Suggestion for zone-in cut scenes in 2.0

[Hulan]

This is impossible, or very hard to pull off. The reason you're waiting at a loading screen is for the models, textures, and sounds for the environment and creatures to be loaded. So, what you're essentially asking is for a cutscene to show you the environment and creatures before the assets have even loaded, hence why it's impossible.

Your second suggestion makes sense though, a lot of multiplayer games have a "Vote to Skip" option that requires like a steep majority vote, so if like you and one other person don't want to skip, the whole party gets to watch. I would support that.

Actually, queuing up a pre-rendered avi of the zone, as long as it does not show your character (or any other dynamic elements) would not require any extra time. It's how games like Mass Effect and... well most Western RPGs... have video loading screens.

[Zyph]

Actually, queuing up a pre-rendered avi of the zone, as long as it does not show your character (or any other dynamic elements) would not require any extra time. It's how games like Mass Effect and... well most Western RPGs... have video loading screens.

Right, I was actually going to add a thing in my post about that.

My only issue with it is that if you play at a high resolution, the videos usually look like crap.

While we're here though, FFXIV 2.0 needs better looking loading screens in general, even if it was just a static image

[Vaymathias]

Actually, queuing up a pre-rendered avi of the zone, as long as it does not show your character (or any other dynamic elements) would not require any extra time. It's how games like Mass Effect and... well most Western RPGs... have video loading screens.

Not an MMO but FFXII did it.