Seriously, The Cut Scenes

I've been pretty vocal about some of the stuff with the reward system lately. Hopefully it hasn't given the impression that I don't like the raids themselves. There is one thing about them though that I really wish would get the axe. The title says it all, so I'm not going to go into at length. I just think its worth noting that the phrase "unskippable cutscene" rivals terms like "died in childbirth" in terms of its immediate recognizability.

After seeing Mother Mammary, sorry Mayhem, for the umpteenth time. It does tend to wear on you. which is why I always go over the wall now.
But someone will still use the door. It would seem that they did give us a way to skip it, but not everyone uses it.

Yet the cutscene in the the Kal TF at the end is awesome

Seriously, the cut scenes.

They are viewed often.

I could almost tolerate the trial cut scenes if an iota of love or flair had been put into them. Talking heads stuffed with cheesy dialogue. No action. Telling, instead of showing. if these AVs are so BA and terrifying DEMONSTRATE IT. Show me Mother Mayhem "reprogramming" a Resistance Fighter. Show me Marauder ripping apart the robotic security that just failed him. And pre-render it nicely so it doesn't look like bad fan-made doo doo on Youtube.

There needs to be a way to skip the cutscene.

It is very frustrating to zone into the BAF and get stopped in my tracks for the 80th time while that cutscene plays.

By the time I actually get *into* the Trial, half the robots in the first encounter have been defeated and I can look forward to a reward of Uncommon or lower.

As long as they're not actually using any of our characters in them, I see no reason why the cutscenes can't be pre-rendered. Sure, use the existing game engine, but let an animator go nuts on the thing an actually introduce some action. We've seen what even just basic demo editing can do for an action scene (someone made a video of his own character fighting the Statesman which ran like an action movie), so I'm sure between that an some custom one-off animations, we could turn those into decent cinematics.

That, and please put an actual writer in charge of the dialogue. Please! Some of those cutscenes are completely pointless and add nothing to the experience.

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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.

I don't mind them - loyalist moustache twirling is always entertaining - and the Tyrant Trial cutscene is surely going to be epic

There really needs to be a skip option like GW uses. If everyone skips, we all get to fight, if one person doesn't we all watch it. I know it would suck to watch the cut scene, only to discover that phase one was over, and phase 2 was half way done.

Fun Fact: The BAF cutscene is long enough to do a set of reps with a Shake weight! ^_^

I will have Tier 4s and guns of steel by summer!

I'm one of the very few that is grateful for the cut scenes!

My computer takes so long to load that the League is often half way, or completely done with taking out Warworks! If it weren't for the BAF cut scene think of all the threads and iXP I'd be missing. And what about my chances for a Rare or Very Rare? And when I disconnect upon zoning (which is about half the time) it gives me a chance to try again without missing too much of the action.

Everyone that suffers from Cut Scene Furor, remember you are suffering for those that still use Commodore 64s to game. You're all saints in my book.

*reads the comments, then toddles off to try her hand at a more dramatically appropriate cutscene for the BAF and the Lambda*

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

I just alt-tab to firefox and browse the web for a few minutes. Doesnt seem like a big deal to me.

Drat - was hoping the ParagonWiki had the dialogue from both cutscenes, but no such luck. Oh, well - I'll run them this weekend and get them via demorecord (hopefully they'll play back properly).

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

I don't mind the cutscenes.

And honestly, there will always be someone who will be seeing it for the first time, and you want to deny them the chance? That's probably why they're unskippable.