Cutscene

A cutscene or cut scene is an animated sequence usually occurring during a quest in which a player has no control. They are often used to show the storyline of a certain quest. The player cannot talk publicly, move, or click on most things to perform action they can normally do, except for friends chat and examining objects or NPCs. Although in some cutscenes this is done automatically like when a player is knocked out a Life Splats will appear or the player will say something above their heads even without typing it. If there is any item that you would be normally able to talk to or search or etc, a glitch will happen in which it says you can do it in the video, and when you actually do this in some videos the video will end, and you will need to start the video over again.

Jagex has used many cutscenes or long cutscenes in some quests like The Giant Dwarf, however some quests have not used cutscenes at all. Some online polls created by Jagex ask if players enjoy long cutscenes or none at all. The majority of players answered medium-short sized cutscenes meaning long cutscenes may become rare in quests.

Cutscenes also occur during some transportation modes such as ships or Eagle transport system. Interactive cutscenes also used to occur in the Gnomecopter Tours where the player could change their view, leave, talk and interact with some NPCs and scenery before the Gnomecopters were removed.

In cutscenes involving only other characters in a storyline, where the player is not present, the player is actually "teleported" to the area where the cutscene takes place, and the camera is focused on the characters in a way that the player is not shown. However, the player still appears on the mini map. A bug may occur when the player is poisoned and one of these cutscenes plays; the camera will not adjust to the other characters and will be focused on the player as if the game was being played normally. The player may use the chat feature, however they cannot move. Any attempt to do so will initiate the cutscene dialogue without the special camera angles.

From the Desperate Times quest onwards, a new type of cutscene consisting of a number of artworks with voice-over has been used in content related to the Elder Gods quest series, including Anachronia introduction and Archaeology dig sites. This type of cutscene was originally used in the Ashdale Tutorial and has also been used in the Davendale Tutorial.

