Why are the environments past caves SO HALF BAKED(visually)??

[Flame]

For reference, yes I have the graphical settings set pretty high.


So last night, I finally made it to the tundra. I have 85 hours or so on this character so you can imagine my expectations were a little high as I warped down to the surface, eager to finally see a new area. You can then also imagine my shock as I finally got a good look at the place. Those giant pop-up book bushes. Those terrible rock and dirty snow textures. That bland color palette. The jagged snow banks. The lack of foot prints or any nice touch that suggest you might actually be in a snowy environment. The entire thing felt phoned in. Like they had a week to slap it together. Even PSzero's snow field had more heart and thought put into it with touches like glowing mushrooms and wooden bridges lined with lanterns. This on the other hand was a poorly done photorealistic tech demo. I sighed and pressed on. And to be fair, Tundra 2 looks marginally better and the gameplay was fun and challenging as always. And when the sky turned dark and the stars came out it did start to look quite nice. But then I looked up. That aurora borealis. That pitiful, pathetic aurora borealis. Where is the sense of wonder? WHERE IS THE LOVE SEGA? More importantly:



It's really obvious that the only areas with any effort put into them visually were Forest and Caves. Desert, Tundra, Skylands, and Mines were clearly cobbled together as fast and as haphazardly as possible. This is far fetched but I wish one day that the dev team will be able to revisit these fields and give them the love they deserve.

Anyway uh. . . PSO2 VISUAL APPRECIATION(or lack there of) THREAD!

[HFlowen]

They should bring back the sil dragon as a random miniboss in the tundra.


Sorry, what was the topic again?

[gigawuts]

I feel you man, the colors were always a major draw to me in PSO1. They're just not here. Even the sky islands, which were seemingly meant to make up for it, are just...bloom overload and washed out colors.

[NoiseHERO]

Tundra is my least favorite area because of how dead and quiet it feels...

I feel sick going there... D:

Which is weird because I like snow areas.

Completely opposite opinion when it changes to night in B1, though.

[Enforcer MKV]

Am I the only one who thinks the PSO picture is physically painful to look at?

Seriously, that hurts my eye.

[HFlowen]

Now I feel weird because I like the tundra the best.

The second(?) area of skyland hurts my brain. The colors are too much.

[NoiseHERO]

Am I the only one who thinks the PSO picture is physically painful to look at?

Seriously, that hurts my eye.

You're not looking at it with rose tinted glasses to wash out the over saturation.

Oh man that was like a 3 hit combo.

[Flame]

Am I the only one who thinks the PSO picture is physically painful to look at?

Seriously, that hurts my eye.

TOO MUCH CONTRAST FOR YOU???

[gigawuts]

You're not looking at it with rose tinted glasses to wash out the over saturation.

Oh man that was like a 3 hit combo.

Link those pictures from PSU that you said looked good again?

[Sizustar]

The aurora borealis looks fine to me.
The PSO one looks too bright and colorful.

Spoiler!