The joke is getting old but as long as no one ends up dead over it I don't mind it. I do sort of mind them spawning the things (any of them) while the team is in the middle of a battle like you described. JUST LOVELY.. I have a level 53 highly enraged EB Cyclops in my face and you are off trying to be witty? I STRESS trying! Now I did a Statesman TF a while back and before Arbiter Sands cut scene several team members actually asked if the leader minded them getting into position to appear in it and since it was not a MoSTF he said fine. It was fun watching them dance in the background while Sands was threatening us... moments later of course he was defeated and we moved on.
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What's most of interest to me here is that some people just run TFs over and over, and therefore see the same cutscenes over and over, so that they feel the NEED to liven it up a bit. If it's that tiresome, why torture themselves so? This merit-hungry mentality amazes me.
I guess I'm lucky. I have never once had a cutscene during a group mission that elicited anything FROM the group at all. We just watched it. The one and only time I've run an ITF, on my designated badger, several of the group had done it all many times, yet none of them spammed or felt the need to play comedian.
If it ever happened, I suppose my reaction to it would depend on whether the would-be comic was actually funny, or just an idiot. Some people think typing "OZZY RULES!" a hundred times in a row in neon-green 80-point font is simply hysterical.
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Some people enjoy the ITF. But the cut scene still gets VERY boring when you've seen it dozens of times, so that part is dull.
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Originally Posted by Primal
What's most of interest to me here is that some people just run TFs over and over, and therefore see the same cutscenes over and over, so that they feel the NEED to liven it up a bit. If it's that tiresome, why torture themselves so?
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But it's only like 30 or 40 seconds long - that's not that long to have to wait |
Originally Posted by Clebstein
Some people enjoy the ITF. But the cut scene still gets VERY boring when you've seen it dozens of times, so that part is dull.
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I hope you're not using your controller pets during the first three rounds of Rommie.
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Originally Posted by Heraclea
And I've run more than a hundred ITFs.
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Edited: You know what? I'm cranky as hell right now. Shouldn't be posting at all. Ignore this.
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Well since I've already run all the content in the game, what else am I supposed to do other than run stuff I've run before? The ITF is popular, so it's easy to get a team for, and it's fun except for lag hill, so it gets run a lot.|
Originally Posted by Primal
What's most of interest to me here is that some people just run TFs over and over, and therefore see the same cutscenes over and over, so that they feel the NEED to liven it up a bit. If it's that tiresome, why torture themselves so? This merit-hungry mentality amazes me.
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Aeon's scene in the STF is far worse. But since that's the only way to generate Hamis aside from the (for me) very laggy and unfun Hami raid, and it took me multiple tries to get the MoSTF badge, I had to sit through that multiple times too.
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Because I like playing the game, not sitting and staring at the same cutscene I've seen for the 500+ time. It's not a hard concept to grasp, as Lemur Lad obviously seems to understand it being a more-or-less silly form of protest against having to sit and twiddle thumbs for a minute or two.|
Originally Posted by Primal
What's most of interest to me here is that some people just run TFs over and over, and therefore see the same cutscenes over and over, so that they feel the NEED to liven it up a bit. If it's that tiresome, why torture themselves so? This merit-hungry mentality amazes me.
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Originally Posted by RadDidIt
I got yelled at once in a movie theater for talking during a Pepsi pre-show-commercial.
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Nobody seemed to have a problem when we kept making fun of Spiderman 3 to ourselves, though. Granted, I think that's because everyone was probably thinking it.
/irrelevant side note|Cool story, bro.
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That kind of punches a hole in the "live and let live" argument, though, doesn't it?
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Originally Posted by HelinCarnate
Perhaps they don't give a rats hindquarters what you think. Maybe they are just having fun and are doing it for their own enjoyment and not yours.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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I wasn't talking about the people who say "Hi mom!" once during a cutscene. Even though I have seen it before and am rarely amused by that type of thing, it doesn't bother me -- for basically the same reason everyone else stated: it's something to do during a boring bit of downtime.
But the title of this topic is "Cut scene spam". I was talking about the person who has to hit F7 a hundred times. Heck, they often haven't even changed the text from "Ready!"
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*snickers like an idiot*
I take out my laser pointer and aim it right at Rommie's head, bwahahahaha, it is so funny.
Makes my dog laugh every time.
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Is this thing on? *tap tap*
*adjusts obligatory goatee*
@Zethustra
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and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
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The option for cutscenes is fine. Withholding the option to avoid cutscenes is not fine.
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