Why do so many textures look like they are from a ps2 game?

[Noodle_Trinidad]

Textures aside, sure this isn't just a resolution issue or perhaps you need to make your dialog boxes bigger.

Its a joke on how everything is hilariously pixelated especially when they take the time to make cutscenes were you zoom into things to be “awe’d” by them. Earliest example of this would be one of the first GLA quests.

[Kurando]

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Never had a problem with this honestly. It's expected for ARR content to have much more pixalated issues when compared to the more recent SB, but still doesn't bother me. To each their own though.

[Tanro]

Never had a problem with this honestly. It's expected for ARR content to have much more pixalated issues when compared to the more recent SB, but still doesn't bother me. To each their own though.

Hien's Jacket is one of the worst offenders. The texture looks like it was made in the late 90s.

[Berethos]

Its a joke on how everything is hilariously pixelated especially when they take the time to make cutscenes were you zoom into things to be “awe’d” by them. Earliest example of this would be one of the first GLA quests.

I think you've mistaken why they zoom in on something in scenes.

It's not to impress you, not by any stretch of the imagination. It's because whatever they are focusing on is meant to be exactly that - the visual focus for a narrative reason. They aren't saying "this looks awesome, look closely at all 5 pixels it has" they are saying "this stuff is 'important' to what is going on in this scene right now" (relative levels of importance, obviously - early important stuff won't be all that important, but in the context of the scene in which it appears they are generally the focus of the narrative, at least briefly).