I’ve no strong feelings either way, but you two apparently do. Why is that? What’s wrong with eye-catching combat?
Close up animations are anoying and are polonging the combat that allready sometimes take more time then i would like. :-/
And with my luck i bet that in short combat, or situations where it would look cool, like landing a final strike to the Boss ... it would not proc, but in tedious situations, where i would rather continue in gameplay, they would be triggering like Report button on Steam Forums. :-/
Every time any game offers this, i tend to turn it off as fast as possible ...
It pisses me off extremely in Skyrim, especialy with shooting ... i mean watching an Arrow fly this whole time and hit your enemy head sounds cool on paper ... but in game it means that you just loosed few precious seconds to shoot another arrow on his friend, who is allready firing back. -_-
The only game that did cool killing properly was Dragon Age: Origins, where it dont affect your gameplay, your character just make few faster and cool looking swings instead of single slow as usualy.