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[Tupsi]

Are you plugging your brain into the game? Otherwise you wouldnever feel attacks....

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So for people like Ehllfhire here, what the OP means compared to 1.0, animation lock aside, there was a weight to the attacks, even in FFXI attacks felt like they were doing something, like they were actually your character landing blows - in ARR, Yoshida mentioned they purposefully got rid of the "weight" to attack animations to compliment the speed of the battle system. ARR's animations feel "weightless" in sound and execution at times, just compare:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9ajGiHoO-Y

So while animations are much faster, they don't have a "weight" to them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDNQSJwCzCo

Another video.