Anyone Else Feel, That the World is Too Pretty?

[Alerith]

As was mentioned earlier, Camp Tranquil now rests atop a swampy crater compared to what it used to be. Furthermore, half of Mor Dhona is completely gone. Camp Brittlebark and the surrounding area has been nuked off the map. The Burning Wall in Thanalan is an aetheric mess compared to its prior incarnation and Coerthas is suffering from a perpetual nuclear winter.

[Nihility]

bahamut didn't really ravage the continent

Coerthas, where dalamud fell, got plunged into eternal winter
the nearby areas that lead into coerthas are pretty desolate as well
the areas where the empire are most heavily infiltrated are pretty destroyed for healthy plant and animal life. modern day pollution style
bahamut's rampage was pretty much localized to the armies underneath him when he was freed but he has no worshipers and was weakened so lost his body and all his aether re-integrated into the land
and what may be the big one that is actually hinted at during quests but only explained during coil is huge caverns opened up underground that seem to resonate with aether. The coil itself being one of them, along with bronze lake draining to reveal wanderer's palace, camp tranquil collapsing and becoming a swamp, some other areas seem to be completely gone

didn't play 1.0 as much as i could have but the areas covered in corrupted aetheryte like burning wall and salt strand may be a result of it as well

[PapesseLudovique]

Sorry, but this is A Realm Reborn, not Fallout: New Eorzea...

Really?!? That's a weak strawman. You took it upon yourself to define the words "A realm reborn" as if the title couldn't possibly feature anything else, and the only alternative is to make the whole game "fallout". Besides, I said, that the game doesn't need to be one giant wasteland. Just that some parts would be nice.

[Sotek]

Besides, I said, that the game doesn't need to be one giant wasteland. Just that some parts would be nice.

Sections of North Shroud and Western La Noscea. Central Coerthas Highlands. Mor Dhona.

Heck, from pretty much every zone in the game you can see some sign of destruction. The giant orange crystal structures such as the Burning Wall can be seen from several zones, for example. Every section of The Black Shroud features massive felled trees, such as the one Camp Bentbranch is based in. There is plenty of destruction everywhere, short of them slapping lava all over the place I don't know what exactly they're missing... Literally every area actually has a giant piece of Dalamud sticking out of it as well... I mean, what else do they need to do exactly?

[PapesseLudovique]

Lore.

More lore

Interesting, thank you.

[MStowastiqVahlshdeh]

Nope I think it is fairly balanced and I don't find all areas in the game to be pretty either.

[Sixmp]

I never really played 1.0 other than to run screaming from the beta like a child with his hair on fire. So my view of the world SE have now is without prior knowledge of what it looked like before.
After seeing some of the replies and some pics in the thread i can see how it has changed and it does make sense.
However i would have no idea about the changes if had never come into this thread.

which still kind of points out that while there is evidence of destruction to the people who visited the land once before to a new eye it looks fairly business as usual.

[Makeda]

For a planet ravaged by a global (continental) calamity? It's only been what, five years since Bahamut laid waste to the Eorzea?

The world is amazing, but I get the feeling I'm in a post apocalyptic world, minus the apocalypse. We're not really shown the devastation. We're not shown how it affected people, just told through occasional dialogue, but you wouldn't really know it from the day to day life of these people.

One of the most beautiful 'nature preserves' in north eastern Europe right now is... Chernobyl. You just wouldn't want to live there if you're from a species with a lifespan long enough for cancer to get you.

Until you kill all the bugs and plants, by say... making the planet into a super heated greenhouse... nature has a pesky way of coming back pretty fast and taking over.

Vaen's explanation about Aether makes a lot of sense. Nature is on steroids... and it won't repair things in a way the sentient folks like - but rather in the way that suits fast growing species: big bugs and plants. I do see a lot of zones that are full of... big bugs and overgrown plants. With the odd crystal poking out of the ground somewhere. And then ruins: where the things with brains and slower lifespans have been pushed out.

[Becken]

Right now we are only in a small area on the north side of the lake in Mor Dhona, in 1.0 we had a bigger area in Mor Dhona and was able to move around the lake.

1.0 map http://www.ffxivinfo.com/images/maps...-mor-dhona.jpg

2.0 map http://www.ffxivinfo.com/images/maps/l/mor-dhona.jpg