Thread: FFXIV 2.0 impression

Originally Posted by Rydin

You think they'll want to show as much of this as possible at E3 or wilkl they want to preserve some sense of mystery?
Is it even possible to show all of this at E3?

The more you show the better will the press see that this is a redesigned game. Sense of mystery will do nothing for XIV at this point, it was useful only when the game first launched. Now they have to prove to everyone that the game is fixed and for that they need to show as much as possible.

Originally Posted by Onidemon

The more you show the better will the press see that this is a redesigned game. Sense of mystery will do nothing for XIV at this point, it was useful only when the game first launched. Now they have to prove to everyone that the game is fixed and for that they need to show as much as possible.

very true... It kind of has to be a hands on playable thing to be viable... I don't think the press would take too kindly to a cinematic trailer... The original launch has a beautiful cinematic trailer... we need to see gameplay... plain and simple

The things they need to show the public through demo:
1. Lag free gameplay
2. Area of the world not copy/pasted
3. A fluid, exciting battle with an intuitive, responsive UI (As opposed to players standing around or auto-attacking) against a big bad (probably familiar) final fantasy enemy
3a. A battle Regimen which isn't cumbersome and provides some exciting effect for combining abilities/skills/spells
4. Lively town with NPCs that do more than just stand there
5. Small things with the new Graphics engine like better lighting and shadows. Although the biggest improvement to the engine is the ability to run on more than just high end machines... which is something you can't really showcase at E3