Realm Reborn = downgrade?

[Nuru]

In the video shown at Gamescom 2012 (that one can easily also find on Youtube), you can clearly see that the animation of the characters is seriously severed.

2 of the main aspects of the running animation are completely gone.

1. The leaning left or right of the characters as they're strafing / changing direction is gone.

2. The animation of the characters as they stop running (that extra step to define the stop) is also completely gone. The characters just stop moving their legs, and that's it.

Please don't tell me that 2 of the most important things that made the animation in FFXIV so good compared to other mmo's are gone for the sake of jumping.

Errr, the animations can always be added in, but you have to admit, even for an alpha, the new lighting and shading compensates for it, and then some.

[Nemy]

Errr, the animations can always be added in, but you have to admit, even for an alpha, the new lighting and shading compensates for it, and then some.

Lightning and shading to compensate for taking away the best moving animation ever to be seen in an MMO, and replacing it with the most generic 10 year old animation you see in every other korean game?

No. You must be joking.

[Nuru]

No. You must be joking.

No, you just didn't read the first part of my post. I said that they can always be added in because not all of the animations are done yet. Running diagonally looks like shit at the moment, but I'm not expecting it to be this way on release.

I don't think they'd take away an animation that makes this game look more fluent than most MMORPGs on the market. To put this nice and brief... not 100% of the animations are finished. Though, if this thread gets enough hits, I'm sure a dev will come and confirm it for us.