Thread: Are 2.0 Graphics going to be better?

The point is that the rest of the world doesn't exist and thus does not need to be taken into account.

Originally Posted by syntaxlies

the release date was different for country's

its obvious i cant win an argument with the SE white knights even when using facts admitted by SE.(like not wanting to have a dated game by release as was 11)

by the way the US release is considered the real release the Japanese release was an extended beta test like why we have now with 14.

the fact of the matter is is that SE put everything into graphics so that the game would last longer then 11 did graphically.

I feel like the assets and the textures in this game are fine, but the engine is very poor and doesn't do them justice.
Don't get me wrong in general this game looks very nice, but it runs worse than games doing a lot more technically.
It seems to load a lot of things from the hard drive constantly which really doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Also there is the really low texture draw distance, it doesn't even gradually lower the texture quality its just high quality straight to low quality.
And finally it needs a better lighting engine, and there are no terrain shadows at all.

Also I think with the new engine they should be able to do all this and achieve better performance across the board.

Originally Posted by Ranara

I feel like the assets and the textures in this game are fine, but the engine is very poor and doesn't do them justice.
Don't get me wrong in general this game looks very nice, but it runs worse than games doing a lot more technically.
It seems to load a lot of things from the hard drive constantly which really doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Also there is the really low texture draw distance, it doesn't even gradually lower the texture quality its just high quality straight to low quality.
And finally it needs a better lighting engine, and there are no terrain shadows at all.

Also I think with the new engine they should be able to do all this and achieve better performance across the board.

Close -- The engine suffers due to not being built with MMOs in mind, it was more built for seamless transitions and system compatibility, it's the same engine Versus XIII and XIII/XIII-2 uses.

Keeping it simple, good graphics with a bunch of bland, empty environments < slightly decreased graphics with very interesting areas with actual story driven landmarks. As for character models, depends completely on the art style of the game whether they look like they belong or not. That said, I'll take a slight graphics downgrade any day to liven up a dead boring world, not to mention better coding leads to smoother gameplay. And @OP, the graphics are a slight downgrade with more options for low end players while high end pc players are able to experience what you see in that one 2.0 screenshot. In, short a much better engine that should attract more players since you won't be needing a really good pc to handle this games terrible pc optimization. No matter how you look at it, it's a good thing.

What makes XIV so incredibly beautiful to me is the lighting, texture quality, and how it reacts to lighting. I'm assuming the new engine won't show off this kind of quality, but will contain greater variety. balancing act