Proper cinematics

[BiddyBatnana]

Thanks y'all for your replies !!

But I can see some confusion ~¤
I don't speak of cinematics like the openings .
I speak of the custscenes, and the ones we used to have during the 1.0 era. In witch our character was doing more than simply nodding. The animations were smooth and not premade emotes. That's my issue.
The scene where Papalymo and Yda meet our character in Gridania. It was hilarious.

I miss those.

Now, it's true that the amount of work behind those is horrendous and the time schedule being short doesn't help.
I rewatched some of the latest cutscenes and I can see some effort being put to those.

[Tlamila]

I don't really find the current cutscenes boring. Also, that link doesn't work for me, it gives me an about:blank.

[Canadane]

It sounds like you're talking about 2.0 instead of 1.0? I don't think the old game had that.

I don't really find the current cutscenes boring. Also, that link doesn't work for me, it gives me an about:blank.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ9e53u8AIA

[Tlamila]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ9e53u8AIA

If you copy/paste the link, you have to remove some extraneous text off the link. Not sure why it adds that. Similar thing happens when I google public pages for my company. For some reason, it adds extraneous info into the url that I have to remove to get to the page.

Thank you both!

After seeing the cinematic, it's certainly graphically more beautiful, but I don't necessarily find it more enticing. And as others said, they're certainly too expensive.
And I'd also rather have more voice acting than this, if they really were to put more resources into making cutscenes (which I doubt they will).

[CazzT]

It sounds like you're talking about 2.0 instead of 1.0? I don't think the old game had that.

I don't really find the current cutscenes boring. Also, that link doesn't work for me, it gives me an about:blank.

If you copy/paste the link, you have to remove some extraneous text off the link. Not sure why it adds that. Similar thing happens when I google public pages for my company. For some reason, it adds extraneous info into the url that I have to remove to get to the page.

[Canadane]

I do miss the mocap, that's for sure.

[Shurrikhan]

I mean, I could certainly go for another dozen or assets across idle poses, facial expressions, and sigh variants...

It often feels like our and our NPC fellows' whole range of expression is limited to some dozen assets. Doubling that in perception could go a long way.

[Mansion]

I mean, I could certainly go for another dozen or assets across idle poses, facial expressions, and sigh variants...

It often feels like our and our NPC fellows' whole range of expression is limited to some dozen assets. Doubling that in perception could go a long way.

I agree. I would like it if there were a few more in game emotes/facial expression added to these cutscenes, not just vigorously nodding to everything. As a Miqote main, I feel there is 1-nod, 2- slam my fist against the palm of my hand 3- scared, with both hands in front of my face and fingers clenched in an awkward cat-ish position.

Also in MSQ, sometimes the (often very good) voice acting kind of falls flat because of those weird movements, although I remember a lot more examples of that in Stormblood than in Shadowbringers, so I guess they are finetuning the cutscenes as years go by.

[Hysterior]

Yes! Do you remember how epic the cut-scene after Pheonix in 2.0 was?
I don't think we had a cut-scene THAT epic since then

[Rufalus]

The once-per-expansion opening movies from Visual Works are very nice. Probably have to settle for just that. I get it, it's a waste of resources to animate quests better unless we're ok with having fewer quests and less often. Everything about making games is picking the right places to make compromises.