Ok, no indies. My point doesn't change, almost every AAA game has a movie like trailer, but it doesn't mean is going to be an interactive movie. Take The Witcher 3, for example, a lot of spectacular trailers, but i bet it's going to be a fantastic videogame. The only game close to your description that comes to my mind is The Order, and even here i'm not sure about it because i haven't played it. To tell the truth, the answer to your question should be taken for granted.

i guess that makes sense. the trailer compels the masses to buy the game because it shows that it has financial power, indicating that a lot of money was put into it, which means quality.

Because you refuse to acknowledge the ones that aren't like that.

If this is a valid foundation to accuse the "overwhelming majority" of PS4 and X1 games being like movies, perhaps we should start referring to games that still use speech bubbles as books.

The appeal of a story-driven game is that you're playing within an interactive frame-work that engages the imagination.  Personally, I love that and I know I'm not alone.  Looking back, Final Fantasy VI saved me from the gaming ennui I'd fallen into with interchangable platformers and beat 'em ups where the characters were caricatures and the story a cliche.  Final Fantasy became a force because it offered layers beyond memory- and twitch-based game-play.

It really feels like you're trying to build a false and dishonest argument.  Human Revolution had a good plot and good game-play, so it obviously was not a movie.  Having BOTH of those elements is what makes people excited.

A far better discussion would be about the trailers themselves and how they've changed since disc-based media has become standard and internet bandwidth has grown but I'm not sure that would meet your goals.

Really bad choice of game as an example, Deus Ex games are really nothing like movies, they've always been about choices in gameplay, though do they have story to tell.

As for this particular trailer, speaking as a fan since 2000, I don't find it to be very good, honestly I think it's pretty generic and it doesn't do justice to franchise.

i think youre right that i should have just limited it to trailers, because it seems to be the focus of the discussion more-so than the game itself, but i feel like the way the games are designed are somewhat relevant to that. 

and what youre tlaking about with FF6 and platformers is exactly what im talking about. when one genre or style takes up the overwhelming majority of releases, it can be tiring. i would like it more if there were more variety from AAA developers.

Because that is the type of game that sells the most and scores the highest if the story is presented well. There are a few exceptions to this rule like Bloodborne, where the plot is cryptic. But most will try to use story to push a game because that is one of the first things most gamers look at these days.  With that said however, the final game is usually very far from an actual movie when u play it.

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I actually agree.  That lack of variety is the reason I left Nintendo in the first place.

Other than that, I'm not sure about the exact argument you're using here.  Are you saying that there are too many story-driven games?  That, I don't agree with.  Even if a game has a cinematic trailer, many titles only use that as a thin framework with which to explain the circumstances of the game-play.  Something like Far Cry, as an example, really just uses the plot as a way to simulate progression so you have stuff to unlock.  People mainly play them for the game-play.  I've taken all towers/bases in Far Cry 3 & 4 but I've never seen the "ending" of either one.

Oh god, I literally burst out laughing from this

I don't think there's anyway to say it better than that lol