Final Fantasy XIV

And yet they haven't developed and likely never will. The only difference is that, again, as canonically stated by Estinien, Alisaie is more rugged and manly.

That would require modern Blizzard devs to be A) self-aware and B) capable of self-deprecation.

>yeah that would be funny since now their world and environment and (new) armors look great
Pic unrelated, I assume.

>yeah that would be funny since now their world and environment and (new) armors look great
Pic unrelated, I assume.

>laughs, but then

the fricking funniest thing the developers did was fully embracing the polygon grapes and making squishy stress-toys of them as fanfest merch

>is literally still in game
ironic...

>entire dress is a single flat jpeg
>elf's shoulders are tiny, but flare out to chronic-wanker-tier forearms and hands
>elf's face gives Nahbdeen's 2-pixel atrocity a run for its money
>bindings on the staff are painted on
>the 2D plants from 20 years ago
>texture of the tree trunk on the right is a 40x40pix image stretched along its entire length
>pathway is a flat png, no graphical tricks attempted to even try to make it 3 dimensional
Surely this is a screenshot from the old WoW you talked about, right?

which jak and daxter game is this?

>entire landscape of molded playdough
>still, 20 years later, stretches the land texture down the length of any slope
>the fricking tree in the foreground, holy shit
>At least 12 of the ame copy/pasted "house" on top of the decking built into the playdough for some reason
>ships in a rover (bay? inlet?) that is impossible for them to navigate without severe damage
>magic bridge on the left, and in the middle, that would collapse under their own weight
>big mountain on the right is a low-poly travesty that I'm pretty sure is worse than the mountains WoW used to have
Literally the only impressive thing here is the cloudy skybox, and I'm pretty sure that shit's probably static.

Now do this one

No one in their right mind would ever defend ShBs world design outside of Rak'tika Greatwood, Eulmore and maybe Il mheg. It's pretty obvious that they ran out of money or time while working on the zones since most of them look worse than their first attempts at "large" zones in HW. Now post a picture of Ultima Thule, one of the shittiest zones to play in (pre-flight) but the best looking by far and with arguably the best zone music

>wowgay sees pretty colors and claps excitedly
>me see color, it gud gwafix!
Oh, I get it. This post was a ruse. Very clever, anon!

These are PS2 graphics done by a team with a great artstyle.

Now, THIS shit looks like someone cared. There's some repeating textures, but every MMO suffers from this, but they don't look stretched here.
Tons of effort put into the plants to make them appear believable. Cloudy skybox is believable, not oversaturated or drawn with crayons.
I dunno what game this is, but I would play it.

Well then I can honestly say that, so far, it is the only good screenshot I've ever seen of XI.

This looks nice.

I wish I had my original screenshots but I only have what others have posted here.

This looks like literal regurgitated beetroot vomit.

It's fancy, the footstep effects they used always made me stop and watch, especially the ones in sky.

No one asked you.

don't post an ugly screenshot then. the sunset one was nice.

Despite being an ignorant homosexual you're right. Lumoria is awful to look at, but XI has so many good looking zones.

the sunsets were too good

God I miss my tail.

>Y'essum massa

I would go back to being the "male only" tailed semi-humanoid race of exploited reincarnation gay mountain giants in an instant. Fricking better then "big human with 2% difference in appearing aside from being roided out. Femroes were not just a mistake but a b***h slap to the Galka race.

The amount of details they put into the world was astounding, don't forget this is a legitimate PS2 game that came out 21 years ago.

sis you still have literal 2d paint gear on

Characters look awful in WoW, stick to the things WoW does better like combat(barely), landscapes and skyboxes(sometimes/ultima thule), PvP(patch/expansion dependent), and M+ content. Even XIV mogs the shit out of WoW with plugins/addons having zero overhead allowing for ultra coom shit and degeneracy everywhere.

>the Icarus syndrome characterises leaders who initiate overly ambitious projects that come to naught, causing harm to themselves and others in the process. Fuelled by excitement, these leaders are unable to rein in their misguided enthusiasm before it is too late.

>Hermes created thousands of Meteia. All with the ability to harness Dynamis
>It was mad very apparent that while Venat is respected, the Convocation would never listen to her. The Twelve and the Watcher were literally the only ones who believed her. Also, in meeting WoL she knew that her people had to be sundered to be able to harness Dynamis. Which was literally the only way to fight back.
Hmmm. So if Ancients can create beings that can harness Dynamis, what's the point of nuking them? It's almost like it's poorly written trash. Also forgot to mention the moronic clock mcguffin that the writers pulled out of their asses, what a joke of a story.

>the Icarus syndrome characterises leaders who initiate overly ambitious projects that come to naught, causing harm to themselves and others in the process. Fuelled by excitement, these leaders are unable to rein in their misguided enthusiasm before it is too late.

Doesn't work when you have someone who knows exactly what the problem is and where exactly said problem is, but tells no one because...

Nah. It's just poor writing when you actually sit down and think about it. An entire planet of Ancients, and only one of them were interested in other planets? Venat refused to share the information with anyone, yet saw fit to condemn an entire race because she felt like it? Garbage writing. They should have never pulled this shit out their ass if they weren't interested in actually exploring it. Instead we learn that a cataclysmic event was caused by a moronic emo and an entire race was wiped out because one woman wanted to play judge, jury and executioner to an entire planet of people. Shit reads like a cheap fanfiction.

