Can we be heroes?

[KaMuiSouZou]

I think the way to feel more "like a hero" is to make our characters do more in the cutscenes. Yes, the main event should be the fight itself and it won't be to the level of pre-rendered cg movies, but the most our characters do is take out/put away our weapon! =( For example, in "Futures Perfect" why can't our characters join in that epic fight??? Within the main story, your character is the main character after all! Plus, in ARR all main story cutscenes will be voiced. So unless SE records dialogue for every voice type on every race, our characters won't speak while everyone else does (they'll just go "huh?" and "ugh" like right now). To me, that just makes it more important that we actually do stuff in the CS, rather than just stand there like an outside observer.

It would have to be handled differently outside the main story of course, since it's an mmo and no one is the "main character." We already have some stuff like titles, achievements and GC heroes on the lodestone but I think having them in game will help a lot. I believe in ARR titles will appear next to your name? Also perhaps having rankings/GC heroes show in the game by checking the adventurer's guilds/free company houses or an in game newspaper with weekly rankings along with lore articles etc.

[Rhomagus]

I think the way to feel more "like a hero" is to make our characters do more in the cutscenes. Yes, the main event should be the fight itself and it won't be to the level of pre-rendered cg movies, but the most our characters do is take out/put away our weapon! =( For example, in "Futures Perfect" why can't our characters join in that epic fight??? Within the main story, your character is the main character after all! Plus, in ARR all main story cutscenes will be voiced. So unless SE records dialogue for every voice type on every race, our characters won't speak while everyone else does (they'll just go "huh?" and "ugh" like right now). To me, that just makes it more important that we actually do stuff in the CS, rather than just stand there like an outside observer.

It would have to be handled differently outside the main story of course, since it's an mmo and no one is the "main character." We already have some stuff like titles, achievements and GC heroes on the lodestone but I think having them in game will help a lot. I believe in ARR titles will appear next to your name? Also perhaps having rankings/GC heroes show in the game by checking the adventurer's guilds/free company houses or an in game newspaper with weekly rankings along with lore articles etc.

I love the idea of actually having your character fight. It couldn't be that difficult to shoot a scene with 7 pre-recorded possible animations, even less so. BLM and WHM would be almost identical in this regard, so that already brings it down to six.

I'd love to see my character actually fight rather than stand to the side like a dolt. This would do a lot more to help solidify my character as someone worth a damn in the world in which he is portrayed.