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Posted by: Zietlogik.6208

Zietlogik.6208

MOAR OF THIS PLZ!

Replacing the current personal story cutscenes with these new style of animation would be a welcome, VERY WELCOME change!

:3

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Posted by: BlueSoda.6297

BlueSoda.6297

Love this, love the style, love the humor in it! I was laughing so hard while I watched it! Great job A-net, and thank you!

Charr Lawful-Neutral

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Posted by: Arrow.3856

Arrow.3856

I loved it too. Thanks Anet

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Posted by: Zelothe.9234

Zelothe.9234

Reminded me of monologues from Sin City.

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legendary weapon in your game without grinding, exploiting, incredible luck, spending
real money or having 100 guildies behind you…

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Posted by: kerona.3465

kerona.3465

I loved the cutscene and couldn’t stop laughing. Great work.

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Posted by: Brutalistik.6473

Brutalistik.6473

Yeah it was pretty cool, I like that style

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Posted by: UKNightWatch.5742

UKNightWatch.5742

The cut scene is very ‘film noir’ and fits the story very well. The whole look and feel of this part of the story is great.

It seems to me that the cut scene is presented using slightly different technology to others in game and it looks great (except it seemed a bit scrunched up on the centre monitor of my eyefinity rig).

I also thought the part where we speak with Marjory seemed to be very high quality. The interior of the ‘Dead End’ looked higher definition and so did the characters – especially Marjory.

On the whole, well done ANet.

Just got to figure out how to find the other suspects or wait till they become available in game.

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Posted by: Katreyn.4218

Katreyn.4218

Agreed. Felt very 50s Noir to me. I loved it. Definitely nice to see.
Cutscene if anyone wants to watch again: http://youtu.be/vzfVsrJkx08

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Posted by: Jonasan.7163

Jonasan.7163

Would love to see it, but game crashed and it wont show now.

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Posted by: Ambrosia.2035

Ambrosia.2035

Awesome cut scene. Shame it couldn’t be done with the Karka as well. Put a Karka in one of these and you’ll be set.

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Posted by: CorneliusCoffin.3169

CorneliusCoffin.3169

I also really loved the cutscene. Seems like ANet really listened to its community here. Good job.

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Posted by: jazzllanna.1278

jazzllanna.1278

Agreed. Great job there!

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Posted by: VOLKON.1290

VOLKON.1290

That was GREAT! Gumshoes, dames, … like a recent Warehouse 13 episode I saw…

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Posted by: dukefx.9730

dukefx.9730

Another positive feedback from me as well

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Posted by: Rebound.3409

Rebound.3409

yup awesome add…This event has delivered in a much better way then the past.

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Posted by: mercury ranique.2170

mercury ranique.2170

I sooo loved it. Is there any way we can rewatch things like this?? I hate it that this will be gone forever after watching it just one time

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Posted by: Ryuu.5608

Ryuu.5608

Hope we can see more of this on the next DBash investigation stages!

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Posted by: Linnea.5146

Linnea.5146

I really loved it! It suddenly made me feel involved, unlike that godawful speech that norn held at the stage xD Really, I’d love to see more cutscenes like this!

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Posted by: Morrigan.2809

Morrigan.2809

I really liked the cutscenes, reminded me of black and white 40’s PI movies
not sure how that would go in the personal story though- maybe a different feel but similar dynamism?

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Posted by: Gabby.3205

Gabby.3205

It gave me shivers, no kidding. I loved everything about it.
Good job, Anet! There are some awesomely talented artists over there!

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Posted by: Astral Projections.7320

Astral Projections.7320

Much better than the personal story cutscenes. Well done.

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Posted by: KrisHQ.4719

KrisHQ.4719

Yes. These cinematics are great.
I was very pleased that they chose to use a concept-art cinematic for charactar presentation, since I have made a thread suggesting exactly this.
Link: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/southsun/Lore-being-poorly-communicated-What-to-do/first#post2164816
I hope they will continue down this path if enough people express their gratitude.
Generally I liked the way the story was presented this time around much better. Even the lighting of the effigies, it was much better than the previous solo-instances.

Great job!

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Posted by: inazuma.7021

inazuma.7021

I adored that cutscene. Well done, Anet!

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Posted by: notebene.3190

notebene.3190

Ah, here we go!

Yeah, great style, both visually and the voice over. Great fun.

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Posted by: Morrigan.2809

Morrigan.2809

It was really well done and I enjoyed it very much- thanks

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Posted by: Danikat.8537

Danikat.8537

I loved the mix of fantasy and film noir, the two work so well together (especially the ‘story that starts in a dodgy bar part’) that I’m surprised it’s not been done more often.

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Posted by: Aberrant.6749

Aberrant.6749

OMG! My favorite cutscene so far! It even had a floozy (Lady Kas)!

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Posted by: daimasei.4091

daimasei.4091

I was really enjoying it until that parasite of Thackeray showed up -_-

But yes, pretty well done and funny to watch

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Posted by: Gabby.3205

Gabby.3205

Everybody involved in the making of that cutscene needs a pay rise, a promotion and a pack dolyak loaded with cookies.

