Consoles are holding this game back (graphically)

[Eye_Gore]

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Just can't please them all

[Dualgunner]

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[Imoen]

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Yes, it is still influencing performance, that's why I said "cheaper in comparison".

You pretty much hit the nail on the head, it was an example of poor optimization, but now everyone looks to that as an example, as if that somehow gives them better understanding of how these things work, or as if THAT flower pot was the reason... lol...again I wish he would have just said "poorly optimized" which makes sense because the game didn't even seem like it was done. Optimization usually comes later.

How someone decided it was shipping in that state.... was a whole other issue, and in this case the LARGER issue. Point being, less on the guy that did the flower pot and more on who was driving the boat.

Honestly we shouldn't be looking to 1.0 when talking graphics anyway, it is in essence a totally different game and a failure game at that.

[Eye_Gore]

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Aww man reminds me of a D&D game I use to play on my old Packard Bell 486 ( I still have it), though it did have graphics, had to use a boot disc just to play it.

[Colorful]

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Just can't please them all

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Yes, games do in fact improve their visuals as technology advances. It's not much to ask for decent textures, though.

[Velox]

Pfft. I already have plans to install 4.0 using 195 floppies

[Waliel]

Didn't 1.0 have 13,000 polygon flower pots in Ul'dah? Or was it 3000? Same thing. Pretty sure it had 3 somewhere.

E: Of course it's mentioned in the next post I didn't read.

[Fevelle]

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NO, MY POOR 860M

[Eye_Gore]

It's not much to ask for decent textures, though.

Sure. Maybe its just these old eyes, but the game looks pretty darn good to me, I play on a PS4. If anything was more defined, doubt I would even notice unless I press my nose to the TV screen.

[Imoen]

Didn't 1.0 have 13,000 polygon flower pots in Ul'dah? Or was it 3000? Same thing. Pretty sure it had 3 somewhere.

E: Of course it's mentioned in the next post I didn't read.

1k isn't even that much lol. I think the shader was the larger example lol