New Screenshots from E3

[Kasumuni]

woooo! These are really just mind blowing, looking more forward to 2.0 after each new screen that gets posted, have only praise for everything I'm seeing, as long as all the content is going to be incorporated and not delayed.

Anyone who whinges about these screens needs to just die and quit the game now.

Are you from the same neck of the woods from me? Whinges is a scottish word

[STEAMSHEEP]

come on~I want to 2.0 demo video~

[neorei]

come on~I want to 2.0 demo video~

yeah the CGI can wait, i dont want to be spoiled, i need some gameplay video!

[Firon]

Seems they are working on the 2.0 info for FF14.com right now it's on maint atm but i could be wrong

[Munba]

Someone has seen it in motion, in a secret E3 room. :0 (not kidding lol) Maybe in the interviews room... some of them will take place tomorrow.

[AlphaDragoon]

Seriously, screw CGI. I really, REALLY want to see a gameplay video.

[Kristina_Farron]

Today's SE's technical demo for their new engine "Luminous Studio" is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=UVX0OUO9ptU

But few months ago CRep on JP forum has confirmed that FFXIV 2.0 DOES NOT USE Luminous Studio BECAUSE THAT IS FOR OFFLINE GAMES.

2.0 use its own engine optimized for MMO requirements.

[Croy]

Today's SE's technical demo for their new engine "Luminous Studio" is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=UVX0OUO9ptU

But few months ago CRep on JP forum has confirmed that FFXIV 2.0 DOES NOT USE Luminous Studio BECAUSE THAT IS FOR OFFLINE GAMES.

2.0 use its own engine optimized for MMO requirements.

I was under the impression FFXIV is using a completely new engine BUT it has been created in collaboration with the same group of developers who made the Luminous engine. IE not the luminous engine, but might be using technology used in Luminous but its specifically optimized for this game and its parameters.

In fact I found the quote from the interview!

Finalfantasy14.eu :

Is the new graphic engine, about which you’re talking, linked to the Luminous studio graphic engine, that Square Enix announced a couple of months ago?

Naoki yoshida :

We have been receiving this question a lot during the media tour, probably due to the announcement of the two consoles we made and the announce that the Luminous studio made was very close in timing . People are thinking these two are related to each other. Also because Mr. Hashimoto is related to 14 as well. However the Luminous studio engine is related to the console game, so what they are trying to achieve with that engine is to make the still graphic really beautiful, while for MMOs the most important thing is to have lots of characters and high quality graphics so the aim is slightly different. So because of that we have two different engines.

Although it’s not two different engines, the people who are working on the FFXIV graphics engine also belong to Luminious studios. So some people are working on two projects. Some of the writing/coding we use for the engines and the shader are not quite two different engines. You can consider them brothers. The engine for xiv is more focused for mmos.

http://forum.finalfantasy14.eu/viewt...hp?f=20&t=1993

[neorei]

A write up of the demo shown today, nothing super interesting but it's something!

http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/05/fi...ble-franchise/

The guy obviously hasn't played XIV at all so it's not very helpful for people like myself, who are more interested in flow of combat, but he did do a nice bit about Yoshi wanting to take all sorts of players, especially western ones, into account when designing content. And he did talk about raising chocobos to take over several roles, mage/item storage being the examples mentioned.

here from another thread.

[STEAMSHEEP]

here from another thread.

OMG! how to wait until September~
Who can bring me a time machine....