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bigtakilla on 07 July 2016
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GOWTLOZ said:
bigtakilla said:

That isn't the point though, the point to take away is if this game lends itself to the hack and slash genre where he clearly points out that with the camera glued to the characters right shoulder and the weaving in and out of scripted segments that this does in fact steer away from being a hack and slash (where he even provides video examples to provide examples of his statements), but let's throw all that out the window because he doesn't seem fond of the games...

Essentially I get where you are trying to go as far as what he says about his personal feelings of how good this game will/will not be. It seems as if he is disappointed in the fact that it is not hack and slash, and some people may prefer that it isn't, but he isn't wrong about how the game itself no longer lends itself to the hack and slash genre, and in turn uproots itself and reboots under some new "feels" interactive cinematic experience (at least as far as the footage shows).

Okay I hadn't seen the video and while he could have a valid point, the scripted segments and camera does not mean its not a hack and slash game, but that its a different and fresh take on the genre. That said no one can be sure of which genre it belongs to, as we have only seen ten minutes footage designed to show us the changes they are bringing to the series.

I don't think this is any more of an interactive cinematic experience than TLOU, and neither go too far for cinematics like games such as Heavy Rain do. That's what I would call a cinematic experience, not a game like this that clearly has gameplay.

By the sheer way the mechanics of a hack and slash work, the camera position pretty much does mean it isn't going to be a hack and slash. If you can't see to the sides or behind the character, and if the character is taking a third of the screen the combat mechanics simply aren't going to work, it pretty much assures the game is changing genres to an action adventure. Yet again, whether it is a bad thing or not is up to personal tastes, but it really can't be argued.