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Excuse Me, Your Cut Scene is In My Game

Posted by Zonk on from the why-can't-i-just-play dept.

Via GameSetWatch, an interesting critique of game cut scenes at the blog ItBurns. He compares and contrasts several games and their use of story, gameplay, and in-game movies (with video) to get across his point. "Splinter Cell takes a more simulative approach to many of the character interactions that occur in the game. In the next clip, Sam Fisher grabs his target, Sadono, from behind and places a gun at his temple. Using Sadono as a shield, Fisher backs towards the door and forces Sadono's head into the retinal scanner to open the lock. Fisher continues through the doorway towards the roof, interrogating Sadono as they walk to the waiting helicopter for extraction. At no time during this sequence does the player relinquish control."

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  1. As opposed to Xeno Saga... by twilightzero · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...which was more like an interactive movie with occasional times when you could play... ;)

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  2. Wimp! by Cajun+Hell · · Score: 2, Funny

    It sounds like you don't have what it takes to be a big-boss-battler. Oh sure, everyone thinks they're cut out to be the most awesome badass freedom fighter. But when the going gets tough, they wimp out. You live in a fantasy world where it's all about the glory of battle. Forgotten, is the drudgery and hard work. Feared (by wimps!), is the mind-numbing repetition that Evil overlords so often uses to discourage Good's weakest and least disciplined so-called "warriors."

    I can just imagine your whiny voice: "But I've seen this movie seven times!" Let me tell you something: when grampa played his video games against the Nazis, he sometimes had to watch the same cut-scene two dozen times! And that was just one of the scenes!

    Those make my urge to kill rise, and rise, and rise...

    Urge to kill, sure. What about your urge to endure? What about your urge to make a sacrifice, to Do Whatever It Takes to finally defeat the ultra-hard Boss at the end of the level?

    Do you think others haven't failed before you? The Boss keeps a trophy from each one. So many answer the call. So few are worthy.

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    "Believe me!" -- Donald Trump