Too much flashy flashiness going on

[Gramul]

Games are Art. FACT!

Even if it wasn't, who cares?

What you get is a kind of experience you can't get anywhere else. That in and of itself is a concept of immeasurable value. It doesn't need a label to make it something to be cherished. If having an interactive goal separates it from being art for some reason, fine, let the art world present itself that way. The word "art" isn't important enough for me to change my mind on what I get from games.

[Seraphe]

Even if it wasn't, who cares?

What you get is a kind of experience you can't get anywhere else. That in and of itself is a concept of immeasurable value. It doesn't need a label to make it something to be cherished. If having an interactive goal separates it from being art for some reason, fine, let the art world present itself that way. The word "art" isn't important enough for me to change my mind on what I get from games.

And this time I decide to agree with you again and actually type it

[Kyri]

Wow go out for the day and its a different topic! :P
I do like my games extra pretty and though those wow screenshots were very pretty(and ty for showing us) but it still looks drawn/cartoonish to me, not the realistic art that I ment to 14, but very nice I do feel games are art and tend to play games that look good and have really good story. Final fantasys way of drawing my surroundings and characters is what really sells 11/14 to me from the mmo market(granted 11 was like 7 years ago) vs games like wow. I like the look of a lot of Korean mmo's too but hate that as a pretty female everything I wear looks like im ready to go to a fetish gang bang party. So final fantasy has touched a nice middle ground for me in the art department as well as music, combat, socialization, and pretty much everything I like to do when I sit down and play a game.

[Bowen]

Indeed.

A person disagrees with someone = trolling
A person agrees with someone = trolling
A person likes flashy animations = trolling
A person doesn't like flashy animations = trolling
A person doesn't know whether they like flashy animations or not = trolling
A person has a name that begins with one of the letters between A and Z = trolling

Not to mention the people who just use the word whenever someone says anything mildly funny.

I'd give a real example, but I don't want to be that big of an asshole today.

[Kraggy]

TBH I see little difference between XIV's PC spell 'spam' and that one sees in XI on NM fights, if you don't adjust your config settings to exclude it.

As long as XIV has the same 'effect reduction' control as XI then it'll be fine.

[Zantetsuken]

Of course games are art...

But does the word even mean anything anymore??

[Yoohre_WildRiver]

isnt that what FF in FFXIV means? Flashy Flashiness 14?

i dont think is over kill. one of Final fantasy s charm is the Huge spells and flashy explosions.... while you attack a little cute sheep

[Warlock]

Of course games are art...

But does the word even mean anything anymore??

Artists can be some funny folks

[Ashaylin]

Of course games are art...

But does the word even mean anything anymore??

Artist my ass.

[VitoScaletta]

I've been playing Tera for the passed few days since it went F2P, I noticed a glaring thing right off the bat, the skills menu. It looks IDENTICAL to ARR alpha. This. Scares. Me. I don't want to see it turn into a skill spam fest. People tout Teras battle system but to each their own, I prefer XI's and even 1.0's. I want to spend another decade on an FF game, please make it happen!