World & Dungeon Details Suggestions

[Laughlyn]

Thought i make a thread about minor "World / Dungeon Details".

Recently i noticed the lack of "Effects" or rather "You know whaat would look cool in here..." in both dungeons aswell as the free-roaming world.

This isnt a complain thread but a mere suggestions thread.
So here's a few ideas i think will engulf players abit more.


Suggestions:

● Dripping water drops from walls / celings in dungeons, drips into a puddles with a faint "plop" sound effect.

● Small creepy crawlers, no-attackable running around the dunegon floor / walls etc.

● Cool looking foggy areas inside dungeons or world areas, making fighting abit harder than usual.

● Snow caves, with reflective ice crystallizations, proper mirror reflection of anything that moves.
- Including chilly fog & that special "chills down your spine" kinda sound-effect when ice grinds upon ice. (or a fork on a ceramic plate.)

● Faintly moving spiderwebs, wierd stuff moving around such as in FFXI promyvions, almost like dust particles, or wierd strange patterns.

● Small stones / rocks crumbling down the dungeon walls.

● When it rains in free-roam world, id love to see atleast waterdrops in the puddles.
- Same would be for when it snows, let some snow stay on the ground and slowly fade away.
- or atleast have some waterpuddles form when it rains & fade away when it stops raining.

● Crackling / disolving floor tiles, dissapearing underneath the players feet.

● Fishes swimming around in rivers & creeks. (Could represent what you can catch in that particular area)
- additonal fishes etc jumping out of water in lakes & then splashes back down.
- Hovering Dragonflies. (yes ive seen 1 or 2 in coerthas i think)

● Rare / random encounters, like a gopher / chipmunk all of a sudden pop out of a hole in the ground (for no obvious reason), a kind of "Wtf was that?" moment.

● Leaves falling from trees, pollen floating away from flowers / bushes etc.

● Owls, eagles / birds landing in trees / ground...and if a player gets to close they fly away.


- Well thats all i can come up with for now, im sure many others have same or other cool ideas.

All in all, id like to say how much i miss having mr Tanaka & mr Sakaguchi around for their "Epic" world visions. I really loved what Sakaguchi did with "Blue Dragon", some of the caves / area in that game was so freakin cool.
Even so mr Yoshida & his Dev Team doing better than i expected so keep it up. ( ^.^)b

Anywayz, i hope you end up giving us something that really "blows" our minds and
jawdropping as many of us still hope for.

More mysterious places, intrguing stories and epic battles!

[Esk]

I've wanted and said about this sort of thing since beta, so you got my vote.
Add in more alive/random/mobile npc's and were well on the way with this sort of immersion then.