Your character as background decoration <Spoilers>

[Felis]

well 1st of all the discussion is about cut scenes and how your character is background decoration and not about combat and AI so the argument is irrelevant.

That would be boring.
If there is a fight, then let us fight ourselve.
In every story fight with cutscene we entered the battle field and not just watched.
CS1 -> battle -> CS2

It was since 1.0 this way with character battle within story CS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8yZ...tailpage#t=223

3rd no one is arguing the outcome so even if everyone died (think crisis core ending) after being overwhelmed by soldiers but fighting no one would complain. the only problem with the ending is your character not doing anything.

This would be interesting

1. fight back
2. don't fight

Player choose #1 10 times and die 10 times (with a bad ending CS). Then he choose #2 and the story continue ^^