Quote Originally Posted by Firon View Post
Everyone plays games for different reasons tho, Like me I play RPG's for this reason in this order. Combat > Story > Graphics. I love number crunching in rpg's and trying to get the most out of it so in that regard sometimes I don't even care if a story is bad in game cause when i grew up games did not really have stories anyway. It's a reason pokemon is my fav RPG cause no game can macth skill and strat of the game, you have so many options in the game and you never know what someone will come at you with.
I completely agree with you in order of importance, but this doesn't mean all 3 can't be improved as much as they possibly can.

If I don't like the mechanics of a game, then I have a hard time getting into the game. Beautiful graphics and an awesome storyline can only distract from so much.

If the storyline makes no sense whatsoever it also distracts me from fully enjoying a game. On the other hand if storyline is really successful at pulling me in I can overlook other flaws.

If a game completely looks like crap it will also distract me from enjoying myself as much, but it's not anywheres near a big deal for me as the above two issues.

If you can get an A+ in all 3 fields... Then why not? It's not like you have to only focus in one or the other. I think some of the graphical issues people have with ARR stem from a lack of development time. They're trying to do the best they can but at the same time they can't develop this game indefinitely. I personally think they did a damn good job in the amount of time they did it in. I also knew the graphics were going to take a slight dip because they wanted to shift things up to allow players with lower end systems to have access to the game. Again even with that, I'm still impressed with what they've done so far.

As far as animations and transitions go. I don't think they will have the game exactly where they want it on release, but it's not like they can't continually upgrade and improve after the game's release. Didn't they say they also wanted to upgrade their graphics to a newer version of DirectX in the future so that the game will look even better?