How Does This Game Have Good Graphics?

[Falen]

It's such BS to say that this game doesn't have style.

I believe the question is less than this game has "Style" as that the style isn't well woven together. You can see how the cities were developed and who developed them (in-game/lore), but I (and I assume plenty of others) can talk to the citizens, and they don't feel like they care about their surroundings as much.
For example, I talked to one of the NPCs in the area around the Ul'Dah Inn entrance and he says "Oh, this area was specially opened for the public during these hard times" or something. But the area isn't all /that/ special looking that he would have needed to say that. The area doesn't feel like it has a history that would need that isolation, unlike the Statesrooms you visit the Grand Company leaders in. Those areas are normally cut off because they have a purpose for it,
so why is that NPC (in dark armor with a sword and shield) there, in the center area, saying this? In the stead of being placed near the entrance to the Statesroom on the top level of Ul'Dah? What's so special about that room on the bottom floor in the center that it would be normally cut off to the public, despite the area design saying, "Hey, want to get from the Coliseum to Sunsilk Tapestries faster than going around the outside ring?"
Sorry if it's a bit...rant-y. Trying to explain what I mean. The area is good, but the people around it, and their history with the area...don't feel real, or believable.