New Player Experience Sucks! - Impending Expansion Problems

[Shougun]

You and your 'movies'. Gawd!

Joking aside though, More cutscenes may help alleviate the issue. But you have to be careful with that as well. People are playing a game, and if theyre watching pre-rendered cut scenes to often rather than playing the game, thatll also cause issues. You can easily see people saying "I bought this game to play, not watch cutscenes!"

NO U!

. Sorry if the movie part got confusing, most of it would be played (I made a short sketch idea of it like 400 pages back lol). I was using movie in that movies have to cut out a lot of legitimately important details to tell the story in "gotta go fast" mode lol. So there would be some cutscenes, and prerenders, but a lot of it would be playing the game.

Like for example a thought I was writing down for a thread later is when you first time approach a monster after being sent out, like a classic beginning to a game.. just some low level monster because of some quest to help the village get wolve fur or something cheeky, right before you get close enough and the wolve aggros then the screen cracks (like classic FF battle transition visuals) and Ultima's claw reaches out out of the shattering glass and fires it's line beam attack at you. In the sketch idea mentioned some pages back I started off the beginning of the game by tossing the player off a mountain and beginning them with a killer headache and some memory damage*, so Ultima coming out like that is more of a figurative restructuring of your memories than him actually doing that and also obviously helps SE tell some of the stories and set some of the events up for the player doing the new start option.

Where in you start the fight with your surroundings have been changed, during the fight you'll get some exposition from Lahabrea while you get some combat tips and hopefully shriek as the game just tossed a curve ball and an airship at you. I'd want to avoid long sitting and no doing periods of time if I was going about it. The fast start is to cater not so much to people who want the slow burn start which even I've enjoyed most of it myself (some of the food quests drive me nuts though lol).

*I feel some fun could be had with our single player standalone games in some of these starts. Like much much later when SB+ is like two expansions old we start at SB+ after falling into pure white aether (Cloud falling into mako) and perhaps an Ascian actually helps us get out (the visual contrast of the black robes against the white burned background could be fun). This would leave so many questions and spin on Ascian (of course SE shouldn't just do stuff willynilly). Also I would like to, and hopefully others, see these new starts be fun for us veterans so that we can do them as quest chains because we can do new game+ now .