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Posted by: JayMack.8295

JayMack.8295

Yes, please MORE of these cutscenes, ANet. I think they’re my favourite way you guys tell storytelling. They’re much better than the two person face to face dialogue, and while I like usual cutscenes, this style is the best you’ve come up with as far as I care.

I was disappointed the release didn’t have more of them besides Story Dungeon and a couple of Personal Story ones!

Keep ’em up, please!

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Posted by: Gabe.3976

Gabe.3976

I really, really loved the cutscene. I wish I could rewatch it; I want part of it for my desktop so badly…

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Posted by: Forever Zero.7856

Forever Zero.7856

Does anyone else notice that Marjory sounds like its Lucy Lawless (Xena) voice acting her? It struck me so I had to stop in the middle of the instance in LA to ask. Its not on her IMDB page so I’m not sure…

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Posted by: Mass Of Attack.6580

Mass Of Attack.6580

Favorite cut-scene in the game thus far! Well done Anet!

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Posted by: joe.7684

joe.7684

Terrific cutscene, one of the best I’ve seen in GW2 so far. Marjory is an immediately intriguing NPC; I want to know more about what her story is (she seems to be of Canthan ancestry). Also, the way she looks at Logan seems to indicate that Jennah is at risk of having some competition.

My game partner remarked to me today that Marjory’s outfit should be made available to players. I don’t know if it’s practical to do it as an armor set, but making it available in the gem store as a new set of “town clothes” should be doable, and I think I might actually buy that for my female characters!

I certainly hope Marjory (and Lady Kasmeer) won’t be restricted to just this event; I’d like to see more of them in future stories where appropriate.

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Posted by: Pixelpumpkin.4608

Pixelpumpkin.4608

Loved it.
/charr

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Posted by: Blackmoon.6837

Blackmoon.6837

We need more cutscenes with this kind of artwork story-book style. The current trend of cameras panning around the game’s environment can’t even compare to this new style!

PLEASE!!!

It’s brilliant! They don’t need to be in black&white all the time, but just the artwork alone is way more entertaining and it just fits with the theme you guys devised for the game in the first place.

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Posted by: TehPwnerer.7215

TehPwnerer.7215

I agree. I was like “wait, what?” when the cinematic started playing. I liked it A LOT. I would definitely prefer these to the current boring Character A stands on the left while Character B on the right talks at them.

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Posted by: Astraea.6075

Astraea.6075

I also loved the new cutscene, especially the film noir style employed in it as that really worked to set the mood. While it’s too late to go back and redo the personal story using a similar technique, I hope to see more like this in the future.

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Posted by: TehPwnerer.7215

TehPwnerer.7215

I also loved the new cutscene, especially the film noir style employed in it as that really worked to set the mood. While it’s too late to go back and redo the personal story using a similar technique, I hope to see more like this in the future.

Agreed. The peron A person B dialogue is pretty stale. This is a welcomed change if these remain as the standard for dialogue cutscenes.

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Posted by: Rallad.3802

Rallad.3802

Really loved the ‘bonus missions’ so far, the cutscenes and the voice actings were an improvement too

Having it split on a number of days was a great idea, it really feels like stuff is actually happening at very specific times.

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Posted by: Drakenvold.9761

Drakenvold.9761

awesome indee,good job Anet

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Posted by: Drakenvold.9761

Drakenvold.9761

yup,also agree,bring more of this type of story telling into the fold,also,good job there,incredible film noir feeling with the dialogue and the feel,the femme fatale and the customer that brings the mistery into the detectives hands ^^

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Posted by: Aerinndis.2730

Aerinndis.2730

Absolutely loved that Noir cut-scene! As soon as it started I was jumping up and down…Brilliant stuff, ANet.

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Posted by: TehPwnerer.7215

TehPwnerer.7215

As listed on: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/a-guide-to-dragon-bash-part-two/?utm_source=client

“Marjory’s Journal, which Kiel will give you after you’ve exonerated all but one of the suspects, will allow you to watch Marjory’s introductory cinematic with Logan Thackeray and Kasmeer Meade.”

I’m guessing this sort of cinematic style will continue if enough positive feedback is given. I for one am completely ok with that change.

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Posted by: Ballistic.4531

Ballistic.4531

Awesome stuff indeed. Amazing voice acting too. I got chills down my spine when she started talking.
Really great job Anet!

This world needs more people being frank and less people being offended.

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Posted by: Zagerus.8675

Zagerus.8675

I agree the cut scene was freaking great. I’m thoroughly interested in how this story pans out. Excellent stuff Arenanet!

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Posted by: dennie.9237

dennie.9237

Yeah, thanks to devs, its remind me some of noir movies of the past.

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Posted by: TooNu.4530

TooNu.4530

I came here to post this too! It’s awesome! My girlfriend said, “it’s your kind of thing” after she had completed it and she was correct. I loved it. Thank’s Anet for putting that in there, it really works and is in my top 5 cut scenes from this game cheers!

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Posted by: Damarus.5938

Damarus.5938

I was super pleased with that cutscene. Very good conversation and voice work, and I have always really liked the style of those cutscenes (much more interesting than the two characters standing talking). Well done!

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Posted by: Quam.7218

Quam.7218

Great work, loved that scene!