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[gifthorse]

What part of "day to day situations" did you not understand?



Let's see. Do you know that "Modern fantasy" is differentiated from "fairy tales" mainly by the fact that it's realistic? Think about fantasy movies, fantasy books, think about the most epic and enthralling battle scenes. How many of those mighty warriors you see jumping around like schoolgirls, instead of staying well planted on their feet?

Do you know why it is like that? Because in 99% of situations jumping looks stupid.

Oh, by the way, Jumps in real Karate are actually very, very rare outside of simple physical workout. Same for Kung-fu (or better, the many, many extremely varied styles of martial arts that people erroneously bundle up as "Kung-fu") Just an heads up.

GTFO already. There was jumping in the Lord of the Rings films.

[Abriael]

GTFO already

What about growing up a little?

There was jumping in the Lord of the Rings films.

Do you mean that in the lord of the rings movies people jumped around with no reason at all like people do in MMORPGs in which jumping is enabled?

There were extremely limited jumping scenes, whose screen time was absolutely negligible compared to any other way of deambulation/movement. And even those negligible scenes were extremely specific, and nowhere generic and casual like MMORPG jumping.

To the person that said that Jumping serves no purpose as a gameplay mechanic... Seriously, go play WoW. There are encounters where timed jumping is critical.

And those encounters look, at best, like silly (and quite gimmicky) comedic relief, turning what should be an epic fight into a laughable mess.

You can film one, add the music from the Benny Hill show, and it would fit perfectly.

Mind you, that may be even considered appropriate to wow, given it's art and story style, that stray from the serious in quite a radical way.

Luckily Final Fantasy is supposed to be and look a tad more epic than that.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

What about growing up a little?

Do you mean that in the lord of the rings movies people jumped around with no reason at all like people do in MMORPGs in which jumping is enabled?

There were extremely limited jumping scenes, whose screen time was absolutely negligible compared to any other way of deambulation/movement. And even those negligible scenes were extremely specific, and nowhere generic and casual like MMORPG jumping.


And those encounters look, at best, like silly (and quite gimmicky) comedic relief, turning what should be an epic fight into a laughable mess.

You can film one, add the music from the Benny Hill show, and it would fit perfectly.
Mind you, that may be even considered appropriate to wow, given it's art and story style, that stray from the serious in quite a radical way.
Luckily Final Fantasy is supposed to be and look a tad more epic than that.

i can list 5 ffxi benny hill youtube movies. 2 ppl play video games to do stuff they can't do in real life.