Will POE have beautiful cut scenes?

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BloodPuddles420 wrote:

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Nubatron wrote:

Actually, found the Vaal Oversoul one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWDd_HkulEg

Why would they make that and not use it? That's ridiculous. That would have been so much cooler than sitting there watching the thing spin.

GGG didn’t create those. Garena did when they partnered. I liked the Brutus one more but can’t find it.

I feel like cutscenes could maybe, if we're super lucky, make the cut in 4.0. They have been saying that 4.0 should compete with a hypothetical D4, and bringing cinematic cutscenes that have the relative quality of D2's cutscenes to the game would be an amazing addition.

With that said, I think it's unlikely. Like, 1% at most. Chris doesn't seem to care much about D2's cutscenes.

To be fair, I only watch the D2 cutscenes about once every... 3 years (even while I was playing D2 every ladder reset), but the fact that they exist and can stick in your memory like that is definitely a thing.

A cutscene for the shipwreck to start the game, a cutscene for Brutus when you enter the lower prison, and from then on, a cutscene just for every act boss, would be good. I don't think we need a cutscene for every single minor god.

And from there, a cutscene for the shaper guardians, elder guardians, elder fight, shaper fight, and uber elder fight.

Maybe also one the first time you enter the Apex of Sacrifice (or alluring abyss, whichever you enter first in a league).

i can understand some people would want cutscenes but i'll be honest here... i don't really care.

we have ONE cinematic as it is and i don't think ive ever elt it play... always skip it to move on asap.

so while i understand it could be neat for some, it would be wasted efforts for others.

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DreadLordAvatar wrote:

Should be clarified that only cgi cutscenes are worthy, none of that real-time rendered crap. In anycase, I would guess if GGG did do cutscenes they would be purchasable via mtx shop.

cgi are probably to expensive for something that will be seen once and skiped by most players

may be they could learn a few things from cavedog that managed to create low cost yet inmersive cutscenes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg2G8B_BY5Y

I expect 4.0 to get a short cutscene. We have that rly short one where Kitava awakens and it would fit in 4.0

Maybe an intro cinematic? I have really fond memories of some Dawn Of War intros, really sets a tone for a game :)
I would like it. It took me four playthroughs until I could be bothered to hear most of the dialogue (and understand why I kill all the stuff I'm killing). And the first time Sin "saved" me from Kitava I did not understand what happened at all. So the moments when difficulty increases would be nice places to put a cutscene or two.

Then again PoE is free to play, cutscenes are expensive and provide literally one minute of game content. So I guess one nice cutscene for 4.0 is what we can expect and I'm fine with that.

Without it, game will always feel incomplete as a AAA title. GGG doesn’t have a choice if they want the game to be competitive nowadays. Therefore, cutscenes are inevitable.

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DreadLordAvatar wrote:

Without it, game will always feel incomplete as a AAA title. GGG doesn’t have a choice if they want the game to be competitive nowadays. Therefore, cutscenes are inevitable.

Competitive with what though? No matter how many times GGG says 4.0 is coming to compete with the "next-gen ARPGs", PoE is the only literally the only good ARPG that exists right now, and no developer has given any hint that there is going to be one to compete with it

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Imaginaerum wrote:

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DreadLordAvatar wrote:

Without it, game will always feel incomplete as a AAA title. GGG doesn’t have a choice if they want the game to be competitive nowadays. Therefore, cutscenes are inevitable.

Competitive with what though? No matter how many times GGG says 4.0 is coming to compete with the "next-gen ARPGs", PoE is the only literally the only good ARPG that exists right now, and no developer has given any hint that there is going to be one to compete with it

If you let your head get too big it’ll break your neck.

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DreadLordAvatar wrote:

Without it, game will always feel incomplete as a AAA title. GGG doesn’t have a choice if they want the game to be competitive nowadays. Therefore, cutscenes are inevitable.

Still free2play though. Most AAA games have cutscenes. Then again they also never re-use any level, have day-night-cycles, sometimes have a giant area that you play through in minutes and then send you to the next giant area in a different country.

That's what you can do with an enormous budget. Whereas PoE will use one set of terrain for two story areas and 1-3 Maps + in an temp league area plus some more of that terrain in a night setting or with snow on top. They have to be smart with their budget and dev time. More extraordidnary content simply means less content because it will consume a lot of their dev time. Cutscenes definetely fall into that category, consequently they will be very careful to invest a huge chunk of their time on them.

Cut scenes have been around since a long time (D2 was mentioned, Wc3 comes to mind, ...). PoE could compete before without cutscenes and still can do so in the present day imo. I don't see that that has changed drastically.

Ok, enough opposing.
I agree that a game with some cutscenes feels more "whole". You see the stpry instead of being forced to research it by checking out tons of dialogue. And I'd like to see one or two cutscenes in PoE. It's not mandatory, it's not something GGG can afford to do a lot, but it would be nice if they do it a little more.

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Imaginaerum wrote:

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DreadLordAvatar wrote:

Without it, game will always feel incomplete as a AAA title. GGG doesn’t have a choice if they want the game to be competitive nowadays. Therefore, cutscenes are inevitable.

Competitive with what though? No matter how many times GGG says 4.0 is coming to compete with the "next-gen ARPGs", PoE is the only literally the only good ARPG that exists right now, and no developer has given any hint that there is going to be one to compete with it

For me PoE took a second place for my favourite H&S when Grim Dawn came out. I come back to PoE from time to time to see what has changed but it's getting worse and worse. Last hope is 4.0 but at least I won't be starved of H&S if that turns out to be a fail.