hero in waiting. So true to his character to "unite" the world for the better in the way he believed. Rad
Saragraph: Funny detail that was probably cut for time reasons is that 1.0 players who rested at, I think it was inns? They could actually be shown a special cutscene that foreshadowed the calamity! And iirc a hauntingly distorted version of Answers, which is the song that plays during that final 1.0 cutscene, would play throughout most of the world as the plot got super close to the calamity and the game to shutting down in transition to 2.0. A version that is very like 1.0's distorted Answers is still played every year during the annual Rising event in certain locations in the three starting cities.
Lewdiculous: Man, the 1.0 cutscenes motion capture is fantastic. The shots are so cinematic.
Kyle8122: As someone that played since the original 1.0 beta, the final event they did culminating in the cutscene as they shut the servers down was such a moment.
warllockmasterasd9142: In other words 1.0 ended its story on a letteral cliffhanger.
Well played Yoshi.
DTCubone104: The Moogle on Nyquil speaks to my soul
perunarieska9182: Finally we have continuation for Jesse's lore videos!
Lycox15: Everything I hear about the gameplay of 1.0 makes me glad I never had to suffer through it, but anytime I hear about the story and how it leads into ARR, I start to wish I was there to experience it.
heliosknight2126: 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!
SgtSandflea: This video should be watch for all those who are thinking about coming into the game. I've seen so many people lost because they don't know what's going on. This could help create a nice stable base for new players. Though watching this... the nostalgia was palpable...
matthewmacomber6278: Can't help but tear up during that Bahamut scene that ended 1.0. I barely even played it, yet it's just so heart wrenching to see the collapse of a society and the heroes to truly fail.
thegneech: Watching the ARR opening cinematic post-Shadowbringers is like "Go, Warriors of Darkness, go!"
anydaynow01: 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.

Jun 29 2024

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