Weather effects and our characters

[Gilraen]

I'd rather... what we have now. Why add anything relating to blood and gore? There are plenty of games where blood and gore are part of the theme, like Bethesda's games. But that's games made from a Western perspective. We rarely see Japanese games with blood and gore, Bloodborne being the first 'real' foray into the concept. And even then it's not really dedicated to it. Sure, there's blood, but as for gore there's barely any. Enemies don't explode in showers of organs, they just slump over like rag dolls. And other players flake away like burning paper mache'. I'm fine without blood, if I wanted to play a Western MMO with all that entails I'd be playing that instead of XIV.

PS3 actually doesn't have wet water effects last I checked.

Last I remember it did, and I'd been playing on the PS3 till May.

[Zojha]

I'd rather... what we have now. Why add anything relating to blood and gore?

It's solely for immersion, really. If it's windy, you expect your loose parts to move. If you get wet, you expect to be all shiny and dripping. If it's cold, you expect the ground to be potentially slippery. And if you slay a living being in close combat, you should expect to be all red afterwards.

You can keep it out of course, no harm in that. Especially physics can be very hard on the system and slipping can be "very" annoying. But it adds to have it.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Considering most FF games have little to no blood and this game is T rated, don't expect blood and gore to be added.

[DragonSlayer45]

I'll admit... Some quests imply that you are soaked in blood after killing loads of enemies, the Dark Knight quests for example. Seems a bit odd for the NPCs to say "Oh god, look at you. You're all soaked in blood! Get away from me!" when you look clean as a whistle in game.

Not a big deal for me though, but I can see how it'll be "immersion breaking" for some people.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I highly doubt there would be a mass quitting over the addition of blood

[Kosmos992k]

I highly doubt there would be a mass quitting over the addition of blood

Doubt it all you like, I think you're wrong.

I've never understood why some people like to see blood and gore flying across the screen. Since they would be utterly horrified to see such things in reality, I often wonder why people use the argument of immersion. Why would you want to be immersed in something that in real life would horrify you?

Either way, there are games, plenty of them, that cater to the thirst for blood. This isn't one of them and long may it remain that way.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

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I don't care for excessive blood myself, but if you seriously think the huge reason of people quitting is blood, you need to expand your horizontals and see the bigger picture to why people actually quit:

RMT is still out of control
There's still a big debate over what the end game and midcore content should be and how they should be made
Inventory limitations is still a hassle
You still can't exchange items between your own characters
Relic 3.0 is just 2.0 relic grinds all over again
No way to filter tells or other messages
Forums still using 1000 character limits and posting restrictions
etc etc


Out of all that, blood is going to be the least of peoples' problems. Ergo, you're quite wrong to think blood alone is going to drive people away when most people today are so darn desensitized to it in media.

[DragonFlyy]

Relic 3.0 is just 2.0 relic grinds all over again

Anyone who expected otherwise, is just delusional. Where did SE ever give the impression that the grind would go away for a current relic weapon?

[Kurogaea]

Doubt it all you like, I think you're wrong.

I've never understood why some people like to see blood and gore flying across the screen. Since they would be utterly horrified to see such things in reality, I often wonder why people use the argument of immersion. Why would you want to be immersed in something that in real life would horrify you?

Either way, there are games, plenty of them, that cater to the thirst for blood. This isn't one of them and long may it remain that way.

Yep, yep and yup. Maybe not quitting, but some countries may be against it leaving some censor issues. Besides theirs plenty of ff games with no blood in it, besides type-0 (which is bland in the blood to begin with). Quick note: when I said gunk, I was referring to things they spew at us, not their insides

[Shikiseki]

Aside from all the blood talk here (which is hot pink as I learned from Dangan Ronpa). I'd like to see :

1. Snow on hair and clothing which makes everything bit glossy and whiter than usual.
2. Sublime wet skin sweat effect from the hair too if you're at Thanalan during sunshine. Could also happen if you sprint or something.
3. Clothes get dusty and grainy during duststorms
4. Very light wet effect during fog and drizzle