sundin13 said:
Skip to about 1:30 and watch the next segment. It starts with a cutscene, then you get about 10sec of gameplay (signified by the HUD's appearance), then about 25sec of cutscene (ending in a pseudo-QTE), then you get about 4 second of gameplay before going into another cutscene lasting about 50seconds, then gameplay for 5seconds. Thats the end of that segment. As you can see, this suffers from what a lot of games do, which is showing you what is going on instead of letting you experience it yourself. Why do games have to show you a cutscene every time you progress 10 seconds (this often happens with things like climbing/knocking down ladders and simple things like that)? Its much more jarring when you are actually playing, and it makes you feel like you are only playing to trigger the next cutscene. This particular video isn't quite as bad, but it still ties gameplay pieces together with cutscenes instead of giving the player any agency. Like, what is actually happening in the game? He hides behind one singular piece of cover and faces wave survival for a few minutes (he even tries to run out at one point and almost gets himself killed, like the game is yelling "you weren't done killing this wave of generic baddies yet! get back to that cover and do the same exact thing for another 30seconds"). When that is done, run over to guy and trigger cutscene. When that is done walk over to water heater (??) and trigger cutscene (with QTE! Look, you actually did something!). When that is done, you get a short, generic shooting section capped with a cutscene.... Cutscenes in games are kind of like exposition dumps in movies/books. Its like the writer though "we can't think of a way to integrate this info into the regular events so we will just take you out of everything for a second to forcefeed you this stuff". They just feel like a cop out, especially when they are used this frequently. Why can't the character have control while some of these cutscenes are happening? Give the player something to do while you guys are chatting. Give the player the tools to perform the actions that the character does in the cutscene (the one where he blows up the water heater)...It frustrates me to no end to see games forgetting all of the unique ways they can interact with their audience and instead just following the lead of another medium.
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This is the only gameplay we've seen with so many cutscenes, the other has not so many cutscene, just like Uncharted/Quantum Break.
The developpers specified the game let you experience by yourself in other parts. So cant really judge on 5min.
Predictions for end of 2014 HW sales:
PS4: 17m XB1: 10m WiiU: 10m Vita: 10m
