[hacker_9]

You are saying then that the animations are 'minimal' in the Arkham games, which they are not. To make the animation as fluent as it is would require a lot of work and tweaking. Street Fighter on the other hand has a defined set of animations that are played independently of the attack animation, resulting in far less work but overall less satisfying visuals.

Finally, of course you can build the environment separately if there is no dependency on it.

[ZenoArrow]

> "You are saying then that the animations are 'minimal' in the Arkham games, which they are not."

I'm saying for playtesting they are the minimum you need to do the playtesting. If playtesting is a priority then you work on the elements important for playtesting first. "Minimal" is not a reflection on the amount of work that goes into getting up to the playtesting baseline.