But I guess your point in the end isn't even that this aspect should be better, as much that since we can spot the flaws it may as well be canned entirely. And why have voice acting at all? After all every few hours of decent-to-good performances we are bound to spot few poor deliveries in some lines.
All respect Tuco, but nowhere did I say or imply anything at all of that nature - stop building and burning false idols. I'd seriously like to challenge you to point to anything I've said anywhere at all, ever, that states, denotes or even implies anything of this sort.
It needs to be better. It is NOT good. It is NOT even acceptable for a game of this nature (I.e. one that actively prides itself on doing these animations and cutscenes etc.,) made today. Their animation quality is POOR. Their choreography is POOR. Their scans and detail are GREAT; the graphical quality is GREAT; that does unfortunately make the poor points *look* worse. Their animation quality is worse than seen in games produced five years ago, and better graphical quality and higher detail doesn't make up for that - it exacerbates it, and yes, we're talking about in-game cutscenes, not random occurrences during active play; if those don't have better animation quality and at least equal scene choreography quality than games five years old, then that's just plain not good enough. It needs to be better. It needs to be smoother and more naturalised, less wooden and jerky. It needs to be shot better, and choreographed better. A couple of characters in a couple of scenes HAVE been given a more fine tuned treatment (and even then often employ hack tricks because they don't do certain things very well and are trying to hide it - rather than improving them), and their animations do look smoother and more natural as a result, but they are few and far between, and only serve to make the rest of the bad ones more visible. Their actual scene choreography needs to be DRASTICALLY improved - it's abominable. The things they are showing us are NOT acceptable standards for a game pitching itself as a triple-A title produced in 2021+
This is what they are doing: we can agree or disagree on whether they need to, but this is what they are doing and what they are presenting - and people should not be making excuses for them and being apologists to them, or telling them that it's good, because it's not. It stands out in its own media context and looks and feels bad as a result; No game that I have played in the past decade has achieved this level of "Eh... that's not working" as this one has with its animations and cutscenes, and that needs to be said.
