PS2 - Real info request.

[Satyr]

*sigh* PC users grow up... stop using the PS2 as a scape goat. FFXI is a PS2 game... ported to the PC and 360. It still is a PS2 game. That's always going to be the way it is. People have been using the "PS2 limitations" argument since at least 2006.

I'd be very interested to know what major things the PS2 version lacks that the PC version has...

...oh how about the fact that FFXI looks absolutely gorgeous when you crank up the graphics on PC. Have you ever seen FFXI on full graphics on a large widescreen monitor? It is amazing how good it can look compared to what is considered "current" mmos. FFXI always looks terrible on PS2, whether you are running it through a 13in kitchen TV or a 55in 1080p LDC HDTV.

With that said if you look at FFXI said by side with other MMOs, the others will look significantly better. I doubt that anyone would argue that FFXI looks better than the current incarnation(lol their next expansion is called incarna) of EVE online. But lets look at EVE online for example, and to a lesser extent WOW. If you compare screenshots from EVE when it was launched to screenshots taken now, it has had some massive graphics upgrades. So much so that EVE now would be very difficult to run on a computer that could have ran it when it was released. Wow is another example to a lesser extent. While it does not look like it to someone who has never played WOW, the system requirements and the load on the graphics card has increased significantly between vanilla WOW and it's current expansion, even if you run the game on it's lowest settings.

When I used to play WOW, the computer that I had when the game launched had no problems running the game. But by the time the second expansion rolled around (WotLK), I had trouble running it even on the lowest graphics settings. I remedied this by saving up for a bit and dropping 600 bucks at newegg to get the parts to build my own PC. In the end I was able to run 3 instances of WOW at the same time, all on ultra graphics settings with no noticeable graphics lag at all.

The point here is that I wanted to play WOW enough so that I was willing to adapt, and I did, and it was one of the best things I have ever spent money on because now i have a PC that is 2 years old that still has no problems running current games on the highest graphics settings and if the issue ever arises where I cannot do so I can just get a new graphics card and I am set, no need to buy a completely new machine. And believe it or not, when you aren't playing FFXI....*whispers* a computer is still useful...unlike a PS2 (360 has netflix lol). And in the case of the players from the other games...neither EVE nor WOW lost customers despite basically forcing people to upgrade. In fact both companies gained customers overall.