Thread: 2.0 Grass: please change!

Originally Posted by Aerin

If something as trivial to gameplay and/or story such as grass is enough to get you to quit a game then you must go through all other games at blinding speed declaring how horrible they all are. Unless the grass was actually big purple tentacles that reached up and did unmentionable things to you while you're playing, it's really not a big deal.

Who said they were going to quit?

Enough with this grass this, grass that. the grass is the flat green stuff on the ground, and most of that isn't even grass, it's moss and fallen leaves if you would actually look closely at the texture. Forests in general simply do. not. have. grass. Grass as we know it requires quite a bit of light, which is why it's generally found on plains. NOT forests.

Those things that are sticking up out of the ground? yeah, that's not grass. a closer inspection shows a veritable plethora of plant life, however. I see daylilies, ferns, snapdragons, mallow plants, calla lilies, what might possibly be saint john's wort, generic bushes that are probably hawthorns not in bloom, some heavenly bamboo (not an actual bamboo but a barberry), mexican feather grass (not something you find in your lawn, it's a large clumping grass with feathery tufts), some morning glory vines, and some grape hyacinths. That's just the stuff i can see clearly enough and remember from my job at a garden center several years ago.

Nowhere, NOWHERE in that foilage is there what you would call "grass" in the sense of the stuff you would find in a lawn. No fescues, no st. augustine grass, nothing. In a forest there is fierce competition for light and nutrients, and grass simply requires too much water and sunlight for it to thrive in a forest. That is why you find them in plains. And gridiania, last i checked, is not a plain.

The clumping of the foilage is very natural, with the majority of it clustered in sunnier areas, and the ones clustered near trees tend to all be on the same side, (the side that isn't constantly in the trees shadow.)

Seriously, some of you people need to go on a nature hike and see what a real forest looks like. Let's just end this thread now, and stop picking on the poor flowers and bushes, please? They don't like being called grass.

Originally Posted by Gramul

Who.
Why is legitimately complaining this hard about grass to the point where they will quit the game or announce its failure? Tell me their names and I will launch a full investigation.

I meant in general. It seems like everytime i read threads on this forum, no one can ever say anything positive and it just gets annoying after reading negative after negative after negative post on stupid stuff. If you dont like the game or the way its progressing then dont play it is all im saying.

Originally Posted by Neptune

Ah, sir but you are confused! The grass in Xenoblade is even easier on the frames AND it looks better!!

It doesn't matter.

Besides Xenoblade in comparison is low quality and thats not a Wii screenshot, it probably comes from a emulator. Its hard to say what FF14 grass will look like with transparency AA enabled.

Regards

Should really get u and michael one in vent so you both can talk about your grass....

Idk how im gona do now to kill mobs and mine and stuff, with this grass/weed, my emmersi.. for real? Grass issues? ffs, every single thing as to be bitched about...