Cinematics and FFXIV

[Pterois]

Final Fantasy as a whole has always pushed the envelope when it comes wonderful visuals. And ever since the days of FF7 we have been wowed with cut-scenes showing our heros in the most bad ass of situations...



or the calm before the storm...



or some of the most heart breaking moments most here would never forget...



We have only a few examples of this in the FFXIV world...



and even those select few have us all wowed with the intricate battles and emotions...



emotions that i think would not have been captured with game-play graphics.

I know there was a shift in the way the FFXIV team deals with high quality situations (ex. the flower pot polygons) but i'm starting to feel like you guys might have gone to far in the opposite direction. You had to go back in order to build the game back up and I understand this. But since cut-scenes are pretty much as synonyms with Final Fantasy as moogles and chocobos I would really hope y'all would start considering rendering the really important, game-changing portions of the main story in this style. All my brain would let me see during the 2.55 cut scenes was how bad ass this could really look as our hero's one by one made their stand. I appreciate all the hard work you guys are putting into this game, and i know this request isn't a small one but i feel as though it is time to up the quality now.