Will the Cutscenes be Improved in the future?

[Yukiba]

Wow.. The downgrade in graphics really depresses me.. Dont get me wrong, I love everything in 2.0. But MAN the graphics and and cs parts have taken a huge hit. The entire tone of the story, graphics and all cs. --Tone wise 2.0 is like animated batman you watch on saturday mornings whereas 1.0 seemed more like The Dark Knight in its tone and over all theme. I liked that. ARR just doesnt have that same tone or emotion from its CS. ARR is more light hearted. When people are hurting from a tragedy or if someone dies I just dont feel it like I did in 1.0. (though the 2.0 thm/BLM class/job quest storyline was pretty good but the rest falls short imho)

Normaly im sort of a white knight when it comes to ARR but there just isnt any way around the fact that 1.0 was superior in its graphics and CS cinematics and the sort. most of 1.0 was pretty crappy in regards to gameplay (at first.. got much better later on) etc but 1.0 pretty much nailed theme/tone CS cinematics shadows/lighting and graphics. ARR is a huge step down in that department but in every other area 2.0 is well passed superior to 1.0

I hate to agree but yes 2.0 is very lacking in comparrison to 1.0 in this particular area.. Normaly I keep my rose tinted color glasses on but even those glasses arent helping in this aspect of the game.

Please S.E... Get some action and emotions in your Cut Scenes. Would like to see my character take out his lance or fists and hit someone in a cs. Need more Action with a dark tone kinda like when Garland came out of the smoke in 1.0 and was owning everyone with his gunblade. Yoshi-P please add more dark tone and action. (Though I must confess, I did love how ultima owned the weakened primals crushing ifrits skull, giving titan a shoryuken of sorts to the gut and biting garudas head off lol) Get the graphics back right so we can fully enjoy all the talented the developers posses and the great tone/story Final Fantasy has always been able to produce for its fans. Much love! <3

Side note (a little off topic): I think it would be outstanding if the added more choices for cutscenes that better reflect your characters personality.. Kinda like how you make choices in Dragon Age. Or maybe at character creation having an option to pick the type of personality your character has instead of just being in a cs almost always emotionless. Like Lala emotes are always extra happy joyfull. Why not a more serious lala? Or a sarcastic personality. I would love to have that lol.

[Flionheart]

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It's not a strawman at all, I was referencing past threads and not just this one. And I can easily find people pining over 1.23, there's people who want it back in almost every thread that brings up 1.0

And again, I wouldn't say so. The cut-scenes in Prae and post Garuda are on par if not better than a lot of the cut-scenes in 1.0. I think people forget about all the filler scenes with endless dialogue boxes that 1.0 contained.

[am0n]

Thanks for making me regret that I didnt play FFXIV 1.0... Better ... UI.... -.-

This part made me LOL.

[Tupsi]

Are you kidding? lol... I think you're just jumping on the hate wagon. It was not rushed,

You do know Yoshi himself said it was rushed...right? That they had to meet their goal..? They could of held off and released ARR in 2015 if they wanted to.

[Felis]

Version 2 Gridania: Floating crystal. Floating Character. Ascion appears. Player gets AF gear, fade to white. Appear in caravan.

My character went to Gridania on foot.

[Krystalynn]

It's not a strawman at all, I was referencing past threads and not just this one. And I can easily find people pining over 1.23, there's people who want it back in almost every thread that brings up 1.0

And again, I wouldn't say so. The cut-scenes in Prae and post Garuda are on par if not better than a lot of the cut-scenes in 1.0. I think people forget about all the filler scenes with endless dialogue boxes that 1.0 contained.

I'd say even the serious filler was better than the dialogue boxes we have today. Watch 1.0s talky cutscenes and notice the panning cameras. The camera angles. Notice how the camera will often be in the background putting some people speaking in the adventurer's guild into focus a bit. The positioning and feel of their cinematography is palpable in 1.0~ and as I'm sure you've played it I honestly do find it surprising this hasn't been noticeable to you.

Examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7T8_Rvjfm4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i-nPAv0aP0