Keep your expectations low and you'll never be disappointed

After Dragon Age II launched and had all this hype around it, I always have kept my expectations low for games.

FF14 is different for me in that regard though. I haven’t been disappointed yet in my experience with the game’s content.

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Originally Posted by Stormpeaks

"a large scale overhaul"

lmao

you mean what modders have been doing for years ?

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I'm confused like what even modders do to the in game graphics? If you're talking about the shaders, no that doesn't count.

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Originally Posted by Deceptus

So it stands to reason that chatGPT would output that result.

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If you feed ChatGPT the right information and frame your questions the right way, you can get it to respond in pretty much any manner you want. I can get it to talk about how great the game is and why everyone should be playing it.

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Originally Posted by Knot_D

I'm confused like what even modders do to the in game graphics? If you're talking about the shaders, no that doesn't count.

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If you spend time in some of the unofficial community sites or discords you'll see a lot of modded screenshots. Upscaled textures and different gear show up a lot. Shaders are just reshade/gshade, which is available for pretty much every game, but you can do a lot with just that.

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Originally Posted by AngelCheese77

After Dragon Age II launched and had all this hype around it, I always have kept my expectations low for games.

FF14 is different for me in that regard though. I haven’t been disappointed yet in my experience with the game’s content.

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A bit of a tanget, but I do feel sorry for DAII. I feel like I must be one of the few player who prefers it over DAI haha. Its a flawed game sure, but has a lot of enjoyable still.

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Originally Posted by Knot_D

I'm confused like what even modders do to the in game graphics? If you're talking about the shaders, no that doesn't count.

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I have heard there are mods that retouch all the textures in the game to make them actually HD...

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Originally Posted by AngelCheese77

After Dragon Age II launched and had all this hype around it, I always have kept my expectations low for games.

FF14 is different for me in that regard though. I haven’t been disappointed yet in my experience with the game’s content.

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I actually adore Dragon Age 2. My favorite of the lot lol

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Originally Posted by Auloriel

If you spend time in some of the unofficial community sites or discords you'll see a lot of modded screenshots. Upscaled textures and different gear show up a lot. Shaders are just reshade/gshade, which is available for pretty much every game, but you can do a lot with just that.

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Upscaling gear texture isn't the part of large scale because you're just increasing the texture size of it :)

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Originally Posted by Amenara

I have heard there are mods that retouch all the textures in the game to make them actually HD...

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Also upscaling world terrain does not count as well because, yeah, just increasing texture size.

I'm expecting when they claimed modders did "a large scale overhaul" it's gonna be like Skyrim's Lightning overhaul or better anti-aliasing and shadow, stuff like that :)

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Originally Posted by Knot_D

Upscaling gear texture isn't the part of large scale because you're just increasing the texture size of it :)



Also upscaling world terrain does not count as well because, yeah, just increasing texture size.

I'm expecting when they claimed modders did "a large scale overhaul" it's gonna be like Skyrim's Lightning overhaul or better anti-aliasing and shadow, stuff like that :)

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A bit of the AA stuff can be accomplished with shaders, though FF14's AA is pretty bad baseline so it doesn't seem to take much to look better there. Shadows and lighting kind of gets hit by shaders as well with more vibrant colors and lighting effects but it isn't like a whole lighting overhaul like SE is doing for the "graphics update". Honestly I think seeing how textures look when upscaled compared to seeing what they look like by default is a cool "graphical update" for those who use it.

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Originally Posted by Velvet_Lunarfang

How about better gear progression instead of a 4 month grind of gearing up one class?

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They literally just announced a reduction to the grind at this live letter. Chest pieces drop from the third tier and purchasing gear requires less tokens than before.

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Originally Posted by Aword3213

The majority of battle contents in FFXIV are instanced based, so when people are actually doing stuff, you wouldn't be able to see them.

It's yet another inappropriate buzzword.

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More like a narrative that certain people want to push for some reason.

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Originally Posted by Velvet_Lunarfang

So if I was a possible player on the fence of possibly getting FFXIV no one gives any reason on why FFXIV is a great MMO.

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Those conversations happen elsewhere, on forums that people can access without having already signed up for the game.

And I've written many many words on the subject of why I like (and in some aspects dislike) FFXIV. If I didn't like it as a whole, I wouldn't be here, but there's rarely any need to launch into a long form essay of what I think of every part of the game all at once.

An honest "would I like the game?" conversation shouldn't try to sell the game to everyone, but say "this is what it is, if you enjoy those things then you should try it". No game needs to – or can – appeal to every single person; all that matters it that the people who will like it discover it.

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Originally Posted by Hurlstone

A bit of a tanget, but I do feel sorry for DAII. I feel like I must be one of the few player who prefers it over DAI haha. Its a flawed game sure, but has a lot of enjoyable still.

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I'd play DA2 over DAI again any day. DAI was fun but because of its world setup it has very low replay value for me.