Thread: FFXIV 1.0 Running Animations

Not asking to shove it down everyones throat just want an option to have it.

Originally Posted by CatSyth

Not asking to shove it down everyones throat just want an option to have it.

The way it works, you can't really have it as an option. It's either part of the walk animation cycle, or it isn't. Customizing your walk cycle is...problematic to say the least.

Originally Posted by kyuven

The way it works, you can't really have it as an option. It's either part of the walk animation cycle, or it isn't. Customizing your walk cycle is...problematic to say the least.

um yes you can, it was part of the cycle originally and they removed it you can see when you start moving your character has a pushing forward with their body kind of movement. Its not customizing your walk style its just making it have more depth. Its like the option of having physics or not in some games.

This thread makes me wish for an extensive modernising update that replaces all the animations, character models, and textures in major areas like cities with higher quality ones, in some distant expansion after PS3 support is discontinued.

1.0 Lalafell walk > 2.0 Lalafell walk. They tried to appeal to XI players and tarutaru fans it seems with the ARR walk.

There are alot of things from 1.0 I miss.

But how many walls i've continously ran into during that time was too damn high! XD
The windup and wind down time was too long.
The overall concept of the weight was fantastic though.

Originally Posted by Gilraen

Ah, the short lived December reopening. If only people cared enough about 1.0 back then, you couldv'e been running around in old Ul'dah to this day.

Ah yes another who seems to forget that the December reopening would not save data on anything you did and really there was no point in playing. Ask yourself this, how many would be playing ARR right now if they were told every time the logged off their character would revert back to what it was when they logged on and you would never progress beyond where you are now? If you think it was more than logged in back then you are fooling yourself.

Originally Posted by CatSyth

um yes you can, it was part of the cycle originally and they removed it you can see when you start moving your character has a pushing forward with their body kind of movement. Its not customizing your walk style its just making it have more depth. Its like the option of having physics or not in some games.

They didn't so much "remove" it as not include it when they changed engines. Changing engines is not a simple process like...at all. The walk animation/cycle from 1.0 is part of the physics of the character models, especially since it has that "slow stop" aspect to it. Remember 1.0 didn't even have proper jumping physics!
As my friend put it, "it's like trying to plug a firewire into a USB"
Sure you can do it with the right hardware, but that costs money.
And even if they did include the walk cycle, it wouldn't FUNCTION the way it did in 1.0 since "stop on a dime" is absolutely essential for playing this game. 1.0 had a much slower pace (part of what turned a lot of reviewers and players off when it launched) and thus could get away with such a walk cycle. Without that function, the walk cycle would look even more silly than the current one.
Yes, it's entirely possible to manage it, but players should not have to come up with workarounds for developer oversights and issues. Can you imagine how bad the complaints about Titan EX and Leviathan EX would be if you couldn't stop immediately?
Sure it LOOKS more realistic, but this is a game where i can shoot infinite arrows while my quiver only shows 3 arrows. "Logic" sometimes needs to take a backseat to fun and practicality.

No way in hell would I welcome those slow and shoddy animations back. They were frustrating and clunky and the only thing they did was look good, which from a functional point of view doesn't matter.