Lackluster Graphics in FFXIV

[Machazareel]

To all those who think FFXIV's graphics are on par with TERA online ... you must be smoking some good stuff while playing FFXIV.... TERA's graphics are gorgeous... and while FFXIV could be just as pretty or even better, well currently they are not. It lacks the level of detail TERA has and which bring the whole world to life and make you say wow! FFXIV feels so like it was made in less then a yr period.... which makes one asks the question... wtf happened during these 5 yrs??!

I'll have to kinda agree with this as well. When I first played TERA I was awed by how absolutely gorgeous the environments were. I haven't had that sensation with FF14 at all. The zones are extremely bland, and near everything in a region looks the same. Zones in TERA have a lot of little details floating around that really add to the impression. (flocks of birds flying in the distance, beautiful waterfalls etc). The game also runs a lot better than XIV does, thanks to actually having a properly pc-optimised engine. I'll won't be playing it more until it releases in the EU, though. Playing an MMO where everything is in another language is bothersome, and even though there is a crude english patch for the client, it's done with google translate or something, and seeing my class trainer with the title of Master of Four Prostitutes was kind of an immersion breaker.
FF14 has fantastic character models, though, and mob models. I expected that of course, since imo FFXI had some of the best character models in the MMO industry up until the release of 14.

edit: It's just a shame that so many of these great mob models are of standard wildlife. Killing scores of stuff like Coblyns and Marmots and such is so silly, and very unheroic. At level 1 in TERA I was fighting against big, menacing treants, at level 10 I had my a first boss fight against a mob around the size of XI's Fafnir.

[Holyfye]

you have to calm down guys ... the fixes the game will have wont contain graphics too :S

[Kilta_Firelotus]

Tera online has rude ppl. look up a EU thing about tera online the guy at the booth was flipping out over a player and camera man for not listening. Sorry if a game has that type of reprisentation... >.> it sucks.

[Machazareel]

Tera online has rude ppl. look up a EU thing about tera online the guy at the booth was flipping out over a player and camera man for not listening. Sorry if a game has that type of reprisentation... >.> it sucks.

Whether some guy in a booth is a douche has no bearing on the visual quality of the environments in a game. Even if it did, you don't have to be a nice person to be good at your job, unless your job is to be a nice person.

[Sinzfeldt]

Tera online has rude ppl. look up a EU thing about tera online the guy at the booth was flipping out over a player and camera man for not listening. Sorry if a game has that type of reprisentation... >.> it sucks.

Uhhhh what...?

[gifthorse]

Tera online has rude ppl. look up a EU thing about tera online the guy at the booth was flipping out over a player and camera man for not listening. Sorry if a game has that type of reprisentation... >.> it sucks.

Are you kidding? At least the TERA personel are actually INTO their game? Do you remember the people that did FFXIV presentations. They're all crap.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6nSbqhcQqQ

Some interesting gear in those videos though.

[BelgianRofl]

One of the areas in which FFXIV falls short is repeated terrain. The quality of the terrain isn't an issue, because it's all high quality textures for an MMO (barring draw distance etc). However, if the engine could cope with the passive streaming of the game world (as opposed to loading screens between zones), then this would give SE more freedom to create richer, more detailed, more unique environments. It would also allow SE to create oceans, say, around Limsa Lominsa. Currently there aren't oceans, but simply tiles which are supposed to represent oceans.

This !! There wouldn't be so many repeating textures - Uldah/Limsa cliffs if Crystal Tools wasn't a piece of junk.

But it's annoying to see such detail in the characters and world detracted from by a few shortcomings: loading screens, repeated terrain, and the implications of these on the design of the world.

Yes. Why SE took the time to create proper shading, etc on the characters, but neglected Environment and structures is beyond me.

[Luluna]

I like the graphics in FFXIV some of the best games have crap graphics and FFXIV has beautiful characters and a lovely world, if you don't like then go play something else.

[BelgianRofl]

If you don't like then go play something else.

Thank you for contributing such insight! Pretty much nobody likes the game at the moment. We're here to point discuss things that need to be changed to make this game popular. Right now, the rightly earned 49% meta score is deterring a lot of players.

All we're doing is pointing SE in the right direction towards making the graphics even better! Since you love FFXIV for its graphics, then wouldn't you love it even more if the graphics were even better?

[Elkwood]

I would love it even more if the game was designed properly so it did not overtax my hardware, I am sick of my PC video card heating upto 80C anytime I run XIV