Lackluster Graphics in FFXIV

[Arximiro]

My only problem with the graphics is how my huge roegadyn runs through the water and it barely reacts at all, about as much as a small stone skipping across. Also annoying is how you just run through a large bush and it doesn't react in the least. The lighting could use some work as well.

Other than that the game is beautiful.

[syntaxlies]

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The World Graphics - most notably in Limsa Lominsa - are very sub-par.

Light is allowed to shine through walls and objects. Buildings/Landscapes do not cast shadows or reflect on water like they should. The inside of helmets light up when it should be dark.

Repeating textures are worse than in world of warcraft - again, most notably on Limsa Lominsa cliffs.

FFXIV also has some of the ugliest water graphics of any game made in the last 10 years.

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I don't understand what happened between FFXIV 2005 and FFXIV 2010...

shouldnt you have compared it other mmos since they are in a category of there own, just sayin.

[Trocien]

shouldnt you have compared it other mmos since they are in a category of there own, just sayin.

He compared the graphics to a game on the nintendo 64. There's something wrong when SE can't implement something that was on the N64...

[syntaxlies]

He compared the graphics to a game on the nintendo 64. There's something wrong when SE can't implement something that was on the N64...

honestly i think ffxiv looks better then the n64 one.

[Seraphita]

Yeah FF14's graphics were a real let down considering i had to go out and buy a new custom built PC just to play it, yet WoW which played fine on a shitty computer still has better graphics, and like 12 million more players. So the point someone made early on about there being many players so you have to gimp the graphics is BULLSHIT.

[Rydin]

yet WoW which played fine on a shitty computer still has better graphics

Now THAT is hyperbole

[jwang]

<looks for super-ultra-mega-chicken>

[quantumsaint]

<looks for super-ultra-mega-chicken>

Shh! He is legend...

[RedAffinity]

FFXIV is one of the most beautiful looking games out today. Never to mix art style and technology together, they are not the same, though they compliment one another. This game is capable of so much. Like many other components, it's somewhat unrefined in certain areas. Give it time