OP is full of shit. That "screenshot" is heavily altered. That amount of detail and shading is NOT in FFXI.

Edit: Alright, registry altering. As I said, heavily altered and NOT what the average FFXI user is going to achieve through ingame settings. So for the majority of people, FFXI graphics are still going to suck

Maybe Square ought to incorporate those registry tweaks into the actual game.

For the record, I like FFXI. It's a great game. But the graphics have NEVER been its strong suit.

lol gotta love the cutesy wootsy taru 

The graphics are outdated,but you can get them to look clear/vivid as day with a good monitor and graphic card.I especially lean towards a good monitor like the Hi Bright ones[HDMI].I did no registry tweaks at all on my newer machine and it looks 100x better than my older one with the tweaks.The tweaks are needed however on older machines ,i remember it looked real bad without them.

ZERO shader use in FFXI,they were limited by the playstation back then,it would have lagged the game badly.

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Originally posted by Zorvan
OP is full of shit. That "screenshot" is heavily altered. That amount of detail and shading is NOT in FFXI.
 
Edit: Alright, registry altering. As I said, heavily altered and NOT what the average FFXI user is going to achieve through ingame settings. So for the majority of people, FFXI graphics are still going to suck
Maybe Square ought to incorporate those registry tweaks into the actual game.
 
For the record, I like FFXI. It's a great game. But the graphics have NEVER been its strong suit.

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I agree, as the OP hasn't responded yet, he is full of it! I forget where but i have seen something like that for ffxi, it was CGI by todays standards.

If you can post more screen shots that you have something to shows us (like a shout to MMORPG.com or something) and they look like that, I'll pay a years sub for you to ffxi and join myself to play beside you.

edit AND if thats a registry tweak post it.

You can increase the graphics by using RegEdit and some other programs that increase the graphic resolution past the 1024x1024 that the original game had maxed at.  I think the OP pic is edited though....

Originally posted by Kaze

 

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Originally posted by Zorvan
OP is full of shit. That "screenshot" is heavily altered. That amount of detail and shading is NOT in FFXI.
 
Edit: Alright, registry altering. As I said, heavily altered and NOT what the average FFXI user is going to achieve through ingame settings. So for the majority of people, FFXI graphics are still going to suck
Maybe Square ought to incorporate those registry tweaks into the actual game.
 
For the record, I like FFXI. It's a great game. But the graphics have NEVER been its strong suit.

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I agree, as the OP hasn't responded yet, he is full of it! I forget where but i have seen something like that for ffxi, it was CGI by todays standards.

If you can post more screen shots that you have something to shows us (like a shout to MMORPG.com or something) and they look like that, I'll pay a years sub for you to ffxi and join myself to play beside you.

edit AND if thats a registry tweak post it.

Dude if you know me at all i don't BS as a fanbois for any game.You can easily get the game to look that good with NO tweaks.The colours are limited there is no shader use but the game still looks clear and vivid.Just use a good monitor and video card,NO tweaks needed,my new machine looks BETTER than old one WITH tweaks.

I have not done the tweak since my last PC,all you do is enter the binary equivalent of the size you want.I think it was something like 64x64=512x512 or something along those lines.

You can get any decent game to look that good,only the newer games have high end graphics,but i still enjoy the effort Square did on these older graphics.

The great looking older games were Everquest2,Sigil's Vanguard was an old project that rivals any game out there[revamped DX9],umm hard pressed to think of an older project that uses shaders and looks great.Not one good looking game by Blizzard,however i did notice they are using high end shaders in there SC2 project,i wonder what engine they using for that game.

Anyhow don't pick on poor little FFXI,PC gaming was not even thought about in JPN when this game was made,square was strictly a console game designer and a very good one at that.You want to judge SE ,do it on their next PC project,i have no knowledge of their half assed effort using the UE3,for that game they designed for NA.I do not believe their heart and soul went into that project,it was more a testing thing than anything else,and probably some ideas stolen LMAO.

Originally posted by Khrymson

Originally posted by WSIMike

Here's A Link to my personal photo album (I have many more, just not all uploaded). There are some areas I haven't even been to yet that are beautiful (Sky, Lufaise Meadows, etc) but you can find screens of them around the web.

 

Amazing images, {those aren't frogs, they're demons from Hell!} makes me wonder why I ever left and havn't yet returned to FFXI.  Nothing else has ever held my attention as much, and the little bit of story that I've gotten to experience was the best ever in any MMO!

