A12 savage World first 3 days after patch

[SpookyGhost]

all this does is remind me: why is the camera work during cut-scenes so much better back in 1.0??

Tanaka's vision for 1.0 was to have fully voiced and fully storyboarded cutscenes for missions since he never accomplished that in XI. Yoshi-P doesn't share this sentiment, and instead defaults to having people do emotes and sometimes gets the guy who animated the Hildibrand cutscenes to animate stuff in the MSQ. Unfortunately, it's animated the same way as the Hildibrand cutscenes, so it looks really strange (especially compared to the 1.0 cutscenes).

So, basically, don't expect to ever get this quality back in our cutscenes.

[basketofseals]

Tanaka's vision for 1.0 was to have fully voiced and fully storyboarded cutscenes for missions since he never accomplished that in XI. Yoshi-P doesn't share this sentiment, and instead defaults to having people do emotes and sometimes gets the guy who animated the Hildibrand cutscenes to animate stuff in the MSQ. Unfortunately, it's animated the same way as the Hildibrand cutscenes, so it looks really strange (especially compared to the 1.0 cutscenes).

So, basically, don't expect to ever get this quality back in our cutscenes.

I want to emphasize how this isn't a bad trade-off. Anyone who played 1.0 can tell you that while the game was certainly visually very impressive, there was pretty much no gameplay. Under the old direction we'd probably have a fully animated MSQ and nothing else.

It's not hard to think about what could have been. Just seeing that Gaius vs the Scions fight is holy jesus amazing, but we got to allocate our money somehow.

[Yukiko]

I want to emphasize how this isn't a bad trade-off. Anyone who played 1.0 can tell you that while the game was certainly visually very impressive, there was pretty much no gameplay. Under the old direction we'd probably have a fully animated MSQ and nothing else.

It's not hard to think about what could have been. Just seeing that Gaius vs the Scions fight is holy jesus amazing, but we got to allocate our money somehow.

Not entirely true because it was rushed out way too early before it was finished.
It was announced to start with 4 towns - cancelled
We had a very complex element wheel - cancelled
Stamina system - stopped evolving into something better
primals - way more planed than we had on release
crafting - crafter only was possible but not much to craft

[basketofseals]

Not entirely true because it was rushed out way too early before it was finished.
It was announced to start with 4 towns - cancelled
We had a very complex element wheel - cancelled
Stamina system - stopped evolving into something better
primals - way more planed than we had on release
crafting - crafter only was possible but not much to craft

This doesn't refute my point at all. It doesn't matter what should have been better or should have been available, ultimately, it wasn't. FFXIV 1.0 wasn't in development for a short period of time, and time they had, they spent it on graphics to the detriment of everything else.