List

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Release date	Content	Title	Summary	Type	Voice	Rewatch
5 December 2022	Succession		Adrasteia explains Bilrach's victory in the Zamorakian Civil War and asks the player character to figure out his new plans.	Artwork	Adrasteia
			Bilrach begins his ritual to drain souls from across Gielinor, but the sabotaged ritual marker explodes, ending the ritual.	Artwork	Adrasteia
			Adrasteia is crowned as Basilissa, delivers a speech to her people and sings A Song of Hope. This cutscene is divided in multiple parts as the quest alternates between Adrasteia and Moia's story.	Cinematic	Adrasteia	Adrasteia
1 August 2022	Daughter of Chaos		Adrasteia explains the start of the Zamorakian Civil War and commands the player character to stop Moia.	Artwork	Adrasteia	N/A
4 July 2022	Zamorakian Undercity		Zamorak explains his life story.	Artwork	Zamorak
6 June 2022	Twilight of the Gods		The World Guardian cures Erasinus and Senecianus of Superimposed Personality Disorder.	Cinematic	N/A	N/A
			Bilrach appears at Saradomin's throne room, announcing Zamorak's invasion on Gielinor and commanding Saradomin to surrender in exchange of sparing his followers' lives.	Artwork	Bilrach	N/A
			The Guardians of Guthix transfer their knowledge of the Edicts of Guthix to the World Guardian.	Cinematic	N/A	N/A
4 April 2022	Extinction		Seren briefly recaps the Elder God Wars.	Chatbox	Seren	N/A
			TzKal-Zuk climbs out of the TzekHaar Front and begins sieging the Cathedral of Senntisten.	Cinematic	N/A	N/A
			Jas arrives at Freneskae to retrieve the Elder Gods' eggs.	Artwork	Jas	N/A
			Jas once again arrives at Freneskae to retrieve the Elder Gods' eggs. A leviathan from Erebus appears out of the Shadow Breach and attacks Jas. Kerapac uses the Staff of Armadyl and the Needle against Jas, distracting her and causing her to be overpowered by the leviathan, who drags her into Erebus. Kerapac is also dragged into Erebus and the Shadow Breach snaps shut.	Artwork	Seren	N/A
			Bik, Ful and Wen arrive at Iaia to touch the Elder Gods' eggs. The eggs hatch and the new generation of Elder Gods consumes Iaia's anima, sparing Seren and the World Guardian.	Artwork	Seren	N/A
4 January 2022	Het's Oasis		Icthlarin briefly explains the history of the Duel Arena, the earthquake that struck it and his search for the Eye of Het.	Artwork	Icthlarin
27 September 2021	Croesus Front	Bik	Gorvek speaks about history of Croesus and its return on behalf of Bik.	Artwork	Gorvek	Bik's egg, Ful's egg, Wen's egg
31 August 2021	Glacor Front	Wen	Ariane recalls how glacors destroyed Leng and were brought to Senntisten by Wen.	Artwork	Ariane	Bik's egg, Ful's egg, Wen's egg
26 July 2021	Nodon Front	Jas	Kerapac reminisces on his history, the curse, Nodon and his goals.	Artwork	Kerapac	Bik's egg, Ful's egg, Wen's egg
		Through the eyes of the Needle	Jas command Kerapac to reclaim the eggs from Senntisten.	Chatbox	N/A	N/A
21 June 2021	City of Senntisten		Azzanadra explains what needs to be done with the eggs and that the defence can be mounted in uncovered part of Senntisten.	Artwork	Azzanadra	N/A
24 May 2021	Battle of the Monolith		Zarosian forces arrive at the monolith and begin their assault.	Artwork	Wahisietel	N/A
31 May 2021			Zaros arrives at the monolith in order to enter Erebus through the Shadow Breach. He is confronted by Seren, who leaves unwilling to stand against her brother.	Chatbox	N/A	N/A
			Zaros opens the monolith and enters Erebus, allowing the Shadow Cacklers to pour into the world.	Artwork	Wahisietel	N/A
7 June 2021			The TokHaar arrive at the monolith to fight the shadow invaders.	Artwork	Wahisietel	N/A
14 June 2021			Char blows Frostenhorn at the monolith and gets sucked into Erebus.	Chatbox	N/A	N/A
			Azzanadra closes the monolith and ascends to godhood through the backlash of shadow anima. The TokHaar, seeing the corruption of their world, turn against the former allies.	Artwork	Wahisietel	N/A
			The Zarosians discuss the aftermath of the closing of the monolith and prepare to fight against the TokHaar.	Chatbox	N/A	N/A
14 June 2021			The TokHaar retreat from the battle to prepare for the next conflict. Saradomin decides to protect the monolith with his forces and allows the Zarosians to leave in peace this time.	Chatbox	N/A	N/A
			The eggs of the Elder Gods, imperilled by the shadow anima from the monolith, are about to hatch.	Artwork	Wahisietel	N/A
22 February 2021	Azzanadra's Quest		Azzanadra expresses his disappointment with the council and explains that the real threat lies with the eggs of the Elder Gods.	Artwork	Azzanadra	N/A
			Ariane shares a vision of the Elder Gods hatching on Freneskae and destroying all life during the previous Great Revision.	Artwork	Ariane	N/A
			Sir Owen and Trindine locate Sir Vey Lance, leader of the Temple Knights, revealed to be a Zarosian demon, Veilinius, on a thousands year long undercover mission to orchestrate the heist on the Elder Crown.	Chatbox	N/A	N/A
			The Saradominist ceremony is interrupted when Zarosians try to steal Saradomin's crown. As they fail, Zaros appears and claims the artefact and takes most of the Temple Knights with him.	Chatbox	N/A	N/A
14 December 2020	Violet is Blue Too		A collection of colourful drawings by Violet.	Artwork		Letters from Violet
7 December 2020	Raksha, the Shadow Colossus (quest)		Zaros explains the origins and nature of Raksha, the Shadow Colossus.	Artwork	Zaros	N/A
