I hope that the expansion...

[Kanexus]

IDK since im lalafell its kinda like playing a zelda game. Link never talks and the story still moves alone fine!!!!!

[MageBlack]

"...."
".....!"
"....?"
*nods his approval*

[Nutz]

I'm fine with this the way I'm fine with Link, though I suppose they could go to the trouble of voicing an "mm-hmm" when you nod. It would be bizarre in any other story telling format to be sure, but I think it works out fine that even when your character obviously is talking it just sort of glosses over it and the NPCs know what you 'said' (since you're usually recounting things the player knows).

...mo-cap, mo-cap, mo-cap!

Perhaps I'm being pedantic, but I'm not sure you know what motion capture actually is. It's certainly not something you'd often use on a customizable character that could be male/ female, short/ tall, or a small variety of races. Notably that scene with Yugiri and Thancred was almost certainly not motion captured judging by the fantastic feats of gymnastics they were performing. Mo-cap is an animation tool to collect realistic and subtle movements that has to be painstakingly simplified and refined for use in a game (or anywhere really).

As I said though, I'm being pedantic and agree that cut scenes should consist of far fewer canned animations (emotes, walking, running, generic attack and jump animations, etc.) in favor of manually animating the specifics of at least important scenes. The ones where you're just standing around talking? Fine, but it would still be nice if people could walk around casually, lean on a desk, fiddle with a chair, etc. instead of standing still waving their arms and flapping their mouth open.

[Mahri]

No.

Our characters shouldn't act like this was Mass Effect.

They should act like a Saint's Row boss.

Complete with like ten different voice options for male and female but all available to both genders.

[Lilyarel]

*Nods head*

[Spawnie]

Minfilia: You are a hero to us all!
You:
1) Smile and Nod
2) Put it in
3)Surprised face
4) Straight face
5) Stare at the ceiling

put what in?? lol O.O''''

[Kahnom]

Minfilia: You are a hero to us all!
You:
1) Smile and Nod
2) Put it in
3)Surprised face
4) Straight face
5) Stare at the ceiling

Er... Put what in what ?

[Reokudo]

Er... Put what in what ?

put what in?? lol O.O''''

Take a guess.

[Kurenai_Night]

I just wish they would take some time to make the cutscenes really good. Scenes where our characters actually do something. For instance, how nice would it be if we actually fought in cut scenes. Based on the class/job you are it would apear different. Like if your blm you would use a fire spell to stave off an attack or if your pld you would have a back and forth swords clashing with another. I would love to see this in MSQ CS but at minimum you could allow us to do it in job specific quests. Like the end of the drg lvl 50 quest they could have done a better job of us defeating him. Like show us actually jump in the air to do the hellfire dive and sow our faces on our way down and make him go boom. Or at some point have a person attack us and we use out weapon to block it, maybe have smns have an egi block it or sch have a protect shield something akin to what y'shtola does. Basically im just saying, be imaginative! these cookie cutter cs with us not doing anything but getting in attack ready or making faces is boring. Are we not the warriors of light?? Then stop letting y'shtola and thancred outshine us in cutscenes! How awsome would it be if we as nin/rog jumped in the air threw some daggers at a jaa's chest be?? Let's up the quality CS here SE.. thats what FF is known for! /rant

[KodiHivaer]

Perhaps I'm being pedantic, but I'm not sure you know what motion capture actually is. It's certainly not something you'd often use on a customizable character that could be male/ female, short/ tall, or a small variety of races. Notably that scene with Yugiri and Thancred was almost certainly not motion captured judging by the fantastic feats of gymnastics they were performing. Mo-cap is an animation tool to collect realistic and subtle movements that has to be painstakingly simplified and refined for use in a game (or anywhere really).

You should watch this then.