Is it just me, or did FFXI have better animations for cutscenes?

[Nestama]

I'd say XI was just as bad, if not worse, actually...

At the start, definitely. Though like you said, the animations began to improve in the Treasures and up expansions (Adoulin and the add-on Rhapsodies being a massive step up).

Here's an action scene from Rhapsodies of Vana'diel (spoilers).

[starLivitation]

After perusing some threads, I came across a cutscene from WotG, and looking at the game, it just brought this all back to me.

I've felt for a long time that the animations for characters in cutscenes is pretty horrendous. It's always made me cringe with few exceptions, and it's one of the hurdles I've had to deal with when trying to recruit friends to play the game. "Holy crap those cutscenes are bad." I know they attempt to do the majority of cutscenes with emotes, but I never got this feeling while watching FFXI's cutscenes. I know they did it to an extent as well, but that game never felt as stiff as this one.

Does anyone else feel the same? Here's the cutscene I was watching that helped me remember: https://youtu.be/3eg_Xz-OFyI

not only that, but kitties were actually kiities, over here they are just teen version of hyur girls with bigger ears.

[MistyMew]

Cs in general don't interest me, but quality wise?, hmm....not gonna knock ffxi on this one , they did a pretty good job even with the much poorer graphics to work with (there were simply far too many of them though lol.)

FFXIV is ok too, far better graphics and hold about the same interest level for me. But similar animation wise to ffxi

And I'm quite happy with kitties here, they are finally beautiful ,not the homely abominations that were Mithra..couldn't stand them there.

[Seraphix2407]

The music when she starts fighting, easily one of the best soundtracks from the ff series, it's great!

[Remus]

not only that, but kitties were actually kiities, over here they are just teen version of hyur girls with bigger ears.

Too be honest would you even call them cats in this game? I mean all they have is a tail and cat ears and depending on sub race different teeth you can hardly see. I much prefer FFXI because of how they looked. Here they just seem like the generic anime adaptation of what they think a cat person would be like. They look more human than cat in FFXIV :/ Mithra looked more like cats than what we have. I just see it as Hyurs doing cosplay as a cat now.

[starLivitation]

Too be honest would you even call them cats in this game? I mean all they have is a tail and cat ears and depending on sub race different teeth you can hardly see. I much prefer FFXI because of how they looked. Here they just seem like the generic anime adaptation of what they think a cat person would be like. They look more human than cat in FFXIV :/ Mithra looked more like cats than what we have. I just see it as Hyurs doing cosplay as a cat now.

please dont call them cat person i mean lol. if there was a reward for cat ears in gold saucer that would be the same. true cats in ffxi ftw!

[Natashio]

NPC walks on screen.

NPC does mixture of standard emotes.

/handover

WoL responds with a /handover and/or a /nod.

NPC turns 180 degrees while in the walking animation.

NPC walks off screen.

My eye twitches.

This describes in totality what the cut scenes in FFXIV pretty much are. There's no variety in camera angles or shots. Everything seems to be had been shot with a 50 mm focal length camera on a tripod. Where the characters enter stage left, say their lines, /handover, and exit stage left not knowing from where they came from or where they went. There's rarely no camera movement, no panning in or out, no use of the camera as a tool to convey emotion. It's all static. Like always, they rely more on pretty graphics and load music and the scenes still look bland.

[Artamie]

I know it's taboo to bring up what was considered a failure of a game into the discussion but cutscenes was one thing 1.0 got right. Then... I guess we settled for less and what we have now is "acceptable".

https://youtu.be/aU5N24_5VIk

[bass9020]

I know it's taboo to bring up what was considered a failure of a game into the discussion but cutscenes was one thing 1.0 got right. Then... I guess we settled for less and what we have now is "acceptable".

https://youtu.be/aU5N24_5VIk

Id take fewer cutscenes with this quality again than what we have now. Quantity isnt always best. Quality over quantity is something we dont see much of anywhere anymore and its kinda lame.

[DarkSlayerGrimm]

I wish they'd give the player characters some of those dramatic battle cutscenes, SWTOR does a lot of class specific fight cutscenes in a similar fashion to the one you linked but it's our character doing the cool stuff rather than the NPC's having all the fun.

I loved that about swtor is that our character was "involved" in cutscenes we laid out the hurt, engaged with npcs, actually took part in cutscene battles where as in ffxiv we.........well we brandish our weapons once in a while maybe change our facial expressions.......thats about it sadly