Can we please stop with Cutscenes where we just stand around?

[Cleretic]

Here is a example of a not real cutscene....

Okay, but none of this answers a very important question if we're spitballing game design that the developers know better.

How is this better than either:
A: The friendly NPC kneeling injured in that purple circle that enemies spawn in when you walk into it,
B: if the antagonist is of importance, just a boss fight,
Or C: if the antagonist is of importance but it's not time for the boss fight yet, drawing the weapon but being unable to fight due to circumstances?

Remember: game development is never facing the question of 'is this possible', it's facing the question of 'is this worth the effort'. Sometimes, that question is about fixing a longstanding spaghetti-code-origin bug, or about 'we only budgeted for this many dungeons', but it's true even on the small scale. Your idea basically asks for five different cutsecnes (more specifically five different iterations of part of a cutscene, but that's overcomplicating it); is it five times better than option C, which only requires one cutscene? How much better is it than the easy option of A, which requires no cutscenes and like three trash mobs you probably already have? If this particular cutscene is so important, why not elevate it to an actual boss fight, and hand it off to the combat design team that're probably already sketching out what AoEs they're giving this guy? I'm not trying to tell you that this is a bad idea; chances are the developers would love to have the freedom to do stuff like this all the time. (And probably hate that I keep running these cutscenes as an Alchemist and looking for their fallback logic.) But you're pitching something that gets cut between drafts.

I don't think it's worth me continuing this, though. It's pretty clear this thread's demand won't get listened to at all, but I get the feeling that I'm the only one whose response to that is 'okay but let's talk about why' rather than just continuing to shout demands into the void.