For The Love Of God Please Add Skip Cut Scene To The Story Dungeons

[MariaArvana]

And the response shouldn't be "WELL HUR HUR HUR, WHAT ABOUT THE NEWBS?!" Watch the damned thing on Youtube if you're so desperate for 20 minutes of scripted dialogue, half of which isn't even spoken.

The reality is, watching it on youtube is a far cry from actually getting to experience it yourself.

Your character isn't there, just whatever character the person you're watching is playing, which is already extremely immersion breaking. You don't get the satisfaction of charging head-long into the Praetorium with your comrades. You don't get the satisfaction of watching that dramatic, awesome build up that was the Ultima weapon intro, the maker's ruin starting to play to hype you up as this colossal, unstoppable machine whirls to life and faces you down in the cutscene only for you to actually get to fight it personally, watching in horror as your attacks are ineffective before Hydaelyn comes in to save you. You don't get to experience the awesome build up to its 2nd phase where the weapon demonstrates its full power by unleashing Ultima and you realize just whats at stake if you fail to beat it.

The very first time I ever ran it, I was lucky I had an entire group of friends who let me enjoy the cutscenes; because let me tell you, I would have been catastrophically pissed if I had to choose between watching cutscenes or fighting the bosses, or someone told me to 'go watch it on youtube'. It completely destroys the climatic magic of that instance without the whole flow of cutscenes into battles. Veterans dug their own grave by not letting the new players enjoy the full magic of the instances on their first times, and so we must lay in the bed we created. Just turn on your favorite streaming service, get a 2nd monitor, or pull up a nice book. Or alternatively, people tired of it can simply NOT DO IT. The cutscene lock is never going to change no matter how much you ask, so its best to save the mental energy & breath and just get used to it.