Quote Originally Posted by Nix View Post
FFXI had it down pat, it had the text but it also had engaging mini-CS that would help to immerse you.
Not to say it hasn't happened to you...but I've felt the exact opposite with all of these cutscenes. Having my character stumble around like an idiot who has no idea what's going on is hardly immersion in my opinion. Final Fantasy XI was notorious for this as well... You'd have an awesome cutscene, and all you can do is scratch your head and walk slowly.

Let's use the Futures Perfect cutscene as an example. What happens in this cutscene? EXPLOSIONS! FLIPS! MAGIC! BULLETS! Then there's you...literally standing still the entire time...half the time you aren't even on the screen. Your NPC helper is a swappable model, so why can't Square-Enix have an animation for our characters doing something more interesting than "be there?" I'd like to see my character be awesome every now and then...