Technology in FFXIV + Visual Style

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http://ffxivonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/gridania.jpg Simply beautiful [/URL]


Gridania in-game

http://www.ffxivorigin.com/content/attachments/227d1282007650-gridania1-jpg/

Like everything else in the game... it's lacking life. Where's those huts we see in the arwork, built in those big trees. Where's those huge 1000 years trees? Those beautiful lights guiding your path?

when comparing the ingame screenshot to the artwork it looks like they didnt have enough time to finish the main building... the 2nd and 3rd floor are missing. It's also missing lights, decor and paint...


Can we realistically hope all this will be fixed? I would love for FFXIV to turn more like it's artwork. To me it seems that they didn't understand Yoshida's art and couldn't reproduce it or they just lacked the time to do it? I hope one day we will see Eorzea come to life and maybe have a world resembling FFX and FFXII's worlds. [/B]

Gridania is pretty disappointing when comparing the concept art. But this usually happens in all games. Concept art always looks better than the 'real' thing.

That said, the gridania we have in-game is not really living up to potential. But I guess that's what happen when you use an engine that can't render shadows! It would have been interesting to see the concept art for gridania brought to life using different engines.

And can SE please fix Depth-of-field already! The sharp line separating low and high res textures is most irratating. Most!