Snow Zone

[Avraym]

Who doesn't love a zone enriched with a pearl white blanket of snow, backed with a gentle violin tune to match (Mt Gagazet)?

If you haven't heard it, I emplore you to take a listen.
Mount Gagazet Tune:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrYpOPLh3dc

What makes an MMORPG great for me personally, is the attention to detail and simplicity in its design. Snow Regions usually incomporate both of those things for me.

I was a little bit dissapointed with Beaucedine Glacier & Xarcabad in FFXI.

I'm not intirely sure what it lacked in appeal to me specifically.

Perhaps I have become accustomed to dynamic "Points of Interest" in these type of zones, such as a Hot Springs or a Glacier Cave with dynamic colors and detailed Stalagmites, which I think it lacked.

The Xarcabad tune didn't feel like that of a snow zone, save the ambience of wind blowing.

Anyway, I am really looking forward to the zone redesign and all the little points of interest that will be implemented in them.

Whilst I remain certain that we won't see a snowy zone implemented until 2.0+, I remain filled with great confidence that they will do the winter land proud.

Below are some pictures from previous Final fantasy's where I believe they nailed it:

Icile Inn (FFVII):


Macalania Temple (FFX):


Mount Gagazet (FFX):


Wall of Fayth between MT Gagazet + Zanarkand (FFX):