Is it just me, or does 2.0 look like it was a LOWER graphical quality than 1.0?

[Yrusama]

That's funny, I seem to remember a lot of people favoring FFVII over FFXIII. Graphics don't make the game fun. The game makes itself fun. If it were all graphics, then people would have enjoyed 1.0 more.

[Dubont]

but....the grass...

[Ksenia]

If you were looking at a console version of the game I am sure it will have lowered graphics. PS3 only has 256K of Ram. Even the 3.2 Ghz Pentium 4 processor is pretty out dated by i5 or i7 standards.

[Neptune]

That the gameplay will be better will make it into an overall more well received game, but that doesn't excuse the drop in visual quality. I'm not convinced they did everything they could to scale the engine up to the current spec PCs that are running FFXIV.

I guarantee you guys that the graphics are better. Think about it.

Gotta love this. His way of proving it is to ask you to think about how true it is! lol

[Arcell]

That the gameplay will be better will make it into an overall more well received game, but that doesn't excuse the drop in visual quality. I'm not convinced they did everything they could to scale the engine up to the current spec PCs that are running FFXIV.

They are considering lower end PCs as well as the PS3. We haven't seen the differences between the game on the lowest settings and the highest settings yet. I suggest those with higher end computers wait until that is shown before making judgement.

[_pops]

As for the hardware requirements for playing the game, while the specs for the demo machine used at the event were unannounced, apparently, any machine powerful enough to play the current Final Fantasy XIV will be able to run A Realm Reborn without any necessary upgrades.

Source: http://kotaku.com/5935273/final-fant...ades-necessary

[Dragonheart]

Character models and world textures are down graded.

World design is about 10xs better.

So worse graphics better design I would say.

Don't forget the extremly better shadow/light system, shaders.

Ah.. and you know, this is still a pre-alpha.

[Neptune]

They are considering lower end PCs as well as the PS3. We haven't seen the differences between the game on the lowest settings and the highest settings yet. I suggest those with higher end computers wait until that is shown before making judgement.

You are dreaming! In all the demos since E3 it has repeatedly been stated that the game is running on "high" settings.

[Arcell]

You are dreaming! In all the demos since E3 it has repeatedly been stated that the game is running on "high" settings.

http://jpgames.de/2012/08/gamescom-2...naoki-yoshida/

Yoshida: We didn’t put the sticker of the i5 atop the i7 *everyone laughs* it is her work pc, she does all her work on this notebook. This is definitely not a gaming computer. In the video every graphic setting was set to high, these are set to low – You can barely see the difference.

[Fredericks notes: Even on lowest settings the PC version looked good!]

I never said the demos weren't set to high, I just said that they had to consider lower end PCs and the PS3 as well, which could attribute to what people are calling a "graphics downgrade". Personally if that's the extent of the "downgrade" I'll be quite happy to play it.

Edit: I did say that we hadn't seen the difference between high and low, we still haven't but apparently it's not a ton.

[Zyph]

Gotta love this. His way of proving it is to ask you to think about how true it is! lol

Glad you can read.