Most games I played do not, but games like Xenoblade does have a lot of cutscenes and it really slows the pace

Games like the movie the order 1886 are way too cinematic

Traditional gamers like that tend to not be worth paying attention to anyway. If they're going to bitch about how bad games are nowadays they can go play on their "superior" Atari or NES

No, video games are becoming too long, too big.

Fire watch sounds like something I can actually finish without getting bored. Although I still have 99,999,987,000 star systems to visit in Elite Dangerous. I can't buy anymore games for the ps4 atm, hdd is full and I'm dreading starting the next 100 hour game that's sitting there waiting for me. Games are becoming too much of a commitment. I don't feel like playing Xenoblade either as it will suck up all my time. Average play time 168 hours, wtf!

I'll stick to something without a story, like racing or Elite Dangerous for now. Can stop any time without having to remember what I was doing, where I was going, who I have to talk too, etc. No going to the next save point, or better buy/sell that before I forget, or get to somewhere save. Quit instantly, done. That's why something simple like pac man is more fun!

actually i didnt really like the last of us, because it was too cinematic. uncharted cinematicness is more of a indiana jones games. I havent played the other ones, but what im trying to say is that i love some cinematicness but not the whole game, even though it may be recieved good in the critics, its getting those good critics for the wrong reasons

Really? im always happy when Xenoblade games have Cutscenes. Especially in Xenoblade Chronicles X where there are few cutscenes

The story is difficult? i would think otherwise, you just need some father and his daughter in a post-apocalyptic setting xD lol seriously though story isnt THAT hard, to actually make the game fun while having a good story, thats harder

I always thought games as a combination of all forms of media in which everything is equal.

Overall, I think game developers are making a mistake and limiting themselves by adopting the movie-style storytelling using cutscenes. I feel games have higher potential for storytelling than movies but it is never going to be realized as long as games mimic and look up to movies as a gold standard. I understand why developers do it or in this case are forced to do it. Change is happening but slow, so slow...

There might be some "spoilers" about Firewatch and I suggest to stop reading if someone is interested playing the game.

About Firewatch....it's the perfect example in this case. Firewatch is a game you need to go in completely blind and the less you know beforehand the better. OP made a fatal flaw and essentially watched a movie and thus cannot comprehend the idea of Firewatch at all and is not in position to criticize it as a game anymore. I don't blame him/her, his/her reaction is what you would expect.

Firewatch is not about the story at all, it's about what the player experiences and how human mind works. It's the players own mind that starts to play tricks from the limited information what is provided. From reading comments on the internet, when the game ends most players feel the real story was not what they expected and felt when they were playing. And that psychological experience is what Firewatch is about. You make things bigger in your mind, like you would if you were alone in the woods.

Yeah, Splatoon was the most cinematic game I've ever played.