Old Weather Animation Graphics - What do you like more in the Old Version of FFXIV?

[BreathlessTao]

BTW, why are you faceplanting into an uninteresting rock wall in the first place?

Mining nodes/area there. Levelling up MNR, there are quite a lot of such spaces people need to "faceplant into".

[Felis]

Here is a video about 1.0 sandstorm
You really feel the sand in the air

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=499GA7JkVg4

[Tonkra]

Here is a video about 1.0 sandstorm
You really feel the sand in the air

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=499GA7JkVg4

and i think the ambient sound was way much better, too. you can hear the sand rolling in the air.. which you dont in ARR.


And the weather effects for bad weather is so awful now in my opinion... it does not look real at all..
it looks so cartoonish to me :/



the cloud textures are ugly as hell XD compared to 1.0..


coming back to textures:

1.0.



ARR




i think the old version has more brillance to it. colors and texture wise. and character details. in my opinion the old version is visually a little more timeless like the new one. Escpecially noscea has some really ugly environments.

grainy textures/grasses :/

i think there you feel that SE had less time for ARR than for the original version.. for visuals. (but concerning this, they of course did a good job for ARR)

[Laraul]

and i think the ambient sound was way much better, too. you can hear the sand rolling in the air.. which you dont in ARR.


And the weather effects for bad weather is so awful now in my opinion... it does not look real at all..
it looks so cartoonish to me :/



the cloud textures are ugly as hell XD compared to 1.0..

Cloudy weather in 1.0 looks pretty much the same...

[Tonkra]

Cloudy weather in 1.0 looks pretty much the same...

do you think? it looks WAY more real.. the texture in ARR looks not real.. sorry.

just look at this old weather demonstration video... the rain and thunder in the end.. not comparable to ARR..

Weather Demonstration Alpha - Gamescom 2009

and uldah XD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMHrsEliEB0

sky textures in ARR look drawed.. while in 1.0. they look real (my opinion)

[Laraul]

do you think? it looks WAY more real.. the texture in ARR looks not real.. sorry.
...
sky textures in ARR look drawed.. while in 1.0. they look real (my opinion)

What I think is that you are to focused on a silly thing like weather to notice the things that make each area unique and interesting. Why is weather so important to you? Obviously our opinions differ about weather in the game.

When 1.0 was released, the game's graphics were never said to be anything less than impressive. It wasn't enough to save the game from it's many many faults though. The huge areas were bland and uninteresting with one part of the map looking no different from another. It looked as though they just took part of the map and the copy-pasted it a bunch of times to make one large zone.

[Dannythm]

I miss so much stuff about 1.0 is not even funny, but I'm not gonna lit it all again, because these threads always go nowhere good.

[Deifact]

I miss the 1.x weather effects too. Also the nights were much darker. If I lived in Eorzea now I'd go insane because it's never dark I'd never be able to sleep!

I'd love to see darker nights and characters using handheld or holstered lanterns to light the way. Animations to pull up a hood (if your armor has one) in a rain/sandstorm. Small things to make the game more immersive than just "things are happening around me but don't affect me in any way".

[Seif]

The fact that clouds now don't move drives me crazy.

They just get stretched a bit and worst of all:

Mid-day they just change the stretching direction like the wind just turned 180 degrees in one second.

Compare ANY time lapse video of 1.0 and arr to see how bad this really is. Even XI managed proper skybox animations better!

[Gextiv]

Oh My Ghosh... Titan 1.0(thanks for sharing)... What a badass! Damn you PS3 limitations.


Hopefully, the game can make somewhat of a return to its former glorious looks.