The Mark of 1.0 [DEV Question]

[Eekiki]

I'm going to guess you dont know what terrain means..

Yes, I do know what terrain means.

Have you played Assassin's Creed III? Have you seen how every single cave in the Frontier looks exactly the same? How many times did you climb the same exact tree to reach a different sync point?

They didn't try to hide their copypasta any more than FFXIV did.

Yet, if you look on Metacritic, and Assassin's Creed III has "universal acclaim"*. Because it's ASSASSIN'S CREED, BRAH! It's eXtrEEm!

But be a condescending jerk if it makes you feel bigger.

* I'm exaggerating to make a point.

[Shougun]

Yes, I do know what terrain means.

Have you played Assassin's Creed III? Have you seen how every single cave in the Frontier looks exactly the same? How many times did you climb the same exact tree to reach a different sync point?

They didn't try to hide their copypasta any more than FFXIV did.

Yet, if you look on Metacritic, and Assassin's Creed III has "universal acclaim". Because it's ASSASSIN'S CREED, BRAH! It's eXtrEEm!

But be a condescending jerk if it makes you feel bigger.

Sorry if that came off condescending, I seriously meant what I said lol. "I dont believe anyone can think FFXIV 1.0's terrain is anything different then copy pasta lol" So in disbelief I said maybe you dont know what terrain means.

Oh I found the mappy things I was talking about.

[Eekiki]

Sorry if that came off condescending, I seriously meant what I said lol. "I dont believe anyone can think FFXIV 1.0's terrain is anything different then copy pasta lol" So in disbelief I said maybe you dont know.

Ah, okay, I gotcha. I wasn't saying I thought FFXIV's terrain wasn't copy pasta. My point is damn near every game copy-pastes terrain, but FFXIV was criticized more harshly for it.

Someone who gives more of a crap about this stuff than me should look for natural occurrences of copypasta terrain in the real world. I know they're out there.

[Shougun]

Ah, okay, I gotcha. I wasn't saying I thought FFXIV's terrain wasn't copy pasta. My point is damn near every game copy-pastes terrain, but FFXIV was criticized more harshly for it.

Most other games terrain is filled with little objects and other 'shiny' distracting things - the copy paste becomes harder to tell / less often. SE was just blatantly obvious, specially since it hardly relied on any 'shiny' objects but the actual land itself. But I agree its not a unique feature of FFXIV, specially in games without long loadtimes where using the same land group saves a lot of time.