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

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}

Originally Posted by Gramul

Kinda makes me wonder if Ishgard was ever completed in the first place.

I've always liked to believe the city from the tech demo was a mixture of Limsa and Ishgard

Originally Posted by Onidemon

Looking at the 2.0 documents, the redesigned maps look great. Well at least the artwork does, we will see once E3 comes i guess.

What about the Cities tho'? Will they redesign them too? I can't seem to find anything mentioning the cities, cuz they do need a lift up too!

WTH?!!??!!! Do any of you guys actually read the developers posts or the 2.0 document or watched the past 2 live letters????; this has all been stated multiple times now in videos and in text

Originally Posted by Gramul

Kinda makes me wonder if Ishgard was ever completed in the first place.

Ishgard had some data, some textures some objects...nothing you could call a city though.

Yes in the PDF it says that all non instanced areas are going to be redesigned. So that is a yes I hope ;x

Originally Posted by Gramul

Kinda makes me wonder if Ishgard was ever completed in the first place.

I kind of doubt Ishgard ever really existed. I'm glad I didn't know that back during open beta...I would've been really disappointed. Back then I thought that the gates to Ishgard would swing open on release day. Man, was I wrong.

At this point, however, I'm kind of happy there's no Ishgard in 1.0. Given what I've seen of other locations in the game, I don't think there's any way the inside of Ishgard could have lived up to the view from outside. I know it's kind of weird to hope that it never existed at all now, but I'd like the new team to be able to design it from the ground up following their own vision.

Just for kicks, I tried to come up with the most disappointing scenario for what the inside of Ishgard might have looked like. Ishgard is attached to a huge rock, right? What if the castle on top was mostly decoration, and the accessible area of 1.0 Ishgard was just a few tunnels in the rock.

Ooh, but what do we have here? Ishgard Guildleves! Let's see what we got!
"Find the scattered pages of the Necrologos near Camp Glory..."

I would like to have the possibility to enter in some doors finally... some resident houses to visit (with quests inside).

Originally Posted by Rane

Just for kicks, I tried to come up with the most disappointing scenario for what the inside of Ishgard might have looked like. Ishgard is attached to a huge rock, right? What if the castle on top was mostly decoration, and the accessible area of 1.0 Ishgard was just a few tunnels in the rock.

Did you just intentionally ironically describe exactly what the Tavnazian Safehold was to Tavnazia in FFXI?

Because if not... hilarious.

Originally Posted by Munba

I would like to have the possibility to enter in some doors finally... some resident houses to visit (with quests inside).

I don't mind that in single player games but for an mmo it just looks weird... Never really like the idea of thousands of people running into random houses.