Seasons in zones?

[Xaimera]

YES PLEASE! ^^ this would be so cool~~ i think this would make 2.0 even more beautiful! if thats possible :P lol.

come on Yoshi-P do this!!!!! PLEASE!

[Elexia]

this would be nice, BUT knowing SE they made the game in a way where making color changes to the textures impossible and they would have to rebuild the whole games textures & shaders from scratch.

Ironically, FFXI had seasonal changes too, they were subtle enough that even XIV should be able to manage.

[Tonkra]

reminds me of the AION trailer i never experienced this unfortunatley..

AION Seasons

but how often should the season change? i really dont want to have almost all zones snowy white at the same time ;XD

[Naraku_Diabolos]

I'd love to see seasons! Maybe they should last like 1 month real time. That seems reasonable to me. That or reflect real life seasonal times.

Like Pokemon Black/White/Black 2/White 2? In-game seasons lasted a month and would cycle through the year 3 times.

[Shougun]

Seasons would be cool - would apperciate it more if like that Aion video linked by Tonkra you can watch the change happen.


Only thing I'd like to remind SE of is that each zone should have its own season time table (tropical area would have longer summers and springs then winter, and you would likely never see snow - or it would turn to water before hitting the ground). If you consider frozen lakes and such you could even open up / close shortcuts or fun achievement/vista areas on season changes.

It would be good to consider as well to keep the environment varied (at different stages) so not every where has the same color pallete from lightning and environmental changes.

[PSxpert2011]

Would a final fantasy world have the same seasons as the real world? Just asking but I do think it's a cool concept but for "high-fantasy" more seasons should be invented to fix the ecology and environment.

Say for example, spring: The Black Shroud enters "flowerious"(season) and the Fairies and the Pixies and the Sprites come out to collect, to play, to work w/e. Seeing pixies floating around in the forest has been a fantasy icon for like forever. I think the atmosphere would improve.
=(The elements change, magic is more abundant and curing is enhanced. The ability to regen more improved and weakness after raise is shortened.)

[Ixchell]

As i recall, and granted it has been a long time, but seasonal shifts/changes were one of the "new" features promised before the original release?

anyone else remember this?

[Alexb150]

i think i'd prefer certain areas with certain weather types. having the shroud with snow everyonce in awhile would be fun i guess but for an extended period or time? no thanks. plus if they do that they then have to replace the snow with crappy, muddy soil for a couple of weeks after winter ends

[ShinigamiKayla]

I love this idea + weather effects in town I love the rain and snow... I always wished games would add more transitioning weather effects but quite bummed out not many did... always remember sitting in the rainy zones in FFXI just listening to the rain fall... I LOVE THE RAIN WHAT CAN I SAY!!! x__x/ weather = important to me.... and Fog would be epic too... epic foggy morning while riding on choco back along the coast @_@/

[Naraku_Diabolos]

i think i'd prefer certain areas with certain weather types. having the shroud with snow everyonce in awhile would be fun i guess but for an extended period or time? no thanks. plus if they do that they then have to replace the snow with crappy, muddy soil for a couple of weeks after winter ends

I forgot about the mud after it snows...lol I hated that whenever it snows here. At least you could still sled on the mud. My friend and I did it at his house when we were younger.

On my first desktop computer (Windows ME; don't ask lol) we didn't have 32-bit color on there, so we got one of the basic legacy NVIDIA cards. Well, whenever I had a weather affect on FFXI, it always went weird due to the card's abilities. When it thunderstormed, the screen would get murky and lightning flashed everywhere like in real life. The fog was really like fog in real life, and I couldn't see anything. The graphics card sucked because if I was playing the game for an hour, everything would glitch; my character would walk around without a body or a head at times.