David Cage: “I don’t like game mechanics” and “you don’t need a gun to be successful”

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Khuutra said:

Ajescent said:
I agree, too many games rely on muscle bound soldier types armed to the teeth with misogyny and machoism, once in a while I like my games to be weapons free.

That isn't what he's saying, he says game mechanics in general get in the way of storytelling, he's just using shooter gameplay as an example.

What I read from it is that he doesn't like having set rules and controls for game mechanics throughout the entire game because that makes it difficult to have variety.  It's something he talked about a lot when Heavy Rain was coming out and he's correct in a sense.  It's difficult to marry gameplay and story when gameplay is defined with "this button does this no matter the situation" so instead you have them split like ME3.  If you want to tell a story through the gameplay you need to either do something very abstract like Flower or use more context sensitive controls like Heavy Rain.