Glowing weapons

[Nuru]

If something is cool, it is cool, anything well executed in entertaining to me. While rainu wow pic looks kind of over the top, the aion scythe looks pretty well designed. soooo, yeah. Long as they have options, its all good. I honestly would love some burning fists on a monk type charachter.

The Aion weapon isnt that bad of a glow, but the way WoW does it is the way many other MMORPGs do it, and glowing weapons really just aren't as great as the bare metal weapons we currently have. I like the weapons in FFXIV the way they are just come up with some more designs. I can easily see a water-elemental Sword being introduced similar to Tidus's Brotherhood. Transparent, unique... It can easily be done without havng to resort to using the flametongue sword model and making it glow a blue color.

Glowing weapons will allow for a company to be dull and non-creative with their games. I think we are trying to direct FFXIV in the opposite direction, aren't we?

[gifthorse]

dude dont u guys know that frodo glowed in the dark and Gandalf was a 100Watt lightbulb, seriously. If we cant have glowing weapons in a fantasy setting, what CAN we have? Next thing you'll be telling me my spiky shoulder pads and angel wings of doom are TACKY!

[Physic]

dude dont u guys know that frodo glowed in the dark and Gandalf was a 100Watt lightbulb, seriously. If we cant have glowing weapons in a fantasy setting, what CAN we have? Next thing you'll be telling me my spiky shoulder pads and angel wings of doom are TACKY!

you know something about real settings, they have a bunch of crap that you find tacky in it. If you go to the store, not everything there is for you, you may find hawaian shirts tacky, but guess what some people wear em all the time. Its ridiculous that you think a game that is supposed to span at least 4 different cultures, is all going to have the same visual bias. I see glow in the dark crap all over black shroud, heck even trees glow, i dont think its that crazy that some gridanian might say, damn im gonna through some glowy magic shit on that sword, because we just like glowy magic shit.

think of the amount of different cultures that have used body paint or tattoos, and the variety between them, do you really think if dudes could make shit glow reliably, they wouldnt put that stuff on gear?
We got dudes in this game who put gemstones into their heads. why is luminescence the end of the world

[gifthorse]

you know something about real settings, they have a bunch of crap that you find tacky in it. If you go to the store, not everything there is for you, you may find hawaian shirts tacky, but guess what some people wear em all the time. Its ridiculous that you think a game that is supposed to span at least 4 different cultures, is all going to have the same visual bias. I see glow in the dark crap all over black shroud, heck even trees glow, i dont think its that crazy that some gridanian might say, damn im gonna through some glowy magic shit on that sword, because we just like glowy magic shit.

think of the amount of different cultures that have used body paint or tattoos, and the variety between them, do you really think if dudes could make shit glow reliably, they wouldnt put that stuff on gear?
We got dudes in this game who put gemstones into their heads. why is luminescence the end of the world

Well I wouldn't presume to argue my point on the basis of logic. By all accounts, it makes sense. But if we are all wearing sparkly tiaras and sweeping robes of light, it will begin to impinge on the artistic integrity of the world. I like the unassuming nature of the gear in FFXIV, and glowing shit would compromise that.

Because it's all about me, didn't you know.

[Nuru]

Well I wouldn't presume to argue my point on the basis of logic. By all accounts, it makes sense. But if we are all wearing sparkly tiaras and sweeping robes of light, it will begin to impinge on the artistic integrity of the world. I like the unassuming nature of the gear in FFXIV, and glowing shit would compromise that.

Because it's all about me, didn't you know.

Exactly. One thing I am sick of seeing is glowing shit in any MMORPG. I'd rather depict what rank somone is by the badass "design" of a weapon, rather than say "oh lulz you must be high level cuz ur weapons iz glowing purplez."

[Sirtis]

Exactly. One thing I am sick of seeing is glowing shit in any MMORPG. I'd rather depict what rank somone is by the badass "design" of a weapon, rather than say "oh lulz you must be high level cuz ur weapons iz glowing purplez."

Then I propose something, which of course I like a lot, instead of colored clouds floating about points on equipment (ala WoW), have brightly colored sections in the design of weapons. This game has plenty of dark areas. I can not count how many times I run into walls and rocks around Gridania at night when it rains.

Imagine walking into some ordinary cave, and while your eyes (the camera in this case) adjusts to the difference in illumination, you see this shadowy outline of a character running towards your direction. This outline has segments of red, green, purple, pink or any color really which is bright on the weapon and not affected by shadowing so they always standout. To use WoW again as a reference, one of my favorite effects that they did was on the helms. The helms would hide the face, which is fine, but the neat thing was that in place of where the eyes were (or even fake eyes) they would have small glowing bits that would always stand out and intimidate others.

I suppose this could go wrong too. We could be playing a TRON game, or give people flashbacks to Batman & Robin w/ those neon and black lights.

[Physic]

Exactly. One thing I am sick of seeing is glowing shit in any MMORPG. I'd rather depict what rank somone is by the badass "design" of a weapon, rather than say "oh lulz you must be high level cuz ur weapons iz glowing purplez."

It should not be the only gear, or the best gear, it should be an option, in fact i wouldnt mind skinnable items for the game, seeing everyone dress for stats is ehhhh.

[Gramul]

I'm in the black shroud right now.

The only things I've seen glow are a few lanterns.

[Laughlyn]

I'm in the black shroud right now.

The only things I've seen glow are a few lanterns.

someone missed the fireflies...

[Rhianu]

Glowing weapons will allow for a company to be dull and non-creative with their games. I think we are trying to direct FFXIV in the opposite direction, aren't we?

The more tools a company has at their disposal, the more creativity they have. If you insist that they can't use a particular tool (in this case glowing lights), then you're putting a limitation on the creative possibilities that are open to the development team.

I agree that FFXIV needs to have more creativity, but you're wrong to say that adding another tool to the dev team's arsenal will somehow inhibit them.