Proper cinematics

[MrKusakabe]

Actually, I don't like the FMVs at all but think the realtime-rendered cutscenes are fine. Pre-rendered FMVs are nothing like the actual game. Almost as bogus as the Overwatch ad on Switch: "Not actual gameplay footage".

I used to click trough the story in ARR because it was so slow and repetitive that even in small slices, you'd get an idea of what's going on.
In Heavensward then I turned off everything that distracts me (music, TV,...) and tell my cousin over Discord to shut up because I am watching cutscenes.

Heck, I even recorded cutscenes for my mother (because she is a Lalafell freak just like me) and we were watching the Nanamo cutscene

when she is getting poisoned

on the 50" TV in the living room with my harddisk hooked up. It was 44 minutes and we sat there, watching the ingame cutscene (and lots of "[Lalafell] are soooo cute" from my mother) and later a couple more, like the Krile introduction when she pwns Alphinaud.

So if it makes my mother watching cutscenes from a game that she never played and usually she starts to do something else while watching TV and still she is focussed 100%, I think they are fine.

Especially as Lalafell. Waddling up to the enemy that is 10x as big..

[Rufalus]

Actually, I don't like the FMVs at all but think the realtime-rendered cutscenes are fine. Pre-rendered FMVs are nothing like the actual game. Almost as bogus as the Overwatch ad on Switch: "Not actual gameplay footage".

I like the movies because they let us see the world and characters with a level of detail that the game could never approach. S-E have always had the best CGI movies since the PS1 CD-era so it's like a tradition now. I feel like watching that awesome Shadowbringers intro again now...

[linay]

I like the movies because they let us see the world and characters with a level of detail that the game could never approach.

One thing I'd say about that is that I do appreciate it when a game could make their movie cinematics and in-game designs look as much the same as possible. There is something to be appreciated about certain art styles, but I'd rather have a more realistic art style if it means I will recognize the character if or when they make the cinematics, unless the cinematics is made to accommodate for the in-game art style.

[Cylestea]

i prefer the way it is now. potted plants no longer has the same lines of coding as PCls