Cartoony style graphics....

[ZakarnRosewood]

I'll take gameplay over graphics any day. You can have the prettiest looking piece of crap in the world and in the end, its still a piece of crap. no matter how "bad" these graphics are it still looks 100% better than FFIV but i had way more fun playing that then i did the 1.0 launch of FFXIV.

[Rokien]

I'll take gameplay over graphics any day. You can have the prettiest looking piece of crap in the world and in the end, its still a piece of crap. no matter how "bad" these graphics are it still looks 100% better than FFIV but i had way more fun playing that then i did the 1.0 launch of FFXIV.

The lighting is what makes it look better, but really the textures and models don't look as good, you don't have to sacrifice gameplay for worse graphics in this case. They could have kept the same model for most things and added the lighting to it.

[Tonkra]

The lighting is what makes it look better, but really the textures and models don't look as good, you don't have to sacrifice gameplay for worse graphics in this case. They could have kept the same model for most things and added the lighting to it.

rokien... get glasses!

and you even havent played it yet. leave or quit please. and have you seen the grass?...

how you come to the conclusion the models have less polygons? god damn.. they look even more plastic on these pics:







the shadowing.. the colors are different.. the art style changes to an other... more lively? you decide.
(right click, show graphic.. to enlarge)

as i said.. the colors, the shadowing and partical effects make the same impressions than of the agnis philosophy (luminous studios grahpics engine) tech demo:

[Rokien]

rokien... get glasses!

and you even havent played it yet. leave or quit please. and have you seen the grass?...

You don't have to play something to know what it looks like -.-

[Tonkra]

You don't have to play something to know what it looks like -.-

You don't have to play something to know what it looks like.

i tell you, too. stop your fucking! annoying presumptioning flaming !
i think that screen doesnt look that good either.. but i dont say "oooh my goood.. they downgraded the whole graphics... all models and areas looking terrible".. because of that picture and small youtube vids.. i cant really get it. i cant come to a conclusion.. not yet..

cant you even wait for the video or something? you cant even wait with your conclusions before alpha or beta starts. god damn!

i should not waste time reading on forums ^^

[Ninja-Mage]

You don't have to play something to know what it looks like -.-

Yes and no, I can take an image and get a great idea of how the game will look. But until you actually have a game running on hardware infront of your very eyes you'll never be able to actually see the game. I've seen plenty of games that looked amazing in screenshots but looked like shit running on my pc of ps2 or what ever. and vice versa.

As for this, I imagine it may be ps3 settings, or it could be that they put out the wrong video which seems to be the case and we'll find out come new video release. Also anyone who thinks the limit break trailer was CG'd is an idiot.

I've played plenty of pc games where I can downscale it down to virtually cartoon settings to make it run, and then upscale it to super high realistic settings.

[Shougun]

Yes and no, I can take an image and get a great idea of how the game will look. But until you actually have a game running on hardware infront of your very eyes you'll never be able to actually see the game. I've seen plenty of games that looked amazing in screenshots but looked like shit running on my pc of ps2 or what ever. and vice versa.

As for this, I imagine it may be ps3 settings, or it could be that they put out the wrong video which seems to be the case and we'll find out come new video release. Also anyone who thinks the limit break trailer was CG'd is an idiot.

I've played plenty of pc games where I can downscale it down to virtually cartoon settings to make it run, and then upscale it to super high realistic settings.

If you are referring to me mentioning photoshop I was referring to the crappy image that was released recently - that looks worse then the game looks even right now. So I was saying it looks like a what the very first images of closed alpha 2.0 would look like if we ever got them.

I really wish they would release a video WITH all the bells and whistles so people's minds could be put at ease (including my own). I'm sure they would if they could. They probably just can't right now.

Quoted because I like it lol.

[Ninja-Mage]

If you are referring to me mentioning photoshop I was referring to the crappy image that was released recently - that looks worse then the game looks even right now. So I was saying it looks like a what the very first images of closed alpha 2.0 would look like if we ever got them.





Quoted because I like it lol.

Nah it was someone much earlier in the thread (not sure why I read through all of it), they said something like it had to of been entirely CG'd. Granted they could have meant pre-rendered, but even then you can see slight frame rate wobbles in that trailer that are a clear indicator of real time graphics.