Guild Wars 2

WARNING: I’m still at the start of Heart of Thorns. All I’ve seen so far was the return of Rytlock! Please do not spoil me the story!

So in Guild Wars 2 vanilla we have the ‘dialogue cinematics’ as I like to call where we see your toon talking to a NPC with a pretty background.

In Living World Season 1 and Season 2 our characters are simply seen running of staring around, not really doing anything of impact in ‘in-game cutscenes’. The player does not have dialogue as well.

So far in HoT my character has spoken a lot, but with a text bubble floating above her head. I play on low settings and the cutscene where Rytlock returns is being playing at High graphics for some reason, which made me believe that those cutscenes are pre-rendered and not cinematics or ’in-game cutscenes ’.

Will we see our character talk, react and move during a cutscene? So far on the trailer I haven’t see anything to proove this.

I played through the HoT story and I cant recall a hot cutscene with the player. I feel like there is one at the very near end with an ally that is captured and freed but am not certain.

The cutscenes are more immersive as your character is speaking and acting out some parts that it must do. That includes some interaction, although walking is not something i vividly recall. They are not pre-rendered, as your character is dressed the way you have.
What could explain the higher quality is that during a cutscene the situation is very controlled over what is visible, so perhaps the settings are scaled up. But I must say that I have not really noticed that (I play on quite low settings for better performance).

IN general, the cutscenes add to the story, instead of the boring panoramic vista’s from Zaithan and LS2.

There are short cutscenes with your character, though the long and “epic” cutscenes don’t.

And they got rid of the dumb 2-person dialogue scenes from the original personal story. It’s like Living World’s system of having your character talk in the world with a speech bubble avoid their head.

So, the cutscenes like the one you refer to where Rytlock returns are actually video files, so you’re not going to see your character in any of those videos. I can’t remember each cutscene, but mostly your character talks in the open world like you’ve mentioned with the speech bubbles. There might be some instances where your character is shown in an in-game rendered cutscene, but I think not. If it IS shown, it’d be in one of those layered 2D elements cutscenes like the opening cutscene you see of your character upon creating a new one.

I imagine with characters of various size and shape and color it’s difficult for them to create cutscenes where your character is actually doing something because there’d be too much opportunity for glitchy mispositioning and bad camera angles.

I’ve played through the whole story once, and done starter parts of it on a few alts. There are in fact some cutscenes with camera pans where your character is visibly standing there.

Whether you are facing the right way, or in a reasonable spot relative to the NPC’s, is more luck of the draw though

your character talks in the expansion, i cant recall if its during action or if its a cutscene

Jar-Jar Binks is Khylo Ren

One nice new touch is how your character, when speaking to NPC’s he/she has interacted with previously in the storyline, stops to exchange a few pleasant words with them. I’m think of the first Nuhoch we meet but can’t recall his name at the moment. Also different Pact soldiers and so on. Makes the story much more immersive because it’s not a cutscene.

As long as these cutscenes can be skipped, I swear every time I have to go though that kitten Mordremoth death scene , I do this…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s