In game footage on trailer has lame graphicsFollow

If this has already been posted then my apologies...

I was reviewing the official E3 trailer for FFXIV and the in game footage shown didn't blow me away in the graphics dept. Maybe I just have a craptastic PC so it didn't display good looking graphics, but the CG sequences shown looked pretty damn good so why was I left thinking that the in game graphics shown were barely (if at all) better than the FFXI graphics I am/was used to when I played XI on the PS2.

Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong, and Graphics in an MMO are not really that important to me but if the graphics are not much of an improvement over FFXI then that strikes me as a bit odd.

Maybe you just don't have an eye for it, but the graphics were extremely better than FFXI currently. Especially if you're talking about in comparison to PS2. Try viewing still pictures from the video since it tends to change from scene to scene quickly.

Edited, Jul 7th 2009 10:14pm by HokieTre

Edited, Jul 7th 2009 10:16pm by HokieTre

The graphics looked fine to me. My only gripe is the character designs; recycled FFXI skins and enemies looking alike.

Yeah that leviathan scene alone makes this a huge upgrade over FFXI. All the NPCs also had more geometry to their models so it was smoothed out and the dynamic lighting and shadows made things just pop out where no such thing ever happened in FFXI. May not be gears of war or uncharted (Or to something more relevant to discussion, FFXIII) level graphics, but you certainly won't find a single MMORPG on the market currently that has even remotely that level of polish on lighting + model detail and its not even in beta phase yet.

The fight on the boat used in-game graphics. If you think it was lame then you are blind. Or you don't play MMOs.

The graphics looked fine to me, the characters were very smooth and the lighting changes in that 'force-fields' spell were very convincing. The Light and Shade elements on the attacking Jelly fish monsters was also very very impressive and it doesn't bother me in the slightest they've used the same character skins, I thought those skins and model movements were perfect in FFXi - I'm loving what it looks like in FFXIV so far.

Am I just cynical in thinking that obvious troll is obvious? All these replies and no one has called it out? Come on, the graphics are a billion times better than XI. Even with a crappy PC you can still see that.

Confirmed as in game footage (Clicky to enlarge):



Looks fantastic to me! I'm guessing your expectations are way to high, or your eye sight is failing you.

I actually think my PC would melt if I tried running it, I'm definately going to have to settle for the PS3 version.

Edited, Jul 8th 2009 3:49pm by GenryuOfBahamut

that made me lol

the jellies look squishy, i just wanna stab a spear thru them

Edited, Jul 8th 2009 12:36pm by Leyego

I thought they looked nice.
If they don't fit your expectations, remember this: it still has a year of beta work to improve before you start playing it.
I would like the trailer graphics because I could still play it on my laptop :-).

FFXIV already looks tons better. There's more detail on that "galka's" glove than an entire FFXI character!


Edited, Jul 8th 2009 1:02pm by BarrenNinja

Mmmmm.
I'll give you this: the in-game-footage is rough around the edges.
But not in a way I think will effect the final product.

The scene with the Mithra and the Hume standing up against the jellyfish, both the mithra and hume are stock still the entire scene. The jellyfishes at the front of the pack bounce off the shield as though it were a thunderstorm of pillow-y softness. The white haired human male is holding the back line behind the Galka...with his identical twin brother.

The dark atmosphere, the excited camera work, the fact the whole thing lasts a grand total of 5 seconds; all of this falls neatly under the category of "Action!" but also just so happens to be a clever way to sweep cut corners under the rug.

Don't get me wrong, this is all very understandable and acceptable in a teaser.

The good news is, much like the teaser for FFXI what you're seeing now is not the product that will be hitting store shelves. The secondary animation will be fleshed out, the collisions solid, the special effects refined, and all the other little considerations that really bring a piece of digital art together. A company of SE's caliber can put alot of polish on a product during crunch time.

The things it can't polish in that time are precisely the things the teaser showcases as well played. That Galka has more polys on his head than his FFXI counterpart had on half his body. The textures are rich and convincing. What animation there was was fluid. These are the important things.









Edited, Jul 9th 2009 12:39am by Zemzelette