In regards to Jumping in 2.0/realm reborn

[Eagleheart]

Repost from "Other" because this subforum seems to see more use.

Anyone else kinda feel that while it's great functionality to have jumping available in 2.0, it would be preferable not to have everyone constantly jumping all the time everywhere?

Watching the gameplay videos that have thus far been released, every time someone jumped for no real reason other than simply for the sake of jumping it felt out of place in the general aesthetic of final fantasy games. Especially when the lalafells jumped, the relative height of their jump compared to their body height was really jarring to look at for me.

As I said, jumping is great for functionality. However, I would like there to be a slight animation delay put in at the end of jumps. Instead of jumping while running and losing no speed compared to someone who is running without jumping, it'd be nice if you took a small hit to your momentum. Nothing major, maybe only slowing you down by a tiny fraction after a jump. But however minor, it would prevent people from jumping constantly for the sake of jumping while traveling places, and only jumping to clear obstacles that would offer shorter pathing.

Basically, I just don't want to see constant jump spamming. A friend tells me that is what apparently happens in WoW because "you need something to do with your hands when you are bored".

Maybe I am the only person that feels this way? What does other people think?

I think that I am going to track down every person who ever made this complaint and circle around them at full speed, jump now and again, brandish/sheathe a moogle weapon fifty-odd times, and then spam the hell out of /laugh just so I can get you folks to stop taking yourselves so bloody seriously.

Human beings are so damned single-minded. You give them an idea to fixate on and they will focus upon it to the exclusion of all else, in this case, that somehow the act of jumping alone is going to ruin the immersion in a fantasy game where folks wield weapons that would lay most folks flat on their back, invoke arcane powers to hurl thunderbolts and fireballs through the air, and ride fluffy yellow chickens in place of horses.

There have been dozens of threads upon this very topic, and precious few others, with regards to ruining the immersion of those playing. Why? A whole lot of folks latched onto one idea and focused upon it, ignoring all the bridge-out signs along the way.

It's also good to know that the Final Fantasy Feel™ is determined by your incapacity to defy gravity. Amongst all the other things that make Final Fantasy what it is, that this is foremost among its features is reassuring knowledge.