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You are of course entitled to your opinion and your favorite games. It's awesome that there are games of all genres, difficulty levels, and accessibilities for different games enthusiasts.

But I'm going to continue to push back against cinematic games because the storytelling demands of cinema do not work well with the interactive demands of video games. One has to be sacrificed for the other. Sometimes, rarely, a game will come along and straddle successfully the line between game and movie - Uncharted 2 comes to mind - but much more often the desire to tell a gripping story through cut-scenes interrupts the flow, pacing, and interactivity of a game. And that, for me, is a mistake.