Alpha First Look: Video 4 - The Black Shroud II

[Psion]

my gods, and to think... this is just the landscapes of the beginning of 2.0, when they're having to work overtime to create a bazillion (or 40) zones. Remember FFXI and how those landscapes looked, and how with each expansion we got, the landscapes just seemed to get more and more stunning? (other than abyssea :P)

Now imagine what future zones in ffxiv will look like with the dev team having more time to dedicate to them... @_@

[valetarkus]

*drool* *slurp*

[Luaq]

Still have have to post that I am not happy with the 360 turn without moving it's feet as if the character was on a spinning plate and the fact that the moment the character stops walking the next frame it is standing. I need those two animations, head turning and animation between walking and standing, I need to see it in a video or I'll panic on that matter until the release, please make them, actually you already had them in the old version !!

Everything else is looking great. The dev team has done an amazing job, there's just these little missing animations that gives me a GuildWars feel that I don't want.

The only thing I'm scared of next is my computer running the game. Though the release isn't for so soon maybe I'll have time to put money in that PC of mine, since there are other games I want to play that'll need that upgrade anyways...

[nibelunc]

Beautiful.
This really looks Final Fantasy. <3

[Rex]

Still have have to post that I am not happy with the 360 turn without moving it's feet as if the character was on a spinning plate and the fact that the moment the character stops walking the next frame it is standing. I need those two animations, head turning and animation between walking and standing, I need to see it in a video or I'll panic on that matter until the release, please make them, actually you already had them in the old version !!

Everything else is looking great. The dev team has done an amazing job, there's just these little missing animations that gives me a GuildWars feel that I don't want.

The only thing I'm scared of next is my computer running the game. Though the release isn't for so soon maybe I'll have time to put money in that PC of mine, since there are other games I want to play that'll need that upgrade anyways...

Damn it it's alpha! They've said multiple times animations are not complete

[Reinheart]

environmental sound effects and the BGM... OMG...

[Ganbachi]

I was wondering if its possible to raise the camera vertically.

[Shurrikhan]

there's just these little missing animations that gives me a GuildWars feel that I don't want.

Just the missing animations? Really? Thus far the whole zone is feeling a little too close to MMO tradition in both layout and feel.

The structures look good, the monsters look great, the unique doodads look great. But I feel like they've merely been added to a rather plain template. I feel like I'm seeing something I've seen before, and simply noting all the parts in it that look better. That might sound pretty good on its own, but honestly, I'd sooner have the unique quality as a whole...

The music seems to pull about the same standard ambiance as GW2, which isn't too surprising... Fitting, but almost sad that such is true... So far it seems to lack any power. Which can be good, at times...

But when I compare them to this << http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCAWkHvd6ok >> I don't get the feeling of a definitive or unique zone. I just hear k-string&wind builds.

[Jennika]

The world looks really nice, and this is just the alpha build. I love the lighting and shadows. Keep up the great progress, dev team!

Between the interviews being translated from some JP magazines and these videos we seem to be getting an increase in information, maybe the flood has started? Keep it coming

[Abriael]

Gorgeous. I'm baffled that there are still people that try to nitpick, but i guess the "i know better!" syndrome is strong in this forum.

Shame on them.