1.0 to 2.0 - Cut Scenes

It's not that they were fired or he left; the reasoning for removing start-up and stop animations when walking/running is that it creates a delay, though slight, for things such as ability inputs and the like. Yoshida said it would adversely affect combat because you're basically getting caught in an animation lock. (Think DRG-lock during jumps)

However, it didn't affect 1.0 even remotely according to friends I've talked to that did end-game content, such as Ifrit and Garuda. I just think that, with the way fights in this game require more movement than actual strategy, putting these animations back in would be a detriment.

I don't know if it could be made to where you can just move again during each animation to cancel out of them, but it would be great if they could do that.

The intros to 1.0 were amazing!! 2.0's intros felt lacking (very much so in comparison). And I was actually describing these to some in-game friends the other day who hadn't had the opportunity to play 1.0 and they loved the sound of it all.

Watching the way characters walk and come to a stop, or turn around and leave a room really really bothers me. It just looks so unnatural and phony. Add in the horrible clipping, which is my biggest pet peeve, and a lot of it just looks cheap. I mean, 2014, a hugely successful and money making MMO, and we have to endure these horribly animated clipping cutscenes? I expected way better from SE on this.

I LOVED the animation and cutscene details in 1.0 Really wish they would focus more time / money towards that again, rather then pushing out 3 star gear only good for vanity, that clips badly too and looks unnatural in certain poses.

Did I mention I hate the clipping??

I hope someday we get cutscenes as good as the ones from 1.0, 1.0 was a much better game cinematically.

Most definitely.. I just feel they don't give much thought to any cut scenes.. Some are alright like hildibrand and his dad chasing him and the fight scene between thancred and the sahagin. But all that falls flat in comparison with the cut scenes of 1.0 especially the openings and ending of 1.0. It would also be nice if they would use our voices that we picked more often in cut scenes. they don't have to speak but at least some kind of noises for like surprise or fear or whatever.

Would also be nice to see our characters fight other things in the cut scenes like thancred and the sahagin. I know thats a stretch due to different sizes of characters and such... but I think that would just be amazing and worth while. FF has always been about the music/tone (tone wise 1.0 is like the dark night as opposed to 2.0 animated batman lol), story, and cut scenes and even though I understand this is an MMO, they should still make a better effort in these areas.

It doesn't even have to be right away, if they could even comment and say something to the effect of "We plan on making cs more interactive with better quality" or something at all addressing this, I would be very glad. I have paid for this since it came out and I play daily. Would just be nice if they pushed a little harder in these areas.. Anyways, I do like 2.0 and they have done a terrific job turning things around. Just hope they get the cut scene quality back.

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Originally Posted by Borgan

I LOVED the animation and cutscene details in 1.0 Really wish they would focus more time / money towards that again, rather then pushing out 3 star gear only good for vanity, that clips badly too and looks unnatural in certain poses.

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There were also less CS compared to ARR

Looking at 1.0's cutscenes, they definitely were better - but I feel like SE has definitely gotten better at cutscenes in 2.2 & 2.3.
There were more memorable cutscenes in 2.3 alone than in all of 2.0!

There's still a lot of room for improvement but I hope that they continue to improve and give us some really amazing things in 3.0