Heheh indeed.. And yeah... those frogs... -trembles- 

What server do you play cause looking through those images I recognized quite a few names of players I used to play with frequently.....maybe they've switched servers since when I played...or just duplicates on your server....heh

I'm on Pandemonium.. And it's possible that some names are the same or similar. I've noticed that as well at times.

Ah well, would love to see more if you get a chance to upload the others you mentioned having!

Hmm... might just do that at some point. Need to take some more, actually... which requires me to actually log in more (been on something of a quasi-break from the game lately, pursuing other interests).

Shan is coming into her own as a Monk these days (which means a new banner will be necessary at some point), so maybe I'll start taking more of that.

Originally posted by Kaze

 

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Originally posted by Zorvan
OP is full of shit. That "screenshot" is heavily altered. That amount of detail and shading is NOT in FFXI.
 
Edit: Alright, registry altering. As I said, heavily altered and NOT what the average FFXI user is going to achieve through ingame settings. So for the majority of people, FFXI graphics are still going to suck
Maybe Square ought to incorporate those registry tweaks into the actual game.
 
For the record, I like FFXI. It's a great game. But the graphics have NEVER been its strong suit.

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I agree, as the OP hasn't responded yet, he is full of it! I forget where but i have seen something like that for ffxi, it was CGI by todays standards.

If you can post more screen shots that you have something to shows us (like a shout to MMORPG.com or something) and they look like that, I'll pay a years sub for you to ffxi and join myself to play beside you.

edit AND if thats a registry tweak post it.

They're not full of it. That's what Promyvion looks like. Check my photo-album (linked in a previous post in this thread); I have a couple shots taken in the same area. The only thing I use is the registry hack. I don't use Windower (I use the built-in windowed mode that SE added) and use Fraps for screenshots.

The textures are still the same highly compressed textures, the lighting and everything is the same. The only difference is that on PC you can tweak the registry to get the rendering resolution up to 2048x2048 or, conceivably, higher. It makes everything look more "crisp", nothing more.

I know on the 360 the rendering tends to be more "vivid" thanks to its improved video capabilities.

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Originally posted by WSIMike

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Originally posted by Kaze

 

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Originally posted by Zorvan
OP is full of shit. That "screenshot" is heavily altered. That amount of detail and shading is NOT in FFXI.
 
Edit: Alright, registry altering. As I said, heavily altered and NOT what the average FFXI user is going to achieve through ingame settings. So for the majority of people, FFXI graphics are still going to suck
Maybe Square ought to incorporate those registry tweaks into the actual game.
 
For the record, I like FFXI. It's a great game. But the graphics have NEVER been its strong suit.

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I agree, as the OP hasn't responded yet, he is full of it! I forget where but i have seen something like that for ffxi, it was CGI by todays standards.
If you can post more screen shots that you have something to shows us (like a shout to MMORPG.com or something) and they look like that, I'll pay a years sub for you to ffxi and join myself to play beside you.
edit AND if thats a registry tweak post it.

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They're not full of it. That's what Promyvion looks like. Check my photo-album (linked in a previous post in this thread); I have a couple shots taken in the same area. The only thing I use is the registry hack. I don't use Windower (I use the built-in windowed mode that SE added) and use Fraps for screenshots.
The textures are still the same highly compressed textures, the lighting and everything is the same. The only difference is that on PC you can tweak the registry to get the rendering resolution up to 2048x2048 or, conceivably, higher. It makes everything look more "crisp", nothing more.
I know on the 360 the rendering tends to be more "vivid" thanks to its improved video capabilities.
 

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I stand corrected, you are right they made vast improvments in FFXI, so much in fact I am giving serious consideration to coming back. Very nice screen shots thanks

How about these pics:

More Here ....

FYI, those are all real in-game screenshots.

Originally posted by ic0n67

How about these pics:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More Here ....

Those are 3D models from the game integrated into real-life images. 

Some very good work there, to match the lighting, etc. I've used a couple of them as my Windows wallpaper from time to time.

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Originally posted by ic0n67
How about these pics:

 

 
 

 
 

 

 
 
More Here ....

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BINGO!!!
you got it

Even if those are 3-D models from the game they have a damn good look to em, much better than when the game first released in 03(us).

I'm having serious consideration of plying Lotro over FFXI.

LotRO is a good game ... If I didn't like this one so much I might be playing that instead.