The new concept screenshot is a real-time in-game render!

[Alhanelem]

I like the screen shot. The only thing I'm slightly concerned about is UI customisation.
While I think it's great, I hope SE doesn't allow too much freedom (as in, say, WoW), as I have the fear that some might become a standard that must be used (and we all know how elitists can be).

Extreme example ahead.



*shudders*

Oh, and I also found a nice article that sums up my thoughts



Source: http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=h...:0&tx=80&ty=66

Something like that is more like just staring at numbers instead of playing the game, you can't even see the game in that pic. But hey, I'm not against it if that's how someone wants their screen to look. But personally I like a UI that is both functional and asthetically presentable

[Teakwood]

Being able to use calculators in HS means you can blow past the BS work that can be done on a computer easily into actually interesting mathematics.

Being able to modify the UI and have more tools at your disposal means you can do much more interesting things in and with the battle system.

Everyone has their own ideas about what the UI should look like - this is why customisation is the ultimate win. Configurable UIs -is- the UI revolution. If you've got a great idea for a revolutionary, shiny, spanking-new UI... learn Flash or get a friend to, implement it, distribute it. If it's good, and cleaner than anything else out there, people will use it, heck, it might get implemented into the core game!

[Wynn]

I know it is off topic, but god that game looks awful. It's like a crayola factory exploded.

[Reinheart]

I know it is off topic, but god that game looks awful. It's like a crayola factory exploded.

All my friends tried to make me play it... it must be fun but... I just can't stand looking at that graphics... it hurts my eyes...

meh can't say much I played DDO and the graphics on that one was bad also... I just liked the system a lot it kept me and wife playing after FFXI until FFXIV was announced lol

[Shipp]

I love it, if it's not the UI that people are complaining about (with ridiculous screenshots of the worst UI screens possible), then it's how the game looks like crap. My picture was a horrible example of the game. I was sitting in a flag room with another Shaman and we both had elementals and totems out which are blocking the whole screen. Obviously it's not realistic graphics. The game has been out 7 years, and the WC series has been out far longer. That horse was dead by 2005, we're discussing the UI customization, not the graphics of the game.

[Nuru]

I just can't imagine how PS3 users will get to benefit from custom UI at all. What SE should do is make it where you'd have to submit a UI first, and then they can approve it and make it available for download through PSN and PC for others to use. I'm not sure how else this would work out for PS3 users.

[Shipp]

I just can't imagine how PS3 users will get to benefit from custom UI at all. What SE should do is make it where you'd have to submit a UI first, and then they can approve it and make it available for download through PSN and PC for others to use. I'm not sure how else this would work out for PS3 users.

PS3 users will have the controller UI which will probably be similar to XI or how XIV is now. There's not point in putting the PC UI on the PS3 because very few PS3 users will be using a KB/mouse, which is what the PC UI will be developed around, even from 3rd party addons by players.

[Nuru]

PS3 users will have the controller UI which will probably be similar to XI or how XIV is now. There's not point in putting the PC UI on the PS3 because very few PS3 users will be using a KB/mouse, which is what the PC UI will be developed around, even from 3rd party addons by players.

Even so, you do make sense when you say that most PS3 users will be playing with a controller, but there will also be many that will be using a USB keyboard. Though, that is not even the point of what I was saying. I am more concerned about how PS3 users won't be able to benefit from custom UIs. Whether they are for aesthetics or for lolhax.

Also, if you think about it. What if end game content had parties that required their members to have certain mods? PS3 users would be at a disability, perhaps rendering them from experience such hardcore content.

[Shipp]

Even so, you do make sense when you say that most PS3 users will be playing with a controller, but there will also be many that will be using a USB keyboard. Though, that is not even the point of what I was saying. I am more concerned about how PS3 users won't be able to benefit from custom UIs. Whether they are for aesthetics or for lolhax.

Also, if you think about it. What if end game content had parties that required their members to have certain mods? PS3 users would be at a disability, perhaps rendering them from experience such hardcore content.

I played XI with a controller and a keyboard. I also play WoW with a KB/Mouse. Unless SE allows users to keybind, PS3 users with a keyboard would benefit more from the standard UI than a mouse combo. Custom UIs are useless without a mouse (which many PS3 users won't use) or the ability to keybind stuff to their own liking (which I highly doubt SE even has the foresight to think of).

You're also assuming there will be all kinds of addons. As another person already stated, it will likely be only addons for the actual UI, not addons that work off the coding of the game like a lot of WoW's addons. I highly doubt SE would be dumb enough to allow PC users access to addons that show boss moves like DBM in WoW or damage meters, unless they separate PS3 and PC users onto different servers.

[Nuru]

You're also assuming there will be all kinds of addons. As another person already stated, it will likely be only addons for the actual UI, not addons that work off the coding of the game like a lot of WoW's addons. I highly doubt SE would be dumb enough to allow PC users access to addons that show boss moves like DBM in WoW or damage meters, unless they separate PS3 and PC users onto different servers.

That is what I am concerned about. If the UI Customization is only for the aesthetics, then I don't think that will become much of a problem. If it is used for the coding aspects, then something is seriously wrong. :P