7th Alpha video "Levequests and Party Combat"

[debola]

I'm already reading comments like why everyone is standing and spamming skills? No movements required? Just Tank & Spank? Boring..

Also the mobs seems epileptic when they receive damage.. The frequent animation make the
Iron Giant "light like a plume" .. It's pretty ridicolous and anti-aestethyc.

How was it different b4?. THe only moving we ever did in 1.0 was just moving with respect to chain skills or dodging some particular boss moves like gnat and raptor aoe forward attacks. There just might have been no need for movement and seeing how all 8 characters were spread out pretty much around the mobs I'm guessing the way this battle was fought was just for show purposes.

I do feel like there might be an excessive "flashiness" to the attacks, but i think that might feel different if you play rather than watching it on video.

[Vanfrano]

How was it different b4?. THe only moving we ever did in 1.0 was just moving with respect to chain skills or dodging some particular boss moves like gnat and raptor aoe forward attacks. There just might have been no need for movement and seeing how all 8 characters were spread out pretty much around the mobs I'm guessing the way this battle was fought was just for show purposes.

I do feel like there might be an excessive "flashiness" to the attacks, but i think that might feel different if you play rather than watching it on video.

I guess he was comparing it to other recent MMOs, ARR looks completely boring and dull and I still don't understand the point of showing these videos to everyone, except for tarnishing even more the image of this game and actually bringing people who played through 1.0 to wonder and doubt about the future of this game.

The flashiness was here in 1.0, we complained about it, it is still here and it's worse in a sense since, now, we cannot even tell who is using what, all WSs are fast, flashy strikes (and noisy actually).

And yes, I saw that we could see who is doing what by looking at the party UI, cool-looking, flashy, clustered, bar-on-bar messy indicators.

We will see during Beta since I guess we'll have even more of those videos (bringing the question of the usefulness of Alpha videos) and we'll get an idea if things were really changed for the best. Right now, my LS and myself are really worried about this game's future and I know more and more people who are too, but we will play it for sure at release.

Just gotta see if we'll stay.

[KiriA500]

Guys...these videos are not showing PRO SKILLZ GAMERS doing endgame fights. They're showing developers pointing out specific parts of the game as described in the video name.

Gathering isn't going to require us to hover over the item we want for a few seconds...they did that to show that it's possible. There'll be much more movement, except from mages, in the final product...I guarantee it.

[Dragonheart]

I guess he was comparing it to other recent MMOs, ARR looks completely boring and dull and I still don't understand the point of showing these videos to everyone, except for tarnishing even more the image of this game and actually bringing people who played through 1.0 to wonder and doubt about the future of this game.

The flashiness was here in 1.0, we complained about it, it is still here and it's worse in a sense since, now, we cannot even tell who is using what, all WSs are fast, flashy strikes (and noisy actually).

And yes, I saw that we could see who is doing what by looking at the party UI, cool-looking, flashy, clustered, bar-on-bar messy indicators.

We will see during Beta since I guess we'll have even more of those videos (bringing the question of the usefulness of Alpha videos) and we'll get an idea if things were really changed for the best. Right now, my LS and myself are really worried about this game's future and I know more and more people who are too, but we will play it for sure at release.

Just gotta see if we'll stay.

Exactly, i'm trying to explain on the forums i read that is just alpha blablaa bla, but i'm the only one defending the game atm.

There are comment like why SE publicize such a boring video? 5 Mins of video. 5 mins of ppl spamming the place. 0 Movement in the 2013 isn't a good signal. This a bad "spot" for SE... ecc ecc ecc...

How can you blame them?

[Seirra_Lanzce]

Guys...these videos are not showing PRO SKILLZ GAMERS doing endgame fights. They're showing developers pointing out specific parts of the game as described in the video name.

Gathering isn't going to require us to hover over the item we want for a few seconds...they did that to show that it's possible. There'll be much more movement, except from mages, in the final product...I guarantee it.

I agree, some people are very much unable to think for a moment.

[Vanfrano]

And I guess some people are unable to remember what happened with 1.0 during alpha/beta.

I am supporting SE and ARR and I really wish for the game to succeed but a lot of people are not helping in any way by just finding excuses to each and every thing God Yoshi-P and his team do wrong.

[KiriA500]

And I guess some people are unable to remember what happened with 1.0 during alpha/beta.

I am supporting SE and ARR and I really wish for the game to succeed but a lot of people are not helping in any way by just finding excuses to each and every thing God Yoshi-P and his team do wrong.

That's a double-edged sword. A lot of people also aren't helping by just saying everything is worse.

As someone who played the 1.0 alpha/beta test, I honestly cannot find a single reason to see A Realm Reborn as anything short of a drastic upgrade. People need to really think back about the stuff they're defending so aggressively...

[Dragonheart]

And I guess some people are unable to remember what happened with 1.0 during alpha/beta.

I am supporting SE and ARR and I really wish for the game to succeed but a lot of people are not helping in any way by just finding excuses to each and every thing God Yoshi-P and his team do wrong.

Same, atm i'm explaining on 3 italian forum that it's just alplha, only lv 20, blaa blaa.. But ppl just comments what they see.

They could at least let the Adamantoise use "Gayser" to avoid, explosion under the mages (yeah like ifrit). And everything would already look a lot more dynamic with movements.

But they made a >>5<< MIN. video just of tank & spank combat. Everyone on forums, sites ecc is already saying everything it's the same. Static it was, Static it is now...

I suppose they have monkey in the marketing, or even yoshi p. doesn't know what ppl nowadays want to see.. (Tank & spank in 2013 ? Cmon, we are in the "action mmo" era... )

With these video the game will look nice only to ppl who played the old XI-XIV. IF SE doesn't start to make more fun and dynamic videos, the game will fail to bring new customers and it will fail again. Sadly.

[Cedri]

1) Put on dubstep
2) Watch video
3) ??????????
4) Profit

[moriandrio]

It would be best if SE would just stop showing vids to you ppl till open beta. No more vids no more crying about an game during alpha test...