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thelifatree on 30 August 2010
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MrT-Tar said:
thelifatree said:
MrT-Tar said:

Final Fantasy VI has IMO the best story ever in a game and that isn't heavily laden with FMVs at all


yes but you pressed x a whole lot. I mean, instead of watching people talk.. you instead pressed x and read text.... if you like that's more that's fine... it's just in most jrpg's pressing x with text boxes was replaced with in game cutscenes etc.... like Xenogears. Is just as wordy as Xenosaga. Instead of pressing x... there's cutscenese galore.

I played FFVI on the GBA so it would be 'A' ;)

I know what you mean though, myself I quite like it when the game is still quite text heavy but still has its fair share of clip scenes, the DS remake of FFIV comes to mind (even though they could have fitted quite a few more FMVs on the DS card, they kept them fairly limited) or maybe to a lesser degree something like Tales of Syphonia, Skies of Arcadia or Zelda Twilight Princess.

Also about Xenogears, I've never played it as it still hasn't made it's way over to Europe, but isn't it's second disc just like one long FMV

Spoiler for Xenogears

well kind of... though it has mostly more text heavy things than FMV, The second disc is mostly the main characters describing the story with text while sitting in a rocking chair.  Which after thinking about it is worse than a 40 minute FMV imo. It has some FMV's but it's mostly short anime scenes, I don't recall one going more than 5 minutes and probably shorter than that. (I could be mistaken I don't time these things while playing), and those scenes have the worst voice acting ever. And I play lots of games with bad VA.  The second Disc is what keeps it from being one of my favorite games ever... it goes into la la land and doesn't let go imo. Sorry I got a bit carried away I guess. And I guess that doesn't convince you that it's a classic. I don't consider it either but lots of people do :P.

@everyone I guess
But I guess my point was that many people consider wordy, cutscene/text heavy games like Xenogears classics, just as people consider games like  Non-interactive with plot but immersive like Half Life 2, SoTC classics, and games like Deus Ex, Planescape Torment Classics.

Some people like all of them. Some people like watching a "movie" between fighting even if it's a bit cheesy. Some people don't.