I am sick of seeing the HA cinematics again and again and AGAIN!!!

NeHoMaR

NeHoMaR

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

Add an option for auto skip already seen (or all) cinematics. I think I have skipped the cinematic of the 1st HA arena like 1.000.000 times Everybody skip that cinematics, same with GvG, people just see it 2 or 3 times and then skip it for the rest of their life.

Sereng Amaranth

Sereng Amaranth

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jun 2005

The Amazon Basin [AB]

/signed

Maybe have the auto-skip option available only after a certain number of viewings for each map. Or...check this out...have an option to view it in a window while you can move around as normal.

NeHoMaR

NeHoMaR

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Sereng Amaranth
/signed

Maybe have the auto-skip option available only after a certain number of viewings for each map. Or...check this out...have an option to view it in a window while you can move around as normal.
Seeing cinematic in a window is a good idea, but I am not sure if it's easy to implement to game engine. I think a simple option "disable cinematics" is enough (specially if that option doesn't skip the first time we see one cinematic, or only skip PvP/GvG ones)

Lykan

Lykan

Forge Runner

Join Date: May 2005

StP

R/

/signed

I'd like an option in the menu's "View or skip cinematics?"

Emik

Emik

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Nov 2005

Belgium

[FaRM] Farm For The Win

N/

/signed for skip when seen function

kazjun

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2006

HoVa

W/N

/signed for autoskip after the first time

TEX Cougar

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Oct 2006

UK

KFDS

W/E

/signed for skip when seen function

fenix

fenix

Major-General Awesome

Join Date: Aug 2005

Aussie Trolling Crew HQ - Event Organiser and IRC Tiger

Ex Talionis [Law], Trinity of the Ascended [ToA] ????????????????&#

W/

/signed

Let us skip those things FOREVER!

Mesmer in Need

Mesmer in Need

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2006

[ToA]

/signed
I hate these scenes. make a box or something near the skip botton to "dont show this again"

NeHoMaR

NeHoMaR

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Mesmer in Need
/signed
I hate these scenes. make a box or something near the skip botton to "dont show this again"
Good idea indeed, "dont show this cinematic again", but you will need another option for reset that.

Also, they could add a list of "unlocked" cinematics, for select or deselect one by one (for show or don't) and at the same time see whatever cinematic you want again.

Zuranthium

Zuranthium

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2006

Los Angeles

Black Rose Gaming [BR]

/signed

Definitely a good idea. Wouldn't it also help the Guild Wars server out if less people were running the videos?

tomcruisejr

tomcruisejr

Banned

Join Date: Apr 2005

pron up the cinematics!

gamecube187

gamecube187

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2006

Woah?!?PVP has cinematics? Maybe I should PVP more...

And there already is a skip cinimatic button. Its near the bottom of the screen. I don't see the need for another one...

/notsigned

Arkantos

Arkantos

The Greatest

Join Date: Feb 2006

W/

Don't be lazy, you have to click ONE button.

NeHoMaR

NeHoMaR

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

gamecube187 & Arkantos, you both obviouslly never play Heroes' Ascent for hours and hours making rank; I think I will buy a new mouse only for clicking that "button" thousands of times a day.

Arkantos

Arkantos

The Greatest

Join Date: Feb 2006

W/

Quote:
Originally Posted by NeHoMaR
gamecube187 & Arkantos, you both obviouslly never play Heroes' Ascent for hours and hours making rank; I think I will buy a new mouse only for clicking that "button" thousands of times a day.
Wanna know whats worse then playing HA for hours and clicking that button once every new match? Buying 1000+ materials from trader. That's 2000 continued clicks. So no, I don't know what it's like grinding in HA for hours, but I do know how it feels to click a button 2,000 times which im sure is much worse then what you do.

Poison Ivy

Poison Ivy

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

Toronto

Hopping

Mo/A

Make your language Italian the next time you go in.