>Also forgot to mention the moronic clock mcguffin that the writers pulled out of their asses, what a joke of a story.
That's not what "mcguffin" means, also the clock was mentioned early on in the Elpis quests.

>an object, event, or character in a film or story that serves to set and keep the plot in motion despite usually lacking intrinsic importance
That's exactly what that stupid fricking clock was, some random shit made specifically for that one part of the story and is never seen or mentioned again.

So why does it exist?

>I never watched any of the Elpis cutscenes.
Thanks for essentially confirming this fact.

And yet you've been doing it the entire time.

Man you trancer tards are moronic

>Also forgot to mention the moronic clock mcguffin that the writers pulled out of their asses, what a joke of a story.
That's not what "mcguffin" means, also the clock was mentioned early on in the Elpis quests.

The same.

NO. Not thinking with our wieners got us in this mess in the first place.

>Get passed around by Garleans and high-ranking Domans in a Garlean ruled Doma
>Takes her rage out on Doman peasons and rice farmers
Yeah, she was irredeemable garbage.

hey, those rice farmers had it coming

Was it Garleans that sold her into sex slavery ? Was it Garleans that ran the brothels ? Was it Garleans that abused her because she happened to look like an aristocrat ? If anything Garlemald pulled her up and gave her an opportunity. Remember that back then Garlemald was not portrayed as cookie cutter le bad.

>They came to have fun using her and paid the price for i
She was a prostitute bro, she quite literally needed them to pay off her debt. Anyway, she is irredeemable garbage, as I highly doubt fishers and rice farmers could afford a prostitute like Yotsuyu, considering she was a widowed noblewoman. It's like a city prostitute gaining power and driving out to country to torture the locals, makes no fricking sense.

What did I say that was wrong?

>pay off her debt
She had no debt, it was her husband's She was a sex slave, not a prostitute. There's a difference, although you might not be aware of it.
>considering she was a widowed noblewoman
She was a trophy wife born of a farmer's family, saddled with life destroying debt that wasn't hers, she was nobility in name only and even that was lost when she was sold off. She did not have any status. And you also got your timeline wrong, this was happening to Yotsuyu before Garlemald had established full control of Doma, before Kaien's rebellion, so it was absolutely domans that did this to her.

>So if she was a sex slave, that pretty much confirms that the farmers and fishers never got to have sex with her at all.
That's your headcanon, the sources on the wiki state that she was not some sort of a high profile courtesan only reserved for the nobility. In addition to that you can encounter the owner of the brothel she had worked in, a man called Jifuya, during the Stormblood MSQ, he was with the resistance and his tale does nothing to give your words weight.
Quoting it here.
>"I was her master when she was yet a courtesan. She...worked in my establishment. Her father was a regular client of mine. One day, quite without preamble, he offered to sell her to me. "She may be no maiden", he said, "but she has some use left in her". It was no profession for her, but I knew she would be popular. And so it proved. Men flocked to drown themselves in that cold, bottomless gaze."
There is no word of her being high class or expensive. There is no word of her availability being limited. In fact, the pimp makes a clear statement that she was extremely popular.
And I was never arguing about her being redeemable, I only thought that she was well within her right to seek recompense for the wrongs done to her by any means available to her. It's not like it was realistic for her to set up a court to try all the people that took advantage of her circumstance? And who would be the jury of that court and who would enforce compliance? I think the Domans were gutless scum that had earned their witch tormentor with their cowardice and callous indifference to the cruelty that was growing unchecked throughout their lands.

Everyone conveniently forgot that The Confederacy enslaved the people whose ships they claimed or sank and pressed them into service under the threat of death too. The Doman arc had WoL let a lot of things slide because he had bigger fish to fry and because the Japanese would never let you mess with their cultural representatives in game. It's fine overthrowing Ishgardian ruling class and nobility when they do fricked up shit because Ishgard is based on medieval France and other European countries, but they would never allow baka gaijin to mess with not-Japan to right the wrongs there on a sociopolitical level. That'd be tantamount to admitting that their history could use some correction too.

I completely agree with you, it portrayed Hien as a weak leader, even if the game went out of its way to show off that he was attempting to be shrewd. But there's a line between letting some bad things happen in your country during wartime and rebellion and then letting a crime syndicate fleet that enslaves people, does drug and human trafficking and piracy, persist when the war is over.

The confederacy is actually a useful neutral buffer from foreign interference. Keeping them around while doma is rebuilt is 100% for the best otherwise you have a direct path for foreign powers flowing from hingashi.

>first set of samurai job quests is THE israelite FEARS THE SAMURAI
>second set is being a bootlicker for corrupt nobility
What went wrong?

That’s not really why they like the shinsengumi, who were just government thugs committing crime with impunity. It’s moreso the people that ousted them were worse, and directly led to them getting nuked.

But when you make a fantasy game expac centered around revolution it’s pretty moronic to glorify these clowns who cut the hands off peasants who don’t bow before nobles

Ugetsu is debateably worse than the bugyo he despises, in execution if not intent. Remember his whole premise is he and Musosai were very successful noble assassins until Ugetsu tarded out and stopped disguising himself, then wondered why his parents and hometown were all slaughtered in retaliation and Musosai was forced to leave Hingashi.

Guess I'll have to see how much I enjoy FFX-2 to put up with NG+ when I get around to playing it. Being a beastlady appreciator is rough.

because this isn't actually the heckin nazi trans genocider elon snusk website you fat load, no matter how many 2016 pepes get posted to the contrary

>wowtard getting ready to answer a question