I have zero use for questing being interrupted by cutscenes. I hate having to watch someone else's ideas of what's going on in MY questing and MY internal RP.

Elder Scrolls games traditionally don't use many cutscenes during the game. Rather they have scripted scenes where NPCs talk while you retain control of your character. It does lead to some silliness where ESO villains are invulnerable by dint of standing atop a head-high wall, but overall I prefer it to the sudden cutscene induced incompetence that happens in other games.

I don't mind the idea, but in my specific situation I don't think they'd be any better than what we have now.

I've got two conflicting issues: I usually have to play ESO with the sound turned off and I'm dyslexic, meaning I read slowly compared to most people. For cut scenes to work for me they need to be subtitled and I need to be able to move the subtitles on when I've read them, not when the spoken audio has finished that line. Otherwise I'm going to miss stuff.

Put the two together, factor in that I'll be mainly focused on the subtitles, not whatever activity is happening above them and I don't think it would be much different to just seeing a person standing there while I read, or seeing the scene acted out in-game like we have now.

There very few places where an MMO goes into a solo mode where a cutscene would even work. The Main quest does have solo mode episodes entered via the Harborage, but instead of cutscenes where you have no interaction, it uses scenes in which the player takes part, and can have dialogue with the other participants. I think that goes a step further than a cutscene, and I wouldn’t want less.

This game does have cutscenes, but very rarely. In fact, I can only think of one (spoilers ahead, base game main quest): The end of the gauntlet on the way to fight Molag Bal while mantling the Amulet of Kings. Bal, in his colossal form, grabs you like a ken doll, and you get to watch as your character launches the mother of all jesus beams at him, shattering his physical form, and dropping you into the final arena.

Wait; I remember another: (spoiler warning for Wrothgar) the transition to the final act of the Wrothgar main quest when Forge-Mother Alga command-words you to knife yourself.

Other than those two, scenes always play around you while you maintain character control. I do think this could be improved; not enough is done with the camera when it comes to cinematic moments. I think there's a compromise that can be made where a scene will take camera control for whatever reason, but the player can take control back at any time.

Simple dramatic camera work can do so much for story telling.

I voted yes and enjoy them in games.

The ESO cinematics always look exciting and amazing.

Then you go in game and it's npcs standing still talking in long paragraphs at you. They mostly talk one at a time, and not a conversation between multiple characters at once more often than not.

Then the epic battles come and it's our bleh animations and two-shotting of everything.

So...for storytelling their are key moments in the MSQ they could add excitement, tension, or display better feats of storytelling than it appears in the game engine.

I think because ESO relies more on storytelling than the sandbox single player game, this would be a great setting to try them out. Also never hurts to try something new, and that new features can't be added.

Idea for a mission where cutscenes can be applied.

Right after finishing Naryu's questline in Balmora, you go to Vivec Docks and meet Naryu and Veya (if you chose to save her).

A mission icon appears.
This mission is given to you by Naryu and you have to talk to her.
If you saved Veya, she is going to take a ship to go into exile.

A cutscene appears in which our character can speak and you have several dialogue options with Naryu and Veya. Veya hugs our protagonist, says goodbye to Naryu and boards the ship that will take her to her place of exile.
Naryu and our protagonist look at the ship on the horizon.
Naryu tells our protagonist: "I hope he's okay."
At that moment our protagonist has several dialogue options.
These options will decide what happens in the rest of the mission.
If our protagonist at that moment answers Naryu:

"She's had a good teacher, she'll be fine."

Naryu smiles, our protagonist and she watch the ship move away from the docks on the horizon in the last hours of daylight.

If you chose the romantic dialogue option, Naryu will ask you to collect an item from a chest found in one of the rooms of the inn in town and deliver it to him.

When you go to the inn room, go inside and approach the chest to pick up the item.
The room is dark, illuminated by the light of a candle that is at the entrance of the room.
You pick up the object that is a rose.
The goal is met and a cutscene appears.

In the cutscene, Naryu walks through the door with a bottle of classic brandy, locks the bedroom door, and leaves the brandy bottle on the floor.
Take the candle that illuminates the room, look at our protagonist, smile and blow out the candle.

There are two situations, one in which Veya lives and another in which Veya does not meet Naryu at the docks of Vivec city (I chose to save Veya at the end of everything and I don't know what happens if you choose the option of killing Veya ).

If you ended the life of Naryu's apprentice, Naryu will confess to you how sad he feels about everything that happened through a cutscene.
Our character has dialogue options to be able to animate her, be funny, be romantic, etc.
Depending on the dialogue options we choose, we can have a romance with her.

Good god no. I want a button that would have the NPCs [snip] as it is. Do not want cutscenes with them.

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Sorry, when dragon age is mentioned it's instant no for me.

We have kind of cutscenes but without any cinematic camera work, which can make us even miss lots of them or have no idea where to look exactly but that's kinda better witnessing constant out of body experience with quite bad animation work. Especially if our character is a part of it, that's where I surely don't want it to go.

The only such material I'd be okay with would be FromSoftware's subtle ones where your presence is pointed out, like laying down, sitting or walking in but you're not the main figure at all giving you no artificial character by inserting certain behaviours and actions.

robwolf666 wrote: »

I wouldn't mind more story cutscenes, the problem is that it would be a lot of work for the devs with the potential of it causing problems in the game when it's added. If they do it, they should do it only with future content.

You don't need to have a new chapter made in order to add the cutscenes.
You could do a quest that has cutscenes and see how the community responds.

Above you have the example of what could be done with Naryu in Vvanderfell.

When you finish the Balmora questline and save Veya, Naryu and Veya stay at the pier forever.

This mission would fulfill the function of adding romances in the game (something highly requested by the community), that Naryu and Veya do not stay at the Vivec dock forever (it looks bad that the characters stay at the dock forever and that every time you pass by always repeat the same lines of dialogue), a romance with Naryu (something that has always been highly requested by the community), gauging the opinion of the community on what kind of future content could be added.

Technically they already have hundreds of cutscenes in the game already, the issue is they dont use the in game camera to present those scenes in a good light.... whoever puts the game trailers together should be in charge of that department thou!

Jaraal wrote: »

Carlos93 wrote: »

When you finish the Balmora questline and save Veya, Naryu and Veya stay at the pier forever.

Have you done the Summerset story?

No

The cutscenes in the Harborage when the Prophet is explaining things still make me shudder just thinking about them!

Once was fine, twice was ok-ish, after that with no option to skip it was pure torture, so for me a definite NO thank you!