Thread: Garuda 1.0

Originally Posted by Viridiana

Congratulations, you managed to find a highlight reel that shows about a minute forty-five worth of decent animations. Now go watch the PLD in the Garuda video from the OP just casually "I can't be bothered to give a ****" his way through a Savage Blade. >_>

And as described by someone who responded to you: It was the particular racial/gender animation. Just like in XI how elvaan's were always 'nonchalant' about their battle stances. Not quite hard to understand unless of course you never played 1.0 or XI since it can be weird after seeing the universal design they went with ARR for simplification and ease of development.

Originally Posted by Viridiana

Congratulations, you managed to find a highlight reel that shows about a minute forty-five worth of decent animations. Now go watch the PLD in the Garuda video from the OP just casually "I can't be bothered to give a ****" his way through a Savage Blade. >_>

We're talking about the weight of the weapon skills. What does that have to do with a PC's situational awareness? As for that Elezen's Savage Blade? I don't expect anyone but a strength trainer (or M Highlander, M Roegadyn) would be able to push all of their body and armor weight forward on top of the weight of a metal sword and shield (in either hand) and swing them around in an arc like they were made out of plastic. Which, consequently, is what all of the weapons in ARR seem to be made of. It really just comes down to the animations not matching the character's stature, speed of animation, sound effects, and screen effects not playing nice together.

Originally Posted by Viridiana

I played plenty of 1.0. Like I said earlier in the thread, some of the animations in 1.0 were awesome. I don't think either of the primal videos linked here showed any of the impressive ones, though, so it makes me wonder what Haoma's talking about when he makes it sound like the linked videos showed good animations. >_>

I'm speaking from memory. Is that a crime?

1.0 looks to be so much better and a much more fun game then ARR. Aside from a few turns in Coil, ARR is just too easy.

Originally Posted by MeganLynn

1.0 looks to be so much better and a much more fun game then ARR. Aside from a few turns in Coil, ARR is just too easy.

1.0 was also easy. The only difficulty 1.0 had was bad game design.

Originally Posted by MeganLynn

1.0 looks to be so much better and a much more fun game then ARR. Aside from a few turns in Coil, ARR is just too easy.

It tanked, because it wasn't and FFXIV ARR is flourishing.

Go figure...

this looks terrible IMO

Friend always raved about how Garuda's 1.0 fight was so hard.

It's just the same thing in slow motion...

While it does look nice the characters look unenthused. At least in 11 the animations were a little faster.

Wow that's a shot of nostalgia. Seeing that PLD made me remember when darklight was super rare and said rare items were something to really look forward to once you got it. Now it's just turn and burn. All that gear I worked on in coil turn 2, lol it's useless now that turn 3 is out!

It look about the same but in slow motion and more gray

This thing with the fail FFXIV 1.0 needs to stop already. All I see from the video is an outdated old fashioned UI which looks horrible and a damn super slow motion combat. I'm glad they scrapped this garbage. It's time to put the horrors of the Calamity back where they belong. In past.