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This is a convenient diegetic way of locking the player in-place for a cutscene, while also priming the player for an extended cutscene. It is much better than the boring shot reverse-shot cutscene stuff going on in AAA RPGs these days, and makes Skyrim's "sit" mechanic more meaningful. Wider, spread out, less dense. Money sink.
This is one of those situations where simply putting it into a cutscene would easily cause a separation of the player from Kratos - it’s a reminder to the player that Kratos is someone who would have to do such a horrible thing, which serves as a bit of a shock. Build your content in a way that facilitates player activity, not passivity.
I believe that Skyrim is a mix of hand-crafted and procedurally (or at least tools-generated) content, and it could be a pretty fair comparison. Anyway, bottom-line, we’re talking about 150-200 Skyrims of content for all of Aincrad. Cutscenes in an MMO? Worldwide Gated Content. Sword Skills. How would it play?
In the case of Auro , the game originally had a full Story Mode with a final boss and cutscenes and everything – but we deleted it at a certain point because we really wanted to focus the attention on the replayable ranked play mode (and a few other reasons).
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Here’s a handful of good examples: Final Fantasy VII : you’re part of a terrorist organization that is doing a bombing mission to try and fight back against an evil empire. At all times, players should have some sense of how close they are getting to reaching that goal, and they should care about doing achieving it.
Because the activities you actually do in a video game, in-between the cutscenes and the conversations, may be part of the story, but they don't move the story forward. Shoot the same enemy, fight the same fight. Like you need to fight Archduke Bob. You have to fight Bob, therefore you enter the sewer.
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