Petition: Keep the Animation!~

[Mijin]

You guys are just:

SILLY GEESE

[Ingolf]

game is perfect xD

Ok, buttercup.

[HiirNoivl]

I meant aesthetics. ARR is head and shoulders above 1.0 in this respect.

Your character won't look "real". Give me a break.

[Wolfandre]

I meant aesthetics. ARR is head and shoulders above 1.0 in this respect.

Your character won't look "real". Give me a break.

So then you'd be ok with it if SE made a fan-freaking-tastic game with all the bells and whistles of modern MMOs, all the neato gameplay factors, and all the UI upgrades but it looked like FFVII polygons? That's a game I'd like to see. And then not play.

You're still confusing graphics and aesthetics.
Dan, from that video that you still haven't watched: "Graphics are simply the technical rendering techniques that allow us to display a particular image on screen.....Simply put, graphics are all for more fidelity....basically it [fidelity] means more detail."
"Loosely put, aesthetics is the style of the game. Aesthetics are the emotional context of the experiences. They encompass every aspect of the game from sound, to mechanics, to music..."

SE is even mentioned in the video.

"If Final Fantasy and Gears of War have taught us anything, it's that you can create semi-realistic humans with a stylized theme if you put your mind to it."

(This alone is the speaker saying that they [SE] have had beautiful aesthetics AND amazing graphics without sacrificing gameplay.)

From dictionary.com: Aesthetic--pertaining to, involving, or concerned with pure emotion and sensation as opposed to pure intellectuality.

Graphic--depicted in a realistic or vivid manner.

Do you see how these are not the same? Do you see how you are interchanging them? We have beautiful graphics in ARR; no one disputes that. We have done away with aesthetics as far as our character goes. You cannot tell me this isn't true. We have dev. interviews that say so. We have community reps saying so.

Like I said earlier. ARR isn't one step forward and two steps back. It's a genuine improvement. I'll still play it, at least for a little while to try it out. However, it did take two steps in a weird, awkward, bilateral, non-planar direction and they're going to be sore when they realize it was likely a bad move.

[Molly_Millions]

gameplay > graphics

it's pretty easy to understand really.

[bobbygunz]

gameplay > graphics

it's pretty easy to understand really.

Effort > Lazy

[neorei]

Effort > Lazy

so you're saying that SE isn't putting effort? lol

[lololink]

Effort > Lazy

Yeah because remaking the game from the root is Lazy .
Or maybe not ...

[Rokien]

gameplay > graphics

it's pretty easy to understand really.

Good thing animation is tottaly graphics.... -.- give me a break. Animation is aesthetics, and AESTHETICS IS IMPORTANT TO MAKING A GREAT GAME. It's the little things that the devs do that can make a crappy game to an amazing game.

[Klefth]

gameplay > graphics

it's pretty easy to understand really.

Because the movement animations affect gameplay O so much...

I don't want my character to move around like something out of an Elders Scrolls game. :/