2.0 environments are they more interesting?

[bobbygunz]

Sorry, but what do you actually want? A field of glow sticks and primary-colour landscapes like Guild Wars 2 (which looks like it belong on Nickelodeon or something)?

Only thing wrong with those screenshots is the graphical downgrade from our current version.

[SuzakuCMX]

Sorry, but what do you actually want? A field of glow sticks and primary-colour landscapes like Guild Wars 2 (which looks like it belong on Nickelodeon or something)?

Only thing wrong with those screenshots is the graphical downgrade from our current version.

They're not optimized yet + not finished + on Yoshi-P's personal laptop.

[Seif]

They're not optimized yet + not finished + on Yoshi-P's personal laptop.

No these are from the SE's PR site not from someone's laptop =/

Also I'd like to point out that I'm not worried about the graphics at all. What I'm talking about here is the visual design.

[Elexia]

No these are from the SE's PR site not from someone's laptop =/

Also I'd like to point out that I'm not worried about the graphics at all. What I'm talking about here is the visual design.

They were taken on Yoshida's laptop which is what he used to show off the short demos to interviewers. They said each area has a theme so it should be more interesting or at least just as interesting as a lot of XI's areas were compared to now at least.

[Seif]

They were taken on Yoshida's laptop which is what he used to show off the short demos to interviewers. They said each area has a theme so it should be more interesting or at least just as interesting as a lot of XI's areas were compared to now at least.

Why in the name of shiva would they post them onto a pr site of all things without taking better screens with an able PC? SE we love you and your marketing for XIII and XIII-2 was massive and lasted all year. What is your marketing team for XIV doing?

[Gramul]

Sorry, but what do you actually want? A field of glow sticks and primary-colour landscapes like Guild Wars 2 (which looks like it belong on Nickelodeon or something)?

Only thing wrong with those screenshots is the graphical downgrade from our current version.

I think he wants square to show off the new and interesting looking areas, like what we saw in the concept art.
These screens don't really show how much the world is going to deviate from what we know aside from Grid being more open and Tha having more plants.

[Seif]

Sorry, but what do you actually want? A field of glow sticks and primary-colour landscapes like Guild Wars 2 (which looks like it belong on Nickelodeon or something)?

Only thing wrong with those screenshots is the graphical downgrade from our current version.

No absolutely not.

I've heard this argument before that anything different than the current design must look like WoW/diablo and that is simply absurd.

Take XI for example. Very gray game, very muted games still original and compelling visual design. XII very muted colors most areas were almost colored just in values of the same hue. Still very recognizable visual design and very unique to XII only.

X was colorful I'll give you that. But was it Guild Wars/WoW cartoony colorful? No, not even close. What was memorable about it was the journey created by the original and ever changing scenery that was always true to X's main themes.



Now these XIV screens on the other hand to me (and yes we can disagree on liking stuff I'm completely okay if you think they're the s**t, its ok to disagree) could easily look like they were lifted from any game out there.

If you changed the characters I wouldn't doubt if somebody told me these are from Age of Conan, Risen or Dragon's Dogma.

[Ruisu]

Sorry, but what do you actually want? A field of glow sticks and primary-colour landscapes like Guild Wars 2 (which looks like it belong on Nickelodeon or something)?

Only thing wrong with those screenshots is the graphical downgrade from our current version.

You should try playing the game with depth of field off. It looks bad, and why this game was praised for it's graphics is beyond me. Character/gear/enemy detail was fantastic, but everything else is pretty bad. Shadows, shaders, draw distance, etc.

Hell, some weather conditions are really annoying because rain happens to fall through areas that are actually sheltered pretty well.