Not that this implies to us since we're all buying the game anyways no matter what... but, how else does a descerning customer determine what game (or any product) to purchase?
By videos, previews, reviews, and the like.
So, no, I will judge the game based on the information we have access to.
Period.
"Also I think that the really fancy combat animations should be reserved for characters who are experienced."
Agreed; but that's not the problem. In the Aurora Version1, and IE, lots of that empty space between swings was taken up with 'false swings' to make the combat seem more real and flwoing. Here, that spac eis just dead empty hence the boredom.
Bad.