Quote Originally Posted by misterrpg View Post
Oh god, there is so much wrong stuff here.

Anyone saying that 2.0 looks better than 1.0 you're absolutely wrong. You're just wrong. You can't even argue it. 1.0 in all technicalities has better textures, lighting, water effects, etc. than 2.0. 1.0 used a different graphical engine that favored more powerful machines. 2.0 was built with the PS3's limitations, not PC's.

Also, all of those giving me random dates, nice sources. You forgot to list them.

Ugh, this community...
Right? I've seen so many threads of uninformed people making requests that aren't reasonable or intelligent. My biggest fear is that SE will listen to them because they seem to be the vocal majority here.

People also seem to be confusing the graphics engine with world design. The graphics in 1.0 where just incredible. The HDR bloom, the animations, the high texture resolution. However, ARR took away those because lolps3. Instead, though we did get very beautiful world design, in which the worlds themselves are less copy/paste and filled with more stuff.

Don't get me wrong ARR's graphics are great. But 1.0s where better. The game mechanics are on a whole other level, though. 1.0 felt more like a tech demo. ARRs mechanics are more mainstream (which is good if they want the game to actually survive). However it's netcode and SEs poor transparency is still crippling it; hugely.