Edit: Should have titled it “I hope expansions have more cinematic cut scenes”
Hope this post makes sense as to what Im tryna get across. I love GW2 I just want see waht others think about them going back the the traditional route of real in game cut scenes instead of those side by side pictures of 2 people talking that most of this game consist of.
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I enjoy GW2. It has its flaws and many other things but all in all its fun.
If there is one thing that I would really like to see improved, it would be the cinematic cut scenes.
This game does not have many…there are some for story dungeons, and there are a few at certain points in the personal story. How ever most the time its the static background with 2 characters talking to each other, and have you noticed that most the time they aren’t even really looking at each other.
This was a major immersion breaker for me…I found myself hitting the skip button on all of these, quickly reading the text and moving on. Only time I actually watced was when it was a real moving cinematic cut scene.
I really hope in the expansions that they move back to making everything in game that way. Sure maybe one or 2 quick scenes can have 2 characters with a static background talking to each other but I (personally) would like to see it just do it in game. You run up to someone (it can have a quick black screen to load the scene..thats ok) then the camera pans out or whatever to give it a more lifelike feel and the cut scene starts. It can also use your own personal character in the cut scenes like it did in GW1.
Guild wars 1 in my opinion had better cutscenes. They all had a cinematic feel to them. GW2 has a few good ones but most the time its just 2 characters barely looking at each other trying to express emotion via yelling, laughing, crying etc which fails in that kind of setup.
I hope they go that route in the expansions to make the cut scenes once again feel more cinematic and keep the side by side conversations to a mega minimum…especially for important parts of the story.
Here is a video of all the cut scenes from Guild Wars 1 Eye of the North.
You may actually enjoy watching this as it has many of the famous GW1 characters, it has the Dwarves and what happened to them, Norns, Old style Asura, Destroyers, Char that ended up helping the humans etc etc and the ending shows the precursor to GW2. Its a great catch up on the Lore.
Also the character in the vids the girl with glasses is the players character. So they can add in your own GW2 character if they made these type of cutscenes.
No offense to GW2 but the voice acting in GW1 was fantastic…should have re hired most those people back lol :p
I ended up watching it for old times sake