The whole point of the experience is to prop the player up until the final cutscene plays.
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Had this revelation occurred in a cutscene instead of during active play, it would not have the same impact.
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A lot of players will naturally pause here, thinking they're watching a cutscene, before they realize that they're actually in control.
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These are story-, cutscene- and battle-heavy, requiring you to send heroes and armies on treks halfway across the world to fight handcrafted battles.
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First off, cutscenes are nearly always the worst part of the game.
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Apparently, the iPhone can run the entire game, cutscenes and all.
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People inevitably trot out cutscenes as an example of True Videogame Art, which is perplexing.
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The game has bizarre characters, lengthy exposition, and indulgent cutscenes which fill it to the brim.
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You'll go through a few cutscenes detailing the far before waking up bruised and bandaged in a cave.
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Combat is based on the timing of the button presses, similar to action role playing games, with occasional quick time event cutscenes.
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Since Edge is effectively the HTML 5 version of Flash it would allow us to build higher quality cutscenes without overloading people's hard drives.
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Often, cutscenes and gameplay combine for a set-piece moment that forces players into a time-sensitive slow motion shootout with gang members or corrupt policemen.
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The lengthy, dialogue-heavy cutscenes and tight focus on tone and staging would feel out of place in any open-world game from EA, Ubisoft, or Rockstar.
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Even in the game's cutscenes (which make up roughly one-third of the single-player campaign's length), most of Payne's dialogue happens only in his head.
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If the object is "Shoot every spaceship you see," packing the cinematic cutscenes full of human relationships, dialog, and backstory won't deepen the experience.