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Nintendo, unlike most companies are focused on making games with gameplay. Most companies are making movies with gameplay segments in between.

mpg33 8y ago
Sony is the most guilty of this imo. Even Microsoft's 1st party games are more "gamey" than Sony.
- billybolton 8y ago
  cough Uncharted, Last Of Us cough
  - justrobert 8y ago
    Two games by the same studio who are praised for their ability to tell a story. To be honest there are only a few games I played during the ps3 era (bought it for the cell chip+linux and left it unpatched when they removed it from the firmware until the system was broken wide open), but the last of us was a great story and fun game.
scrooched_moose 8y ago
That's been my biggest gripe with modern gaming. It feels like 2 of the first 3 hours of most modern games are cutscenes. I miss powering on a game, hitting start, maybe reading a paragraph, and going straight to the action. Luckily some recent indy games have filled that itch. Yooka-Laylee, A Hat in Time, and Hollow Knight have felt like modern updates of what I grew up on.
- duxup 8y ago
  And bad cut-scenes. There are some notable exceptions, but storytelling and just narrative quality and variety is .... not really there. If they're going to fill my time with cut scenes they should be good.
  - IntelMiner 8y ago
    So bad they're good is also quite fun I still have fond memories of Westwood's Command & Conquer cutscenes (and the CGI!) because it was so cheesy and low budget
    - duxup 8y ago
      I like a game that doesn't take itself too seriously!
- azeirah 8y ago
  Hollow knight, aside from Breath of the Wild, was my favorite game of the year. It's such a great, great game. It offers a fantastic atmosphere supported by a fitting score, an unexpected amount of unique content, an interesting story and a fitting amount of challenge. Fantastic experience overall!
agumonkey 8y ago
Companies of this era, before ps2 hardware class you had to make something a bit fun in its more trivial and most interesting sense.
Semirhage 8y ago
Try Nioh or Dark Souls, you’ll have gameplay coming out of your ears. If you want cutscenes and dialogue with balance, try Persona 5, which is balanced by very tight gameplay; likewise with Yakuza 0. Avoid anything from Ubisoft like it was carrying plague.
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- billybolton 8y ago
  Speaking of Ubisoft, is it just me or do they repackage the same game with different skins over and over gain? I swear Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Ghost Recon and Watch Dogs are the same game with different skins.
  - Semirhage 8y ago
    It is not just you. It reminds me of Taco Bell. They’re only working with a dozen or so ingredients, sometimes fried, sometimes grilled, in various combinations. After a while though, you start to realize it’s just a “new” arrangement of the same “meat” and it gets ooooold.
    - billybolton 8y ago
      It's a shame, they used to be good. I really like the idea behind Assassin's Creed. And Sands of Time is a god tier A++ game.
      - Semirhage 8y ago
        I couldn’t agree more, I think they just got lost in the easy money. If we’re lucky they might fall on some hard times that fall short of killing them, and rememember that making really great games was how they became huge the first time. Otherwise, it’s hard to see a way forward the way they are now.
    - always_good 8y ago
floatboth 8y ago
Good old id still makes games with 99.9999% gameplay. DOOM 2016 was all about the gameplay.
- mrob 8y ago
  I like how the (brief) opening cut-scene ends with Doomguy losing patience with the computer trying to narrate to him after only a few seconds, and smashing it. The game's attitude to storytelling is established quickly and decisively.
  - isk517 8y ago
    My favorite part of all that is the fact the developers actually did develop lore and a back story for Doom 2016 that the player is then free to either explore or ignore. The attitude towards storytelling that they established is so much more impressive when you realize that they actually did put effort into making a story.

mpg33 8y ago

Sony is the most guilty of this imo. Even Microsoft's 1st party games are more "gamey" than Sony.

billybolton 8y ago
cough Uncharted, Last Of Us cough
- justrobert 8y ago
  Two games by the same studio who are praised for their ability to tell a story. To be honest there are only a few games I played during the ps3 era (bought it for the cell chip+linux and left it unpatched when they removed it from the firmware until the system was broken wide open), but the last of us was a great story and fun game.

scrooched_moose 8y ago

That's been my biggest gripe with modern gaming. It feels like 2 of the first 3 hours of most modern games are cutscenes. I miss powering on a game, hitting start, maybe reading a paragraph, and going straight to the action. Luckily some recent indy games have filled that itch. Yooka-Laylee, A Hat in Time, and Hollow Knight have felt like modern updates of what I grew up on.

duxup 8y ago
And bad cut-scenes. There are some notable exceptions, but storytelling and just narrative quality and variety is .... not really there. If they're going to fill my time with cut scenes they should be good.
- IntelMiner 8y ago
  So bad they're good is also quite fun I still have fond memories of Westwood's Command & Conquer cutscenes (and the CGI!) because it was so cheesy and low budget
  - duxup 8y ago
    I like a game that doesn't take itself too seriously!
azeirah 8y ago
Hollow knight, aside from Breath of the Wild, was my favorite game of the year. It's such a great, great game. It offers a fantastic atmosphere supported by a fitting score, an unexpected amount of unique content, an interesting story and a fitting amount of challenge. Fantastic experience overall!

agumonkey 8y ago

Companies of this era, before ps2 hardware class you had to make something a bit fun in its more trivial and most interesting sense.

Semirhage 8y ago

Try Nioh or Dark Souls, you’ll have gameplay coming out of your ears. If you want cutscenes and dialogue with balance, try Persona 5, which is balanced by very tight gameplay; likewise with Yakuza 0. Avoid anything from Ubisoft like it was carrying plague.

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billybolton 8y ago
Speaking of Ubisoft, is it just me or do they repackage the same game with different skins over and over gain? I swear Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Ghost Recon and Watch Dogs are the same game with different skins.
- Semirhage 8y ago
  It is not just you. It reminds me of Taco Bell. They’re only working with a dozen or so ingredients, sometimes fried, sometimes grilled, in various combinations. After a while though, you start to realize it’s just a “new” arrangement of the same “meat” and it gets ooooold.
  - billybolton 8y ago
    It's a shame, they used to be good. I really like the idea behind Assassin's Creed. And Sands of Time is a god tier A++ game.
    - Semirhage 8y ago
      I couldn’t agree more, I think they just got lost in the easy money. If we’re lucky they might fall on some hard times that fall short of killing them, and rememember that making really great games was how they became huge the first time. Otherwise, it’s hard to see a way forward the way they are now.
  - always_good 8y ago

floatboth 8y ago

Good old id still makes games with 99.9999% gameplay. DOOM 2016 was all about the gameplay.

mrob 8y ago
I like how the (brief) opening cut-scene ends with Doomguy losing patience with the computer trying to narrate to him after only a few seconds, and smashing it. The game's attitude to storytelling is established quickly and decisively.
- isk517 8y ago
  My favorite part of all that is the fact the developers actually did develop lore and a back story for Doom 2016 that the player is then free to either explore or ignore. The attitude towards storytelling that they established is so much more impressive when you realize that they actually did put effort into making a story.