Lack of Mobility and Movement in Combat

Post » Sat Mar 30, 2013 5:49 am

Anyone else notice the almost complete lack of mobility/movement in combat? In particular this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxJTsq2XeKY

Almost all of the combat shown in this video shows the players and enemies are just standing still and wailing on one another with no real movement going on. Now I'm not saying that combat should require both players to run circles around one another firing of their abilities in a explosion of fire, swords, and shields, but I thought that the combat would be somewhat more in-depth than it appears in these videos...

That being said the combat shown in the video could only be showing these players standing still to make it easier for people to watch/understand what is going on and I really hope this is just the case. I also know that with the synergy abilities like the oil click being ignited and exploding will obviously require players to move around and that we'll need to combat roll to avoid some attacks. Zenimax Online has even stated that they want combat to be very reaction-oriented and require the player to think on their feet, but based on what has actually been showed it would seem otherwise :/

My hope is that the combat shown was just included in the video because it would be easier to watch, and that once the game is actually released combat will be super in-depth and require all of the players attention like Zenimax Online has intended.
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Post » Sat Mar 30, 2013 1:29 pm

Anyone else notice the almost complete lack of mobility/movement in combat? In particular this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxJTsq2XeKY

Almost all of the combat shown in this video shows the players and enemies are just standing still and wailing on one another with no real movement going on. Now I'm not saying that combat should require both players to run circles around one another firing of their abilities in a explosion of fire, swords, and shields, but I thought that the combat would be somewhat more in-depth than it appears in these videos...

That being said the combat shown in the video could only be showing these players standing still to make it easier for people to watch/understand what is going on and I really hope this is just the case. I also know that with the synergy abilities like the oil click being ignited and exploding will obviously require players to move around and that we'll need to combat roll to avoid some attacks. Zenimax Online has even stated that they want combat to be very reaction-oriented and require the player to think on their feet, but based on what has actually been showed it would seem otherwise :/

My hope is that the combat shown was just included in the video because it would be easier to watch, and that once the game is actually released combat will be super in-depth and require all of the players attention like Zenimax Online has intended.

Compared to what we saw this past weekend, this seems very outdated. I agree, it seems stilted and immobile, but they have a come a long way since then.
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