Sforza Wrote:Anyway, item lag is because the game is played out in real time. If there was no item lag, players would be able to spam potions and its variants while holding say, a hammer. Hammers make monsters dizzy after a certain number of hits, usually opening them up to two triple pounds.
I'm actually pretty OK with the fact that you have to put away your weapon to use an item, and also that actually using one entails going through some frames of animation, unlike in some RPGs where just a green tinge of something shows up with healed hitpoints.
I just don't like the fact that in spite of being in the presence of a DRAGON, your character has the inexplicable need to shove his or her arms in the air in jubilation. It's absurd.
A detail I do like: increased use of stamina when running in the presence of danger. I'll agree it's counterintuitive to being a hunter (aren't they supposed to be even more ready when facing the bigger monsters?), but it's not as bullshit a mechanic as that of lagging the player after item use.
All in all though, I'm still having a great time.
"Let's fight... like gentlemen." - Dudley, SF3
