Thread: Maps redesing for 2.0... cities too?!

Originally Posted by bobbygunz

I cannot follow your reasoning regarding these cities needing to be segmented into zones. A loading screen would just make navigation slower. lol.

Agreed, there is no reason why a city can't be designed to fit within the PS3's memory in it's entirety.

Originally Posted by bobbygunz

They don't need much at all, in my opinion. Gridania could use some work though. But Uldah and Limsa are pretty amazing. Oh, and obviously less emphasis on the market-ward entrance wouldn't be remiss.

Grandia needs to be more like in the original artwork and less like what it is now.

this is what's scary about the 2.0 artwork. It looks amazing but so did the initial XIV artwork and look what we got in the end....

Originally Posted by Onidemon

Grandia needs to be more like in the original artwork and less like what it is now.

this is what's scary about the 2.0 artwork. It looks amazing but so did the initial XIV artwork and look what we got in the end....

I'm REALLY excited for 2.0. But yeah, what you said here scares me more than anything else regarding the future of FFXIV.

I thought that even the screenshots of the current XIV looked good. Because they did. But back when I saw the first screens of La Noscea, I didn't realize that you couldn't climb that gentle green hill in the background, nor did I realize that every place on the island would look pretty much the same.

Honestly, I have faith that the new team will get it right. But I'm still nervous.

I think the cities are fine the way they are. They just need to add locations for the market ward, GC headquarters, etc, instead of instantly teleporting there. They can also get rid of those long walks leading into each city...which I'm guessing is there to mask loading times, which will probably be much better anyway with the new client.

They still have to open up areas on the city maps that you cant go to, like the Lotus Wards.

Yeah, the cities are probably the least copy-pasted of all the zones, and even if it is copy pasted, there's a good excuse, and that is that they're supposed to be man-made, so why shouldn't things look similar.

The cities are fine, just make a few adjustements here, such as NPCS THAT WALK AROUND, ya know add some life... clutter the streets, even some stalls and maybe pets walking around.

Or am i just going to have to go to Guildwars 2 for that =(

Originally Posted by viion

Or am i just going to have to go to Guildwars 2 for that =(

{I don't know how to answer that question}

i hope uldah turns into a post apocalyptic steam punk area complete with mad max theme, also give LL a water world theme with dennis hopper as an npc