Will the Cutscenes be Improved in the future?

[Lexxuk]

Cut scenes aren't an easy thing to make, they're expensive and time consuming.

Actually, as the CS's use the ingame engine they are very easy to create. You set up a simple script telling NPC's where to go and what to do, as well as where the "camera" should be located. The scripting for text is easy too..

Ahh, [%player_first_name%], thank [%players_diety%] you came here!

In an ideal world, SE would have a programme like Unreal's kismet so creating CS's is as easy as filling in bits here and there, nothing difficult, nothing expensive, all the assets already exist.

[Tupsi]

Like many other first party companies, they utilize their own engine for doing work. The whole point of the Crystal Tools engine was for cinematics and seamless transitions, they made the mistake of hosting an entire MMO on it.

[Virtuso]

I'm just hoping the downgrade was due to that, funding and time, and not something dreadful like overzealous terminations and forced resignations.

I hope the talent that made these is still there with SE... could they have been removed?

While some key management people like Tanaka from the original versions launch were let go there were still many new high quality cut scene's under Yoshi-P's new team which was mostly the same team if not with even more talent then before as Yoshi-P said they expanded. The original version had a skeleton crew updating the game and Yoshi-P stated they were absorbed into 2.0's team when the original version was shutdown. So it should still be the same people.

Who knows, the new game engine could play a part in it. I'm not tech expert but from what I heard the original versions Crystal Engine was made to deliver beautiful cut scene's, but little else. While the new version...who knows, as it was made just for ARR.

[Churchill]

Please make all cutscenes skippable thanks.

[Alhanelem]

Existing cutscenes aren't going to be changed, and they shouldn't be. They are just fine the way they are. Frankly, I disagree that 1.0's cutscenes were better, I'd rate them about the same at best.

[Drakzen1]

The game was rushed nothing can be done about it now only look to the future...Yeah i kinda hated all the cutscenes didnt feel like a final fantasy game...felt like a standard mmo...idk kinda never really felt any real reason to do anything there wasnt really a drive like in 1.23 trying to stop dalmund was epic like everyday you could feel it getting closer AHHH

[Alhanelem]

The game was rushed nothing can be done about it now only look to the future...Yeah i kinda hated all the cutscenes didnt feel like a final fantasy game...felt like a standard mmo...idk kinda never really felt any real reason to do anything there wasnt really a drive like in 1.23 trying to stop dalmund was epic like everyday you could feel it getting closer AHHH

Are you kidding? lol... I think you're just jumping on the hate wagon. It was not rushed, the cutscenes are fine, It feels like final fantasy to me. If you think it doesn't, well you obviously have a different idea of what "final fantasy" means.

What do you want them to do, conjure up another moon or something? That doesn't really work very well when something isn't going to be ending soon.

Exactly. You could feel the story so much more. Has everything to do with what the original post and everyone else was mentioning. I doubt anything can be done at this point either.

Nothing needs to be done because nothing's wrong with it. I felt the story just fine. I'm really not seeing a difference in quality.

[RexValentino]

The game was rushed nothing can be done about it now only look to the future...Yeah i kinda hated all the cutscenes didnt feel like a final fantasy game...felt like a standard mmo...idk kinda never really felt any real reason to do anything there wasnt really a drive like in 1.23 trying to stop dalmund was epic like everyday you could feel it getting closer AHHH

Exactly. You could feel the story so much more. Has everything to do with what the original post and everyone else was mentioning. I doubt anything can be done at this point either.

[Drakzen1]

Are you kidding? lol... I think you're just jumping on the hate wagon. It was not rushed, the cutscenes are fine, It feels like final fantasy to me. If you think it doesn't, well you obviously have a different idea of what "final fantasy" means.

What do you want them to do, conjure up another moon or something? That doesn't really work very well when something isn't going to be ending soon.

It was rushed or else housing and ct and pvp would have made the release, but thats another matter altogether.
Also I dont know man the story didnt move me at all...It was so dry, not that 1.23 was great, but by comparision I think so.
I am refering to golden age final fantasy here but maybe deep story to me is very different than it is to you so this of course is my opinion.

[Drakzen1]

Exactly. You could feel the story so much more. Has everything to do with what the original post and everyone else was mentioning. I doubt anything can be done at this point either.

Yeah there wasnt one point were I stoped and said, "Man this is epic" or "Man I hope X doesnt die" at best i said "that armors kinda cool" or "it would be so cooler if they"