| Words Of Wisdom said: My interpretation of the point was different. Essentially consider this: You're plaing a standard turn-based RPG game and the developers want to enact an airship battle. Now unless you want to take this to new levels of awesome like Skies of Arcadia did and have an entire 2nd battle system dedicate to airship/monster battles, you make a cutscene. You could also make a minigame just for this instance but many people hate stupid minigames in RPGs so that's probably a bad idea unless you plan to do this a LOT and can put a lot of effort into the minigame. The point I am making with the example is that there are times when in order to tell the story, the best tool is a cutscene. This is particularly true where the system would not given the player involvement anyway and rewriting it to do so would not be worth the time/effort. I much prefer to play the game rather than watch cutscenes (heck I'd rather read text than listen to voice acting because it's faster and I get can get back to playing quicker), but I understand that there are times when they are very useful. |
I'd concede that there are times when cutscenes are useful, but you can usually do things in a better way with games. Look at the example with Half Life: you worked through the entire story, setting, etc. This is a very simple example of a back story, but it made the game all that much more interesting.
At any rate, 90 minute cutscenes will just end up getting skipped by most gamers, I'd think. And I'd never consider watching them.
Before we hang Kojima out to dry, let's have a play of the game first, before the whole ninety minute cutscene thng is true.
First, we've heard that the game has nine hours of cutscenes. So that means that it will be only six ninety minute cutscenes...
And CVG made certain of saying Scenes so is there only six cutscenes in the game? I think not...
No one said all of the cutscenes were 90 minutes, just that some approached 90 minutes. I know you're hoping to God that this isn't true, but your logic doesn't prove it since your assumption that all cut scenes are 90 minutes hasn't been asserted anywhere.
