Alpha First Look: Video 2 - Gridania

[neorei]

new grid + reminds me of windurst
old grid reminds me of the shire

[Kraggy]

"Old Gridania"?

Have to say I don't get it either.

[BobbinT]

I do feel impressed. But at the same time, feels so sad and longing with the old Grid, most of all with the BGM. The old one feels peaceful and serenity, and feels like I can concentrate doing personal stuff like crafting and forget the deals with outside world.

While the new ones while delivers it's cheerfulness and sociable, kinda lost it's identity as the Grid I know and love. ;D

I know it's all up to the hand of SE, but can I ask to retain Grid's original identity as some of us love and know it? I do realize some localization about almost the same, but it's the general atmosphere that makes it feels different.

new grid + reminds me of windurst
old grid reminds me of the shire

That's really conveys everything I want to say. I was just starting FF11 for about 5 days and choose Windurst because it's similarity. I was kinda a bit letdown since the place is more... bustling.

[Marek]

Everything is absolutely wonderful but i dont think the foot sound effects need to be so pronounced hope we can adjust that, it is a bit annoying. In real life your feet dont make that much noise. But all in all nice work team!!!!
MAREK ZANTSHA

[Kiote]

Looks great to me. I like the additional detail added to the town.

Now we just need Dynamic NPCs that walk around and interact with things.

Oh yeah, and their houses.. The one thing that ever actually bothered me about the cities in this game; Where do all these people live?

I am definitely satisfied though. No real complaints here.

[Kiote]

Everything is absolutely wonderful but i dont think the foot sound effects need to be so pronounced hope we can adjust that, it is a bit annoying. In real life your feet dont make that much noise. But all in all nice work team!!!!
MAREK ZANTSHA

That is an effect caused by moving the point of sound output closer to the character. Happens in 1.0 if you adjust it in the config menu.

[Arwen]

That Aetheryte is massive D:
Beautiful Gridania!

[Fensfield]

Some aspects were a bit on the noisy side.. all those banners and all were very JUST IN CASE YOU FORGOT YOU'RE IN GRIDANIA. But that aside, some of the new elements, like that dock, really were lovely..

Sad to see the character animations are still suffering a fair bit though .. bleh.

Also good lord that aetherite was a bit.. o.o And the change in music I'm not completely sure I'm comfortable with either..

Still, not so uncomfortable as I feared it'd be I admit. But why on earth does the UI feel compelled to constantly make sure we know we're playing solo? And I hope there'll be a free camera option.. 's bad enough with mouse and keyboard but that'll be horrid as a gamepad user.

[Rassa]

I figure that the building near the Aetheryte with all the yellow banners is the new GC headquarters. They probably haven't finished the inside so didn't feature it.

[Babydoll]

I don't have one complaint..looks amazing!!!!!!! I LOVE the music at the beginning too. omg what a difference! It really felt like Final Fantasy to me. I guess the only thing that kind of bothered me was the poor moogle lol I wanted to take the bag from him haha But wow can't wait to see the rest of the game! YAY