According to

http://us.starcraft2.com/features/collector/

SC2 is going to have only 13 minutes of prerendered cinematics. It looks like we are going to have only intro and outro. For comparision in original StarCraft the cinematics were 20 minutes long and in Broodwar 12 minutes. What do you think about it? Is it enough?

lepape

Canada557 Posts

April 10 2010 18:01 GMT

I liked how SC1 had pre-rendered cinematics every 5 missions, but now, there'll also be in-game cinematics in SC2 as well, it's gonna be great.

Na_Dann_Ma_GoGo

Germany2959 Posts

April 10 2010 18:09 GMT

13+ minutes sounds all right to me. I cannot recall Wc3 having more either.
And if the quality matches the announcement trailer -> awesome.

I also remember some behind-the-scenes footage from Blizzcon 2009 where they told us how much work is involved in making these cinematics. The Intro for WoW: The burning Crusade took them a year.

ZenDeX

Philippines2916 Posts

April 10 2010 18:13 GMT

As long as the in-game cutscenes can make up for it, it's all good.

meegrean

Thailand7699 Posts

April 10 2010 18:16 GMT

well, i only watch the cinematics once or twice in my whole life so it's not something i would focus on.

edit: as long as it's long enough to keep the plot flowing.

Xiphiasar

United States78 Posts

April 11 2010 02:06 GMT

I would like more than 13 min, but remember, it's just one campaign.

Antisocialmunky

United States5912 Posts

April 11 2010 02:13 GMT

Battle aboard the Amerigo is still probably one of my favorite cutscenes from any game

Fosh

Sweden117 Posts

April 11 2010 02:15 GMT

Considering that Blizzard has always been known for making quality CGI I don't see how 13 minutes is considered a short length.

CursOr

United States6335 Posts

April 11 2010 02:15 GMT

13 minutes is too much... they should have saved the extra MB on the game to bulk up the Thor graphic a bit.

TheYango

United States47024 Posts

April 11 2010 02:18 GMT

#10

On April 11 2010 02:57 nnexus wrote:
According to

http://us.starcraft2.com/features/collector/

SC2 is going to have only 13 minutes of prerendered cinematics. It looks like we are going to have only intro and outro. For comparision in original StarCraft the cinematics were 20 minutes long and in Broodwar 12 minutes. What do you think about it? Is it enough?

It says that there are 13 minutes of pre-rendered cinematics and about half an hour story mode scenes. Given that you supposedly have between-mission decisions to make as part of the story, it makes sense that the between-mission cinematics got replaced with story mode stuff. I don't see why this is surprising or unwarranted.

Also realized that there's only one campaign, and not 3, so we only have 1 campaign opening and 1 closer, rather than 3 of each.

Jyvblamo

Canada13788 Posts

April 11 2010 02:22 GMT

#11

You just done squashed some poor feller's dawg, Sarge...

SoLaR[i.C]

United States2969 Posts

April 11 2010 02:25 GMT

#12

After playing MGS4, anything less than 15 hours worth of cinematics is short.

On a more serious note, I think it could stand to be about 20 minutes. The length of cutscenes in the original seemed like a perfect amount to me.

neobowman

Canada3324 Posts

April 11 2010 02:27 GMT

#13

In game graphics are so good that the need for cinematics is reduced.

Well, I'm guessing that's what Blizzard's thinking. Either way, I don't really care much since I'm mostly playing for the multiplayer.

Pervect

1280 Posts

April 11 2010 02:32 GMT

#14

On April 11 2010 11:15 cursor wrote:
13 minutes is too much... they should have saved the extra MB on the game to bulk up the Thor graphic a bit.

I would have tightened up the graphics on level 3, personally.

Ocedic

United States1808 Posts

April 11 2010 02:34 GMT

#15

I hardly even noticed the sparsity of pre-rendered cinematics in War3. Ingame cinematics may not be nearly as pretty, but the voice acting is top notch and it really draws you into the game.

Kennigit

Canada19447 Posts

April 11 2010 02:35 GMT

#16

From what i've gathered, most of the focus is on ingame cinematic which seems to be how they are telling most of the story this time.

Megalisk

United States6095 Posts

April 11 2010 02:47 GMT

#17

I will never play any of the single player, so I guess this won't be that big a deal to me, at least they wont be having and MGS-like cutscenes

hoborg

United States430 Posts

April 11 2010 02:53 GMT

#18

A lot of games nowadays place less emphasis on pre-rendered cinematics, since realtime renders can look so good now. And with good reason, I prefer in-game cinematics because they flow with the gameplay, instead of some abrupt cut to a movie in the middle of the game. I skipped all the SC and D2 cutscenes after watching them once, heh.

Bear4188

United States1797 Posts

April 11 2010 02:56 GMT

#19

The in-game rendering is so much more advanced than the original Starcraft that most of the mid-campaign story cut scenes can be done with the game engine.