Quote Originally Posted by Jagick View Post
This bothered me too, but it's yet another of example of the game's regions or "overworld" being extremely compressed for the sake of game play. But it is absolutely comical in its execution. For a more concrete example of what I mean, just look at Ishgard as you wander that city. Look out beyond its boundaries and the city seems absolutely MASSIVE both in width and height, something that would take days to full explore were we given more than two tiny zones you transition between in seconds. Then leave the city into Coerthas Central Highlands and fly your mount past (over and past) the the gate supposedly leading to the steps of faith. What you will see is an absolutely tiny and narrow cobblestone walkway connecting to a doll house not much larger than the watch towers already scattered around that zone, and that building is supposed to be the city of Ishgard and the path leading to it are The Steps of Faith, something absolutely tiny and considerably bootleg looking compared to their instance version. It sucks, but expect plenty more zones to get this treatment going forward.



I absolutely look forward to this. Please change nothing in an attempt to make it more digestible for the squeamish. This story could use a little more grit if you ask me.
It annoyed me with the Steppes as well. Normally they'll use visual tricks to at least add an illusion of grandeur, but you had entire tribes there in these itty bitty little settlements. While one wouldn't expect giant metropolises, neither would you expect them to amount to a few dozen individuals or so.