So the non-interactive part of the game is the best part of an interactive experience? Wow CVSiN. I'd expect that comment from an old woman, not you. I thought you liked actually playing games, didn't you play Quake? That shit had like 0 cutscenes. The best games don't need any cutscenes to drag the player in and engage them.
I'd personally rather read a book worth of dialogue than have some corny ass actor say the lines for me. It gives the writer more freedom, since he doesn't need anyone to act everything, he can put more content into the game.
Good lord you sure are sensitive about all this. It's like you're arguing in favor of casette tapes because they were good enough and CDs were an unnecessary development.
So you need to be able to change your companion's clothes to enjoy a game, but if the developers add cutscenes to take you beyond what's possible to present in the game engine, it's unnecessary shit?
Oh, and I can only imagine the feedback if a modern game had no cutscenes or was highly textbased; "The developers are out of touch! They didn't spend enough money in development! Consolization is holding us back from having an engulfing cinematic experience!" and the like.
It's absurd how much unadulterated negativity is in here. It's one thing to disagree with a games design, but when you look at the bigger picture it really looks a lot more like people being impossible to please.
"RPGs don't need great graphics" vs "We didn't get hi-res textures natively, consolized"
"I prefer reading to watching" vs "No cutscenes? Rushed and underfunded"
"I like innovative, challenging games" vs "If it ain't broke don't fix it"
"Gameplay imbalance / overpowered characters" vs "Fully customizable characters"
Just a few thrown around in this thread at any rate. I mean everyone supposedly wants the developers to listen to the gamers, but gamers have no idea what they want, and if they do it's awful contrarian.
People want a game that looks like Crysis and feels like BG2 with the replayability of D2 and the customizability of NWN and the difficulty of Ninja Gaiden and the atmosphere of HL2 and the size of EVE and... want to only pay $30 for it
