Consoles are holding this game back (graphically)

[Iris_BP]

Consoles are not the reason for the graphical change

Oh, it is tho. It broadens the audience. Granted, 1.0 was a mess with copypasta locations (especially noticeable in the Black Shroud due to it's tunnel type landscapes), they never optimized (or had the time to optimize, because they were rushed hard) triangle counts, the UI was terribad to the point that if you didn't have a controller you'd have pretty hard time playing (in a game that didn't have a console version!!). But the handling of shaders in the first version of FFXIV crystal engine was amazingly good, to the point PS3 just couldn't handle it, lol. What I also blame on consoles (namely PS3 of course) is the lack of varying animations in cutscenes (although it might be the lack of time in developing ARR). 1.0 had very good animations overall.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

While the PS4 is hardly impressive, it does measure at roughly a bench mark of what many gamers have in terms of graphical power. They aren't going to push FFXIV beyond that when they simply isn't a market for high end enthusiasts. Now the PS3 on the other hand...

[Kaisha]

ARR could look better as it stands if they didn't keep taking shortcuts on the environments. Dropping consoles will do nothing to address this since it's a time vs. budget affair. The texture tiling in this game is rather poor, and made doubly more obvious in the zones you can fly in.


Outside of low resolution hair textures (why doesn't the PC Client have access to higher ones? There shouldn't be aliasing baked into the hair texture), the game looks fine enough as it is, more-so with the DX11-exclusive eye candy on that neither console has access to.

1.X animations would look silly with ARR's combat engine unless you want their animation speeding up to halt on a dime. 1.X had atrocious input latency with regards to it actually moving/stopping your character to boot, and it wasn't because of intertia.

[Naunet]

Graphics-wise, my primary complaint is all the low-res textures. >_< Would be really nice if SE could release a high-resolution texture pack for PCs at the very least.

[Ryios]

FFXIV is a cross platform game and always will be. It will always be built to run fairly evenly on all of it's platforms. We all knew this before we bought the game. And if you had played FFXI, it had the same problem... And imagine... FFXI was cross platform with the Playstation 2...

I'm just thankful ps3 support will fall off eventually and that the ps4 is a decent console.... Imagine if it was WII U and PC... It would be way worse.

I need to get some screens of this game on my PC in DX11 at 2560X1440, it looks pretty amazing. Imo MMO wise, this game has the best graphics bar none. I think it's pretty amazing it looks as good as it does and is built to run cross platform.

[Riardon]

I would really like Higher resolution Textures. The texture res is too low. It makes the armours look really bad and the environment too. Cutscenes look really bad cause camera is closer. I would also like to see more AA options. We are limited to FXAA for now. I don't say they should bring back the 1.0 animations but we need something better than now. I really hate seeing my character skating on the ground. On melee classes it's noticeable. And the DX11 client have many graphic glitches. No dev has answered till now if they gonna fix those issues like the inability to properly minimize the client on Windows, the shadow flickering on the edges of shadows and the bad implementation of Parallax Occlusion on rocks and elevated object which appear like a brownish glue of some sort.

[Odds_Ends]

I think things looks nice, DX11 and everything on max.

[Gilraen]

As many have said, it's not just consoles 'holding the game back', everything can console and PC. I have a gaming laptop that was new in 1.0's time that's now 'obsolete' and, being a laptop, will never improve without major computer surgery. It could just run 1.0 at medium settings and handled the game reasonably well (was able to do all content without trouble). 2.0 it runs flawlessly. If they were to bump the game up graphically I'd no doubt be right back to 1.0 performance, if not worse in Heavensward areas. Now, I haven't played on my laptop since the Beta because screw Windows, I jumped onto the PS3 as soon as it opened for it's Beta and never went back. I did take advantage of the PS4 upgrade in the last week of the promotion because I finally got a PS4 (for unrelated reasons), but I'll never go back to playing on my laptop. Ever.

[Velox]

Only if you look at it that way OP.

I'm going to go ahead and assume this is a troll thread.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Graphics-wise, my primary complaint is all the low-res textures. >_< Would be really nice if SE could release a high-resolution texture pack for PCs at the very least.

While not a high texture pack per se, this may be something you'd want to look into: http://www.nexusmods.com/finalfantasy14/?