https://nitter.ca/Marc_Normandin/status/1558080676120895488#m
I wonder if he was thinking specifically of Metal Gear Solid or something similar.
https://nitter.ca/Marc_Normandin/status/1558080676120895488#m
I wonder if he was thinking specifically of Metal Gear Solid or something similar.
Why not Final Fantasy and other RPG titles?
FF8 came out in 1999 on the back of FF7's success. It produced spectacular cutscenes as reward for the same formula of menu driven turnbased jRPG combat that had existed for over a decade.
It was also the second most successful game in Japan that year. Beaten only by Pokemon Gold.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_in_video_games#Japan
Time Crisis also dominated arcades at the time which is basically all the same thing and entirely "reward cutscene for successful progress". It is arguably even worse than an fps title for its complete lack of player control.
Hadn't Nintendo made Super Mario RPG with Square just a few years prior though? It didn't have FMV but a lot of scenes with characters talking to each other
It does sound very much like what FF13 ended up being though
Wasn't Time Crisis an arcade style rail shooter though? Those had been around a while
Yeah but what I'm getting at is that the trend of games towards this was just beginning. It was the point at which people were realising "these sequels have the same gameplay as all the other games, they are changing nothing except the cutscenes". It was the point at which they were recognising that games were becoming a factory line for profit instead of art.
Nintendo is guilty of the opposite thing. Instead of selling their games on cutscenes/story they sold their games on gameplay while reusing the same characters and story over and over again. Reusing the same characters over and over is interesting though I suppose because it forces your entire focus to be on "So what gameplay are we making?" as your characters and their background already exist.
Obviously this didn't stop things like Pokemon doing the same gameplay over and over again though. But Pokemon made 150+ new characters each game generation so I suppose they felt like that was different enough to what anyone else was doing.