patronmacabre on 15 November 2015
| spemanig said: FMVs are immersion breaking. Good riddance. |
I disagree with this sentiment. I feel like the most immersion-breaking cinematics are the videos that look half-way between a pre-rendered video and in-engine graphics (the Mass Effect trilogy does this the most egregiously, I think). Those types of cinematics manage to create their own sort of uncanny valley that I find incredibly unsettling.
More so, proper FMVs discourage QTEs, so that's a good thing.
Plus, FMVs look good way longer than in-engine graphics do. FF8's FMVs still look good, for example. As do Diablo II's (I still love the battle between Tyrael and Baal).
