How Does This Game Have Good Graphics?

[Dragon]

nothing beats the character models though the landscape is another story.


leave thanalan.

Leave any savannah/desert scenery at that. Ironically I normally don't like the color brown myself (don't ask why, I just don't and can't pinpoint my reasoning for it), but I do like it for a scenery palette.

[Rutelor]

I just started playing this game and a lot of people say the graphics are really good, well when I look at them I think their ugly, even for 2010. Am I missing out on some settings or something?

Just as a precautionary question: Did you open the Final Fantasy XIV Config program (it's a separate program from the game itself) and adjust the graphics' settings in there?

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[YuriSan]

Have you ever played any other MMOs except this one OP?
Cause u should if you haven't...

[Zante]

[Laraul]

I just started playing this game and a lot of people say the graphics are really good, well when I look at them I think their ugly, even for 2010. Am I missing out on some settings or something?

You got what you wanted. A bunch of opinions on the graphics. Yipee!

[Emulord]

This game has pretty impressive graphics for an MMO (even if to me, LL and Ul'Dah don't look that great), mainly in the country.

A Realm Reborn should fix the biggest part of the little graphics problems one can currently point out. It will most probably bring new ones, though.

[Soukyuu]

Here is the thing about the ground textures. If you look at them at an angle (ie our typical perspective) then yes they do look all blury and horrible. If you move your camera so its looking directly down. then they look prety damned nifty.

What you describe is lack of anisotropic filtering. And tbh, I never noticed it happening.

Moral of the story? Square Stop using Normal mapping on every thing in the damned game.

Normal mapping makes the flat textures look 3D and is used to save resources because you don't have to actually make a complex geometry for your model. It doesn't have anything to do with blurry textures. You should probably inform yourself more before you post something like this.