Tera: Random Complaint Thread. +12, but now what do I do with all this fodder?

[shidobu]

I had similar experiences as well, but aren't Tera's graphics objectively better?

Opinions, Each game has its own legs to stand on when it comes to graphics. The styles are completely different

[Elcura]

I had similar experiences as well, but aren't Tera's graphics objectively better?

Nope. Technically FFXIV has always had the best graphics but stylistically TERA had a lot more going on with it. Style is subjective, and while TERA had a lot more personality I found myself hating the non-universe options and outfits as they fucked up the style TERA has...had. You can't play TERA now without seeing a loli in a bunny suit, swimsuit or something else ridiculous, and while I don't hate that on its own it does detract from the overall style of the game world. I loved the in-universe armour designs (even the stupid swimsuit platemail) because they were so creative and visually interesting to look at. Shame.

ARR has much more style that 1.0 had, whether that style is to your tastes or not depends on your tastes. But either way, both are at a very impressive graphical level so it is preference obviously.

[Avarice]

I had similar experiences as well, but aren't Tera's graphics objectively better?

I can't bring myself to say they are. Tera looks nice, but XIV looks so much nicer.

[Lokus]

I still like my castanics and their apparel over XIV's female races but that's not to say XIV doesn't have it's merits. Made a real nice fem Highlander Hyur though. Main thing that sorta disappoints me with XIV is that all the races have the same animations for skills and they lack the flavor Tera's races add to each class.

[Anakron]

I still like my castanics and their apparel over XIV's female races but that's not to say XIV doesn't have it's merits. Made a real nice fem Highlander Hyur though. Main thing that sorta disappoints me with XIV is that all the races have the same animations for skills and they lack the flavor Tera's races add to each class.

You mean in FFXIV that all the races have the same stances/swing motions for attacks and such? It seems odd that they'd do that consider even FFXI races had unique animations and battle stances.

[Elcura]

You mean in FFXIV that all the races have the same stances/swing motions for attacks and such? It seems odd that they'd do that consider even FFXI races had unique animations and battle stances.

They planned it for FFXI. All races had unique auto-attack animations for every weapon available at the time, but the WS that were released (until the level 60 ones) all used those auto attack animations with flashy effects so nothing was unique in terms of WS. After how long until level 60 cap and new WS they created unique animations for all races, and continued to do that until about 75. A few afterwards recycled AA animations with flashy effects, or partially used motions from unique WS. The last WS set of WS have unique animations too.

So XI's unique animations weren't that impressive until getting to about 60, since if you saw your character auto attack you've also seen them basically perform all their early WS as well.

Whereas all WS in FFXIV have unique animations, but add in that abilities also have unique motions (all abilities in XI used the exact same animation) and you have more variety than you think while saving more time. Racial animations never did much good, sure they added uniqueness and flavour but if you were stuck with a shitty animation for your race then that sucks for you.

[Kiarax]

Extreme cases should be different imo. Human/mithra/elvaan can get away with shared animations but taru and galka should be different. GW2 does this with 3 races sharing animations and 2 having unique ones. Admittedly all skills aren't unique and there's not an abundance of them per class, maybe XIV has much more.

[Elcura]

Extreme cases should be different imo. Human/mithra/elvaan can get away with shared animations but taru and galka should be different. GW2 does this with 3 races sharing animations and 2 having unique ones. Admittedly all skills aren't unique and there's not an abundance of them per class, maybe XIV has much more.

I can't say for sure, and I'm positive similar skills (Fists of Fire/Wind/Earth) share animation, but generally abilities have different animations. Like Evasion Buff, Attack Buff and and Fists all have different animations despite all being abilities.

So considering how many unique animations exist for 8 classes, then 5 more skills for 9 jobs each, there's a potential for a fuckload of unique animations. Don't hold me to that though, since I can't know for sure until next week. Actually, scrap that because magic isn't much of an animation as it is a flashy effect afterwards. But again, can't be sure of that either (though I'm confident).

[Foxer]

I'm gonna have to go ahead and say TERA maxed the max out has better looking textures than FFXIV, especially when you take the time to zoom all the way in and compare, but that doesn't mean that overall, FFXIV can't look better. TERA is more of a bulky, cartoon-like game, while FFXV, as colorful and bubbly as it has become, just has way nicer color scheme and just blends in way better with their realism approach, IMO.

I'll go ahead and give the graphics advantage to FFXIV just cause of the colors and size/weight feel it has.

[Gulkeeva]

(not sure why ffxiv is in the tera thread but anyway...!)

FFXIV, is using lower quality textures at the moment (dat PS3 limitations). Upon release, and the upgrade to DX11, they will be adding higher quality textures, so the game should look a great deal better (for people with machines that can handle it).

Although the game still does look amazing at 2560x1440

P.S. ffxiv has more boob jiggle then tera at the moment, so I have to say FFXIV is better for now.

[Lucavi]

Just make a crossover and let it be done. I'll take Elins with thigh jiggle in XIV any day of the week.

[shidobu]

P.S. ffxiv has more boob jiggle then tera at the moment, so I have to say FFXIV is better for now.

didn't notice on my elf till i sprinted with a harness on.. and its pretty naiz

[Lucavi]

I might have given TERA's "world" the go-ahead, but then Yoshi went all badass on me and obliterated the invisible walls in a single week, so yeah, go SE.

[Gulkeeva]

didn't notice on my elf till i sprinted with a harness on.. and its pretty naiz

http://na.beta.finalfantasyxiv.com/l...003/blog/1576/

miqo'te onry (also I blame elcura for the derails)

[Lucavi]

Yeah its pretty fucking impressive, Gulk, and the best part is that it -DOESN'T- look unnatural. That's pretty much how tits would move in a harness like that. Its not a sports bra so they're not pressed up or restrained.

Digging the full body armor on females, especially the Highlander Females. They can tank for me anyday.

[Foxer]

http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/8634/q7j.png

[Gulkeeva]

Wait a min... what about that lalafell in front of you.... O_o

[Lucavi]

Preparing his anus, naturally.

On that note, I fucking love the pug questline. Popori's rival looks like a fucking boss; I can't wait to dive further into that storyline.

[shidobu]

Wait a min... what about that lalafell in front of you.... O_o

keeps dropping his h2h weapon and he bends over to pick them up.. get your mind outa the gutter! its only.. child.. err man?

[Eddard]

I give up... I have tried every fix EME has posted to fix these errors from their patch and still doesn't work... Did a full clean re-install to a different HDD (since mine main one was getting full) and now I get a different error... (Unknown File Error @ 93% on applying patch). Guess I'll wait for EME to get back to me on my support ticket. =/