I have a friend that skips ALL the cut scenes. Is he insane ?

[Deceived]

When I first started playing ARR a few weeks ago (after being end-game in 1.0) - I went into it thinking I'd watch everything. Then they made me do 500 main story line quests (more than 65% of which were irrelevant nonsense) so at this point I just decided to skip everything. If they made the main scenario just missions that actually mattered (not: hey, talk to this guy, this guy, this guy, all two feet away from me, and report back; or: go kill 3 bunnies), I probably would have read/watched it all.

[Radacci]

if you take away all the story in the game, what would be left, would be really boring.
actually there wouldnt be any game remaining, since everything in the game, is tied to the story.
so why are these ppl playing? just to kill stuff, and get better gear, to kill other stuff?
it's like virtual barbie, for guys. dress your kitty, in new prettier dresses. Show your friends how glamorous you look. Strike a pose, make them Otaku nose-bleed.

So anyways, yes your friend is insane

[Laf]

Change main storyline to Hildibrand the magnificent detective, it's funny. Warrior of light can become 2nd sidekick of Hildibrand.

[Battlewrench]

In this game? No. 90% of the games I play I watch the cut scenes but this game just became a chore. Some of the primals can be cool to watch the first time but that's it.

Keep in mind this is my opinion.

[Tupsi]

I skip most cutscenes and I'm no worse off for it. People enjoy different things in game.

Nope - Most people who play MMOs skip quest dialog and cutscenes, hell even Square Enix skipped through dialog when they were showing off alpha and beta footage. If they did to "prevent spoilers" or "save time" they wouldn't have talked to the NPC in the first place.

[Aureliami]

I watched every cut scene in the game.

The story in ARR is less bad than in other Final Fantasy games.

[ObeiKinstar]

OMG I am seriously shocked. I watch the cutscenes, I want to know the story, I want to feel like I am part of the world. The thing I hate most about this game is all the zones and invisible walls everywhere and everyone wanting to teleport everywhere and skip the cutscenes and just rush through it.

I understand everyone has different playstyles, and I find no fault if thats the way you wanna play, but I must ask, to all the people that just skip the cut scenes and dont read the text and have no idea what the story is; do you guys typically play FPS games?

[MichuAmane]

Hildibrand storyline is the best. I want more so amusing. The actual storyline ho hum. SWTOR's storyline was so good too bad gameplay was not as good.

[MithrasInvictus]

My friend has not watched one cutscene since buying the game. HE Doesn't know what the name of the planet is. he doesn't know what a primal is.. or who the bad guys are.

He just kills. kills.. kills.. waits for more targets to kill.

I try to talk to him about certain scenes. and he has no idea what Im talking about..


Does anyone else actually do this ? is

I don't understand why anyone would want to play a completely de-contextualised game, but to each their own, I suppose.

[Mihael_Longclaw]

It's not like the story is that well written, all they're really missing are dungeon intros and some others which they could rewatch if they wanted.

Edit:

Hildibrand storyline is the best. I want more so amusing. The actual storyline ho hum. SWTOR's storyline was so good too bad gameplay was not as good.

Completely forgot about Hildibrand, his questline was pretty funny, my GF and I were laughing through that entire ending cutscne