I wanted a game and all I got were cutscenes

[Mhikail]

Too busy hee-hawing about CS's where the rest of us tired fellows just press ESC and call it a day.
I ain't listening to a word this dude says because FF13 is CS heaven.
You can't sit here and tell us that you have less freedom than FF13, you can't. Every damn time ya turn around
it was a CS. That game has more 'story' than any other. You basically paid to read a visual novel with a hint of battles.
60GB on steam for a book....Fun part of my rant is I love that game but God damn the cutscence's were every 5 seconds!
When I actually start fighting is when I had a blast.

Also....3.0 has an amazing story and 2.0 was incredibly lackluster to me.
I actually played more of 3.0 BECAUSE of the story but hey.

[Havenae]

You bought a game.. all you got was cutscenes..


Sounds like you bought Star Wars the Old Republic

[Felis]

You call that good Cutszenes? All i see is the yapping of one minor bad npc and the usually "im sooooo weak...nope just kidding" stance of the WoL

Yeah pretty much un-epic. *yawn*

And the Shiva one is from ARR...so not counting.

In this CS the WoL was not a WoL, just an adventurer who was on a mission for a Grand Company. And Nael was the major bad guy during 1.x

[Hypie]

In this CS the WoL was not a WoL, just an adventurer who was on a mission for a Grand Company. And Nael was the major bad guy during 1.x

That Dude looked f*ckin Weak so i never took him seriously even as the Main Cast. More like "ah yeah just yap all day in the end i kill you anyways*go does something until cs is done*". I was more impressed of Ifrit in ARR than to this Dude.

You bought a game.. all you got was cutscenes..
Sounds like you bought Star Wars the Old Republic

At least SW:ToR is full voiced and not like "lets do the first half with Voice then just stop because the voice actors are fed up saying lines."

[RavenL]

So you thought a Final Fantasy game (which is known to have a lot of dialogue/cutscenes) wouldn't have a lot of dialogue/cutscenes? Is this really a serious complaint?

[Zabuza]

At least SW:ToR is full voiced and not like "lets do the first half with Voice then just stop because the voice actors are fed up saying lines."

SWToR spent over 200 million dollars to have that full voice acting. They put so much stock into it they missed out on other important parts of the game such as polish and endgame raiding. Their first raid, Eternity Vault, was plowed through, even though it was horribly riddled with bugs. The game was nearly a void at endgame. It's just not feasible to make a fully voice acted game unless you have a gigantic budget to work with where it won't detract from other parts of the game.

The reason FFXIV isn't fully voice acted is they likely don't have the budget to devote to that, so they only voice the important scenes.

[Edellis]

Diehard FF fan here.

I wanted a game and all i got were cutscenes

Sorry, Square-Enix. It breaks my heart but I can't play this game.

you need to rethink your life decisions bro

[Elim]

Story is SW:TOR's main focus again, just like it was originally on release. Their devs said for the next year there will be no new endgame, only more story. Which I'm fine with because my friends and I quit raiding on it years ago. By the way, their endgame is STILL riddled with horrible bugs. Always have been, always will be. PTS never changed that. Currently, there's a chance that a boss will reset when defeated, without dropping loot. LOL. The hardest boss in the game. Anyway... I loved every moment of SW:TOR story so I'm looking forward to this year.

[h0tNstilettos]

OP, I understand the issue. I agree that SE needs some kind of abridged version of the story for new or returning players. But, with that said, there is plenty of stuff in the game to get caught up on aside from just story that you could be weaving in between the story stuff. If you don't want to do any of that other stuff, like leveling another class, gathering, crafting, sightseeing log, triple triad collection, zodiac weapon, solo old dungeons for fun or challenge (you can solo ARR dungeons now), etc, then that's your own fault. I myself was not too interested in the story until the end of the 2.X series. The story gets very interesting at the end of 2.55, which you're almost there. In Heavensward, everything is much improved, and the story actually had me hooked. The writing is so much better, and a better variety of things, and the pacing is done differently. There's even a ton of voice acting now, including voices during major bosses and battles. Everything is better and improved. You will be missing out on one of the best expansions ever released in an MMO, both in size and quality, if you back out now. The reward will be worth the trudge. At the end of 2.55 you will be greeted with around an hour to hour and a half of story driven cutscenes like watching a movie, but believe me when I tell you that you will actually enjoy these scenes. It's full of plot twists and sets the stage for HW. I don't want to ruin anything. It's not the boring 'skip' kind of stuff.

[Seoulstar]