Quote Originally Posted by reefo View Post
Animation lock was absolute shit, I don't even understand how anyone could defend it's usefulness. Immersion is not an excuse for a poor design that inhibits players so greatly. You can not have a battle that requires mobility with very quick reaction times and then have players locked into animations for 3 seconds. It's absolutely asinine.

The arguments that it made for tactical gameplay are completely wrong and simply white knighting a terrible terrible terrible system. The only way you could possibly defend it, is if the battle was a stationary battle and moving was not required but timing of attacks was. This is not how the game was designed however and so the animation lock system was absolute garbage and that is why we won't be seeing it in ARR. Animation lock + Mobility Fights = Full retard Battle System.

It's gone for good and the game is 100% better because of it.
^^ I 100% agree with this post.

I must also LOL at people who insist that the only reason people didn't like animation lock in this game was because of the Ifrit fight. Ifrit was easy sauce. Most of the people who did the fight really didn't have any problems with it, animation lock and all. I, personally, don't like animation lock because I believe it to be an extremely stupid mechanic. And Shougun is right as well. It doesn't help immersion in the slightest, so that is also a stupid argument.

I also have to LOL at people who insist that without animation lock, people will just be able to constantly spam their biggest abilities over and over while moving. Of course, devs COULD do what other devs have done in games like these and program it so when you MOVE while casting such an animation, the casting is cancelled. (GASP) The very idea!

No, that's crazy talk! Devs will simply make big moves overpowered by cancelling out animation lock. Because Yoshi doesn't know what the heck he's doing, right?

lol Really, animation lock is a bad mechanic, and I'm glad to see the devs of this game understand that and are pulling the plug on it. Truth be told, it should have been dead a long time ago.