Zone - Immersion

[Nubrication]

I might be one of the few but it irks me and ruins my immersion when things are not in proportion. Example: Ishgard looking tiny from coerthas. The ragnarok was also HUGE compared to the island in that one cutscene.

I love this game but when I see just how out of proportion those cities look like from other zones compared to our character, it just kind of ruins the wonder/ exploration portion of an MMO.

At this point, I hope that we atleast get to traverse the big bridge in the Dawntrail trailer and take in the sights instead of just black screen loading into another zone.

[Cleretic]

Yeah, this game plays with perspective a bit to make in-game spaces seem bigger. Limsa looks smaller out in La Noscean field zones so that it looks further away; same with Coerthas and Ishgard.

Barely any games try to represent a place in terms of actual size, because the place they're depicting is usually too big for both a developer to plausibly make and for a player to actually enjoy traversing, and it's usually fine because, frankly, we'd get kinda bored with a real-world scale. Yeah, you might think 'the wonder is ruined' by the world not being very big, but my eyeballing of the world map says that the island of Vylbrand would be somewhere near the size of France. And I'll tell you right now, I don't want my dailies and gathering to involve traversing all of France.

[SannaR]

Just look at the Steps of Faith. We all know it is longer and wider than what we see from Central Coerthas or from Stone Vigil. Part of the problem also with making areas match their actual size is then needing to fill it in with places. Too few and it feels empty. If you do the opposite then you have the pressure to make it feel lived in. You don't want 1.0 Shroud where it was mostly empty while looking samey. You also don't want FF XV where there are things to go to but not much to see once you go there so it ends up feeling empty.