why during cutscene its always like this ... (small spoiler)

[anguel]

so few days ago , i finished (i guess?) the very small campaign from the 3.1 patch,

arrived the moment when you meet the warior of darkness
(i hope its the name in english)

and suddenly he look at you, draw hes axe !!
my character draw hes GreatSword !!
in my seat i was like !

"HELL YEAH, MY CHARACTER GONNA FIGHT HIM IN A CS, AMAZING !!!!"
i was so excited !!!

and ... nothing ...
thancred showed up, and fight them instead ....

i dont know, but ... was i the only one who excpected this ?


PS: sry for my poor english lvl

[Catwho]

I was pretty much expecting it since the whole point of going to the Forelands was to hunt down Thancred, and they'd practically broadcasted that he was hanging out with the Gnath.

Derplander and his crew were a surprise, but Thancred coming in to stop them wasn't a surprise at all at that point.

[Kaelah]

Nah I fully expected my lazy ass to sit on the floor like always. Was still sad though heh. I'd love to see my character kick some butt in a c/s. I guess it's awkward to do more than have us unsheath our weapons when we can be any class during them.

[anguel]

well i understand we were looking for thancreed, but they could have made it like, we alone starting fighting them (5 of them), and then thancred show up and save the day, we didnt literaly loose, but kind of, who lead us to take revenge or something like this

the story be the same, will seeing our character kicking some ass (holding 5 people alone :O)

just an idea

and with the technology we have today, making kind of different class cut scene isnt much of a problem (many game already have this, why not here ?)

[Gilraen]

The issue is that Square doesn't want to control your character. Not even to get you to Point B for the rest of the cutscene (though having you leave a house is fine...).

[Ashkendor]

and with the technology we have today, making kind of different class cut scene isnt much of a problem (many game already have this, why not here ?)

Because putting together a cutscene for every single one of our 12 battle classes would be pretty resource-intensive.

They all have completely different skills and fighting styles so it's not the kind of thing you can just kludge together.

[FeliAiko]

It's good they didnt fight right away IMO. Battles are better when there's a build up towards it. We know the battle is going to happen and the players want it to happen, so now there needs to be a reason for your character to want to face them. Then the payoff will be worth the hype (assuming it's done right).

[Kaisha]

and with the technology we have today, making kind of different class cut scene isnt much of a problem (many game already have this, why not here ?)

Because it's five races across 14 weapon types as well as varying heights they'd have to account for. It's not feasible from both a directing and animating (and armor-clipping) prospect.

It's one of the reasons XI focused around the heroines of their stories and not the adventurer, so they'd fill that role in for you rather than you feeling helpless as the chosen one.

[Kurogaea]

Because putting together a cutscene for every single one of our 12 battle classes would be pretty resource-intensive.

They all have completely different skills and fighting styles so it's not the kind of thing you can just kludge together.

Dude, they made a streetfighter scenario with Yda and the gunarm lady, don't give me that. If you ask me they're being lazy. We're the warriors of light, we don't stand around and watch our friends get wrecked, we f#%$ s@&* up!

[Ashelia_Ferron]

Dude, they made a streetfighter scenario with Yda and the gunarm lady, don't give me that. If you ask me they're being lazy. We're the warriors of light, we don't stand around and watch our friends get wrecked, we f#%$ s@&* up!

Okay great. That's between two predetermined fighters. Predetermined race, predetermined class/job

Your character could potentially be 13 different classes. How are they supposed to orchestrate that? You're comparing apples to oranges