Live action RPGs

[Wyrmlord]

NOT the same as Live Action Role Playing.

I am talking about this stuff:

More from where that came? Anyone know some interesting, obscure examples?

 

[Excidium]

You mean the whole game using digitalized actors?

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Vai dormir, Excidium.

No, he just means games that feature that sort of things. The 3DO console used a lot of that, iirc. Including the glorious Plumbers don't wear ties.

On a side note, I love how Wesker is the same no matter what technology is used to depict him

 

[Metro]

Time Traveler!

 

[Excidium]

Leaving the RPG genre there's a whole fucking bunch of games using FMV.

Vai dormir, Excidium.

Já vou.

 

[Konjad]

The fuck is this

 

[RK47]

I remember there's Lands of Lore III being panned like hell. Watching some youtube playthrough, and I was glad I never bought it when I was younger. Shit, shit shit.

FMV had its place in presentation and cinematics, but gameplay? Ridiculous.

 

[Elwro]

The fuck is this

Stonekeep!

 

[mondblut]

FMV had its place in presentation and cinematics, but gameplay? Ridiculous.

Well, BAK pulled it out fairly tolerably. And even Stonekeep, too. Wahooka (the great) was pretty classic.

2OP Ishar 3 had some digitized photos for character portraits and ingame sprites. And lest we forget Unreal World

Oh, and while cinematics alone is stretching it too far, we can't go without mentioning "Rest well this night, for tomorrow you sail to the kingdom of Daggerfall".

 

[Satori (original)]

Leaving the RPG genre there's a whole fucking bunch of games using FMV.

Quite. If you don't mind adventures, The Black Dahlia (a game where you start of hunting supposed Fascist elements in 1930's America as a detective then get latched onto the Torso Killer case), Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Rose Tattoo, Harvester (a great mindfuck and gory game), 7th Guest, Ripper, and Black Mirror 3.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKA!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSs1UGSomOI

 

[Konjad]

http://youtu.be/SmAUjYYH8Bk

 

[commie]

I love FMV. There's something so innocent in it's cheesiness...

 

[felipepepe]

Phantasmagoria is possibly the Quintessential FMV game.

It was a massive game / production at the time, I was really frightened playing it, but now I think its even MORE scary.

I mean, just look at those pre-rendered backgrounds! Teh horror.....teh horror...

And that's why we don't FMV anymore kids.

 

[Menckenstein]

Phantasmagoria is possibly the Quintessential FMV game.

It was a massive game / production at the time, I was really frightened playing it, but now I think its even MORE scary.

I mean, just look at those pre-rendered backgrounds! Teh horror.....teh horror...

And that's why we don't FMV anymore kids.

Best game over sequences in a game ever.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

for an example of how actor digitisation improves all games also see Street Fighter - The Movie : The Game

actually now that I think about it only Mortal Kombat got the whole live action sprite thing right and even so it wasn't in a way that you could take seriously

 

[Menckenstein]

for an example of how actor digitisation improves all games also see Street Fighter - The Movie : The Game

actually now that I think about it only Mortal Kombat got the whole live action sprite thing right and even so it wasn't in a way that you could take seriously

Lethal Enforcers, bro

 

[sgc_meltdown]

bro I never played arcade gun games IRL and there's so much other shit on mame

(search)

is this black ops gentleman rolling like geralt

 

[felipepepe]

actually now that I think about it only Mortal Kombat got the whole live action sprite thing right and even so it wasn't in a way that you could take seriously

I took it very seriously at the time. :D

 

[sgc_meltdown]

I took it very seriously at the time. :D

me: "Man why are their normal moves all the same? Don't they all use different martial arts?"

 

[RK47]

FMV had its place in presentation and cinematics, but gameplay? Ridiculous.

Well, BAK pulled it out fairly tolerably. And even Stonekeep, too. Wahooka (the great) was pretty classic.

2OP Ishar 3 had some digitized photos for character portraits and ingame sprites. And lest we forget Unreal World

Oh, and while cinematics alone is stretching it too far, we can't go without mentioning "Rest well this night, for tomorrow you sail to the kingdom of Daggerfall".

He did mention RPG, and yes, BAK pulled it off well, why? Because they didn't attempt real time combat with it. It's just a bunch of looping animation as the characters wait their turn, and combat is mostly a simple swing...some spherical and pixellated spell effects. It wasn't over the top and functional.

Once 3D graphic works got smoother, there's really no tolerating stiff FMV sequences ...that Phantasmagoria screenshot gave me nightmares. My longest tolerance with FMV sequence is prolly Sherlock Holmes cases whereby I had to pay attention to what they say to gather clues and solve cases. It was neat. Compared to the retarded Dracula game they released earlier.

But then again ,I'm stupid because I still love Westwood for bringing FMV sequence cinematics to bear in a strange genre. Or should I blame Joe Kucan? Lovely touch with C&C and without those live actors, that game would've been different.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

I'm stupid because I still love Westwood for bringing FMV sequence cinematics to bear in a strange genre.

Bullshit son, fmv briefing is best pump up for mission and mission success fmv is best reward! Period!

up to C&C3 at least

 

[Menckenstein]

bro I never played arcade gun games IRL and there's so much other shit on mame

(search)

is this black ops gentleman rolling like geralt

lol I like Andy Dick in the purple sweater in the background.

 

[abnaxus]

The fuck is this

Stonekeep!

Best intro ever

 

[Phelot]

"Did somebody say..."

"FMV?!"

I really need to finish that LP. I actually have most of the screens done.

 

[Wyrmlord]

Phantasmagoria is possibly the Quintessential FMV game.

It was a massive game / production at the time, I was really frightened playing it, but now I think its even MORE scary.

I mean, just look at those pre-rendered backgrounds! Teh horror.....teh horror...

And that's why we don't FMV anymore kids.

Because it scares people?

 

[Wyrmlord]

Come to think of it, I think I started watching Battlestar Galactica only because of one C&C game.

 

[Phelot]

I have to admit I always cringed when seeing FMV. Even if the game itself was good. I always dreaded seeing the cutscenes in C&C, for example. It was just so embarrassing to see.