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

[Obsy]

Really? People are complaining about this? The style is exactly the same, it's just using the new engine in the new world. It doesn't look more like WoW or Rift or Aion, that's just a stupid comparison to make. It looks like FFXIV with better graphics (and a more optimized graphics engine). What is there to complain about?

This. I have no clue what part of everyone's anatomy they're pulling this 'cartoony' idea out of, but y'all sure are good at feeding each other's imaginations. I might as well be watching a FOX News broadcast. The character models look nigh-identical to what they are now. What looks different is the hard lighting, which is likely circumstantial, just like with any other WS, spell, or specialized situation that happens now. If no one's looked up the Luminous engine, maybe you should pay Google and YouTube a visit before you start crying wolf over lack of realism. The new engine's going to put Crystal Tools to shame. Why in the world would they downgrade the graphics, people? Let's be rational here for crying out loud.

[Daenerys_Sedai]

One of my reasons for not believing that this image was an actual in-game image was that one of the characters doesn't have a last name.. but I guess it could just be a NPC.

[Betelgeuzah]

its "meh" to me, cryengine does just as good if not better. I didnt say "play" or even games. I said "Graphics", not to mention this is for a year from now and looks on average with current to graphic games lol.

Its on average if we pick specific titles like bf3, crysis 2 or witcher 2. It's not even close if we were seriously talking about 'average'. That's more like modern warfare 3, and that pic is way beyond mw3.

[Arcell]

One of my reasons for not believing that this image was an actual in-game image was that one of the characters doesn't have a last name.. but I guess it could just be a NPC.

Boco, the Chocobo.

[Obsy]

Boco, the Chocobo.

I think they might be referring to the "Braveheart" in the center screen, however it's my conclusion that P1 is Delita Heiral, and they've made it so that you don't see your own character's name floating over their head (since you know who you are), and the "Braveheart" is a temporary title, like the other party members' "Dragonslayer", "Materia Hunter", etc.

[Molly_Millions]

damn, amazing! I thought it was an artists rendering too. One thing though what is that choco doing there? I hope we can fight while riding our birds, not just next to them, if that's what's going on here.

[Obsy]

I hope we can fight while riding our birds, not just next to them, if that's what's going on here.

Yep, that's going to be an implemented feature, along with further-gearing your bird.

[Teakwood]

Don't like addons?

Don't use them and shut the kupo up.

[ellohwell]

Don't like addons?

Don't use them and shut the kupo up.

Sometimes it's not as simple as that. Some addons become necessities.

[Zenaku]

Don't like addons?

Don't use them and shut the kupo up.

Some addon become such a necessities that endgame and other players wont even allow you to join without them this is the issue and always would be.