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Old 17-04-20, 11:44   #6391
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AOD has the franchises most smooth, fluid, best looking animations.
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Old 17-04-20, 14:19   #6392
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AoD's failure had nothing to do with the animations looking bad. In fact, its animations looked rather good IMO. It's the bugs, glitches and the controls that were the main problems and it's impossible for us to know how polished the final release would've been and what the controls would've ultimately been like.

As for the animations looking bad, I suppose that's a matter of opinion. Here's an animation reel from the game. I think a lot of them look pretty cool, actually:

Say what you will but that swimming animation is just silly
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Old 17-04-20, 15:03   #6393
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tbh I think this animations has the same quality of AoD
Sarcasm at its best...
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AOD has the franchises most smooth, fluid, best looking animations.
Yeah, I agree too. But definitely not TRAE.

Why didn’t they use sped-up AoD animations as place-holders?
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Old 17-04-20, 15:24   #6394
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Say what you will but that swimming animation is just silly
I believe that that was the "sprint" version of the underwater swimming animation, not the regular one.
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Old 21-04-20, 10:01   #6395
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I agree. A lot of people still think TRAOD had the best looking animations.
The animations in AoD looking so good and detailed is probably part of the reason why the rest is so bad. They focused too much on the animations and not enough on the actual gameplay.

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I believe that that was the "sprint" version of the underwater swimming animation, not the regular one.
That animation is probably from AoD. If you do a swan dive into water in AoD and then keep swimming, Lara will do this animation for a few seconds before she uses the normal swimming animation. It would look silly if it was the only swimming animation, nonetheless since Lara isn't weaing flippers and there's no way that she can propel herself like that with just her legs moving up and down.
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Old 21-04-20, 10:08   #6396
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lmao that swim animation is disgusting
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Old 21-04-20, 20:30   #6397
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That animation is probably from AoD. If you do a swan dive into water in AoD and then keep swimming, Lara will do this animation for a few seconds before she uses the normal swimming animation. It would look silly if it was the only swimming animation, nonetheless since Lara isn't weaing flippers and there's no way that she can propel herself like that with just her legs moving up and down.
AoD uses a different animation when swandiving. Lara propels with both legs alternating like as if she had flippers.

But yeah, That Mermaid swimming animation looks weird
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Old 21-04-20, 20:34   #6398
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Old 21-04-20, 20:36   #6399
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Like I said, I really doubt that that was the regular swimming animation. Definitely looks more like "sprint swimming" to me.

On the other hand, I absolutely love the sliding animations and the wall/block climbing animations. Also the way she uses her own weight to propel herself up onto a thin ledge. The only animations I'm not a huge fan of are this swimming one and maybe the pole swinging but everything else looks great IMO.
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Old 21-04-20, 22:17   #6400
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What's interesting is that some of the new animations they created use the exact same standing position from TR1-5, and the swingpole animation seems to use the same mid-air reach pose from the classics, as well. I.e. the new animations were built on top of existing animations from the classics.

Maybe these reused poses were also placeholders. Who knows? Honestly I wouldn't have been mad if the old animations had been used. Probably an unpopular opinion, but I'm so familiar with them and they're pretty decent. And I mean, look at the reboot games still using some (questionable) motion captured animations from 2008...They didn't know it back in '06, but there would be a precedent for this kind of animation reuse in the future.
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