Proper cinematics

[BiddyBatnana]

Final Fantasy has always been a wonderful franchise.
Beautiful characters, amazing worlds and backgrounds, nicelly written stories..etc
But to me FF are before anything else stunning cinematics and visuals !

The MMO is truly fantastic, now the main issue for me are the cutscenes, I know 1.0 had gorgeous ones given that they were made using motion capture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU5N24_5VIk

It has a cost I'm aware of that, but you can't deny that those we have since A.R.R are just plain boring.

Using emotes to animate the cutscenes... quite lazy. (I acknowledge that the dev team are working hard on the game but still).

Is it to much to ask for better animated cinematics ?

Please forgive my english, it's not my native tongue.

[linay]

you can't deny that those we have since A.R.R are just plain boring.

I can, actually. Could it be better? Sure. Could it be worse? Definitely. Having my own character be in the cutscenes makes them not boring to me.

[Halivel]

It has a cost I'm aware of that, but you can't deny that those we have since A.R.R are just plain boring.

I can deny it, because I don't find them boring and never did. So far since 2.16 when I started to play I watched every cutscene, read every quest dialogue (with Google Translate and vocabulary at first ~2 years since I'm not English native either and game hasn't my language and never will) and found all the text and cutscenes enjoyable to witness. Can they be better? Sure they can and it will be cool if the team will adress it at some point. But they are quite good as it is for me personally at least.

[Cabalabob]

I assume what the OP is getting at is that they want more FMV cutscenes, like the kind of thing you’d see in ffx. There is one in ffxiv at the end of the binding coil of Bahamut and that’s it.

Personally doesn’t bother me but I could absolutely see it being a cool thing they could do for cutscenes that don’t involve our character (like all the after credit style scenes we get at the end of a patch story).

[DrWho2010]

if the cost wasn't prohibitive they would most likely make more. it also takes months for visual works to create even the expansion teaser trailers.

[Sated]

I prefer cutscenes to cinematics because my WoL is in them.

[SannaR]

Sadly the FMV that they did do at the end of turn 12 got Yoshida's higher ups to tell him no more costly stuff like that one please and thank you.

[StriderShinryu]

I actually like the in game cinematics most of the time. Sure they don't always look amazing but at least the characters in them are the actual characters we see in the game (including our own characters) and the cutscenes have come such a long, long way since the start of 14. And we do get the occasional CG cutscene anyway.

Plus, yeah, the cost of CG cutscenes is pretty much definitely cost prohibitive anyway.

[Tint]

It would take too long to create such cutscenes. They can't even use voice over for most of them because they are working till the last minute on the story and there is simply no time left to voice the stuff.

It is not possible with the 3 months schedule of the patches.

[D_C]

Damn right that the cutscenes are hot garbage for the most part. It’s gotten slightly better as time goes on but I’d rather not even have ‘em if all it’s gonna be is cameras pannin’ over two people noddin’ at each other. Bonus points for poundin’ fists to palms or usin’ a fade out/pan to let someone take their hat off or pick up an object. It’s about as smooth an’ natural as a chunky voidsent.

Plus it ain’t even a bonus havin’ me there if all I get ta do is stand stupid while the monster of the week casually strolls offscreen.