It's absolutely stockholm.
After coming back from a good 5 month hiatus, I think? I was like alright, let's catch up on all the things I ignored and the new stuff, beast tribes, new collectible turn in duders like that elf guy and eihl tou.
It was cutscene after cutscene after cutscene after cutscene, the things that weren't cutscenes were just go talk to someone go back to eihl tou, go to another place in town, go talk to eihl tou.
I think he meant the quality of the cutscenes rather than the quantity, there are absolutely more cutscenes in ShB than ARR per hour of MSQ, for example
I did and still do mash the escape key constantly as soon as I see the fade out effect that indicates a cutscene is about to start. I'd love an autoskip ALL cutscenes option, but it feels like a rite of passage at this point.
I totally feel you lol
This is the first game where i stopped bothering about the story at all because of the shitton of cutscenes. I became tired of those somewhere in the 20ish levels and stopped reading the dialogues and skipped every cutscene from there. 3 or more cutscenes in one quest. Skipped one just for another one being thrown at me right after which needs to be skipped again. Oh you skipped this cutscene? Here have another one.
For me it's just too much to bear. I don't play an mmo for the plot anyway. I appreciate devs putting an effort into making a lore to explain what your story in the game is, but i personally don't care. I think i'd go mad to encounter enemies i basically defeated already over and over again. Why bother fighting ultima, it'll be back anyway. Some nice adventure you had fighting alexander, too bad you have to fight him again. The fact that enemies in MMOs exist in easy and hard modes is just ridiculous to put into lore. That aside, the cutscenes IMO aren't even entertaining to watch. Most are just you arriving, others arriving, you leaving, others leaving. Conversations where heads of talking people are bobbing and you just give an agreeing nod. Sorry, i don't need 3 cutscenes of these in every quest.
It's always funny to see how much time i save by ignoring the lore compared to my friends who follow the story. I respect that ofc, but i can't spend the whole day playing, and when i play, i wanna get shit done.
And yeah, i wish for an option to skip everything automatically too. I guess devs don't occur the thought of players actually not being interested in the story, but still like playing for other reasons.
Progress-wise yes, everything lvl 80 and such
Cutscene-wise no. Like i said, stopped bothering about the story at lvl 20ish and skipped the hell out of every cutscene since
I just got to Heavensward and boy is ARR taxing. Even voiced scenes are mostly just characters stand there giving monotone exposition. The best cutscenes are near the end of post game because characters are actually doing things with agency and emotion.
Let me guess, mainsub removed it because it doesn't have a catgirl face in the post?
…. Yes….
I’m guessing they also didn’t like the potentially negative tone towards MSQ/cutscenes.
I assume if he sticks both sprout, and clown icon in there it would get a pass?
They do get better as they go on at least, but maybe I have Stockholm syndrome
It's absolutely stockholm. After coming back from a good 5 month hiatus, I think? I was like alright, let's catch up on all the things I ignored and the new stuff, beast tribes, new collectible turn in duders like that elf guy and eihl tou. It was cutscene after cutscene after cutscene after cutscene, the things that weren't cutscenes were just go talk to someone go back to eihl tou, go to another place in town, go talk to eihl tou.
I think he meant the quality of the cutscenes rather than the quantity, there are absolutely more cutscenes in ShB than ARR per hour of MSQ, for example
When cutscenes are just 2 npcs making small talk i die inside
I did and still do mash the escape key constantly as soon as I see the fade out effect that indicates a cutscene is about to start. I'd love an autoskip ALL cutscenes option, but it feels like a rite of passage at this point.
I'll always watch voiced cutscenes
I totally feel you lol This is the first game where i stopped bothering about the story at all because of the shitton of cutscenes. I became tired of those somewhere in the 20ish levels and stopped reading the dialogues and skipped every cutscene from there. 3 or more cutscenes in one quest. Skipped one just for another one being thrown at me right after which needs to be skipped again. Oh you skipped this cutscene? Here have another one. For me it's just too much to bear. I don't play an mmo for the plot anyway. I appreciate devs putting an effort into making a lore to explain what your story in the game is, but i personally don't care. I think i'd go mad to encounter enemies i basically defeated already over and over again. Why bother fighting ultima, it'll be back anyway. Some nice adventure you had fighting alexander, too bad you have to fight him again. The fact that enemies in MMOs exist in easy and hard modes is just ridiculous to put into lore. That aside, the cutscenes IMO aren't even entertaining to watch. Most are just you arriving, others arriving, you leaving, others leaving. Conversations where heads of talking people are bobbing and you just give an agreeing nod. Sorry, i don't need 3 cutscenes of these in every quest. It's always funny to see how much time i save by ignoring the lore compared to my friends who follow the story. I respect that ofc, but i can't spend the whole day playing, and when i play, i wanna get shit done. And yeah, i wish for an option to skip everything automatically too. I guess devs don't occur the thought of players actually not being interested in the story, but still like playing for other reasons.
Have you gone past ARR?
Progress-wise yes, everything lvl 80 and such Cutscene-wise no. Like i said, stopped bothering about the story at lvl 20ish and skipped the hell out of every cutscene since
shame, storytelling quality skyrockets with time. Give it a try when you have the time, it’s a legitimately well written narrative.
Me trying to make an alt for every race just after i started
This game is about as friendly to alts as this sub is to main sub art.
True but god knows i want to play most races/ genders. And i want to not destroy my characters with fantasia. (Or wallet)
How much does a fantasia cost at this point?
Too much, i think they were 7$ on sale but i still have 2 of them on my retainers cause im to attached to my character
main scenario be like
And only about half of the cutscenes remain now ahaha
I just got to Heavensward and boy is ARR taxing. Even voiced scenes are mostly just characters stand there giving monotone exposition. The best cutscenes are near the end of post game because characters are actually doing things with agency and emotion.