Alpha First Look: Video 2 - Gridania

[Kona4me]

Looks good i love it~ but i would like to give few notices:
1- Please give us a choice to change camera settings, some times i don't want my character to follow camera movements.

2- Character movements is not so good~ in ver.1 when i try to move left or right it looks real but in ARR-alpha it doesn't feel real .

3- Make NPCs move around & talk with each other to make it lively :3, hearing their voices when i move around town will be cool as well .

^ w ^/ .

[Lurex]

Amazing!! Finally a Gridania worthy of FFXIV, the team did an amazing job here! love the music, love the airship port on the lake, love the Conjurer Guild look and atheryte stone placed there, the new music! everything is amazing! really looking forward to AAR and what looks to be the revival of a top notch game!

For the first time I'm seeing the detail of 2D FF, in a 3D FF world! reminds me of Secret of Mana and so many other great Square games.

^This, basically. It looks amazing, can't wait to play! Kudos to the development team for all your hard work and efforts with this, it clearly shows!

[Katella_Avenlea]

"Be sure to let us know what you think!" - Triairy

Since you asked! XD For the most part I think you guys have done an excellent job, and I know this is just Alpha and still being tweaked, so its possible the things I mention are already in the works.

That said, my only real thoughts are:

#1 I'm sincerely hoping that the final version of Gridania will look a little less like its experiencing a drought. In the current version I really appreciated how healthy the flora looked with its moisture rich environment. I'm guessing its just a matter of color choice? Sprinkle in some darker greens or maybe it could even be a simple matter of mixing in some other colored flowers because so much orange tends to make you think of arid climates... least it does for me. Just a thought, but I wouldn't think it would take much to make plants look more like what you'd find in a lush forest rather than what you'd find out in a dry field, seriously I think its just a matter of sprinkling in some deeper colors. Don't get me wrong, its beautiful, its only because it happens to be Gridania that I even make this statement.

#2 The aforementioned character/camera lock is odd... though I'm not sure this is actually even an issue because I kinda think I remember seeing the camera be able to move around the character in one of the earlier videos... I'll have to go look for it now.. If it is an issue, a setting to disable the lock would be grand.. if its not an actual forced feature of the game.. disregard this comment. ^^

#3 Praise over how the zone lines are only noticeable when you get near them. I really like that its not ever present!

[Jynx]

I'd have shoved my head through an iron spike a while back as one of them.

Yeah because it's like so totally uncool to give criticism of a product you are currently help fund with a subscription.

Although seriously if you think we are criticising the product just be a bunch of entitled clowns you are wrong. We all want the game to be amazing and when the developers ask us to.

Be sure to let us know what you think!

It's downright inconsiderate to not point out what you think could use some more polish, or you are uncertain about the direction of a certain aspect. Now if your just saying it sucks and will never be good that's one thing but I don't see alot of people saying that, I see alot of people saying they don't feel like cutting out animations or whatever else is a good thing.

Is it so wrong for us to tell them what we think?

[Phen]

Some thoughts/praise:
Being a delivery moogle is suffering
The little hints of the old music in the new- SOKEN WHY YOU SO GOOD AT THE MUSICS!
The simplicity of the load screen is really nice.
The functional titles under npcs is really nice- no more "which one was the guild master i did this like 3 months ago..."

questions/comments:
When people say "i assume x will be better by beta"- can you tell us which of these are in mostly finished form. If people assume the animation/texture are getting tweaks but that is not currently planned those expectations will be let down on top of the initial criticism.
I keep getting distortion at 720p on youtube. The type of movement blurring makes me think the encode is strange or youtube isn't done with it yet. This isn't an issue on the 720 and 1080 limit break trailers.

[Nabiri]

Gridania looked very beautiful and alive but the character seems artificial like a mannequin. The spinning without moving made me .___.

The water looked pretty cool. :3

[Koroma_tanuki]

Sunlight+Gridania? what blasphemy is this?

[JillyBean]

Need a LOVE <3 button, now!

[KoffeeBrown]

Wanna add something.
If someone haven't seen recent trailer of the elder scrolls online yet, please take a look. With all that blah-blah about next great MMO and so on, when you see animations you CAN NOT take the game seriously anymore! I was like: What...? and then hahahahaha till the end of the trailer.
My point is XIV 1.0 had its distinct (and I repeat still unrivaled) style that I'm sure helped the game get through all negativity in the first place.
Though I still have high expectations about ARR and looking forward to, hate to say, some kind of guildwarsiness is killing me.
I guess it's about new auditory SE aiming for...

[Tiberious]

Wanna add something.
If someone haven't seen recent trailer of the elder scrolls online yet, please take a look. With all that blah-blah about next great MMO and so on, when you see animations you CAN NOT take the game seriously anymore! I was like: What...? and then hahahahaha till the end of the trailer.
My point is XIV 1.0 had its distinct (and I repeat still unrivaled) style that I'm sure helped the game get through all negativity in the first place.
Though I still have high expectations about ARR and looking forward to, hate to say, some kind of guildwarsiness is killing me.
I guess it's about new auditory SE aiming for...

Agreed. Such an odd animation glitch (as I would call it) is uncalled for and has the potential to really hurt my level of immersion in this otherwise excellent looking world.