First of all I perfectly know what animations are made for. Second you don't need to criticize me with that fail emoticon like if you are the absolute expert.
Who knows me on this website knows that when I speak about people complaining about animations I mean that people overlook them. Here we are not speaking about an animation missing. Its about the old fun. Most of old games in the early 8 bit generation of computers (and also consoles) had just a bunch of pixels that created the illusion of animations. There was no overhead kick, no crossing animation, sometimes there wasnt even a real ball, just a dot that represented the ball, but yet those games were more or less like a drug, additive. There were also shitty soccer games of course. Nowdays with 3d games it seems that everyone knows everything about animation, that everyone knows better than programmers how animations should work, you included.
When I play a soccer game aganist a friend and score a screamer leaving him crying for losing once again, I don't even notice if the player moved correctly, if he did the correct animation, if there were any unwanted polygon collision between my player and the defender, if the feet was too much planted inside the grass or any other thing that people can moan about. I notice just one thing: I SCORED and I had a lot of fun doing it.
Sometimes here seems that people play games only to check for those "mistakes" and come here saying "hey I found this, it is unacceptable"
You speak about the importance of animations and how much I seem to not know how important they are. Well, if there is one thing I have learned while learning how to code is that no matter how perfect your code is, there will be always some bug happening. This happens with every program, every game, and every other thing you can come up that needs coding. A friend of mine that introduced me to coding told me that when someone asks him how long it takes to program an app he replies that "it needs a certain amount of months to code it, depending on how complex the application will be, then some more months to clean the code and make it more stable and fast processing, and then a hell of eternity to remove the bugs, specially when we speak about thousands of lines of code that sometimes even the programmer himself finds hard to read after a couple of weeks already".
But what can I say, you think I fail because for me is more fun to play a game that replicate well the football experience instead of a state of the art game that feels empty? It's your opinion, and I respect it, but please respect others opinion too before to say so easly that they failed
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