I want MORE

[fulminating]

Yeah i saw the same images you did, and i thought they looked really good. And its also not done yet and will get even better. Everything doesnt need to look hyper realistic to look good.
And morrowind? The hell you on about. That shit is pixelated and there is tons of games that is a billion times better in graphics xD

If you cast your mind back ten years to a game that looked good, chances are it’s either highly stylised or has poorly aged. Shaders also can carry a lot of weight. They have said nothing about adjusting tall race walk cycles, cloth physics and the aspects that they’re layering the new paint on which are pretty difficult to ignore. Things are still going to clip, there’s going to be weird suppression of clothing parts and no one will be able to see any of it under the gaudy light show in combat.
I mentioned morrowind because we’ve all seen that nvidia tech demo with the ai upscale/rtx light sources. Although it looked really good, it also still looked like a game released in 2001. Ultimately that doesn’t matter because it has been a good enough medium for the story to be presented through with a pretty consistent and alien aesthetic letting the viewer’s mind fill in the cracks. The ff14 update just looks like they’re aware that a big enough discrepancy between paint and model looks odd but are pushing ahead into the uncanny territory. The scattered stuff around the place -broken stairs, grass etc - looked like a mitigating effort though, I’ll give them that.

[Rikizza]

If you cast your mind back ten years to a game that looked good, chances are it’s either highly stylised or has poorly aged. Shaders also can carry a lot of weight. They have said nothing about adjusting tall race walk cycles, cloth physics and the aspects that they’re layering the new paint on which are pretty difficult to ignore. Things are still going to clip, there’s going to be weird suppression of clothing parts and no one will be able to see any of it under the gaudy light show in combat.
I mentioned morrowind because we’ve all seen that nvidia tech demo with the ai upscale/rtx light sources. Although it looked really good, it also still looked like a game released in 2001. Ultimately that doesn’t matter because it has been a good enough medium for the story to be presented through with a pretty consistent and alien aesthetic letting the viewer’s mind fill in the cracks. The ff14 update just looks like they’re aware that a big enough discrepancy between paint and model looks odd but are pushing ahead into the uncanny territory. The scattered stuff around the place -broken stairs, grass etc - looked like a mitigating effort though, I’ll give them that.

You keep mentioning the light in combat, you know you can turn that off right?

We dont know if they will improve the game in other ways than the preview pictures. Maybe they will improve physics and some of the other stuff you are mentioning. But nontheless, Even if they arent, everything is better than nothing right? Even if they only add the stuff in the previews, m its still a ton better then what it was, and for that i am excited. I never really expected an update and i actually like how the game looks to begin with. It gives me sims 3 but better vibes, i personally like that look in a game. While i enjoy super realistic games i also enjoy more cartoon games. The update is improving the game in a beautiful way imo. They are still keeping the orginal feel of the game, but still improving things like shading, skin, eye color, and just making the overall look of the game much prettier. Dont know why some people including you feel the giant urge to complain about this lol.