rocketpig said:
bbsin said:
Profcrab said:
Torillian said:
rocketpig said:
Torillian said:
y'know though....some people really enjoy cut scenes and would prefer not to see them go extinct just because some of you guys deem it beneath you. Hell I watched tons of Xenosaga without playing, and I loved it. |
The point isn't that they should go away, the point is that taking up half of an interactive game with them is unacceptable in this day and age. Technology has improved to the point where engine-based scenes that allow player interaction are becoming the norm and are actually moving the industry forward in ways that movies could never do. |
But what you find unacceptable, I'm actually looking forward to. If you don't want a bunch of cutscenes in your games then I have no issue with that, and suggest you don't play MGS, but just because you can do something differently doesn't mean you should. As long as there are people like me who look forward to these types of games and actually enjoy them, then there will be a market for these cutscene heavy games and you won't see them die off. Hell I don't see this as much worse than your average RPG, and it'll probably have more involved gameplay than most turnbased RPG's. |
You make like it, but it's still bad storytelling for an action game. JRPGs are generally the haven for the heavy cutscene crowd. In fact, most of any JRPG is repetitive gameplay for which you are rewarded with a cutscene. With action games, story is generally told more in game than in cutscenes. Since the players spend more time interacting with the environment, there are greater opportunites for integrated story telling. MGS is using the JRPG model for an action game which is actually a few steps backwards in the genre. |
Yeah because games like RE4, Haze and GeOW have awesome story telling models. I fail to see how else Kojima can end all the story arcs and questions that were continued from Metal Gear 1 to MGS3 being that this is the last game with Solid Snake without writing a novel to explain the back stories. |
Wow, way to pick out three games not known for their story or even worse, bashed openly for it. |
Pick some games FOR me then.. either way, I could probably fire back with more games in the action genre that has awful story telling, proving how far the genre has really gone in terms of telling a story.
