Thread: Garuda 1.0

You do realize that most animations are exactly the same as in 1.0 right? Or rather that they removed all the unique animations for each race and instead only left one set of animations for all the races, which I think are either Hyur or Miqote. Although they did leave the old Roe MRD/WAR unsheathed weapon stances and Lalafell ACN/SMN/SCH weapon stances are also unique, probably due to their size and clipping issues more than anything. There are new animations for sure but most animations that carried over are just sped up.

Most animations got the speed treatment and were ported into the same skeletons clipping or sense be damned!

Was nice when each race had it's own personallity in their stance in holding weapons, walking, running, attacking. I will admit early game had some really bland motions, as weighted as they were a marauder had like skills that all made the axe swing the same way.

I'd have prefered if we kept the unique animations to be honest, but hell I'm "That guy" who misses the weighted motion our characters had instead of sliding on the floor. As much as people refuse to admit we could have kept those without actually slowing us down with good animation blending. I feel alot of XIV 2.0 was "Throw the baby out with the bathwater" we lost alot of the feeling that the world was alive in almost all aspects of the game.

We lost our sense of community.
We lost our sense of momentum.
We lost our sense of exploration.
We lost our sense of accomplishment.

That's just what I feel, and to be honest I'm in a minority of people who actually care about these things. To many it seems the utillity they added is worth the price we payed.

Originally Posted by Tonkra

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I am aware of this, and I don't mind a slower pace of combat, so long as things are balanced around that. My point is that trying to compare FFXIV: ARR and FFXII is like comparing apples and oranges: Despite any similarities, they're still two entirely different things, and trying say one is better than the other is, as you pointed out, purely a matter of preference. Honestly, if I'm playing an MMO, I'd prefer the pace of combat to be on the faster side, but that's just because most of the MMOs I've played and enjoyed were ones like WoW or DFO, where actions go off basically as soon as you press the button (or button combo, in DFO's case).

Originally Posted by Tonkra

All these "gameplay is too slow"

... have you ever played a FINAL FANTASY before, huh?

just sayin... slow combat can have some tactical components in it. But i understand, that WOW, CoD, Skyrim Players etc. may in some parts never understand this ^

I have played and beaten every numbered FF in the series within the year of its release (FFIII on DS release) and your point is still rather moot. Tactical components in a combat system can be in anything regardless of its speed.

You seem to forget a very basic fundamental of the series. Nowhere does it state the Battle System has to be a standard format or speed.

This is especially true with a MMORPG Vs a Single Player JRPG.

Originally Posted by Tonkra

did you even know that there is a turn based MMOrpg out there?

Atlantica Online and Concerto Gate, that last one was also created by Square Enix too.

@Tonkra Still apples and oranges, 1.0 was not a turn-based MMO, it was a really slow paced real time combat MMO, same as XI.

Originally Posted by Mogi

fight was so slow i fell a sleep

I still remember posts in the 1.o forums claiming combat was too fast, because they couldn't chat with party/friends/LS duuring fights >.< Yeah, I know, hard to believe, but true. Same players went postal when someone suggested they added jump in 1.0 too. 1.0 combat was actually faster than ffxis combat XD