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

[Riardon]

This is just lazy low cost development and nothing more. Cheap excuses won't apply. They could add voice to out character but nope. They could make few fight CS which will change depending on your current class but nope this takes time. Our character could use a "generic" "eather energy" weapon which will be the same no matter the class or make them only 2 depending on magic or physical class. Nope. Our character could use something else to fight but nope. This is the effects of poor and low cost development. And it's breaking my nerves already. Our character has no voice and nods like a complete idiot and he is just the errand guy for everyone who wishes to use him. The Bluetooth Cult (Scions) are here to fight instead of us. And a half blind half skilled Thancred saved us from the WoD. Our character just sits down like a dodo and watches with cow eyes the scenery.There is no need to increase the budget too much or pull another 1.0 but this is so cheap it already makes me sick.

[myahele]

What's even more ridiculous, I think, was Aymeric getting stabbed by a peasant with a kitchen knife.

....here is someone who fought dragons and other knights and *while* wearing heavy armor he not only get stabbed, but would have died had it not been for Artorel and his father being there.

[Kikoten]

And a half blind half skilled Thancred saved us from the WoD.

At the same time, Thancred saved the Warrior of Darkness from us =3

Our characters already have voices, but adding dialogue for our characters to utter during cutscenes runs the risk of further offending the playerbase. "My character wouldn't say that! How dare he/she voice my character that way!"

Thankfully the people using us for errands are rewarding us for it.

[Tilgung]

Aymeric's armor is only "heavy armor" as far as stats are concerned on the player wearable equivalent. Assuming a tank is wearing it. Also, he wasn't fighting the peasant. He was basically saying "Hello!" and got shanked. Surprise!

As far as the assumed material goes, it provides very little protection. And knives are actually really effective at stabbing through leather/cloth. You'd be good to call BS if he got stabbed in the shoulder though.

[Ashkendor]

What's even more ridiculous, I think, was Aymeric getting stabbed by a peasant with a kitchen knife.

....here is someone who fought dragons and other knights and *while* wearing heavy armor he not only get stabbed, but would have died had it not been for Artorel and his father being there.

Well, he was definitely caught unawares. You don't expect the average guy on the street to stab you when you're waving hello.

As far as the knife, that's actually one of the more effective ways to get at a heavily armored opponent. It can easily punch through leather/hide; if the blade is thin enough, it can slip between the rings of chainmail or even into a gap between heavy armor plates.

[Gaddes]

It's a lot of work choreographing a fight scene in a game with 13 different jobs that all have unique animations.

The thing is, they didn't even need to do any choreography, they could've simply had the WoL start to clash with the WoD, and then get interrupted by Thancred. Like this:

-The WoD swings back to smash the WoL.
-Using whatever weapon he/she has on hand, the WoL blocks the attack. Any weapon can be physically used to block the attack, would keep individual animations to a minimum.
-Sparks fly as the weapons clash, you'd get a real nice closeup of the two Warriors' faces, the WoL looking real pissed off and about to kick some ass.

-THEN Thancred's dagger cuts between them and interrupts them.

At least with this tiny method the WoL would have had some involvement. As it stands, they literally didn't even get to do anything in the cutscene.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

-Using whatever weapon he/she has on hand, the WoL blocks the attack. Any weapon can be physically used to block the attack, would keep individual animations to a minimum.

So we're still going to agree that books and a globe can perfectly block a huge axe?

[Gaddes]

So we're still going to agree that books and a globe can perfectly block a huge axe?

It's the Warrior of Light, people have blocked with less.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I wanna see what ya got on that.

[Gaddes]

I wanna see what ya got on that.

This is a fantasy game, and we have people that have successfully blocked giant weapons with tiny daggers, not to mention these are magical weapons/items to begin with. I fail to see how you can't suspend disbelief on something like that.