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Senlis on 16 January 2010
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Kenryoku_Maxis said:
Senlis said:

I'm not saying video games are like movies, there are completely different.  I'm saying there are games that have bland gameplay and people only seem to like them for their cinematic like story.  To me, these are video games trying to be movies.  These certain video games fail at with their main strength because there is another medium that does what they are trying to do, but better.

Once again, games are not movies.  Only some games pretend they are.

Most definitely.  Some games try to make their strongest feature the story.  The creator of Final Fantasy even based his series on this fact and it shows in many of the games he's made since (Lost Odessey, Blue Dragon, etc).  And obviously plenty of WRPGs also fall into that formula.  But like Raichu was saying, just because story was the focus, the rest of the game shouldn't be neglected (including gameplay).  And as much as Final Fantasy or any game may focuses on the story, they still have to have some sort of player controlled hub or interaction to be called a 'game'.  Even porn games and those terrible old Panasonic/Sega 32X games had some form of player interaction, eventhough they were mostly just movies with a button to press for a yes/no trigger (which some would argue even certain RPGs end up being reduced to).

@Scoobes

Sorry, but while you don't own a DS, I unfortunately don't own a PSP.  So I cannot concretely suggest to you some PSP RPGs.  Best I could suggest are some remakes of SNES and PSX RPGs like Suikoden I-II and Valkarie Profile.

I was frozen today!

 

 

 

....damn, I waited too long to make that joke.