How much Movie can you put in a Videogame?

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22 күн бұрын

Please turn off your phones, put down your controllers and keep quiet. The movie is about to begin...
Cinematic games are everywhere. Games want to be movies and when they do, they stop being games. How much movie can we have in a game before it falls into pit of despair? Can there be a formula that quantifies that? I mean, you read the title, this is just a long winded, and dull series of rhetoric questions…
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@filipesilva5063 20 күн бұрын

Although I don't agree with some points, you cooked way to hard with this one 🔥

@roboknobthesnob 19 күн бұрын

Thanks :D but now I’m curious about which points you didn’t agree with 👀

@Rainbowhawk1993 15 күн бұрын

Even with the over abundance of cutscenes, Mad Payne 3 is still one of my favorite video games of all time. John Wick before John Wick.

@roboknobthesnob 15 күн бұрын

Heh, understandable. For me it didn’t click because of all those intermissions. It didn’t help that my first playthrough was on hard difficulty and enemies can randomly oneshot you, adding frustration to an experience I was already barely enjoying.

@personnel5757 20 күн бұрын

dangit i'm already subscribed. can't sub again

@roboknobthesnob 19 күн бұрын

I’ll just pretend the subs counter has increased by one :D

@Roxor128 4 күн бұрын

Excessive cutscenes are certainly a problem, but I think Quick Time Events are worse. They're this unholy half-arsed mix of cutscene and gameplay that tries to be both and does neither well. The cutscenes are my time to take my hand off the mouse, sit back, and soak up some story. Do not violate that with an input prompt! They suck because the two things they try to combine are fundamentally opposed in design. Gameplay is active and cutscenes are passive, so when you try to combine them, you end up with this mess that feels like it should be passive, but never lets you relax because it keeps asking for input. They're like a stroad. Those horrible multi-lane roads lined with car-centric businesses and hectares of parking lots that nobody would ever want to visit on foot.