One thing that really bothered me in Oblivion and Fallout 3 was running and jumping.

It never felt like your feet touched the ground, you know? it just looked like you were running on a treadmill. Footfalls never really looked like footfalls.

Jumping..lol, your char would just float into the air like some nimble gymnast, but there'd be no animation for it. Your characters legs wouldn't even indicate you're jumping.

They are claiming the animations in skyrim are a lot better than previous games but what about these two? Can anyone with the game already shed light?

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Yes they are better i seen alot of leaked gameplay.

To me it's not better, but if you look closely, there are improvements, however still poor.

You can see from the materials off You Tube.

I'd suggest that the lack of replies leading to you bumping your own thread suggests that not a lot of the community care about this.

Not even enough to have a poke lol.

I'm guessing no, it's not improved, at least not in any significant way. I'm having trouble giving a [Censored] though.

How does nobody else not find this annoying? your character just pops into the air, no leg animations or anything, and lands just as stiff..., it looks so beyond [censored]. Guess I'm the only one who explores and travels in 3rd

I guess you are.
Is the thread over now?

I do agree with you but jumping is not a big part of the game. For the most part it's just a feature to make the player not feel so confined to the ground. I don't jump a lot but when I do, I'm usually in 1st person.

The running and movement looks to be very improved imo. The jumping isn't that important to me, but i bet it is improved like the rest of the animations.

It's 1000 times better I promise you. Both running and jumping. FPV and Third person view is done perfect. The movement in both these views are fluid motion.

Animations have always been their weak point. Don't know why they haven't fixed this, it's so blatantly obvious it's laughable.

I play it in first person view .. even if I pop out into third once in a while this won't be something I worry about ..

What about swimming? Do the people still swim faster than Michael Phelps like in Oblivion? Lol, guards decked in full plate armor swimming like a god and never drowning.