On FMV in Games, Gore and Giving a Middle Finger to Censors

[teamcharlie]

Also, can we mention Wing Commander 3? That game's video was awesome, and held up for a very long time.

I've gotta second that. The whole series of FMV Wing Commanders was actually pretty great (3, 4 and Prophecy). They go downhill a bit, unfortunately, but the gameplay is solid and integrates very well with some of the best FMV work yet made. Doesn't hurt that the cast includes a bunch of very talented people (Mark Hamill, Thomas F. Wilson [Biff Tannen in a damn charming turn as Luke Skywalker's competition-turned-best-friend], John Rhys-Davies [Gimli], and Malcolm McDowell [who spends most of his time just eating that Goddamn scenery]) and has a decent Top Gun in space plot that actually goes somewhere.

Man, Origin was pretty amazing back in the day.

 

[Remus]

Is anyone else reminded of the presence of QTEs in games? It's something that started with certain first-party adventure titles, and continues to this day with Tomb Raider, Uncharted, Castlevania, etc etc. Quantic Dream can't let its characters take a step without it requiring a complicated series of button presses, all to do the simplest animations, because EMOTIONS!

The closest I ever came to games using FMV was the animations in MK. Sure the character models were kinda shitty but they looked so real and not cartoony! I guess I just didn't get it, why spend the money for a peripheral on the other guy's console, that had a limited library of games to say the least? It was probably cool to watch, or show off to friends, but the gameplay was often a weak imitation of the puzzles in Myst.