Guild Wars 2

• The beginning Cutscene

• Rytlock Brimstone Cutscene when attacks

Are low quality, i think its not even 720p.

Probably because they’re not finalized. This is all pre-release.

Might just be your graphics settings, they were very high quality for me

Ehm, spoilers.

And also: It is probably a very low priority right now and thus they haven’t finalized them yet.

North.1438:

Might just be your graphics settings, they were very high quality for me

1080p + Supersampling + Ultra/high on everything.

GG, you found a low quality cutscene during a BETA. Take a cookie.

Ephemiel.5694:

GG, you found a low quality cutscene during a BETA. Take a cookie.

its 2.

so give 2 cookies.

I noticed that, too. But as others said: It’s still in beta.

What got me confused, is that the screenshots I took during Beta have a lower quality than the ones I took outside of the beta. It’s not my settings, took some screens of DR today with the same settings and they look fine.

lordkrall.7241:

And also: It is probably a very low priority right now and thus they haven’t finalized them yet.

Funny. I remember the videos we were shown before the GW2 release, with cutscenes between characters that looked ugly and boring (just two people talking to each other with a static background, and very poorly done emotes). It had a big “work in progress” tag, so, whenever someone complained about it, the usuals would come and say, “don’t complain, it’s not finished yet!!!!”.

And then release came, and those cutscenes were exactly the same, only without the “work in progress”, still ugly and boring.

You’re delluding yourself if you think it’s impossible for the exact thing to happen again.

It’s a pity many important artists who worked on the cutscenes – the real cutscenes, like the ones we get after character creation – have left ArenaNet. But then again, I’m sure they are at far greener pastures right now.