Realm Reborn = downgrade?

[VanillaLatte]

Nostalgia is one reason people do play the old games, but in those old games, their crappy graphics didn't get in the way of gameplay the way it does in 1.0. Sorry, but kiss your crappy "grass" animations goodbye.

I for one will happily bid farewell to the dumb message that "I can't cast while moving" after I've let my thumb off the key.

Good riddance.

They don't need to sacrifice transitional animation to character responses. They can well do the transitional animation when there are no further commands from the player, or else the animation will be canceled and move right away to the animation for the new user command.