What Defines a Game from an Interactive Movie?

🍁 Aria 🔮 · February 15, 2015, 09:29:13 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on February 15, 2015, 08:43:25 PM

emphasis on a dramatic story over gameplay

so like... mass effect

Emphasis is a bit of an understatement, I think. It'd have to be a total imbalance. To use your example of Mass Effect, the first had a large story emphasis, but... it's an RPG. Most RPGs have a story preference. The gameplay was shitty, I'll admit, but there was a lot of it.

Mass Effect 3 had an option to completely skip the gameplay and all the story choices to be "super cinematic", so I wouldn't argue over it being called a movie-game. Mass Effect 2 also, to an every-so-slightly lesser degree.

Telltale games are interactive movies.
Heavy Rain is an interactive movie.
And from everything I've seen, The Order: 1886 is an interactive movie. There's nothing wrong with them though as long as they are advertised as such. Calling a spade a spade, really. Otherwise you're misrepresenting the content.

Girl of Mystery · February 16, 2015, 12:22:55 AM

Quote from: Verbatim on February 15, 2015, 08:43:25 PM

emphasis on a dramatic story over gameplay

so like... mass effect

Is this a serious post?

Verbatim · February 16, 2015, 12:28:39 AM

dead serious

oh yeah, it's also an alien sex simulator
thanks for reminding me

Girl of Mystery · February 16, 2015, 12:32:07 AM

verbatim is le epiq master ruseman

Verbatim · February 16, 2015, 12:36:33 AM

believe whatever helps prevent you from sperging out i guess

Girl of Mystery · February 16, 2015, 12:43:16 AM

Quote from: Verbatim on February 16, 2015, 12:36:33 AM

believe whatever helps prevent you from sperging out i guess

lolokay

Stop watching Fox News

Verbatim · February 16, 2015, 12:46:36 AM

can't stop doing what i've literally never done in my life

big dog · February 16, 2015, 04:01:10 AM

Telltale games are point-and-click adventure games with QTE elements and a failure state.
Quantic Dream games are interactive movies. If only David Cage wasn't so pretentious about what he called his games.

big dog · February 16, 2015, 04:02:07 AM

Quote from: AngryBrute on February 15, 2015, 12:17:26 PM

Quote from: LC on February 15, 2015, 12:11:41 PM
From what I've seen and heard The Order 1886 is a 5 hour one.
I hope its not. If it is, expect anger.

Apparently there's 3.5 hours of cutscenes and 1.5 hours of "gameplay".

🍁 Aria 🔮 · February 16, 2015, 12:06:28 PM

Quote from: Fedorekd on February 16, 2015, 04:01:10 AM

Telltale games are point-and-click adventure games with QTE elements and a failure state.
Quantic Dream games are interactive movies. If only David Cage wasn't so pretentious about what he called his games.

Point and click just so happens to be the easiest way to make an interactive movie. Not that they're mutually exclusive, Myst definitely isn't an interactive movie. I'd label TWD an interactive movie, for example, because of two things:

1) Failure states return you to the exact moment before the failure; there is no detriment to failing in a majority of cases.

2) The gameplay mechanics are pretty simplistic, even for a point and click. The puzzles require a bare-bones knowledge of logic, and while the dialogue system was a good innovation to maintain an atmosphere of pressure to respond and immersion, it still isn't exactly a tough management. All the mechanics are present in a state to keep you immersed in the character, so that "you" are Lee/Clementine. In that sense, it keeps you in the experience.

For those two reasons, I'd call it an interactive movie. Good ones, at that.