19 October 2020	Orthen Dig Site	Orthen Dig Site - Opening cutscene		Artwork		Mr Mordaut
		Orthen Dig Site - Ending cutscene
27 July 2020	Desperate Measures		The history of Kerapac's device and the resulting destruction of Orthen and enslaving of the dragonkin by Jas.	Artwork	Seren	N/A
			Kerapac, Charos and the others escape Kerapac's laboratory as the Elder God Ful appears in the Anachronia Volcano.			N/A
30 March 2020	Kharid-et Dig Site	Kharid-et Dig Site - Opening cutscene		Artwork	Guildmaster Tony	Dr Nabanik
		Kharid-et Dig Site - Ending cutscene
	Infernal Source Dig Site	Infernal Source Dig Site - Opening cutscene				Movario
		Infernal Source Dig Site - Ending cutscene
	Everlight Dig Site	Everlight Dig Site - Opening cutscene				Vanescula Drakan
		Everlight Dig Site - Ending cutscene
	Stormguard Citadel Dig Site	Stormguard Citadel Dig Site - Opening cutscene				Gee'ka
		Stormguard Citadel Dig Site - Ending cutscene
	Warforge Dig Site	Warforge Dig Site - Opening cutscene				Zanik
		Warforge Dig Site - Ending cutscene
30 March 2020	Qualifications	Qualification - Intern		Chatbox		Certificate of Qualification
		Qualification - Assistant
		Qualification - Associate
		Qualification - Professor
		Qualification - Guildmaster
30 March 2020	Archaeology	Tony's discovery	Guildmaster Tony uses black stone on the Codex and he is sucked into it.			Acting Guildmaster Reiniger
25 March 2020	Archaeology/Pre-release	Raising the monolith	Zaros raises the Codex.
2 September 2019	Burthorpe	Burthorpe arrival cutscene	An aerial overview of Burthorpe.	Cinematic		Major Mary Rancour
8 July 2019	Anachronia	Anachronia arrival		Artwork		Mr Mordaut
13 May 2019	Desperate Times		Seren explains the threat of the Elder Gods to the Council of Burthorpe.	Artwork	Seren	N/A
			Seren talks about Kerapac's betrayal and escape after he took control of the Needle.			N/A
5 November 2018	2018 Halloween event	War arrival		Chatbox		Crater
		Famine arrival
		Pestilence arrival
		Lucien's Return
		Lucien's Demise
21 November 2016	Children of Mah	The Betrayal (part 1)		Cinematic		Shard of Mah
		The Betrayal (part 2)		Cinematic
		The Confrontation		Cinematic
25 April 2016	River of Blood	Siege of Paterdomus	Forces of Varrock and Vanescula Drakan gather on both sides of the Paterdomus temple.	Cinematic		King Roald
7 March 2016	Tales of the God Wars (miniquest)	Helwyr's memory.	Helwyr and Cywir elves discuss their plans of returning home and hunting down Gregorovic.	Chatbox		Tome
		Gregorovic's memory.	Gregorovic, trying to escape from his sickness and the fear of death, strikes a deal with Sliske and receives his new body.
		Twin Furies' memory.	Twin Furies report to Zamorak that aa offspring of dragon riders might have survived and are order to hunt it down instead of avenging their sister.
		Vidicta's memory.	Gorvek hides and raises a surviving offspring of the dragon riders, Vindicta, who vows to avenge her kind, hunted down by the Twin Furies.
		Final memory.	The four generals confront each other in the Heart of Gielinor.
6 July 2015	Tuska Comes	Tuska's defeat		Cinematic		Kara-Meir / Wizard Chambers
29 June 2015	Hero's Welcome	The arrival of V.	V arrives to a celebration near Rellekka.	Cinematic		Shrine to V
		The death of V.	Sakirth uses the Mirror to transfer V's energy into Tarshak, killing the god and mutating the fellow dragonkin.
23 February 2015	Dishonour among Thieves	The Destruction of Forinthry	Cornered by the alliance of Armadyl, Bandos and Saradomin, Zamorak uses the Stone of Jas to lay waste to Forinthry.	Chatbox		Communication device
		Zamorak and Sliske arrive.	Zamorak appears in Sliske's lair, trying to attack Nomad, who escapes. As Zamorak draws power from the Stone of Jas, Sliske appears and incapacitates the Zamorakians.	Cinematic
2 June 2014	The Mighty Fall	Graardor's defeat				Zarador
		Zanik's freedom / Zanik's death
22 April 2014	A Shadow over Ashdale	First appearance of a crassian				Dead man's chest
		Emergence of Agoroth
		Agoroth's death
24 March 2014	Fate of the Gods		Zaros takes the divine simulacrum, Mah wakes and Zaros teleports the player and himself away.	Cinematic		Shard of Zaros
11 December 2013	The Bird and the Beast	The Bird and the Beast - Opening cutscene		Cinematic		Goutbones
21 January 2014		The Bird and the Beast - Finale cutscene
15 October 2013	Missing, Presumed Death	Sliske's Grand Entrance				Statue of Death
		Releasing the Dragonkin
		The Great Escape
13 August 2013	The Death of Chivalry	Saradomin's Arrival		Cinematic		Skull of Remembrance
		Deliberately Distressed Damsel		Cinematic
		Player's Sacrifice / Sir Owen's Sacrifice		Cinematic
		Knight of the Living Dead		Cinematic
		Righteous Fury / Saradomin's Gift		Cinematic
22 July 2013	Battle of Lumbridge	Battle of Lumbridge - Opening cutscene		Cinematic		Saradominist preacher
2 October 2013		Battle of Lumbridge - Finale cutscene
4 March 2013	The World Wakes	Meeting Cres		Cinematic		Guthixian High Druid
		Zilyana confronting Cres		Cinematic
		Sliske dealing his final blow		Cinematic
		Saradomin's return		Cinematic
31 January 2012	Death Plateau	Imperial Guard ambush				N/A
31 January 2012	Druidic Ritual	The power of Guthix				N/A
5 July 2010	Love Story	Robbery of the Wizards' Tower	The Wise Old Man and Zenevivia attempt to rob the Wizard's Tower before being stopped by a thingummywut summoned by Wizard Traiborn.	Chatbox	N/A	Telescope on the 1st floor[UK]2nd floor[US] floor of the Wise Old Man's house.

