Thread: FF14 2.0 Initial Concept Graphics Vs. ARR/Retail Graphics

Originally Posted by Jennestia

It's funny people always point immediately at console limitations yet can never give a proper argument as to why PC only MMOs still look like something a graduate student whipped up in his spare time.

Clearly youve never played EVE, Aion, or Tera.

Also this game is not even running on modern shaders because that would have made the ps3 version look bad.

We are getting DX11 when the ps4 version launches, but they will still limit what the PC can do because it would make consople players feel bad.

That being said FFXIV is still the best looking MMO on the market.

Originally Posted by Jennestia

It's funny people always point immediately at console limitations yet can never give a proper argument as to why PC only MMOs still look like something a graduate student whipped up in his spare time.

Because it's the norm to take the easy way out, even if many are quick to shout out, "Not I!"

Graphics developers need to cater to the lowest common denominator (in this case, the dirt cheap hamster farms some people like to call a computer), and it's much easier to force everyone to play with crappy, plastic looking jagged edged graphics than to make a decent graphics slider that, at the bottom, has settings even my grandmother's computer could run, and at the top, has ones that put my rig to the test.

If everyone could afford and had the know-how to put together at least a decent gaming rig, and developers didn't mind taking the time to make amazingly detailed games instead of just pushing out something that looks, as you put it, like a graduate student whipped up in his spare time (despite knowing that you'll pay for the worse looking version anyway) we wouldn't have these issues, but alas that is not the case.

yup, because everyone's pc would run the concept game. :\

To bad you will never see anything open world like that in this game. A full party fighting a hard mob in open world? ; ; without it being a spam fest.

I was pretty sure Yoshi already said he's interested in allowing Skyrim like add-ons to improve graphics. They aren't at the stage yet where they can work on that though. Right now they are still trying to get the servers to where people that want to play, can actually play.

Originally Posted by Gazille

yup, because everyone's pc would run the concept game. :\

That's why I asked for them to allow people to make graphics mods/filters for it. A game like Skyrim has a BUCKET LOAD worth of graphics mods for it, cuz people said, "We can make it look better than the ppl who made the game. If your machine can handle it, download our mod."

Developers have to make a game that both looks good AND is playable on most systems.

Modders are not restricted by that, since a mod is completely optional.

Go to DX11 64bits and lets unlock the true graphisms.

Originally Posted by hydralinsk

lol have you ever seen the video trailer for Diablo 3? Then did you play the release of D3?

yeah, be thankful it isn't much worse.

You mean that other promising pc game completely ruined by consoles?

Originally Posted by Gazille

yup, because everyone's pc would run the concept game. :\

that's the thing I don't get with the constanct whining about the PS3 limitations. a lot of people are playing this game on computers worse, if not much worse, than the PS3 'limits'. it's ridiculous to expect the majority of MMO player actually have an 'up to date' 2000+ system just because the vocal ones constantly have to point out how much their PC rules.

my desktop is borked so I currently play on my laptop. I can assure game looks better on ps3 than it does on lowest pc settings, even when not played in HD...