https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZQDFO2KEPo

A look at one of the industry's favourite buzzwords...

I like the bars he did during his intro. Made me lol so hard

any the order spoilers in this?

Jim Sterling Review of one of the Walking Dead episodes 27th of August 2014http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/editorials/reviews/12161-The-Walking-Dead-Season-2-Episode-5-No-Going-Back-Review

4.5/5 stars "Recommendation: Well, yeah. Duh."

nope

The word has been abused by developers and gamers alike. Yet I can't help but feel he's being awfully dismissive of the quality of those games. But he made his point.

Stories in games have always had a B-movie like quality. However, they're still pretty much enjoyable because the player is more than invested in the game. MGS for example has a very campy story! Maybe it's hard to tolerate something that takes its self way too seriously with a lot of short coming for more than 10 hours.

Watched it yesterday and wanted to make a thread but then concluded that it's not worth it. he already discussed it and by now everyone should know that using buzz terms like cinematic to create or describe a game are retarded.

I mean, yes, make a cinematic game that takes some cues from movies. But don't pretend that it's a better game because of it.

You didn´t understand his point at all.

And a 9/10 for one of the best endings of the whole videogame history seems pretty fair for a graphic adventure like Walking Dead.

i dont really understand whats so bad if some games look at films for inspiration. i dont see anybody complaining that game of thrones was a book first. does that make it a shitty series? what about godzilla? it was a cartoon. harry potter, lord of the rings, hunger games?

whats the problem with some games looking at other forms of media for inspiration? i dont really understand. i dont see people complaining about the walking dead games, which are inspired bv the TV series, which were originally comics.

why are people so hell bent to prevent games from taking inspiration from movies is beyond me. we already have all sorts of games coming out and taking different directions, if some games want to have production values and a similar feel to movies, i dont see the problem.

Games are a relatively new medium. Movies, for example, took inspiration from stage acting since they made their first debut. They realized they could edit them, add effects and so here we are now. 

Games started to replicate the same experience since... Well. They first had voice acting and enough space for elaborate cutscenes. 

Everyone seems hell bent on the definition of "video game", and the discussion sometime goes to shit because the criticism is coming from the Internet.