Thread: 7.1 MSQ Low Effort Crowd Scene

I just wanna point out that if they used Suits for the guys and Nier dresses(and suits are cool too?) for the ladies it would have been FAR less jarring

Its normal to have lots of people with similar formal wear at a funeral

Its not normal to wear the same selection of sports clothes to a funeral as if you were attending a sports match

Edit since people are missing the point: if you are gonna stick with the sports clothes, at least shuffle them more, randomize the dyes, make them feel like a crowd of different people

If you dont want to bother with that, stick with the time skip lf the start of the patch were Wuk literally tells you its been a while and use that as an excuse to have S9 either import or produce formal wear while you were gone

Originally Posted by zeth07

During one of the MSQ scenes there is a crowd with a lot of people gathered and I know this isn't some game design concept used exclusively in this game but the execution of it seems even more low effort than what any company should be doing for something that is considered the main story and not like a NFL Madden crowd.

While it makes some functional sense if the characters were zoomed out and you wouldn't really notice the details, they do it on characters that are in camera cuts that make them very noticeable.

I cannot imagine it would have taken a professional with actual dev tools too much time to just randomly create 20-30 more unique NPCs for a crowd in something important like an MSQ like this. At the very least for the ones that are actually focused on within camera cuts. Besides even just their appearance they could've even done different dyes on the clothes considering how many dye colors are available.

It is crazy to me that they went through this scene and didn't think this stood out as low quality effort when they are shown right out in the open like that.

*this probably applies to the other crowd scene originally in DT I just didn't pay attention at the time since it wasn't nearly as jarring as this time*

I think you have to remember that these scenes have to not make a PS4 chug, so they pretty much did the best they could, having too many different outfits on top of having to load in so many npcs probably makes the game chug or significantly increases load times knowing the game's spaghetti code

it's not even about the outfits at this point, its that they are literally the same characters. same faces, same hair.

and it's not 'characters in the background' when it does a panning zoom out over all of them and shows them all, alternating clones, standing in a grid formation. its not natural.

I actually havent been one of the haters of dawntrail. Not my favorite expansion but its been fine, i dont even dislike wuk lamat. But this scene was incredibly jarring and immersion breaking.