Glowing weapons

[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.

[Joeking]

flashbacks to Batman & Robin w/ those neon and black lights.

Does want.

[Nuru]

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.

I can see where you are getting at. But take a look at some of the weapons that the NMs drop. Fists of the Sixth Sun is a vibrant Blueish color, and it illuminates in dark areas, not to say that it glows or gives off light, but the color of the weapon is a bright blue color, and is easy to see in the dark.

All they need to do is throw in some more colors. If they immediately resort to the WoW glow, it just wouldn't fit the art style of the game.

I know for sure that there are going to be some really badass weapons, but we are being capped at Rank 50 for now, so we are stuck with the more "ordinary" weapons.

[Sirtis]

I just recently came back from a 3 month hiatus due to a variety of issues. While I am aiming at acquiring that weapon, I did not know how it looked or if there were any others that looked in a similar manner as to which I described. Thanks for pointing that out. It is good to know that there are concepts which are being used and developed along side the "normal" equipment.

[Nuru]

I just recently came back from a 3 month hiatus due to a variety of issues. While I am aiming at acquiring that weapon, I did not know how it looked or if there were any others that looked in a similar manner as to which I described. Thanks for pointing that out. It is good to know that there are concepts which are being used and developed along side the "normal" equipment.

I see, another weapon to take a look at is the NM Drop "Shellsplitter" The designs on it are engraved in that same Light-Blue color.

[Punainen]

In initial development, mage weapons glowed just a bit. I thought it looked awesome. I wish they'd bring that back.

[Nuru]

In initial development, mage weapons glowed just a bit. I thought it looked awesome. I wish they'd bring that back.

I don't think I have seen any of those. Are they in the DVD from the Collectors Edition?

[Rau]

I don't think I have seen any of those. Are they in the DVD from the Collectors Edition?

NURUUUU! COMO ESTAASS?!

I hope i don't marked for this x_x
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