Consoles are holding this game back (graphically)

[Colorful]

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The words are not mine, they're straight from Yoshida. You're right, we have large creatures in enclosed spaces with limited amount of players, Yoshida was looking for giant 200+ metre beasts flying in the open world in epic FATEs which you used flying mounts to jump onto and hunt if I recall correctly, and Skyrim hardly relies on physics for its gameplay, nor does it have decent physics at that. We're talking about, say, a giant knocking down a pillar and that pillar collapsing in a random spot due to physics, and you'd have to hide behind the pillar to avoid the attack. Again, physics based gameplay is from Yoshida, he said he wants to compete with future MMOs such as EverQuest Next, he wants it to improve to be on their level, not just stagnate. It's never going to last 10 years mimicking an already almost 11 year old game and he knows it.

[Veerne]

Currently the only real thing lacking graphically is high quality textures for PCs where 1080p and higher resolutions are the norm and most GPUs have plenty of VRAM to spare.

[Azazua_azura]

it was the the polygon count actually with the flower pot, they made the flower pot as realistic as they graphically could. it had the count of a player character.

Also name 1 game with realistic textures w/o any odd graphical layout. If you are looking for graphical iregularity you will see it.

also, the engine ff14 runs on is scaleable. where in ff14 1.0 they used the crystal tools engine. I didn't like animations from 1.0 running looked clunky with that sudden stop, if you walk 2 inches ur character looked like it was limping.

[Azazua_azura]

No consoles, a console: PS3.

They announced to drop support after 3.0 and I am still waiting for that. The Ps3 is outdated and more than one person I know has stopped the game despite not having a different option. they love the game but just can't play it on the PS3 properly.

But as everything else, until JP players don't complain, they will ride the PS3 as it allows them to take shortcuts. I am all in favour for 2 client versions, one for console, one for PC. If people are bothered by PC players having a "superior game". Well, get a PC is all I say.
The PS4 can still take reasonable improvements as it measures up to a low end to mid gaming computer so please SE, for the love of your game...DUMP THE PS3 SUPPORT!

i play ps3, how does it not play properly?

[Colorful]

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Without odd graphical layout, what's that supposed to mean? If you mean that all textures are perfect, there are none, but that's not what people are asking for. We're just asking for something that didn't look like someone smeared paint onto something, that's not a texture, that's a mess. Sometimes I can literally see the pixels in the texture. But if you want me to list some games that have great textures where it counts, Grand Theft Auto V, Witcher 3, Metro Last Light, Killing Floor 2, etc. There's more than plenty.

[odie]

I thought the game looked amazing on the PS3. But once I dumped it I was amazed at how much better it looked on PS4. And friends who take screenshots on PCs...way better. I don't see how the graphics are held back by consoles. In my experience, the only ones held back are the ones on the inferior machines. I'm not super knowledgable about this kind of stuff, but the graphics are better on other machines. On PS3 it was held back by the lack of on screen items. You can't view your gil on the screen, you lost your LB bar when you turned on focus target. (i did anyways) and we didn't have the hotbar options, mouse/keyboard options, and all of maybe 5 people would load in a congested area. I don't feel like I'm being held back on PS4, but i'm damn sure not going back to PS3. I think graphics aren't an issue unless you're on the underperforming console like i used to be.

[AsahinaMyLove]

No consoles, a console: PS3.

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The PS4 can still take reasonable improvements as it measures up to a low end to mid gaming computer so please SE, for the love of your game...DUMP THE PS3 SUPPORT!

Youre DUMB! How can a console "hold back" something?
There are still lots of people on PS3! ME TOO!

I have this game for PS4 too! But every1 looks so ugly flat and thin on it because of forced 16:9 TV-format - so no thanks! =.=

I hope PS3 support goes for 5-10 more years!

[Kallera]

Seeing as how my gaming computer is years old and not all that high end, I actually like and do more with the ps4, its never been easier to share my media. Now if it could just expand its voice support id be set.

[SpiritTamer]

Youre DUMB! How can a console "hold back" something?
There are still lots of people on PS3! ME TOO!

I have this game for PS4 too! But every1 looks so ugly flat and thin on it because of forced 16:9 TV-format - so no thanks! =.=

I hope PS3 support goes for 5-10 more years!

I seriously hope this is a joke. I used to play on PS3 and when I switched over to PS4, I was amazed. PS3 looks like someone smeared grease all over the screen and it loads very slowly.

[DuskTS]

Prepare for butthurt when the next expansion is announced to have PS3 support.