Waiiiit a second!?

[Konachibi]

It's a port of the PC version so it uses similar PC assets. Devs of XI claimed that the PC version had 2x sized textures, however this is mostly untrue. There are some objects / models / zones that use higher resolution textures on PC/360 but mostly they're the same textures with some having been re-sampled via software up-scaling. No additional detail is derived from that process though.

Most of XI on PC and 360' "look better" attribute is just that you have the option to render the 3D resolution at a much higher resolution than the PS2 version, also the PC version depending on your hardware might run at a constant 30FPS compared to the inconsistent frame rate of the PS2 version that often dipped as low as 12FPS.

That's what I figured.

I do remember last time I played it seeing a summoner run past me with a Carbuncle summoned, and noticing that for some reason Carbuncle was like, graphically superior to everything else on the screen.

It was like a PS1 character surrounded by SNES graphics XD

[Aykatu]

If I turn nearly everything down on FFXIV, it's worse than snes...It actually turns into might and magic -1