Old Weather Animation Graphics - What do you like more in the Old Version of FFXIV?

[Tonkra]

Here is a video about 1.0 sandstorm
You really feel the sand in the air

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=499GA7JkVg4

and i think the ambient sound was way much better, too. you can hear the sand rolling in the air.. which you dont in ARR.


And the weather effects for bad weather is so awful now in my opinion... it does not look real at all..
it looks so cartoonish to me :/



the cloud textures are ugly as hell XD compared to 1.0..


coming back to textures:

1.0.



ARR




i think the old version has more brillance to it. colors and texture wise. and character details. in my opinion the old version is visually a little more timeless like the new one. Escpecially noscea has some really ugly environments.

grainy textures/grasses :/

i think there you feel that SE had less time for ARR than for the original version.. for visuals. (but concerning this, they of course did a good job for ARR)

[Laraul]

and i think the ambient sound was way much better, too. you can hear the sand rolling in the air.. which you dont in ARR.


And the weather effects for bad weather is so awful now in my opinion... it does not look real at all..
it looks so cartoonish to me :/



the cloud textures are ugly as hell XD compared to 1.0..

Cloudy weather in 1.0 looks pretty much the same...

[Tonkra]

Cloudy weather in 1.0 looks pretty much the same...

do you think? it looks WAY more real.. the texture in ARR looks not real.. sorry.

just look at this old weather demonstration video... the rain and thunder in the end.. not comparable to ARR..

Weather Demonstration Alpha - Gamescom 2009

and uldah XD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMHrsEliEB0

sky textures in ARR look drawed.. while in 1.0. they look real (my opinion)

[Laraul]

do you think? it looks WAY more real.. the texture in ARR looks not real.. sorry.
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sky textures in ARR look drawed.. while in 1.0. they look real (my opinion)

What I think is that you are to focused on a silly thing like weather to notice the things that make each area unique and interesting. Why is weather so important to you? Obviously our opinions differ about weather in the game.

When 1.0 was released, the game's graphics were never said to be anything less than impressive. It wasn't enough to save the game from it's many many faults though. The huge areas were bland and uninteresting with one part of the map looking no different from another. It looked as though they just took part of the map and the copy-pasted it a bunch of times to make one large zone.

[Roris]

What I think is that you are to focused on a silly thing like weather to notice the things that make each area unique and interesting. Why is weather so important to you? Obviously our opinions differ about weather in the game.

When 1.0 was released, the game's graphics were never said to be anything less than impressive. It wasn't enough to save the game from it's many many faults though. The huge areas were bland and uninteresting with one part of the map looking no different from another. It looked as though they just took part of the map and the copy-pasted it a bunch of times to make one large zone.

How the assets are laid out (mapping) has nothing to do with this thread, which is about the graphical effects (bump/normal maps, high res textures, lightning, filters, bloom, etc.) They could have easily kept the graphical fidelity while also keeping the new more unique but claustrophobic maps, but they obviously wanted to keep some parity with the PS3 version.