I think it would be neat for us to be able to relive our old cinematics like our character creation, personal stories, or living story stuff.
What I picture is some sort of movie projector or TV to be placed in the Home instances. When you click on it bank like tabs pop up for different categories. In the slots are items similar to Marjory’s Journal or Zephyr Sanctum Model, but you can’t remove them just double click to view.
The categories/tabs of the bank would be:
Personal Story
- Profession icon/item = Character Creation Cinematic
- Race icon/item = Prologue
- School/Legion/Dream icon = Part 1
- Order icon/item = Part IV Order chosen
- Grawl/Quaggan icon = Part V Racial sympathy chosen
When you click the profession icon it will act like Marjory’s Journal and will allow you to review the cinematic, but for your character creation. For the personal story part it would allow you to watch the dialog again and see the choices you pick, just like it is when you are in someone else’s instance. To make it easier to program it won’t show all the picks you did, but the straight line path, for example in reality you picked vigil, back, whispers, then yes but the cinematic re-watch just shows you picking whispers then yes. They could also throw in the little scenes in the instances too, such as a bad guy talking to his crew/the bad guy dying when you complete it. The last part might be a little harder/more work to add in though, and is not necessary imo.
Dungeon Progress (Account wide)
- AC ghost icon = AC Dungeon Story
- AC Tear = AC Dungeon Paths
Account wide because we already have achievements tied to our account wide stats so they can just pull the data from that. Again clicking on it will show the dialog again, but I would want to see the spawning/death skits of each boss fight in the dungeon and other skits. For example the scene of both lovers coming out of the tombs in the AC dungeon or the scene where the 3 argue which path to choose (AC dungeon).
Living Story Year 1 & Living Story Year 2 or
Living Story 2012 & Living Story 2013
- Shadow of the Mad King
- The Lost Shores
- SAB
- Dragon Bash
- ect
I prefer Year 1 and Year 2 due to the fact that only 3 events were in 2012 and having the tabs split according to GW2 anniversary seems more fitting. What we would see for the living story is more varied since so much happens for each event and not every event has the same types of content. My suggestion is to have 1 video per Living Story. The video would be a collection of cinematics, dialogs, and scenes from the event, similar to a trailer but more informative like a documentary of sorts. The past living story cinematics would be given to anyone that has at least 1 achievement in the catergory. That way if you participated a little you get the cinematic and people can’t complain how they would’ve tried for such and such achv if they knew you would get the cinematic. Future cinematics however can be tied to attainable achievements, meaning the average player should be able to get it. For example the “A Sweet Friend” achievement was easily attainable for those that wanted it due to the LS achs and the dailies. The only problem is The Lost Shores since it doesn’t have any achievements tied to it, but it has that great cinematic of the karka burning in the lava. Not sure if they keep records of those that participated in that.
Positives for a cinematic viewing room:
- It’s a cooler way to look back at your personal story
- A nice organized record/reminder of living story events.
- Adds more to home instances
- We can see all the beautiful cinematics more then once
- Anet spent the time and money making them, so why only see it once
- Having a bunch of separate Marjory’s Journal or Zephyr Sanctum Model like items will crowd peoples banks (and cause complaining)
Negatives:
- Creating new video collages
- Figuring out a “fair” way to grant past cinematics
- The Lost Shores participation issue
- Time and money spent to make them (granted we could buy new cinematics with gems, but it feels less rewarding that way and I would want my past ones/dungeon/personal story free)