FFXIV and the graphics trap hole

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Ashenvale - World of Warcraft


in all 3 of these examples. the worlds look vastly different. and graphics can stay at a stable point that would never ever need updated, so as not to betray the original artstyle

I'm not familiar with the first two but WoW famously had a graphical update that significantly changed the art style. The vanilla game and modern assets look very dissimilar.

For the Budget and Future of FFXIV. it would do well to take a lesson or 2 from those games, and focus on creating something stylistically beautiful, instead of realistic, because that very hyperrealism is actually lifting me out the immersive experience and making ffxiv feel like another part of life.

You must live a very strange life.










Just because something doesn't look like a cartoon doesn't mean it's not stylized. FFXIV is not lacking in stylistically beautiful models, dungeons, armor sets, etc. To try to argue that the game is too "hyperrealistic," the same game where you can ride a flying blue cactus alien on the moon and fight a giant haunted teapot, is pretty absurd.