New Alpha Video

[Laraul]

I am really baffled. There's all this talk about animation and how it's lacking. Yet it's appears exactly like I would expect it too. The only "animation" issue I see exists in also happens to exist in every other 3D FF game I can recall. It's definitely their in XIV now.

In the video characters don't have rotation animation, and in always face in same the direction the camera is facing. So when you rotate the camera you character also rotates. Pressing left or right causes your character to run to the left or right if standing still. They do not rotate. They also don't turn their heads either.

So what's the problem. This is how you'd expect to play with a mouse and keyboard? Right?

From a purely game play perspective, how would enhancing the detail of animations improve game play? Would it cause annoying animation lock? Animation sequences will break out of an existing animation and straight into another all the time. This is how you expect it to function.