Brother Redmund

Brother Redmund

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Aug 2005

Australia

guildless

Damn, this is a mountain out of a molehill if ever I have seen one. Really dude, is it that bad? I grind away in HA myself for a couple of hours at a time and that has never occurred to me as being a problem... You either click to skip, or you watch. At least you dont have to wait for everyone to skip like in PVE missions before the cinematic ends. Much ado about nothing imo.

/i'llpass

Apple

Apple

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

N/Mo

borkborkbork cinematics ftw. Seriously though, i never realised how annoying it was till i saw this thread /signed with a vengeance!

Carth`

Carth`

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Apr 2006

How hard is it to hit your Escape key?

Henchman

Henchman

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jan 2006

A cave in the Shiverpeaks

Mo/

I'd like to see this feature, but I doubt Anet will implement "Skip it if viewed already".
Reason: This feature requires to hold for every character on every account and for every cinematic whether or not the character has watched that cinematic. This amounts to server space which is expensive to hold for such a small feature. Perhaps Anet would do this for only a few selected cinematics, such as HA. But on the other hand, Anet has not allocated any more server space for Prophecies only chars after the release of Factions, so I'm not sure if they would allocate for this.

NeHoMaR

NeHoMaR

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Henchman
...Perhaps Anet would do this for only a few selected cinematics, such as HA...
I don't see that too difficult, they even could delete that animations forever easily, it's one line of code they must change for don't show one cinematic. In GvG + HA there are 20? cinematics.

Now adding an option for "Don't show PvP cinematics" need more coding, but is just 1 byte per account select or unselect the option.

Do you note Factions guild halls doesn't have cinematics?

Guildmaster Cain

Guildmaster Cain

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2006

Guildmistress Eve [Me], Guildmistress Azura [N], Guildmistress Azumi [A], Guildmistress Jaina [D]

Guildmaster Aeron [Rt], Arthas Ironfist [W], Guild: The Tyrian Templars [TTT]

/signed for 'autoskip button'

Rest of people should stop saying /not signed because you get the option to turn it off. Doesnt mean that you have to.

Agree with the skip-when-already-viewed, but there should also be a menu to view back movies that are unlocked in your own private time. This way people wont be saying 'oooh... i never get to see that movie' anymore, when 7/8 say skip. Maybe you can also spend Balthazar faction to unlock videos that you havent seen yet... Will encourage the PvPers to play more of that interesting PvE storyline.

Navaros

Forge Runner

Join Date: Apr 2005

Mo/Me

Having to hit "skip" every time you enter a Tombs or AB is incredibly obnoxious and tedious. It's a huge deal. It's a huge pain in the butt.

There needs to be an autoskip checkbox for all cinematics or at the very least, all PVP cinematics.

/signed

NeHoMaR

NeHoMaR

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

Hey! I am still sick of skipping cinematics ... and I am sure everybody think the same, at least someone really like see HA, GvG, AB cutscenes over and over and over again, for some inexplicable reason

$ham3d

$ham3d

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Feb 2007

Florida

Raiders Destiny [RD]

D/Mo

/signed
im sick of hearing " you are now closer to the hall of heros" when im in ha, it comes up with it before im fully loaded, blame my on board graphics and it will be so much better to skip it before it comes up.

MithranArkanere

MithranArkanere

Underworld Spelunker

Join Date: Nov 2006

wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo

Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]

E/

For PvE cinematics, I never tire of them. And I don't care about that, but for PvP, the game may need more speed.

NeHoMaR

NeHoMaR

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by $ham3d
/signed
im sick of hearing " you are now closer to the hall of heros" when im in ha, it comes up with it before im fully loaded, blame my on board graphics and it will be so much better to skip it before it comes up.
Well, indeed you MUST skip it for PvP strategy reasons, using that seconds for talk to your team about the possible enemy build, etc., so EVERYBODY in the team skip it ALWAYS as soon as possible (including arenanet developers when they play the game), that's .... 100% of people skipping it 100% of the time; IMO enough reason for just remove it completely (and maybe add a "tutorial" NPC in HA that show you all of the cinematics)