One of the issues with FFXIV...

[grandm]

true, i didn't mean to suggest that things have gone bad because the games now look real. just mean although a game can look real, and look good at the same time. don't mean the dev's have to be confined to what only happens in the real world. on our planet we are bound by certain rules, like gravity. but that little box under your tv can do and be anything. and the sooner dev's remember that the better. i'm not saying get rid of FPS or sports games, just don't make them the only games on the market

[Konachibi]

true, i didn't mean to suggest that things have gone bad because the games now look real. just mean although a game can look real, and look good at the same time. don't mean the dev's have to be confined to what only happens in the real world. on our planet we are bound by certain rules, like gravity. but that little box under your tv can do and be anything. and the sooner dev's remember that the better. i'm not saying get rid of FPS or sports games, just don't make them the only games on the market

To be totally honest the most creative and original 'game' I've ever played is Second Life (even though really it's a 3D chat community which is a little too over-run with 'adult content' these days). I'm usually hanging around in English speaking sims on that and see the typical stuff like clubs and cars and overly shiny decorations and stuff. When I went to a Japanese sim though I was totally blown away by it! They had a fully scripted train the went around the sim in a figure 8 and the front of it was shaped like a cat, then there was a scripted cat and mouse that ran around on part of the island, they had things I couldn't even work out what they were, there was some amazingly creative stuff in there, and some of the clothes and attachments they'd created for avatars were astouding! Crazy thing was price comparison was almost impossible. The things english speaking shops sold for L$1500, the japanese were selling for around L$50, and they'd created some avatar attachments I'd never even thought was possible.

Least to say I rarely shop in english sims nowadays when I log on there