Guild Wars 2

Cut scenes in games are 99% of the time corny, obsolete and nobody cares. They interrupt the flow.

Put all the dialogue in real time using speech bubbles. Make sure dialogue can be skipped after having been played once. Don’t spend money on voice-overs unless they’re actually GOOD.

Here, I just gave you an idea so obvious, it’s obviously brilliant.

Meh, I’m fine with dialogue/cutscenes, and I actually think a lot of the voice acting is pretty decent in this game. They are skippable, you know.

My gripe with the cutscenes, though, is that they’re just two people standing still, against a static background. It would be much more impressive if the scenes took place within the actual game environment, with a few dramatic camera angles and such. I guess that’s a lot more work, but I think it’d be worth it.

Preface: Your complaints are meaningless since you can skip all the cutscenes.

Regardless of the method of delivery, the game would still have to wait for the last person to finish watching.

The voice acting overall isn’t great, I’ll give you that. However, the art direction behind the painterly ones, like the beginning of Ascalon Catacombs, is phenomenal.

You seem to have a lot of complaints about this game. Have you considered World of Warcraft? I hear good things about it.

Elixirel Just move your mouse around during the cut scene 2 buttons will appear at the bottom one will be skip to end

I enjoyed the cutscenes… and if it were speech bubbles, I wouldn’t be able to just skip it once I’d already seen it.

I find it funny that you say that you want cutscenes to be skippable (which they are now) and then suggest having the dialogue display in “real time”, which is NOT skippable.

ElixireL.5190:

Cut scenes in games are 99% of the time corny, obsolete and nobody cares. They interrupt the flow.

Put all the dialogue in real time using speech bubbles. Make sure dialogue can be skipped after having been played once. Don’t spend money on voice-overs unless they’re actually GOOD.

Here, I just gave you an idea so obvious, it’s obviously brilliant.

I’m someone who likes corny cutscenes. I care, and I don’t think it interrupts anything. Cutscenes are skipable already, regardless of completion or not.

Guild wars would not be guildwars without it’s lore and story. It’s one of the great things i loved about GW1 and now in GW2. However, i admit the voice overs are not amazing and they lack any real emotion like when a character is sad it has the same voice and emotion then if that same character is later angry, or hurt, or shocked.

I also really wish they did the cut scenes more like GW1 where it is actually set in the game enviroment and not just two characters awkwardly standing still against a background. Especailly when once character says something like “Look whos coming!” Afew seconds later a new character will take the place of one of the other characters. But still, i love watching the cutscenes and as SirJames said, the cutscenes at the start of the dungeons are amazing

I think the voice actors are fine… but I think that’s just because I’m jaded when it comes to voice acting. I watch anime. With a few notable exceptoins, I don’t watch the dubs… not unless I want to laugh and cringe. Compared to most anime dubs, these guys are academy award quality performers.

I like the cutscenes and the voice actors. Especially the one before AC with Rytlock – that one is awesome.

Perhaps a better choice would be to make the cut scenes more like either the dungeon cut scenes, or like the original Guild Wars cut scenes. The only problem then is what happens when things glitch and bug up. I always hated it when it was supposed to be 2 people talking, but my character was talking to air, or suddenly minions would go masterless and we’d be standing there talking with minions attacking us, lol. I mean, if it’s just a situation with two people talking something through, these work fine, but I don’t think they need to be every cut scene.

Compared to Trahearne, most of the voices for anime dubs sound like academy award quality performers

As for the cutscenes, arent they already like the dungeon cutscenes?

guild wars 1 cut scenes were a lot better then GW2 …especially the scenes in GW2 with 2 characters standing there talking (90% of the cutscenes) using terrible voice acting and not even looking at each other most the time…its just 2 character models made to stare in that general direction.

I miss the old style of having a more cinematic approach in GW1

Every game should have cutscenes. They cool in GW2.