"Cinematic"
I am so so tired of seeing this as some sort of high standard to be aspired to
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Beyond that, a work needs more to stand on. Good story, good gameplay, good music, ...
It's the people who sell us games that do.
ever.
/pet peeve
Games can use aspects of it but only selectively. There's no hard and fast rules to using cinematic language in games, which makes it difficult to discuss, especially with "kill all cutscenes 5ever" being such a prevalent viewpoint.
Let's bring back an old badly-worded thing that I said before that people didn't like hearing.
Games shouldn't try to be more like movies. Movies should try to be more like games.
It is commonly encountered in the format of episodes of a TV series as chapters.
i don't see what's wrong with cinematic video games existing? If you don't like them, play something else.
As for Endtroducing... i suppose so on the movie samples, but that's just never how it seemed to me. It always struck me as more atmospheric.
Dark Souls II came out like last year
i know that feel, yo
If "cinematic" means being plot-heavy, I'm okay with it, actually, and I generally like that.
However, the "cinematic" I don't like is filling the game with lots of cutscenes, and constantly taking the camera out of the player's perspective. That's basically just visually reminding me "you're playing a game, and not actually part of this story".
That said, when I hear people talk about the overuse of the word "cinematic," I automatically think lazy reviews of post-rock albums circa 2010.
Oh my my my...
For one thing it's often directed at games that are designed around noninteractive cinematics (Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy, Metal Gear) and are inextricably bound to at least having them in /some/ form, even if they aren't uniformly implemented well. But the complaints aren't directed at games that DO misuse cinematics (pretty much every Bioware game). Or they're directed at games that have far more deep tissue problems (Call of Duty) than trying to look like movies.
It's part of this overall tendency to mistake texture for substance.
And it seems somewhat related to the tendency to resent games that aren't immediately upfront with the experience they are going to be. Like, people are super sensitive to when a work's tone changes and will read it as a bad thing automatically just because it's not what they expected, or, more importantly, wanted.
i'm not sure i consider that a good reason proportionate to the amount of hate such shifts get, though
or i guess it is but that seems like a needlessly dysphemistic way of putting it when twists and unpredictability are usually considered the mark of a good storyteller