Wow, why did you respond at all when you didn't even read the OP?

I read the OP, watched the leak vid 5 times. I don't see what your talking about. the Animation quality floors every beth game to date currently.

The animations are vastly improved compared to OB/FO. What still bothers me is that the NPCs and the mobs still seem to float around, they have no weight. Oh, and the guy throwing a massive log as if it's made of paper (or polygons teehee) but that's not really an anim issue.

He didn't throw it so much as roll it from him to the other side and letting gravity do all the work. Plus he was taking his time doing it. It wasn't a flawless, simple effort for the guy.

Sorry, I call out my fail. What looked stiff in particular? Walk animations, battle, etc...? I can't find anything that shows that things look stiff, or unnatural as said in the OP.

Well may be its ur opinion, but to us veterans since Morrowind and earlier, we are greatful to Beth for a new and improved Eldescrolls series, and if the animations are Not Amazing, we'll look pass that, as there are always other aspects of these games that are always strikingly amazing!. Overall, i see what ur saying, however, each game before was amazing without the perfect animations, and I guess what am trying to say is this; eventhough the game might not have perfected animations as we would probably want them to be or how we would imagine them to be, this game is going to rock as a whole anyway.

you want smoooooth animations?

go play assassin's creed

exactly the third person animations may not be the greatest but they are far better than oblivion's animations or even fallout 3's

Only thing that I didn't really like was that the Smith looked away from his axe while grinding. Looking away from a grind wheel mid-spin could be a good way to lose your fingers :teehee:

I hate when people complain about this, I really do.

TES games should not be about fancy animations. Leave that to the linear action-RPGs out there.

Honestly, if it were upto me, i'd scrap 3rd person altogether and just stick with 1st person - then you don't have to worry at all how real the animation looks as the character moves around.

The more you obsess over how great animations look in 3rd person, the more you run the risk of encroaching on player freedom. Climbing too hard to get right in 3rd person? Scrap it. Levitation looks silly in 3rd person? Scrap it. Running jumping too hard to get right in 3rd person? Restrict it. Player looks ridiculous trying to climb a hill by jumping constantly in 3rd person after we've taken climbing out? Stick an invisible wall up.

Seriously... fancy animations and visuals are nice in some games, but they should NOT be priority in an open-world game like this. Freedom should always take priority. If you're going to nitpick about visuals, go play Fable.

IMO the animations in Skyrim are hugely improved over the animation in oblivion, for example... In sword fights if you used a power attack in oblivion the staggered enemy would just lean back a bit in an annatural animation, in skyrim the stagger knocks them back and you see them stumble backwards more realistically

Welp. Indeed.

You never know. Maybe he had some magical heirloom for augmented strength? It's also feasible that those logs were also not from the densest of tree families either.

The only animation i dont like is when he runs in 3rd person, he shakes his ass too much >.<

Do the actors move the same speed side to side again? I know they fixed backpedaling, wondering if characters still strafe as if they're floating.

And can anyone link this "sliding dunmer archer"?

Not sure how you can pass judgment on alpha footage, which is all you could have seen so far. Why don't you wait until later videos are released closer to Skyrim's release, or better yet wait until you actually play the game. :shrug:

I can't quite figure how to respond to this.

im sorry

were we watching the SAME game

cause if we were you might just need some new eyeglasses AND to lessen your mad unreachable standards

Games like Crysis very much apply, as the practical technology for animations is the same regardless of genre. I can name many in which the animations don't drag the immersion down. In fact, naming a worse animated contemporary game would actually be a challenge. As I previously mentioned, Bethesda's animations are among the worst in the industry. That's not hyperbole. Anyway, some game where the animations are either acceptable to good, and don't have a negative impact on the game: L4D/L4D2, Witcher 2 (not amazing, but not terrible), H-L 2 (had good animations and that was 2006?), the Mass Effect games, Unreal 3, Borderlands, Dragon Age 2 (worse graphics, less stiff animations), and I would count Crysis as well.

The alpha footage is the only thing to pass judgment on, and what we saw there ought to be what's going to be in the game at this point. What good would waiting until the game is released do? Now's the time to be giving feedback.



Haha, wow. Apparently you are blind, or just don't play many games. I'm sure you'd be satisfied with Morrowind graphics, if you think anything above what Skyrim has in the way of animations is unreachable. The rest of the industry has placed a greater importance on animations, and they're right to. No need to be an apologist for Bethesda.

your mad

mad I tell you

Weird... I like them.

Op next time you feel like you should share your opinion with the world, just go male a sandwich and masterbate. the feeling will pass

Now's not the time to be suggesting they rewrite their animation system 3 months before launch.

They should not be ignored, either. And "wut??" to the Fable comment. Maybe those are impressive visuals to a console player? I dunno. Fable 3 does have acceptable animations, though.




I agree, they are definitely improved. They're also still pretty poor looking. I make no objection to the idea that they are an improvement, though, I just feel that it's not enough to prevent them from impacting the impression of the game.