How Does This Game Have Good Graphics?

[Eclipse]

Anything becomes dull with repeated exposure, regardless of how amazing it is. So the copy-pasted landmasses of FFXIV present an issue in this regard, but the fact that they are so intricately designed, even on the umpteenth visit, there's always some new item to take account of, and marvel at. The level of detail is always still striking, to this day.

This is what's wrong with many other MMOs. On first glance it's interesting, on second glance it's already boring because there's no intricacy in the design. In FFXIV, although there are copy pasted segments of landmass, the original places have more longevity by virtue of the fact that they are so expertly crafted.

Well said.

[Spy]

Yup. These graphics SUCK!






/sarcasm

You Mad, Bro?

[Elexia]

Get those horrible graphics out here. Clearly WoW, Rift, SWTOR, TERA, Aio, GW2 has the best looking graphics. XIV graphics suck. I mean why does fabric look like fabric? That makes no sense.

Why is it when you look at the raw model data you can see appropriate lighting and reflection that looks almost borderline metallic? Pft.

The only Issue XIV 1.0 has is the engine wasn't suited for MMOs so it's largely unoptimized (AO will drop FPS for many), but the graphics are perfectly fine in itself.

[Avraym]

Get those horrible graphics out here. Clearly WoW, Rift, SWTOR, TERA, Aio, GW2 has the best looking graphics. XIV graphics suck. I mean why does fabric look like fabric? That makes no sense.

Why is it when you look at the raw model data you can see appropriate lighting and reflection that looks almost borderline metallic? Pft.

The only Issue XIV 1.0 has is the engine wasn't suited for MMOs so it's largely unoptimized (AO will drop FPS for many), but the graphics are perfectly fine in itself.

LOL @ WOW having better graphics. Your relentless assaults on FFXIV are just becoming silly.

[Atoli]

LOL @ WOW having better graphics. Your relentless assaults on FFXIV are just becoming silly.

You do realize she was being sarcastic, right?

[Avraym]

You do realize she was being sarcastic, right?

Because internet and sarcasm mix so well.

My initial reaction was sarcasm (obviously), but it only takes a recent post history to see that most of his posts are laced with attacks on ffxiv and are just as incredibly stupid, so it wouldn't suprise me if he was being serious.

[Elexia]

Because internet and sarcasm mix so well.

My initial reaction was sarcasm (obviously), but it only takes a recent post history to see that most of his posts are laced with attacks on ffxiv and are just as incredibly stupid, so it wouldn't suprise me if he was being serious.

Her, and you're just being overly sensitive to an unbiased look at FFXIV. No one attacks FFXIV, however I'm not going to sit and praise everything XIV has done when even SE admits a lot is wrong with the game, thus Realm Reborn.

And yes it was sarcasm which pretty much everyone else got xD

[Dragon]

Could someone please whip out that youtube video about aesthetics vs graphics again. It really should just be a sticky.

It doesn't matter, that video was bullshit itself. The author clearly had no understanding that aesthetics are just as subjective and relative as graphics, or rather more subjective and relative since graphics can at least be quantified by a certain degree.

there's good graphics and there's visually appealing good graphics. the graphics are good technically, but it may not be visually appealing.

Whether something's visually appealing or not is also relative at best. Visually speaking, FFXIV is one of the only MMORPGs worth its salt to me (the others are Blade N Soul, Queens Blade, & Bless).

I was about to talk about graphics =/= aesthetics but someone beat me to it...
Basically for those who don't know the difference:
Graphics are the capability to show something, aestetics are what they decide to show.
FFXIV has some of the best graphics of MMOs out there and is making them even better for 2.0.
Aesthetics aren't so great though (in most areas) since it's all just brown-greenish copy&paste landscape.
That's supposed to change with 2.0 as well.

Found a video explaining it a bit

Graphics are at least quantifiable to a degree, aesthetics have no quantifiable measurement whatsoever and can only be relative at best. It's funny that the author thinks crap like Katamari must somehow be visually appealing to everyone (hint: it's not) and thinks he's the cure to cancer talking about graphics and aesthetics when he has no clue whatsoever.

[Laughlyn]

LOL @ WOW having better graphics. Your relentless assaults on FFXIV are just becoming silly.

i think she was being sarcastic lol

[Malakhim]

LOL @ WOW having better graphics. Your relentless assaults on FFXIV are just becoming silly.

Are...

Are you broken?