Area redesign - Discussion thread

[Shura]

I hope they add small things to the areas that make it stand out, FFXI had this but most ppl didnt take the time to stop and look. Here is a video made by Chochoroon, the video shows all the unique scenery within areas in Vana'Diel.

FF11 Vana'diel Scenery

Its small things like this that imo made Areas in FFXI so amazing and gave players the feel that Vana'Diel was alive. I would love to experience that in Eorzea, with amazing graphics. When i play now, while some areas graphically look amazing the world itself feels dead, there is no life to it like Vana'diel had. As u can see in the video above, the birds, bugs, butterflies, fish and so on, these small things that are taking place in the environment around you gave Vana'diel life, for example the whale and whale family that pop up during the boat ride (4:20+ in the video) and its things like this that Eorzea is missing

Anyway not to stray to far from topic, i hope when they redesign the zones, they do small things like this to bring the world to life. If they simply change the way it looks but don't give it unique features then i think ppl would get bored of it after a while.