My PC isn't the best (its a junk from 5 years ago), but if you can't see your graphic even close to mine, please don't complain about graphic. Do your homework first.

Come to Asura! The home of the really cute tarutaru.

Edit: and yes, i am using windower because windower allow me to not crash every 10 min and also enhance graphic *cough*

 thats bad mate. the characters are very polygonal. the ground texture is horrible. the letters in the names are very blurry, those bushes are extremely outdated, etc.

It's a great game, but it's from 2001, dont try to make it look like it has good graphics it has not.

Better to emphasize the good quests and story

The game doesn't have perfect graphics, far from it. However, for its age it is DEFINITELY on the higher end.

I'd say good art masks the bad tech, same as WoW. The latter has prettier env. though.

I think the graphics are fine. They're certainly not bad (especially for its age!) and FFXI has many aspects that make up for any dated graphics it may have.

Also, Agreed! Come to Asura! ;)

Oh and check out www.ffxiclopedia.com as it will help you so much if you're having problems or any questions

I trid FFXI today-with good graphics card too. Looks horribly dated.

Originally posted by spades07

I trid FFXI today-with good graphics card too. Looks horribly dated.

A bleeding edge graphics card released tomorrow won't make FFXI look better, because FFXI wasn't developed to take advantage of them in the first place. It was originally developed for PS2 tech and then ported over to the PC, using DX7.

You get FFXI to look better (on PC anyway) by tweaking the settings beyond what the config program lets you; the video card has very little to do with it.

As for it looking dated... FFS... the game came out in 2002 and was in development at least a couple years prior to that. *Anything* created back then is going to look dated by today's standards. However, FFXI stands up a bit better because its look is based mostly on texture art, not on technology.

They need to make a rule that people are not allowed to speak on games released *before* the year they first entered the MMO genre... A game that is 6+ years old that has to keep with the PS2's graphical capability is showing it's age? Duh, cry more. FFXI was/is still a great game, regardless of whether sharp edges hurt your insides or not.

LOL... FFXI graphics are outright bad. Okay, for a game this old they're actually good, but for today's standards they're just bad.
And you know why..? Because that old PS2 still has to be supported. So when you look at the graphics from this perspective, the graphics are awesome (remember that the PS2 is already over 15 years old...)
 

Originally posted by Reizla

LOL... FFXI graphics are outright bad. Okay, for a game this old they're actually good, but for today's standards they're just bad.
And you know why..? Because that old PS2 still has to be supported. So when you look at the graphics from this perspective, the graphics are awesome (remember that the PS2 is already over 15 years old...)
 

Sorry to bring back a dead thread, but ps2 over 15 years old?   You've got to be kidding me.   I was MAYBE 10 when ps2 came out, I'm now 19.    Nine years is a safe estimate, I definitely was over four when the original PS came out, let alone ps2.

 Glad to see graphics make a game. Graphics are seriously not the first thing you should be looking at in an MMO after playing FFXI for awhile you will look past it and realize it is a great game. 

I agree.  So long as the graphics are bearable still (no Diablo 1 for me).    But, I also think with such a popular game they could have done this (now ofc it would require more money and devs):   Have a set of graphics for pc and a set for ps2/xbox 360   It wouldn't be that hard to tell a pc to ignore the lower graphics and only display the good ones, and the ps2 wouldn't even know the good ones were there.

    The problem was that S.E hesitated in upgrading to comidate the Pc players saying that it would cause an unfair advantage vs Ps2 players and then 360 players.  If I remember correctly it took them a long time to upgrade to 8.1 and then we were told a 9.0 was in the works but I dont think that ever happened.

  The char models as well as monsters were always well done and even years later are nicely done. Its the enviroment that seem to take less of the devs time and whats seem to become the biggest eye sore over the years.

I tried this game yesterday after updating for TWELVE HOURS.   It's not the graphics that bothered me.   The characters attempting to strip while you're trying to create them, and the fact that the pc controls are....stupid as hell, made me quit after 30 min (when I finally figured out how to access the map)

Originally posted by dothackking

I tried this game yesterday after updating for TWELVE HOURS.   It's not the graphics that bothered me.   The characters attempting to strip while you're trying to create them, and the fact that the pc controls are....stupid as hell, made me quit after 30 min (when I finally figured out how to access the map)

If you couldn't take the time to figure out or read how to change the control scheme and settings (admittedly bad for PC) then you wouldn't have lasted in the game anyway, honestly.  It doesn't guide you along in the least, you have to utilize information both in and out of the game.

Originally posted by spades07

I trid FFXI today-with good graphics card too. Looks horribly dated.

7 year old game, what did you think you would get?

Originally posted by Angorim

Originally posted by dothackking

I tried this game yesterday after updating for TWELVE HOURS.   It's not the graphics that bothered me.   The characters attempting to strip while you're trying to create them, and the fact that the pc controls are....stupid as hell, made me quit after 30 min (when I finally figured out how to access the map)

If you couldn't take the time to figure out or read how to change the control scheme and settings (admittedly bad for PC) then you wouldn't have lasted in the game anyway, honestly.  It doesn't guide you along in the least, you have to utilize information both in and out of the game.

I'm still gonna give it a try, since I'm bored lately anyway, but the control scheme is horrible...can I possibly walk with wsad instead of the silly left mouse button?  Holy CRAP.

Originally posted by dothackking

 

I'm still gonna give it a try, since I'm bored lately anyway, but the control scheme is horrible...can I possibly walk with wsad instead of the silly left mouse button?  Holy CRAP.

Of course read the manual for how to set controls, or better yet go to POL and watch their New Player Guide series of videos, which will walk you through everything.

Originally posted by dothackking

Originally posted by Angorim

Originally posted by dothackking

I tried this game yesterday after updating for TWELVE HOURS.   It's not the graphics that bothered me.   The characters attempting to strip while you're trying to create them, and the fact that the pc controls are....stupid as hell, made me quit after 30 min (when I finally figured out how to access the map)

If you couldn't take the time to figure out or read how to change the control scheme and settings (admittedly bad for PC) then you wouldn't have lasted in the game anyway, honestly.  It doesn't guide you along in the least, you have to utilize information both in and out of the game.

 

I'm still gonna give it a try, since I'm bored lately anyway, but the control scheme is horrible...can I possibly walk with wsad instead of the silly left mouse button?  Holy CRAP.

  You can with the compaq keyboard setting.

Originally posted by SgtFrog

Originally posted by spades07

I trid FFXI today-with good graphics card too. Looks horribly dated.

 

7 year old game, what did you think you would get?

Yeah, but even 7 years ago the work that went into environment texturing was horrible even with jack cumputer settings and a reg edit.