Only on a Final Fantasy Forum...

[AmyRae]

Considering that a large percentage of the characters in the game wear/wield heavy armor and cumbersome weapons, no matter how well the animations are made, it still looks extremely silly.

Yeah, like all those dragoons in all those other Final Fantasy titles. What goofs.

Much more realistic to be stopped by a one foot tall ledge, anyway. No one could possibly surmount that in real life... You'd have to be an Olympic athlete or something.

[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.

[Abriael]

It's still a completely false statement, and still assumes a majority of something that is not actually a majority at all, so yes, I suppose it really wouldn't be all that different to say that instead.

Oh really? Are you telling me that in fantasy movies and/or literature, jumping scenes are more/get more screen time than other kinds of movement? because if you do, sorry to say, I have to take a pause to rotfl.

So how high does a jump have to be in order to qualify as a jump?

Actually quite a few sports define a jump as a muscular effort that lifts your feet above the previous level of your knees. The definition varies, but I doubt many would use the term "jump" to define a light skips as featured by FFXIV's dance emotes.

Your stupidity is overwhelming.

And your ability to support a polite argumented discussion when faced with solid counterpoints is, quite evidently, zero.

Not that it's the first time. Hopefully you'll be dealt with accordingly by the moderators, as per forum rules.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

will the jump thread comsume them alll.

and ppl misunderstand immersion for realism.
And not under standing the POINT of a video game

sorry i like to jump off a 10 foot tall ledge in Fable because I can't do it normally and make my hero you know... heroic. The fact they survice such a fall is amazing.
again only in an ffxiv forum will you have this :3

[Tinydog]

I smell a troll.

Are you perchance mad that many people still play and enjoy this MMORPG? Though luck, mate.

getting mad over a video game is pretty lame but ya mad that im mad so idk what to tell ya. hey i was like you, i tried to play the game cuz i use to play ffxi and was a fan. but for real ill still try and hope it succeeds, but at the moment its not even close to. lol.

[Kaedan]

Dragon Age: Origins
and
Dragon Age 2

They don't have jump.

Just saying... >.>

[Abriael]

sorry i like to jump off a 10 foot tall ledge in Fable because I can't do it normally and make my hero you know... heroic.

Do you mean that jumping (as normally implemented in MMORPGs, with a generic animation that has nothing to do with anything even nearly scenic), looks heroic?

Boy, we sure don't share the same definition of "heroic". I guess that's the main problem.

[Valentia]

Here's a tip: Don't eat the yellow snow. End of thread.

[AmyRae]

Dragon Age: Origins
and
Dragon Age 2

They don't have jump.

Just saying... >.>

Demon's Souls didn't either, though it have falling and you could pull yourself up over a ledge. I'd be okay with even that much.

[Abriael]

Demon's Souls didn't either, though it have falling and you could pull yourself up over a ledge. I'd be okay with even that much.

I'd be very ok with that. Actually I (and many others) proposed that solution (alongside with a mitigantion of the limits of climbing UP ledges) in multiple places, including this and the beta forum. It doesn't make much sense to have ledges with invisible walls.

That would solve basically every problem. Unfortunately some seem adamant that their MMORPG experience isn't complete unless they can spam <SPACEBAR> over and over.