IMPLEMENT Goblin Footprints, GDI! (Angry Rant Ahead!~)

[SilvertearRen]

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF.....

I was doing my Rank 13 Quest with an alt, and completed recording the cutscenes. Only to realize at the very end, that I had forgotten to properly configure FRAPS to 30 frames per seconds.

Because of a prior experiment regarding time-lapse game capture, I had left it at 1 FPS capture settings.

So now, I have to re-roll the same character and get it up to rank 13ish again, to get at the footage I need, at the correct recording settings.

For f*ck's sake, Yoshi-P, please implement Goblin Footprints or a Cutscene Archive where we can actually review the cutscenes from the quests we have completed. Final Fantasy XI has this, why the hell doesnt FFXIV have it?

Fff...an entire afternoon's worth of work, wrecked.

This wouldn't have been such a big deal if Square-Enix had implemented a feature that allowed us to review the cutscene footage at any time we wanted.

[SIZE="5"]Angry Cat is f*cking ANGRY.[/SIZE]

[Zahak]

No! we need the echo ability to review cutscenes! No more goblin footprints! Echo makes sense

[LemmingKingXXX]

they're looking in to adding just such a system, Triary said it in the JP forums

[Anonymoose]

Oh, man. I guess it's time to dig my way back through the forums and find the post I always quote whese come up. Back in 5.

EDIT: If all they need is to "look into it" and "find a way to do it" -- here you go.

Implementation Idea
Use a piece of the lore we already have: The Echo.

Add an NPC to each city that's a 'master' of the ability to use the Echo - and they could 'assist' us in revisiting our past experiences.

Once engaged with an Echo NPC, an interface menu much like the Journal would pop up, allowing us to choose which Class we would like to revisit events from (Main storyline included).

From this menu, we would be able to select anything we've done so far - including being teleported into the instances regardless of their location. These anchors are extremely important, in my opinion, as they would allow players to relive an entire storyline without leaving the cities - which I consider to be paramount because the only downfall of the goblin footprint was having to solo my way to difficult locations (Like the promy spires) just to see my hard-earned progress again.

So... is there anything difficult about that implementation? Adding an NPC that lets you manually trigger the same cutscene and instance flags that first reaching the quest did in the first place? Sounds easy enough - just need to name, list, and connect the flags.


Bay? Rik? Anybody?

No, I said THE Echo, not just echo...echo....echo...echo...

[SilvertearRen]

they're looking in to adding just such a system, Triary said it in the JP forums

I want "Yes, we're adding it!", not "we're leewking intah it."

[Esk]

Agreed, we have a whole feature based in the story of the game that could be used to even put it in game.

I'd love to review (getting to redo them including combat parts would be 100x better) every the guild/story quests in whole. No sp loot or anything just getting to relive them all in one go.
You could even add in the ability to do quests to meet people from other City's an such to view the story from another PoV so everyone can see all the city quests without youtube.

[Suirieko]

This sort of thing definitely needs to be added. It would be nice to revisit cutscenes in the past, especially from story quests and Class guild quests.

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

The echo allows you to revisit the past of others. You can't use it on yourself. If you could you would be a time traveler ! I could then visit myself in the past and kill me creating a time paradox and implode the universe !!!

That being said ... yes I would also like to view the cutscenes again. At least the ones with Cgi and voices.