best and worst cutscenes/FMVs ever.

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In a lot of ways, I'm not a big fan of cutscenes and overdone plotlines in games. It just gets in the way of shit, most of the time it's bad, hammy, corny. The way some kind of plot gets pushed over the top of the game leads to my worst kind of computer game thing, the linear, on-rails plot, like "Quake 4", which is the WORST COMPUTER GAME EVER MADE.

That said, the best for me and the way it shd all be done is probably something from GTA:SA. As long as it isn't one of the ones featuring the truth, who was just annoying. Most of them are convincingly acted, nicely animated, and funny when they're supposed to be funny. They advance the plot & give you a little break, but don't get in the way For some reason I can't find anything on Youtube. Off the top of my head, my favourite one is the one where CJ picks up Kent Paul and Maccer from the desert and Maccer describes himself has having "wanked myself into a stupor". The scripts are great, the dialogue, nuances etc are as good as a lot of good stuff in other media. I never felt talked down to by the script.

Worst I've yet seen, and the inspiration for starting this thread is this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiFlkeNlFtE

The final scene from "Tomb Raider: Legend"

OMG at that dialogue. Is is so, so BAD. I was actually contemplating buying this game based on the review someone linked to in that tomb raider thread I started the other week. Now, I dunno, man. That's really terrible. Insultingly bad.

Plz link to yr favourites & unfavourites if they can be found on Youtube or elsewhere & tell me what you like and don't like about them.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

"I've wanked the use out of them", sorry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hWCs2eMoqM

"Just stand up you soppy cunt, we go through this every weekend"

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

Enh, I thought Quake 4 was okay. certainly not as excreable as half the other shooters out there. the strogification scene was kinda neat.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

The Stroggification bit was pretty good, I must admit.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

The GTA:SA final Officer Pulaski scene:

"Any last words?"
"Yeah, can I fuck your sister?"

Some of those Tony Hawk cutscenes really suck. The Rube Goldberg accident sequences are okay, but the "bad guy gets his just desserts" ones are horrible.

And Pac-Man & Ms Pac-Man meeting for the first time, great stuff.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

Psychonauts had some really good ones, but the shitty bit was when it would switch from real game to movie, which looked far worse than the regular game.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

Q4 > D3

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

(marginally)

― you win again, gravity! (tissp), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

How many cut-scenes (I'm looking at you, every Tomb Raider ever) have horribly mumbled dialogue (embarrassed voice actors?) so that not only do you have to sit thru 5 minutes of shitty plot, but you're not actually sure what just happened at the end of it?

― Clothing the Gotterdammerung Doors (noodle vague), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

I think what always gets me is the ott portentiousness of a lot of ones I've seen recently. Like all the voice actors are reading the lines through gritted teeth (which they may be, w/scripts as atrocious as that Tomb Raider Legend one).

There's actually one or two in Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness, which are like the perfect cutscenes - eg you get Lara up onto the roof of a building, she gets spotted by a police helicopter, she runs to the edge of the building, jumps across & grabs a drainpipe on the other side, which collapses, dropping her into a skip. No dialogue, and it looks great, the computer animation is really nice. I wish they were all like that one.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, the best ones are probably the ones in the original Doom series - script:

Blank brick wall
words appear:
"you have penetrated yourself to the corrupted heart of the rotting spaceport. Around you lie the hellspawn bodies of your slain demon enemies. With heart heavy, you know that you must strap on your weapons and march forward into the depths of hell...(etc)"

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

THE TRUCK HAVE STARTED TO MOVE!

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

Search: Blizzard, Namco, Square

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

Well, of course there's the classic cutscene that is simultaneously the best AND the worst, from the first Resident Evil.

Don't. Open.

That door!!

