I don't enjoy how you mostly look for holes rather than look for the greater meaning. But okay.

I was speaking in terms of linearity in this argument, not about context-driven actions. I was just adressing a point within the bigger picture. I have played all the Castlevania so I know very well castlevania 2 has a huge non-linear world, I was assuming a reader like you would understand rather than try to poke holes, that was not the point of my counter-argument. This is why we all fail here, because we lose the bigger picture in mind constantly, and keep bickering on details or hiccups rather than moving forward, but for the record I was well aware of Castlevania 2. Actually, it's the first video game I personally owned and got it for my birthday, I know very well about it.

If you consider SMB to have high replayability due to warp pipes, that's an issue.

But I bet each time you replayed it you altered you playstyle, adapted it to avoid taking damage in certain sections, saved your energy for a boss so you can pound him with ninja stars, opted to keep a subweapon because it shot downwards and you knew you'd be dealing with enemies on lower ground later on, etc...

I wonder what Mister Cage thinks of WarioWare? The gameplay is ever-changing, and can elicit such emotions as amusement, confusion, frustration and euphoria.

I like variety, that's why I support devs that do sth different than the majority. Cage is one of few of them who actually has a AA to AAA budget at his disposal so I'm very interested in his comming projects and hope they turn out entertain me well like Heavy Rain did.

Still, I do like many traditional games, so ofc I wouldn't want those to just disappear, but actually there is no doubt in my mind that those will exist as long as games do.

oh, I don't doubt that's true for the Heavy Rain lovers as well, lol

I sort of agree, except on the game mechanics part :|

Because he wants to do this in games and make things some people love like Heavy Rain.  Quit trying to make people who want to expand the medium move to something else.  

He already made a game with context sensitive actions, and I can tell you right now not everyone played Heavy Rain the same way, hell that was half the fun was asking people how their playthrough ended up.  

And that last bit is the whole point you have in playing a game.  Others might enjoy something like Heavy Rain, as shown by the sales and review scores.  This is the reason I don't agree with you, Cage, or Jaffe.  All seem to have a given assumption on what games are or should be and that there shouldn't be anything that varies from that, while I'd argue that more variety in the medium can only be a good thing.

Llol everyones play through was simply a predetermined path based on whether our not they failed to preform certain actions so its still linear because everyone who got a specific ending got out in tge same way

But predetermined in the sense that the game play choices all had to be made in some scripted sequence, as opposed to a game like Mario where the goal is present but the player can choose how to tackle it

The man should just take the next step and just produce animated films.