Will the Cutscenes be Improved in the future?

[Krystalynn]

1.0 had far better cutscenes. World's apart. The developers for 2.0 had to rush this aspect of the game, and I noticed it immediately. For those who want to remember what 1.0s cutscenes used to look like...

Merlwyb in Action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh3NrPOvAfY

United we Stand:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptDD2ocUiZk

Uldah Opening
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AvE5-ET-yg

Limsa Lominsa Opening
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptDD2ocUiZk

Gridania Opening
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ABXedAqtkU

We need to go back to this. I know 2.0 was on a rushed deadline, but the fact so much of this quality storytelling is lost, in a Final Fantasy game depresses me.

1.0 was bad in a lot of ways, but it was great in others, if you were there, you had to have seen that. The game had a lot of heart.

Yoshi, I hope you and your team take great pride in the cutscenes in the future. Please. ♥

FFXIV 1.0 Tribute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYF2Rv-xbV4

[Zezlar]

Good lord I hope so.

[StrejdaTom]

Thanks for making me regret that I didnt play FFXIV 1.0... Better Graphics, UI, Cutscenes, Animations, Hamlet.... -.-

[KiriA500]

Thanks for making me regret that I didnt play FFXIV 1.0... Better Graphics, UI, Cutscenes, Animations, Hamlet.... -.-

[Darko]

Thanks for making me regret that I didnt play FFXIV 1.0... Better Graphics, UI, Cutscenes, Animations, Hamlet.... -.-

lol... no. graphic (accept shadows) was worse and ui (nowhere near responsive) was even worser.

[Soulscare]

Thanks for making me regret that I didnt play FFXIV 1.0... Better Graphics, UI, Cutscenes, Animations, Hamlet.... -.-

Tbh, its like they removed all the things that were great about 1.0... First they gave us a terrible game, with few things right, then they gave us a great game, with few things bad. Grrr, I want the best of both worlds!!!

[am0n]

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

This part made me LOL.

[Virtuso]

I'd like to think the reason for the downgrade in animation was due to the fact that a limited team needed to make a boat load of cut scenes to make it in time for launch. While the old version had time to really flesh each scene out as they came out over time. And the lack of other content gave them more resources to devote to the cut scenes. Now that launch is over and their going back to patch updates I sure hope they improve again.

The up coming Hildibrand scene's will be a good test to see if their going to improve or not.

[Shioban]

I'd like to think the reason for the downgrade in animation was due to the fact that a limited team needed to make a boat load of cut scenes to make it in time for launch. While the old version had time to really flesh each scene out as they came out over time. And the lack of other content gave them more resources to devote to the cut scenes. Now that launch is over and their going back to patch updates I sure hope they improve again.

The up coming Hildibrand scene's will be a good test to see if their going to improve or not.

Pretty much this. ^

Cut scenes aren't an easy thing to make, they're expensive and time consuming.

The considerably 'lower-budget' 2.0 cut scenes and generally lower quality cutscenes were quicker and easier to make.

I'm just hoping the downgrade was due to that, funding and time, and not something dreadful like overzealous terminations and forced resignations.

I hope the talent that made these is still there with SE... could they have been removed?

In the case of 1.23 they had the chance to create elaborate cut scenes and they delivered on that.
2.0 didn't have that luxury, their release window was VERY short.

All the tools (Lighting/Camera/Animation) were either reduced, changed or completely replaced meaning they had to re-do everything from scratch probably in a window of around 1 - 1½ years.

[Lexxuk]

Cut scenes aren't an easy thing to make, they're expensive and time consuming.

Actually, as the CS's use the ingame engine they are very easy to create. You set up a simple script telling NPC's where to go and what to do, as well as where the "camera" should be located. The scripting for text is easy too..

Ahh, [%player_first_name%], thank [%players_diety%] you came here!

In an ideal world, SE would have a programme like Unreal's kismet so creating CS's is as easy as filling in bits here and there, nothing difficult, nothing expensive, all the assets already exist.