― Zachary Scott (Zach S), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:55 (eighteen years ago)

CATS: HA HA HA

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:00 (eighteen years ago)

I wonder how successful the Playstation(and consequently console RPGs) would have been w/out the rendered cutscenes of FFVII, which allowed the game to be advertised on TV, among other things.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 12 January 2007 23:25 (eighteen years ago)

THE classic RE line

― latebloomer da nutty tarkovsky (latebloomer), Saturday, 13 January 2007 03:46 (eighteen years ago)

actually this whole site's got a lot of gems:

http://www.audioatrocities.com/index.html

― latebloomer da nutty tarkovsky (latebloomer), Saturday, 13 January 2007 03:48 (eighteen years ago)

I'm enjoying the cut scenes in Yakuza a lot at the moment, if only because Mark Hamill's in some of them and they all say fuck a lot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaXXG0cNMVc

Also search Dead Rising. Some of the animations and facial expressions make the voiceovers seem like the best game acting ever.

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Saturday, 13 January 2007 12:28 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCPL3DJ72tM

― randomized what nots (latebloomer), Thursday, 28 January 2010 16:01 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MphWBulid9I

― randomized what nots (latebloomer), Thursday, 28 January 2010 16:04 (fifteen years ago)

staaaaarcraaaaaaft

― i'm with stupid ☞ (dyao), Thursday, 28 January 2010 16:05 (fifteen years ago)

I don't know if it counts, but the first big dialoguey cutscene in Symphony of the Night is all-time.

Belmont: "You STEAL men's SOULS and make them your SLAVES!!"
Dracula: "Perhaps the same could be said of ALL religions!"

― antexit, Thursday, 28 January 2010 16:09 (fifteen years ago)

FFVII first cutscene was a wooooaaahh next-gen moment for me.

― genial anarchy (darraghmac), Thursday, 28 January 2010 16:11 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWwU1_6mK_M

― randomized what nots (latebloomer), Thursday, 28 January 2010 16:25 (fifteen years ago)

...and the infamous Plumbers Don't Wear Ties

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW5oZytwUIc

― randomized what nots (latebloomer), Thursday, 28 January 2010 16:29 (fifteen years ago)

Sure I already posted a bunch of tekken ending movies on a thread somewhere.

― take me to your lemur (ledge), Thursday, 28 January 2010 16:35 (fifteen years ago)

the brutal legend cutscenes are pretty great

― Shower to the sheeple! (jjjusten), Thursday, 28 January 2010 16:35 (fifteen years ago)

i remember tekken endings and FFVII cutscenes better than i remember almost anything else from my 7th grade year

― max, Thursday, 28 January 2010 16:36 (fifteen years ago)

jill, here's a lockpick. it might be handy if you, the "master of unlocking", take it with you

― anita bonghit (rionat), Thursday, 28 January 2010 18:26 (fifteen years ago)

man nighttrap is AWESOME

― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 28 January 2010 22:46 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nShmtGHgkz0

― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 28 January 2010 22:51 (fifteen years ago)

here's what happened to the plumbers don't wear ties chick:
http://www.jeannebasone.com/

― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 28 January 2010 22:56 (fifteen years ago)

haha at those yakuza clips, when cut scene makers were overly fond of including loud foot-step sound fx

― bracken free ditch (Ste), Thursday, 28 January 2010 23:43 (fifteen years ago)

hahahah G.L.O.W.

― kingfish, Friday, 29 January 2010 01:09 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuRNRxlALHE&feature=player_embedded

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 07:06 (fifteen years ago)

i remember tekken endings and FFVII cutscenes better than i remember almost anything else from my 7th grade year

― max, Thursday, January 28, 2010 11:36 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark

haha otm

― yakko warner (cankles), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 12:27 (fifteen years ago)

its funny how captivated i was by them too, and now im just repulsed by pre-rendered anything

― yakko warner (cankles), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 12:28 (fifteen years ago)

'wide-angle stun'

― bracken free ditch (Ste), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 12:47 (fifteen years ago)

i watched this so many times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqFjUfUcDs8

― abanana, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 17:39 (fifteen years ago)

i used to watch the opening of chrono cross over and over for fun

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 18:26 (fifteen years ago)

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