[QUOTE="kbaily"][QUOTE="KingKoolKoopa"][QUOTE="kbaily"]

One thing that annoys me about games, ever since they made the leap from cartridges to discs, is cutscenes. I like a good story but I hate when a game is so in love with it's storyline, that it barely lets you play. People fawn over the CG cutscenes in games like MSG4 and pretty much any Square Enix game and yet it seems like you spend more time watching, long, drawn out cutscenes than actually playing the game. I understand there's a good story in there, but if I wanted to watch a bunch of non-interactive scenes, I'll go watch a movie.

Also cutscenes are often used to cover up medicore gameplay. Remove the fancy CG from a recent FF game and you get a repetitive, turn based RPG (well #12 is an exception with a new gameplay setup).

This is what I like about the Mario series, it doesn't bog us down with a ton of cutscenes. Imagine, if at the beginning of Galaxy if we were force fed some drawn out scene with Mario and Rosalina talk for 10 minutes and Mario goes on about how much he loves Peach blah blah blah....

At times, a game with an uneeded amount of cutscenes and story often comes off being pretentious.

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i miss the 5 seconds-2 minute cutscenes that games used to have.....

Well there's one game you can blame that on....I'm talking about the Emo, weepy melodrama that is Final Fantasy VII (raises flame shield to protect self from hordes of angry anime loving virgins). Look at FF games before VII and after VII. Developers got the idea that "Hey people love having movies interupting their gameplay after every level. We should do that." Now this is fine if you're capable of telling a good story though I still don't see cutscenes being more than five minutes tops. I'm talking to YOU Final Fantasy and Metal Gear Solid. Game are meant to be interactive. If I wanted to watch a bunch of non interactive cutscenes, I'd go watch one of my DVDs.

This is another problem with recent Sonic games is while I admire them for trying to tell a decent story and have some depth to their characters, Sonic games always have been very badly written. Dialouge is forced and redundant and it doesn't help that the voice actors can't emote for sh--. The two exceptions to this are of course Sonic Adventure 2 which actually had competent dialouge and Sonic Chronicles where the story was bland but the dialouge was written for someone over the age of 5.

That may be true, but RPGs are meant to have deep, involving stories. Final Fantasy is perfectly okay having 5 minute long cutscenes.

Xenosaga did it the worst... you chew thou hour long cutscenes time after time.

However I really enjoyed how Simple the first sonic games were... Evil Dr turning animals into robots, Sonic simply chasing after Dr Eggman and defeating him at his base... simple... same with Sonic 2 and 3... well 3 had knuckles, however it was still easy to tell what was going on ingame if you offically never read the story in the manuals 

I have a question. What if you never had a video game console.. or no source of videos games at this day of age? what will you be doing to keeping yourself entertained?

Take a car and start racing?

or keep up a ball and start a football or basketball match?

or gets cones and start playing chess.

It's fun exploring, however there are some points which exist which are not on the page... saying that, I'm almost stop using Wikipedia. It's only because I'm a uni student and some of the stuff I read has changed the way I thought about the world. So no WIKI for me

I love wikipedia. I like reading the discussion pages on articles like Masturbation and Penis Loads of fun arguing.Benny_is_here

I took a look at the page and discussion.. that's GRAPHIC!

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[QUOTE="loopy_101"]Eastern RPGs because "Middle Earth" games grow very tiresome.loopy_101

THe Noose/Viking RPG styles gets boring fast, also that setting feels like some places here in London... Valkyire Profile 2 did that... seriously. it was an interesting story, however gave me a headache with some of the settings and enivornment.

I don't like it simply because there isn't much to it. Why trade imaginative designs of the future for the generic Goblin or Orc?

That's a good point... with technogically and creativitaty at it's peak, it's worth investing some new ideas for the game

To be honest, I think the writers and designers are lazy... I'm also talking about Blizzard aswell with Warcraft and Diablo... they're simply using it as a way out to focus on gameplay. I would have to honstly say Starcraft gets my liking, as all the units are original and it's engaging story. Age of Empire also makes an effort to create wonderful worlds.

I'm happy I stop playing the Warcraft series after The Frozen Throne. No World of Warcraft for me mate.

The funny thing is I used to have one, I've now swapped to an Acekard 2.loopy_101

Thx god, If I had something like that... I'll be cautious of MI5 agents or SWAT might raid my home.

It is ironic that the original poster had one

Its funny how Page responds to the fusion lol.loopy_101

That was the best bits... the whole of the final levels really took the edge. Who would want to own Europe?

and how JC replys how he's "going to 'burn' alright"

Gamespot always looks for quality and innvation... I'm unable to challenge them there, they do make some good points... I'm unsure if they were planning to be conventional. They just plan to open up people's minds. They gave some credit to 50 Cents latest game at least. I'm not a fan of 50 Cent, however I've taken they're opinions into account and sometimes do believe they do make goods points.

I'm happy that they fired Jeff Gerstsmann to be honested, rating Tony Hawk 3 a 10/10 was a crime. I hardly care when it comes to reviews sometimes, I still end up buying games for my liking. Keep in mind that Metacritic is around.