TheGreatOne
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Since directing movies that the players watch with little to no input is the biggest ambition of majority of AAA developers, how come they don't just make proper movies rather than waste their time with cutscenes and scripting? If Origin Systems could afford big name stars to act in a space sim game series in the 90s, I'm sure modern popamole AAA developers have enough money to direct their own B-movies to fill in the gaps between gameplay. Paying real actors money to do motion capture feels so ass backwards when you could just as easily have them act themselves in the game for less trouble. And hey, if the there's no gameplay during the talky bits, maybe the designers could actually focus on improving the gameplay bits?
Isn't all that different from
The illusion of player agency is just that in most games, illusion. Like Half Life I guess you can throw trash at people and bunny hop on their heads, but you still have to listen to what they have to say before you can progress.
Dividing the story and gameplay doesn't work in games like Desu Sex, but games like that are a tiny minority. In most modern AAA titles you have no influence on anything during the storybits, even if in theory you're in control of your character. Hell, many games punish you for deviating from the plot and force you to redo sections if don't follow the damn train script
inb4 immershun&CyberP
Isn't all that different from
The illusion of player agency is just that in most games, illusion. Like Half Life I guess you can throw trash at people and bunny hop on their heads, but you still have to listen to what they have to say before you can progress.
Dividing the story and gameplay doesn't work in games like Desu Sex, but games like that are a tiny minority. In most modern AAA titles you have no influence on anything during the storybits, even if in theory you're in control of your character. Hell, many games punish you for deviating from the plot and force you to redo sections if don't follow the damn
inb4 immershun&CyberP