There is also a cutscene that can be re-viewed, the draynor bank robbery, at 50gp per watch, with the first time free. Also as of the 15 March 2011, a band called the Bard Roberts and the Stanky Penguins can play a musical cutscene summarising the events from pirate quest series, for free.

Gallery

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  A typical cutscene featuring chatboxes where player controls the progress of the cutscene and can use Examine.

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  A cinematic, non-interactive cutscene featuring more complex animations and camera movements.

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  An artwork based, non-interactive cutscene.

Update history

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• patch 6 February 2023 (Update):
  • Fixed instances where the 'Remove Roofs' display setting would get overwritten when viewing certain Wanted! quest cutscenes.
  • Fixed inconsistent draw distances in cutscenes after adjusting graphics settings.

• patch 5 July 2021 (Update):
  • Increased the size of text on 2D cutscenes. It will now also scale with screen size.

• patch 17 May 2021 (Update):
  • The floating Treasure Hunter Keys UI element will no longer appear on top of cutscenes if it was not closed prior to the cutscene.

• ninja 9 November 2015 (Update):
  • Players can now toggle the cutscene when travelling by ship via the Gameplay Settings.

• patch 12 May 2014 (Update):
  • Animated the sails used in sailing cutscenes.

• patch 25 September 2013 (Update):
  • A bloom issue during the stone of Jas cutscene in the While Guthix Sleeps quest has been corrected.

• patch 10 September 2013 (Update):
  • A missing particle emitter from the opening game cutscene has been replaced.
  • Several issues with the opening Battle of Lumbridge cutscene have been fixed.
  • Copernicus Glyph will now only appear in one place during the Lumbridge God Statues building cutscene.
  • A camera issue during a cutscene in Quiet Before the Swarm has been fixed.

• patch 20 August 2013 (Update):
  • Hovering the mouse cursor over monsters in cutscenes no longer displays their lifepoints.

• patch 13 August 2013 (Update):
  • The chatbox can now be moved and resized in the God Statues D&D as well as in cutscenes, edit mode, world map and when transmogrified.
  • Several cutscenes now have names and examines hidden when played.

• patch 22 July 2013 (Update):
  • An issue with the game not rendering fog after watching certain cutscenes has been fixed.

• patch 20 May 2013 (Update):
  • Some goblins in a cutscene in the As a First Resort quest have been graphically reworked.

• patch 28 March 2011 (Update):
  • It is no longer possible to interact with a familiar during cutscenes.

• patch 25 May 2010 (Update):
  • Fixed a render problem with a boat during a cutscene.

• patch 9 November 2009 (Update):
  • Ensured poison is properly cured during a cutscene and the green glow on the status globe is turned off.

• patch 17 September 2009 (Update):
  • Fixed some route-finding issues with Zanik during a cutscene.

• patch 18 August 2009 (Update):
  • Tidied up a cutscene in A Soul's Bane and made the NPCs face players correctly.
  • Stopped Safalaan stretching during a cutscene in the Legacy of Seergaze quest.

• patch 10 August 2009 (Update):
  • All your side menus could permanently vanish after you'd been watching cutscenes.