Will we have cutscenes in future quests?

Do you think this batch of quest is just a quick batch of something slapped together quickly or is it indication of how little effort SE is going to put into the future quests?

Two main points that I'm wondering are that should we interpret this quest update as SE's way of saying "no the quests won't ever have cutscenes".

Also do you think the quality of quest storylines will ever go up?
Do you think we'll see something like http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/quests.html?fquest=241 "Making candles".

I think this is a good example as the quest description looks like something you might see as XIV's story part of the quest but anyone knows this quest saw that it had an interesting story, a cutscene with heartwarming and beautiful music to go along with it. Something that can't be conveyed through a simple text boxes alone.

how do you think the future quests will shape up? Is there something to look forward to or from now on is it just going to be this quality of quests churned out each month?

Yes we will have more cut scenes in the future

Let us not forget, the quests we were given this time, really arent anything special.

But we still have plenty more coming, including class and story quests. Both of which i am sure just couldnt be what they are without some kind of minor cut scene to them.

They've mentioned that quests will be added in nearly every upcoming update over the next few months with no real signs of stopping, however it's tough to say if they will be the kind of quests we've been expecting from that of FFXI. The cutscenes and interactions between NPCs in the cities were what made XI feel more lively and the lack of that in XIV's cities are what makes them feel like such ghost towns.

There are NPCs, but they aren't doing anything and there is no interaction. Nothing akin to the Onion Brigade of Windurst or the Young Griffons of San d'Oria [s].

It's really early though, and everyone is clamoring for every single possible type of content under the sun so they have their hands full trying to please a wide variety of people with each patch.

To be honest, I thought these quests they added were gonna have story based cutscenes, which if they did, SE would of won my heart, but alas, I will have to keep waiting hehe =D

You got to remember that they have been laying the foundation on the current system so that the changes they make in the future will be easier to implement. This takes a lot of time so I think this round of quests was to appease the playerbase, I am hoping that the future quests should be a bit flashier with a few cutscenes etc.

I want to be able to see my favorite cutscenes again after I've seen them once

From a development angle, putting in a lot of cutscenes in a short amount of time is a LOT of work. All motion in XIV is motion-captured now. Most of the animation done for XI, especially early on, was done by hand -- There's a lot of extra tweaking involved with Mocap data and that's AFTER the footage is interpreted into something they can use..

At this point I'm not sure if I'd rather the animators put all their effort towards larger story-driving cutscenes instead of smaller city quests... I don't even know if they're even considering both right now, but it's a lot of work either way.

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Originally Posted by BloodLotus

I want to be able to see my favorite cutscenes again after I've seen them once

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I agree, but until then I use youtube xD

Quest need more '???'

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Originally Posted by babycakin

To be honest, I thought these quests they added were gonna have story based cutscenes, which if they did, SE would of won my heart, but alas, I will have to keep waiting hehe =D

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I have to agree 100% the last update was what I've been waiting for the most since the launch but I find myself not playing the quests because of their lackluster presentation. I wouldn't mind the same simple gesture animations like in XI if it meant that the stories had more "oomph" via better writing and cutscenes.

The current nature of the quests lacks character and since your objective is summarized in that one levesque screen it kind of makes the player not pay attention to anything the NPC is saying, because the essential info is all about the map pointing glowy arrovs to complete the quest.

This sort of gameplay is streamlined to the point that it sort of insults the intelligence of the player because he isn't trusted with even understanding what was just discussed in the dialogue.

Based on the story quest we currently have, I'd definitely say we would be seeing more cut-scenes from quests and 'missions' type quests in the future!

I think everyone is blowing the Side Quest way out of proportion they are not the main elements in the story. Just are giving a slight view into the citizens of Eorzea's life.

Every class quest and all the storyline missions have multiple Cut scenes. I think we will see a lot more when they expand on those.

I would love to see CS based side quest, but I am not expecting much more then what we see now with side quest.

I know I know but wouldnt it be nice to have lil story cutscenes even if they dont pertain to the main story. I mean these side stories could give a glimpse of whats happening in the every day life of the citizens of Eorzea. I just expected a lil more than just a blab of text *shrug*

We will get quests with Cutscenes just for the simple fact that everyone is ultra pissed there is no cutscenes (and they are boring as hell)

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Originally Posted by Vicious

Quest need more '???'

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I was thinking that, I want to find a damn hoofprint in the freakin mud >:O

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Originally Posted by Seif

I have to agree 100% the last update was what I've been waiting for the most since the launch but I find myself not playing the quests because of their lackluster presentation. I wouldn't mind the same simple gesture animations like in XI if it meant that the stories had more "oomph" via better writing and cutscenes.

The current nature of the quests lacks character and since your objective is summarized in that one levesque screen it kind of makes the player not pay attention to anything the NPC is saying, because the essential info is all about the map pointing glowy arrovs to complete the quest.

This sort of gameplay is streamlined to the point that it sort of insults the intelligence of the player because he isn't trusted with even understanding what was just discussed in the dialogue.

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I played FFXI for years and years. I have a quest log full of quests that I could not imagine trying to continue because it provides almost no information. At the end of the day, a game shouldn't require you to look up what you need to do from a third party site. I, personally, read the dialogue because I like the atmosphere, but many people don't really want to bother because they find it boring, and more importantly may not be able to get the quest and finish it in one sitting. Can you honestly say you'll remember what the quest was asking for if all the quest said was "X wants something to help clean his shirt" when you read it 2 days, a week, or longer later?

Back to the topic at hand, I hope this doesn't mean the end of CS, but if they're going to add WoW style side-quests like these appear to be, they should make the setup quick and easy to produce and save their writing and production time-budget for more substantive main and class quests, and maybe have some FFXI-style side quests that have some good storyline to them, but aren't feasible to mass produce to an extent that it would occupy the playerbase.

I like cutscenes as much as anyone, but we need to remember that actually building cutscenes takes a lot more time than just plain old text, and right now time is a luxury that SE simply doesn't have. This game is on life support, and it needs content fast, or else it'll be going the way of Auto-Assault.

When they add the advanced classes i hope they make heavy story driven quests with cut-scenes and everything in order to get your advanced class.

in ffxi everybody wanted a real journal telling what to do without going on fansites for every thing. Now it's bad. <_<
Aside this, i'll welcome any future sidequest with cutscene, but right now it's quite soon

The structure is there for a good questing system now, it simply needs to be elaborated on which is likely to come later once the more radical changes such as the battle system are taken care of.

I really hope they do make some nice cutscenes, you only have to look at the old Serpent General sidequests from FFXI to know the kind of potential there is.

referring to OJtheLIONKing's post:

I'm sorry but I have to disagree with you on this.
I'd rather have a lot fewer quests at a slower pace than a bunch of these wow-quests that simply aren't up to the quality I was expecting after what they did with XI quests.

Personally I don't care if there's 100+ quests that aren't interesting enough to play through. Might as well use their time on boosting the quality of few quests so that people are entertained when playing them.