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[KiriA500]

Animation lock?

You know how a limit break locks your character in place during the duration of the attack? Now imagine every single ability/spell doing that. It was atrocious.

[ChronoCross]

graphics were dumbed down to let people with old computers play.
combat was changed to be more WoW like.

[mouseno4]

You know how a limit break locks your character in place during the duration of the attack? Now imagine every single ability/spell doing that. It was atrocious.

Im a WHM. Groups never let me use LB. "OMG Healer use LB? HAHA!"

[Ecks007]

Uh, you know the game is only running on the DX9 engine, right? When they upgrade it to the DX11 engine next year, the game should see a pretty nice graphical improvement for those playing on machines that can handle it.

Add: And the game looks pretty damn beautiful as it is right now.

[whoopeeragon]

Im a WHM. Groups never let me use LB. "OMG Healer use LB? HAHA!"

Pretty much every ability/spell would lock you in place until the animation finished. And back then, some animations lasted forever e.g. Chaos Thrust was around a 5 second animation in which you could not move from your spot. It was annoying, especially in fights with AoE.

[mouseno4]

Uh, you know the game is only running on the DX9 engine, right? When they upgrade it to the DX11 engine next year, the game should see a pretty nice graphical improvement for those playing on machines that can handle it.

Add: And the game looks pretty damn beautiful as it is right now.

I hope this is a joke.

[KiriA500]

I hope this is a joke.

ROFL, hideous.



Also, just for a nice comparison.




Lighting and shadows really make a difference.

[mouseno4]

ROFL, hideous.



Also, just for a nice comparison.




Lighting and shadows really make a difference.

Compared to modern day graphics engines, yes. This looks OLDER than 3 years. 3 plus years ago this game as it is right now, would be ground breaking. But when a mobile game, portable game console and even indie PC games have FAR better graphics than this, this game looks incredibly dated.

I am not necessarily saying the game looks ''hideous'' as you describe it. No, i am just saying the previous game seems to look better, and the the fact that games made over 3 years ago look similar to this one. Perhaps it is the price we all pay for the fact that this game still runs on the ancient hardware of the PS3. It is my hope that the downgrade in graphics quality from the first iteration, be restored about the time when the PS4 version is released.

If you want more proof, take a quick look at modern day MMO's and compare them against this game. I know, ive played most of the major ones (even though they lacked what i desired in an MMO - even Guild Wars 2) and comparing this game to them... yes they just dont compare. Hopefully with the PS4 version, the devs will update the graphics to a more quality looking approach, rather than performance required on the severely aging PS3.

[eyloi]

People raided with that combat system?

[mouseno4]

People raided with that combat system?

I have to agree with you. The combat system in 1.0 looks HIDEOUS! I doubt i would get past the first DAY playing that, good cutscenes/graphics or not.