Chat animation

One thing I like in WoW that added immersion, was the chat animations. It gave a sence of life to the character and see various expressions based in the way you typed, and the chat mode. We see these animnation from npc. I would like to see them (when I can play) from our characters. Like wjen we shout make our character look like their shouting. When we talking in our linkshells or tell make as look like we are talking into something. When in say or party make it look like we are just talking. It don't have to be silly or cartoony.
Along with this have emote trigger words. Aion did this and well. like heehee or haha laugh come up and stuff.

Again this adds life to our character instead of standing around looking like statues talking to each other.

As far as a, "Chat Bubble"...........................I know this is Final Fantasy, but come on! Little too childish for me.

I did say sorta, its more of a you see who is talking/ saying. I'm more talking just the chat animations. But a chat bubble is a game way of establishing who is talking instead of reading a scrolling chat box. But again more talking animations :)

Yea I have to vote no on a chat bubble as well

Let's keep that practice with Aion and WoW.

can we like get off the chat bubble..... I'm not saying add it XD
Just the chat animations

there fixed it. You guys really need to stop with only commenting on stuff you hate. How about discuss about chat animaions, and maybe how you would like it put in. If you hate it then just don't post. II'm not liking for a like it or hate it. I'm looking for a brain storming session. :)

They had chat bubbles (or squares/rectangles) in other Final Fantasy games, so why not this one? I would love to see that implemented, and I do agree with animations from the characters as you are speaking or shouting, but I wouldn't want an animation for linkshell /tell or party, as other players would not be able to see what you're talking about yet you look like you're talking?

I like the whole idea of chat animations, apart from the frequently mentioned chat bubbles ^^ I think it would be great to give our characters a little more animation.

I would love chat animations. I remember in FF11, seeing how your head would turn when you target someone and everyone else can see it too, that added a lot to the immersion. Chat animations would definitely add to that.

I'm sorry if I distasted your post. However. I do believe that is why they made the emote. To give your character some animation. Do you know how fast it would just seem so bland if your character talked into a linkpearl everytime you typed to your friends in there? I don't think you'd ever see that thing come down from your ear. (See? I even threw a little zinger for a joke in!)

Maybe for LS chat your character would only put there finger to their ear and talk something simple like that.

Ya I was saying /tell /linkshell for those who love ultra realism with what they call immersion. BuT i personally like /say /shout /party ones at least. (party animation only work if in close proxy to party member.)

Plus these animaions can be used to make movies which helped WoW get those high subs.
Each race and clan can have a different animations also. Which again will add flavor. Maybe give us options to change types between silly serious flirty. Depending on our mood.

I just hate the stone statue ala ffxi. At least add mouth movement.

If you're serious about this animation of certain features, then I say instead of an animation for talking in party or say that the animation acts on certain key words. For instance......And I hate this word.......Certain things said in chat, such as, "lol" could be used to activate the character to laugh hysterically. "lmfaorofl" That'll be good.......Basically that should animate the character into a Homer Simpson dance on the floor.....Hahaha! Certain key structures such as that would be funny to watch no matter what.

thats also some Aion trigger lol = /laugh in Aion. just like ; ; = crying in aion. typing that made you point. typing !!!! made your character looked shocked. Yet they had only pvp servers lol.

I'm not saying let's list 100 ways of animation. God knows that half the emote's are just sad. Just a dozen really good one's is all you would need.

This is a great idea, and really only ever served to add to the immersion when I've seen it implemented in other games. I think chat bubbles should definitely be added as well, but should be toggle-able (as they are in WoW, for you haters). For someone like me, chat bubbles increase immersion in the world because I'm actually staring at the character I'm talking to, reading what they're saying, and not staring at some chat box in the lower left corner of my screen. Chat bubbles ruining immersion? Please. People need to catch up with the times.

ya i liked chat bubbles for that reason also. I knew who was talking. Technically speaking we do have chat bubbles in game. Just offset ones. When ever you talk to an npc a chat box comes up for that npc.
Also it helps witch chatting in general since chat box spam. it wouldn't effect chat bubbles so you can read what ppl are saying.
But again i'm more for animations if anything. if we can someone can repost this with proper dev marker? and let this one die since it seems so far ppl like this idea?

It would be nice to see my character's mouth move and whatnot, but I would much rather see that in the list of priorities all the way at the bottom, above the "jump" feature (dead last).

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Originally Posted by Nivana

It would be nice to see my character's mouth move and whatnot, but I would much rather see that in the list of priorities all the way at the bottom, above the "jump" feature (dead last).

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sorry but these types of replies are getting old. I know other stuff is needed but that don't mean we can't have suggestion and discussions sbout stuff that add to the game. Lease it positive. Better then the anger fest.

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Originally Posted by Kilta_Firelotus

Plus these animaions can be used to make movies which helped WoW get those high subs.
Each race and clan can have a different animations also. Which again will add flavor. Maybe give us options to change types between silly serious flirty. Depending on our mood.

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^ this... would be totally awesome!

I hope a dev does look at this then since, alot of ppl seem to like the idea.
just keep this thread active. Don't be afraid to add to it. :)

This is an interesting feature... totally agree with a chat animation. That idea of your character doing different animations based on the nature of the talk (/tell, /say, /shout, /p and /ls) would be awesome.

Why not just add a speech output for /tell? :P computer voices reading/saying what you type. Omg that would be terryfying. xD

that would be a good way to rid WoW of erp.

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Originally Posted by Kilta_Firelotus

that would be a good way to rid WoW of erp.

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