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IF FINAL FANTASY 7 HAD FINAL FANTASY 14'S USER INTERFACE
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LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
LockeZ
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Close...it would look like this:
I am thoroughly amused. 'v'
edit: Actually, at a higher resolution, that wouldn't take up that much space...
editedit: pfffft the map
edit: Actually, at a higher resolution, that wouldn't take up that much space...
editedit: pfffft the map
I prefer the blue window with commands. I think RPGs these days are getting too needlessly complicated with their huds. It's superfluous information.
Let's take that shot for example - for one the minimap wouldn't be there since 7 had seperate battle screens, nor would half the buttons and text on the right side.
It's an ugly, cluttered mess of numbers and text, all of varying sizes and fonts. Just... ugh.
Let's take that shot for example - for one the minimap wouldn't be there since 7 had seperate battle screens, nor would half the buttons and text on the right side.
It's an ugly, cluttered mess of numbers and text, all of varying sizes and fonts. Just... ugh.
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
For comparison, here's an actual screenshot of FF14. What's really bad is that this isn't a funny screenshot someone took to show off how bad the UI is; it's a screenshot they officially released to promote the game (note the copyright stamp at the bottom). It's actually even worse than my shopped FF7 one just because the party members aren't all lined up neatly and there are damage numbers flying everywhere.
Things in the UI that I am currently hiding in FF14 because I seriously don't need to see them all the time:
- Experience points
- Money
- Current time and server status
- That stupid grid in the lower right, which is a display of how many inventory slots you have filled up with items
- Two of the three redundant enemy HP bars (WHY are there three of them?)
- The entire quest tracker
I would really, really like to hide the entire chat window, also, because fuck the chat window, but the game won't let me. It's apparently the only part of the user interface that can't be moved/hidden. Though I guess it's nice of them to let you customize the UI at all (especially since it's so bad)
Things in the UI that I am currently hiding in FF14 because I seriously don't need to see them all the time:
- Experience points
- Money
- Current time and server status
- That stupid grid in the lower right, which is a display of how many inventory slots you have filled up with items
- Two of the three redundant enemy HP bars (WHY are there three of them?)
- The entire quest tracker
I would really, really like to hide the entire chat window, also, because fuck the chat window, but the game won't let me. It's apparently the only part of the user interface that can't be moved/hidden. Though I guess it's nice of them to let you customize the UI at all (especially since it's so bad)
author=LouisCyphreIt's already at 1280p.
Actually, at a higher resolution, that wouldn't take up that much space...
TheNecromancer
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I didn't see the option to show/hide money. I'd actually like to show it.
I don't mind the HUD. It's easy to organize to a suitable formation. The last beta was worse because you couldn't remove any of that stuff or autohide the hotbar. Just keeping the hotbar off the screen is a big improvement.
I don't mind the HUD. It's easy to organize to a suitable formation. The last beta was worse because you couldn't remove any of that stuff or autohide the hotbar. Just keeping the hotbar off the screen is a big improvement.
ubon
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author=LockeZ
(note the copyright stamp at the bottom).
those are placed automatically on every screenshot taken within ff14
this is not a promotional shot: http://webgel.net/bf/ffxiv_08172013_215700.png
also there are hella ui scaling and movement options for this exact reason! I know that your monitor is smaller than the default they designed the ui around but they literally included a variety of options players can use to address size discrepancies so I dunno what the deal is
like, they knew they couldn't make it unobtrusive at all possible resolutions so they made it editable instead
that's proper design
I'm sorry they didn't make it scale automatically but seriously now
ubon
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also the inventory grid rules actually
I can deal if you think it's unnecessary because it kind of is (I just think it's kind of a cute idea) but it also uses a part of the screen that could not possibly be more unobtrusive or out of the way so it's not like it's compromising your anime dreamlife experience
I can deal if you think it's unnecessary because it kind of is (I just think it's kind of a cute idea) but it also uses a part of the screen that could not possibly be more unobtrusive or out of the way so it's not like it's compromising your anime dreamlife experience
Travio
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author=mawkauthor=LockeZthose are placed automatically on every screenshot taken within ff14
(note the copyright stamp at the bottom).
this is not a promotional shot: http://webgel.net/bf/ffxiv_08172013_215700.png
Clarifying: it automatically places it in the lower left hand corner on screenshots. Thus far, all the official promotional shots have the exact same text in the bottom right corner (or they don't have it at all, strangely).
mawk
also there are hella ui scaling and movement options for this exact reason! I know that your monitor is smaller than the default they designed the ui around but they literally included a variety of options players can use to address size discrepancies so I dunno what the deal is
like, they knew they couldn't make it unobtrusive at all possible resolutions so they made it editable instead
that's proper design
I'm sorry they didn't make it scale automatically but seriously now
Autoscaling layouts generally are shit anyways. I've got a massive monitor, and they're too obtrusive even as they scale to my resolution. That said, this layout does have way too much stuff on it, and even scaled down a lot, I'd still consider it too cluttered. I don't want two hot bars (hell, I often don't even want one visible), and the menu icons in the bottom right hand corner could probably use a 'fade away' option (where they're only visible when you hover over them, if at all). Could also use some other changes, but I'd actually have to play around with it a little bit to see what I'd want to change.
TheNecromancer
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It's good though. Fast paced with enough of an action based battle system to make it fun. IMO
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