discussion Do Animations improve a game?

[DirtyDemon]

I prefer animations when done well

 

[sbradbury28]

yeh animations for the win, but by no means will i not enjoy a game if its just imagery. my brain does most of the work

 

[Doreii]

Animations definitely make things better, but it's not a deal breaker if a game doesn't have any.

 

[XVR103]

I prefer animated games. Only still images kill it for me, even when the story is good. So the most VN's, so good they are rated and suggested, aren't my taste.

Still images when done well with the right amount of poses can be better than a bad animation which is something that has ruined a few games for me. With enough skill you can even get something close enough to real animation using a couple of still images without risking making the scenes look like to mannequins grinding against each other awkwardly.

 

[Graoow]

Depends, shitty animations are even worse than still images

 

[fir3219]

Animations take time and you would think that this would make a game better. Unfortunately, it's not that easy to make animations, which is why games with good images are better than with bad animations... But soon there will be AI that will take over the animations.

 

[hellgyf]

Animations take time and you would think that this would make a game better. Unfortunately, it's not that easy to make animations, which is why games with good images are better than with bad animations... But soon there will be AI that will take over the animations.

yes , can't wait to see AI improve the quality of games, especially saving a lot of time to games creator for this kind of things

 

[ss60455]

Most of them are so bad that i wish they just didn't bother

 

[Gbolnhunter]

It depends on the quality of the animation, but in the grand scheme of things, it certainly does

 

[farwar]

100% but it all depends

 

[stangnomez]

If done well.

 

[pi00tr]

animations improve a game tenfold i think

 

[Impregnocon]

animations improve a game tenfold i think

only if the animations are done right and don't look like someone smashing puppets together

 

[StellarSolNova]

I prefer proper physics in the stretching, filling, and bouncing so animation usually takes me out of the zone where static frames could hide the mistakes in proper physics of the action scene.

It's not a deal breaker by any means but a slight disruption.

 

[MattShizzle]

Only if it's good. Bad animation can ruin it.

 

[SegmentCoalescing]

It really depends, I don't mind playing a game consisting of images personally.
Many animations do look bad when it's Daz based games, Honey Select 2 as an example can look pretty good and be fairly easy to implement in a game.
This is actually one of the things I am looking forward to in AI, the ability to make animations by prompting that can look more natural and at the same time be easier for the end user. Hopefully we get there soon.

 

[User_84237]

A good animation definitely improves a game.

 

[gandrews2k3]

I agree with you, animations make a game way more enjoyable. Maybe someone will make a breathing/blinking animation so that there's always something going on even between the action

 

[bobbybob202]

I don't mind if a game does not have animations but prefer it if it does.

 

[melain]

For sure.
But only when they are good. Those with robot-like animations and bad angles nothing more than are waste of space.