TGS Trailer ahoy!

[Ruisu]

I'm completely serious. That is the crappiest looking PS3 game I have ever seen. I would rather they scrap PS3 than show keep showing that to the public.

The Characters look like they were made in paint..

You must not have seen many PS3 games. That's a pretty large claim you're throwing out, since there are plenty of PS3 games that look absolutely horrid. The only problem with this is that the characters look out of place in the world. Everything else looks fine. I'd rather have wonky shadows than jaggies everywhere.

Then again I'm not going to actually play the PS3 version. So nothing of value was lost.

[Valandor]

Even with the PS3's "limitations" they keep thinking of new ways to improve the general performance of the console, proof of that is in the evolution of games for the console as in games that were released when the console came out versus the games we have now, compare any of the old games with the new ones and you will see a pretty big difference, the PS2 didn't have any update system like the PS3 has so I'm hoping there will be future updates to the FFXIV that will make it look better even if it's only 720p.

Some of the breakthroughs I've noticed where games like Metal Gear Solid 4, all the Uncharted games (compare U1 with U3 there's a big difference right there),the Crysis games, the Bioshock games, the Dead Space games, etc., every iteration has come with a substantial graphic boost and to the way the developers take advantage of the console, which means there's some juice left in it for FFXIV and games to come; have you seen the Resident Evil 6 demo that came out 1 or 2 days ago? I wouldn't have believed games/graphics like that were possible when the PS3 came out, but then again this is only IMHO ;D

John Carmack said something when idSoftware released Rage for PS3 and PC, he said that is easier (at least for him) to make a game for a console because is the same hardware worldwide and you don't have to worry about the game running in different resolutions or monitors or to make it run in low end hardware (the reason why Rage had some trouble working correctly in PCs), so in a way this will save some developing time since they just have to find a way of optimizing any new content they come up with for the console and then add the extra level of detail (or lack of it) that the PCs out there need.

[Ninja-Mage]

Even with the PS3's "limitations" they keep thinking of new ways to improve the general performance of the console, proof of that is in the evolution of games for the console as in games that were release when the console came out versus the games we have now, compare any of the old games with the new ones and you will see a pretty big difference, the PS2 didn't have any update system like the PS3 has so I'm hoping there will be future updates to the game that will make it look better even if it's only 720p.

Some of the breakthroughs I noticed where games like Metal Gear Solid 4, all the Uncharted games (compare U1 with U3),the Crysis games, the Bioshock games, the Dead Space games, etc., every iteration has come with a substantial boost to the way the developers take advantage of the console, which means there's some juice left in it for games to come, have you seen the Resident Evil 6 game? I wouldn't have believed games/graphics like that were possible when the PS3 came out, but then again this is only IMHO ;D

The ps3 is capable of many great things but always keep in mind there's many variables that come into play with an mmo versus a single player game. It's why you don't see many mmo's with graphics on par with say Uncharted 3 or what have you. That's not to say FF14 looks bad. A single player game has things that are scripted, you know what the game world will do, it's the player that's the variable, so it's not that big of a deal when you're only dealing with one giant variable. With an MMO you've got upwards to 100+ players in a single area reacting with the game world around them, that's a lot of variables to contend with.

[DGMart]

Well first, specific games on PS3 IMO has surpassed the graphics on FFXIV already especially the PS3 version. I think it's more of the art style. Don't get me wrong FFXiV is gorgeous but it will be outdone in the near future by other games. I very much enjoy the art style of this game as long as its not so bland which with 2.0 should change that.

Edit: person above me pretty much said what I wanted to

[Seif]

Well first, specific games on PS3 IMO has surpassed the graphics on FFXIV already especially the PS3 version. I think it's more of the art style. Don't get me wrong FFXiV is gorgeous but it will be outdone in the near future by other games. I very much enjoy the art style of this game as long as its not so bland which with 2.0 should change that.

Edit: person above me pretty much said what I wanted to

I kinda agree.
Sure there are plenty of games that look worse on ps3 and it's not a disaster just technically quite sloppy.

What I hope is that the new areas will be a lot more imaginative and have overall more interesting art direction.
That is something that can make the graphics timeproof and memorable.

I have to say that this specific trailer though did not give that kind of an impression. Maybe it's just very rough but still the design is pretty bland in these scenes.

I never had trouble looking at grass textures in LL area but the fact that there wasn't anything interesting to see.

I wonder what's happening in the 3d process since all the concept art is imaginative and amazing but in-game the same areas often look mundane and bland.

[alexhatesmil]

Well first, specific games on PS3 IMO has surpassed the graphics on FFXIV already especially the PS3 version. I think it's more of the art style. Don't get me wrong FFXiV is gorgeous but it will be outdone in the near future by other games. I very much enjoy the art style of this game as long as its not so bland which with 2.0 should change that.

Edit: person above me pretty much said what I wanted to

Sure they've surpassed FFXIV. But an MMO is decidedly more resource-heavy than a single-player game, so the graphics have to be scaled down accordingly.

[Shougun]

Sure they've surpassed FFXIV. But an MMO is decidedly more resource-heavy than a single-player game, so the graphics have to be scaled down accordingly.

Tell that to FPS.

[alexhatesmil]

Tell that to FPS.

FPS =/= MMO.

[Shougun]

FPS =/= MMO.

You just said that because its an mmo it has some special reason why its graphics have to be worse.

You seldomly have more then 20 characters on screen. Most recent FPS can have 30+ and look amazing.

So I was saying, no.

[Allcars]

I was starting to doubt ffxiv for a second or two I was wondering how is it possible that it can go from really nice graphics in the other videos to bland and almost no texture detail. Then I read the post about it being played on ps3, thank goodness.

Me and my computer were starting to sweat, well I guess I won't be buying the ps3 version not like I was going to anyway last thing I need is one more account I already have two.