My opinion

[Nakiamiie]

My thoughts exactly except I do wish that they would make all the hamlet buildings enter-able and not just solid structures at least with the current stuff.

Not just the hamlets, most doors should lead somewhere we can explore.
Have NPC become angry when they see you enter their house (detection by sight and sound, when you get detected they say something and you get kicked out -- so you have to be sneaky to explore places you shouldn't be in).

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

Agree with OP.

Looking side-by-side at the concept art and finished product really makes me feel like they rushed through making the game. The concept art looks really nice but they did a really bad job translating it into actual map design.

I hope they take the time to make the maps in 2.0 look as close to the concept art as possible. Because the concept art is really what I want to experience in-game as well.

btw, OP suggest changing the title of this thread, it doesn't really describe what this thread is about. This is a good topic, but I might have overlooked it with a title like that.

[Nuinn]

Hopefully they find a way to get rid of the whole cut & paste concept, or at least get it down to a minimum for 2.0. If that would cause more technical issues, I personally wouldn't mind if they chopped up the regions into smaller separate zones instead of having bleak-looking large maps.

More detail to everything, as OP mentioned, is very welcome. One more thing, I wouldn't actually mind if the colour palette was even closer to the ones on the concept art (brighter, more vivid, more colourful in general).

[Tempestmoon]

To OP

It's called Concept art for a reason. They don't have to make it exactly to the art. Very few of these will you ever see exactly represented in game. Even the ones they have given for 2.0 or further into the future. The artists give the graphic designers the outline or mood of what they are needing and they do the rest.

[Tempestmoon]

[QUOTE=Nuinn;528450]Hopefully they find a way to get rid of the whole cut & paste concept, or at least get it down to a minimum for 2.0. If that would cause more technical issues, I personally wouldn't mind if they chopped up the regions into smaller separate zones instead of having bleak-looking large maps. QUOTE]


Yoshi has already confirmed this.... 2.0 will have smaller "Zones" Like XI had which will give them the ability to design many more different types of zones, without running into the memory issues that the current client has, which forced them to use the cut and paste approach.

[Rydin]

To OP

It's called Concept art for a reason. They don't have to make it exactly to the art. Very few of these will you ever see exactly represented in game. Even the ones they have given for 2.0 or further into the future. The artists give the graphic designers the outline or mood of what they are needing and they do the rest.

Yes... but you can have a subjective opinion about the final outcome matching the mood of the concepts... Its not just that the concepts only inspire the in game environments... it feels in some cases like the concepts were more fantasy and the execution was more realistic

[Jennestia]

Along with that on the picture with the Gridania Concept art it says,

Meaning they probably knew that they would get slack for the absurd Copy/pasting they did.

also..

I don't know if you ever saw this but they did a better job on this Demo than they did on the product that was actually released this was supposedly a Demo for a unnamed mmo they were working so I'm guessing this became XIV

Video Link

Tech Demos are designed to push a system's hardware, that's their only purpose.

[Hohenheim]

Agree with OP.
btw, OP suggest changing the title of this thread, it doesn't really describe what this thread is about. This is a good topic, but I might have overlooked it with a title like that.

I know QQ I tried but i couldn't find a way to do that I wanted to change it right after I had already posted it.

[Hohenheim]

Tech Demos are designed to push a system's hardware, that's their only purpose.

I know and I understand that it was just a very pretty video

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

I know QQ I tried but i couldn't find a way to do that I wanted to change it right after I had already posted it.

If you go to edit your OP, there is a button that says "Go Advanced" at the bottom. If you click this you will be able to change the title of the thread.