When is the graphics overhaul coming?

While I find the current path of exile graphics to be playable, i really do hope they are a placeholder and i think after the devs have rolled out act 3 with open beta, they should focus on the graphics overhaul to make it look more like a true JRPG like this:

Or this:

etc

If you can dish out enough cash to fund another 150 employees for 2-3 years then sure (around 50-60 million dollars) : ) . You have to understand that making games costs a lot of money :P . If it didn't then every game would look like this.

Although if we had the money im sure we would want to go more for the dark rpg look of Witcher 2 instead of the high fantasy fashion show look of the final fantasy series.



Personally though if I want to see amazing CGI I watch a movie. Games are meant for more than just eye candy.

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Russell wrote:

If you can dish out enough cash to fund another 150 employees for 2-3 years then sure (around 50-60 million dollars) : ) . You have to understand that making games costs a lot of money :P . If it didn't then every game would look like this.

Although if we had the money im sure we would want to go more for the dark rpg look of Witcher 2 instead of the high fantasy fashion show look of the final fantasy series.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/11/apr/witchywitch2s.jpg

Personally though if I want to see amazing CGI I watch a movie. Games are meant for more than just eye candy.

Witcher 2 cost 6-7m$ :)
BTW i think for PoE in terms of art style Dark souls/Demon Souls would be better comparison, though Witcher 2 has much better tech.

Oh wow. Ok well they are a bit of an exception.. I dont understand... how though. 6 mill is enough to pay like 70-80 employees for 1 year.

Although im guessing they arnt including their engine development cost in that. The thing that eats 85% of our programmers time here :P.

Even so they must be very efficient.Impressive.

I know for the FF series games though they spend around 35+ mill.

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Russell wrote:

I know for the FF series games though they spend around 35+ mill.

And they haven't had an extraordinarily good FF since FF9 (FF10 is okay).

I'm curious, what is the games the first 2 images in the thread are from?

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Waves_blade wrote:

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Russell wrote:

I know for the FF series games though they spend around 35+ mill.

And they haven't had an extraordinarily good FF since FF9 (FF10 is okay).

I'm curious, what is the games the first 2 images in the thread are from?

Its from the super ultra extremely popular mmo : Final fantasy XIV Online

Although this is a better representation of what it looks like






*edit* Hmmm I wish we had a image thumbnail option

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Russell wrote:

Oh wow. Ok well they are a bit of an exception.. I dont understand... how though. 6 mill is enough to pay like 70-80 employees for 1 year.

Although im guessing they arnt including their engine development cost in that. The thing that eats 85% of our programmers time here :P.

Even so they must be very efficient.Impressive.

I know for the FF series games though they spend around 35+ mill.

Actually its total cost, with engine made from the ground up, but it was also made in Poland so in Euro based countries or Dollar based countries it would cost 3-4 times more, just because of salaries difference.

And they havent got more than 60 employes from what i remember for most of the development process, actually they had around 25-30 at the beginning, because they were in crisis after Witcher 1 launch, caused by problems with Bioware and Atari.

And yes they efficient :) It was funny when there were announcements of Witcher 2 shots like this
http://cdn-static.gamekult.com/gamekult-com/images/photos/00/01/36/78/ME0001367804_2.jpg

And being able to play Dragon Age 2 demo, in the same time :)
http://bioware.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/077.jpg

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BTW for a game like PoE new lighting engine, shaders and particles effects could completely transform a game, it doesnt even needs that much better assets. It looks even upclose :)
http://i.imgur.com/1UTFP.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/TKjlK.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Vyaky.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/OL5yp.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/PDhK7.jpg [love this frost shader] :)

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Russell wrote:

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Waves_blade wrote:

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Russell wrote:

I know for the FF series games though they spend around 35+ mill.

And they haven't had an extraordinarily good FF since FF9 (FF10 is okay).

I'm curious, what is the games the first 2 images in the thread are from?

Its from the super ultra extremely popular mmo : Final fantasy XIV Online

I thought FF14 was a flop way back when?

I never actually tried it for myself.

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