1.0 Reminiscing

[Rereyl]

I kinda miss the giant expansive zones. Don't even care if it was copy paste, there was still some variety and exploration to be had.

[Aegis]

I kinda miss the giant expansive zones. Don't even care if it was copy paste, there was still some variety and exploration to be had.

Coerthas, how I miss thee ...

[KokonoeAiyoko]

I kinda miss the giant expansive zones. Don't even care if it was copy paste, there was still some variety and exploration to be had.

Darn...

Why can't we have this in ARR?

[Aegis]

Darn...

Why can't we have this in ARR?

Because you can have huge, expansive environments with sweeping vistas but with repeated textures and few individual landmarks or you can have small, enclosed environments packed full of interesting oddities you can't have both.

[Dreamer]

Because you can have huge, expansive environments with sweeping vistas but with repeated textures and few individual landmarks or you can have small, enclosed environments packed full of interesting oddities you can't have both.

I'll take the former over the latter any day. I do not find everything being five steps from each other to be conducive to portraying an expansive world at all.

[KokonoeAiyoko]

Because you can have huge, expansive environments with sweeping vistas but with repeated textures and few individual landmarks or you can have small, enclosed environments packed full of interesting oddities you can't have both.

To be honest, there aren't many landmarks in the game already that 1.0 didn't have. In-fact, this game reuses tons of textures for the overworld, the only thing different I see is that this game's world is much smaller.

[Aegis]

To be honest, there aren't many landmarks in the game already that 1.0 didn't have. In-fact, this game reuses tons of textures for the overworld, the only thing different I see is that this game's world is much smaller.

I personally preferred 1.0's approach to world design too, but they had only a couple of landmarks of the scale of the sea serpent skeleton in la noscea in both size and detail. V2 has 2 or 3 of these per zone.