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

[Kurogaea]

And having one for each class is a waste of resources.

Besides, how are you going to have the opponent react? A BRD bow attack is dealt with differently than a WAR axe cleave.

You'd have to choreograph the ENTIRE FIGHT to accommodate each class.

AND race. A sideways swing from Derplander would cut a male Elezen in half, but go straight over the head of any Lala.
The only epic cut scenes we'll get are the CG ones with our Derplander avatar

Then you accommodate each possibility. Quit thinking SE are a bunch of lazy workers who can't animate a character model. They could've done it but they didn't.

[Ashkendor]

If you ask me they're being lazy.

Quit thinking SE are a bunch of lazy workers who can't animate a character model.

You were saying?

[Kurogaea]

You were saying?

Oh shet, you got me lol. I meant "Quit thinking SE are a bunch of uncapable workers" There we go. poor word choice lol. Damn detectives XD

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Then you accommodate each possibility. Quit thinking SE are a bunch of lazy workers who can't animate a character model. They could've done it but they didn't.

And that would require more time to animate and choreograph for an action scene that would last all of 10 seconds, leading to delayed patch updates, which also leads into people complaining that content is not coming out fast enough. I don't think most people really understand how time consuming animation can be, especially when there's a strict deadline looming overhead.

I'd rather have a playable instance where I "lose" and see my character's efforts beaten back than a cutscene when I don't even participate in helping my allies.

You never hear anything bad about the fight before ifrit story mode, the one where you get hit with a sleep spell, and this is why: We participated in it. Our characters got to fight in the situation however hard we went, in so doing we saw the situation getting bad despite our efforts, and then the scene played the result of it at an appropriate point: sleep spell unawares.

We don't look lazy or helpless(unless we played that way), we stay in the story without getting taken out of it by odd combat behavior, and the story can go on still in control of its outcome.

I don't agree with the scripted to lose battles, especially when you've been established to be powerful for a good while. From a gameplay perspective, it feels like I'm wasting my time knowing I can't win, so it'd be fast for me to just throw the fight to get a move on.

[Kallera]

I don't agree with the scripted to lose battles, especially when you've been established to be powerful for a good while. From a gameplay perspective, it feels like I'm wasting my time knowing I can't win, so it'd be fast for me to just throw the fight to get a move on.

Here's the thing though, the fight ended without result, so it could also be based off of damage taken, or received(or, as other rpgs do, throw in a special attack that reduces hp to a set amount and end the fight that way). Unless you've already spoiled yourself with walkthroughs or youtube videos, you wouldn't know if its scripted to coninue going in.

[Tayolynn]

I noticed how useless our characters look ever since the last cutscene of Syrcus Tower. It's probably too complicated to animate and code the broad spectrum of each individual character, especially for your character to be on the offensive. At best, we should at least be shown to be on the defense without the use of our weapon. The best we got in which we are portrayed as useful is defending an NPC in the job quest cutscenes, where we are actually doing something in direct relation to the job quest we are participating in. I guess putting all possibilities plus replaying the different possibilities in the inn room, along with what the character is wearing, I guess adds up, and this is coming from someone who wanted a variety of personalities within different genders and races (eg. female Hyur with female Elezen mannerisms; I'm tired of the "teehee I'm so QTazngurl" attitude and want a refined and mature personality for my Hyur) and specialized cutscenes, similar to what the OP is looking for.

[Tilgung]

Then you accommodate each possibility. Quit thinking SE are a bunch of lazy workers who can't animate a character model. They could've done it but they didn't.

They aren't. What they are is a small development team with fairly strict schedule. 3-3.5 months/update isn't a long time. Or at least, not to any reasonable person.

3.1 took so long because after 3.0 release there was a lot of patching and Alexander/Savage/Esoterics/Red Scrips to be implemented. And even game developers get some vacation time.