I have actually seen this quite a bit in my own company. The question becomes why change something that isn't broken?
Well the only answer that I have found is that it uses hours that need to be assigned to salary employees. I work on a simulator that uses very sophisticated algorithms for some of its models computation. It is amusing to see an algorithm that worked nearly 10 years ago flawlessly, get changed because some programmer sitting at a desk decided that he didn't like how the code looked.
I would have to agree, the fact that there was only two cut scenes in the entire game (not including the various flashes of the past) One at the beginning and one at the end (two actually if you count the different endings) really lent the game some credibility in the actual act of being able to tell a story without 100 million dollars in CG animation. I'm sure there was some expensive development cost, but it showed in gameplay, not in movies.
I do love Square-Enix but I must say that Bioshock was much more fun to play and much more engaging than any CG intensive game I have played in a while.
As for it being a film? Unless they cover the fall of rapture, it will suck - bottom line. Look at Doom, thats what happens when they make FPS game into Movies. It would be like making Half-Life a movie, isn't it already like an interactive movie?
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Well the only answer that I have found is that it uses hours that need to be assigned to salary employees. I work on a simulator that uses very sophisticated algorithms for some of its models computation. It is amusing to see an algorithm that worked nearly 10 years ago flawlessly, get changed because some programmer sitting at a desk decided that he didn't like how the code looked.
If its not broken, keep your fingers out of it!
I do love Square-Enix but I must say that Bioshock was much more fun to play and much more engaging than any CG intensive game I have played in a while.
As for it being a film? Unless they cover the fall of rapture, it will suck - bottom line. Look at Doom, thats what happens when they make FPS game into Movies. It would be like making Half-Life a movie, isn't it already like an interactive movie?