This dude look familiar to anyone else?

[SenorPatty]

Its a rather common trope tbh

Precisely. Super old but extremely powerful wizard sacrifices himself for the world saving party is a trope as old as time. At this point, no one cares who started it and tbh, acting like some other piece of media copied it in recent years simply means that one hasn't watched enough of this trope to shrug it off and move on.

[SturmChurro]

Now I haven't actually played the Elsweyr expansion (even though I own it), but isn't that guy supposed to be Abnur Tharn? Dude is far from good.

[RyuDragnier]

Now I haven't actually played the Elsweyr expansion (even though I own it), but isn't that guy supposed to be Abnur Tharn? Dude is far from good.

He's a lot less of a jerk this time around, and became far more likeable in the expansion and Dragonhold DLC.

[Avidria]

I don't see it...

[Destinova]

SE outsourced the making of some? all? of their cinematics maybe Zenimax diid as well.

[Lambdafish]

If you think books don't have visuals, you are clearly not reading them properly. Lord of the Rings has some very powerful and detailed descriptive passages which are very clearly utilised in the film.

Or have you never heard of visualisation. Or imagination?

I do get Cabalabob's point though, book description =/= cinematography no matter how good it is. The Gandalf scenes in the films are choreographed and storyboarded in the exact same way that XIV FMVs are, novels are very very different.