Realm Reborn = downgrade?

[lololink]

I think the issue is being lost here. The current issue isn't that "clunky controls are RUINING gameplay!" or that "backpedaling is bad!", it's that, based on what we've seen from the gameplay vids, the current movement animations are bad enough that people who play Elder Scrolls/Fallout 3/most Gamebryo games would blush. On first seeing the movements I chuckled and said to myself, "Luminous is the Gamebryo engine! Good thing this is pre-alpha."

A more realistic running animation without start/stop animations does nothing to gameplay. I can fully understand lowering the quality of the animations to better suit a faster-paced game, but c'mon. The current animations in all the videos we've seen so far are just plain bad. There are no redeeming qualities to them. Surely there's a way to mix fastpaced gameplay with better quality movement animations? I can't see why they said, "We need this game to move fast. Let's throw all of the animations in the bin."

EDIT: To point out, I squealed like a girl at the gameplay videos. The landscape is gorgeous, the jumping looks fun, the flappy-wing hop the chocobos do is an 11 on the cute scale, and the lighting looks fantastic. My above statement is purely about the running motions.

did you already made a game ?

[Jynx]

It's one of a long line of features that have been removed for the sake of "Gameplay"

Monster Behaviorial AI was one.
Not knowing is mobs were agressive until you actually found out was another.
Aggro Mechanics was another one as well.

They keep chipping away at what made the game unique, and plastering the "MMO standard mold" onto many aspects of the game.

[Nabiri]

Gogo Question-Thread for the Live-Letter this Weekend. I would give that Question a like.

Is there a thread for it? I can't find one. I don't have a twitter account to send the question there. If anyone else would ask, I would be very thankful.(edit: I asked) :3

[Nero]

Is there a thread for it? I can't find one. I don't have a twitter account to send the question there. If anyone else would ask, I would be very thankful. :3

Yes, there is:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Producer-LIVE

[Valmonte]

It's one of a long line of features that have been removed for the sake of "Gameplay"

Monster Behaviorial AI was one.
Not knowing is mobs were agressive until you actually found out was another.
Aggro Mechanics was another one as well.

They keep chipping away at what made the game unique, and plastering the "MMO standard mold" onto many aspects of the game.

they're going to keep Chipping until there's not an ounce of Ingenuity or unique aspect in sight....an you know that's great if they want a game that'll be dead when the next great thing comes out fine. what pisses me off the most about it is they Used the current player base as a fucking wallet to fuel there Chipping and there molding.

i guess there plan is to Kill off any remaining loyal fans to the FF franchise an Supplement us with about 300,000 Herp a Derps who don't give shit about Final Fantasy Quality. that way they can continue to release Sub par Garbage and that'll be OK just look at the sells numbers and pat yourself on the back.

[lololink]

Because others MMO are of very low quality ? stop worship FF as the best video game saga ever cause it's not .

[Nabiri]

Yes, there is:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Producer-LIVE

Thank you sir~~ I was sure I'd seen it somewhere, but couldn't for the life of me find it.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post822187

Wish I could have explained it a bit better, but I tried my best for under 140 chars with no explanations or descriptions. lol

[lololink]

oh you are another of the stupid trolls ... sorry didn't notice , my bad .

[Aion]

they're going to keep Chipping until there's not an ounce of Ingenuity or unique aspect in sight....an you know that's great if they want a game that'll be dead when the next great thing comes out fine. what pisses me off the most about it is they Used the current player base as a fucking wallet to fuel there Chipping and there molding.

i guess there plan is to Kill off any remaining loyal fans to the FF franchise an Supplement us with about 300,000 Herp a Derps who don't give shit about Final Fantasy Quality. that way they can continue to release Sub par Garbage and that'll be OK just look at the sells numbers and pat yourself on the back.

true that....FF XIV is known for a bestMMO because its animation...its has many subscriber as other top MMO...oh wait

[Valmonte]

true that....FF XIV is known for a bestMMO because its animation...its has many subscriber as other top MMO...oh wait

Don't worry after TES:Online is released and FF14 Dies for the second time we'll see who's laughing then.