The novelification of games

I'd say I'm not a fan, but by golly, Phoenix fuckin' Wright!

Does anyone like this trend of games getting more like interactive movies?

haha, we have been down this road before, and it starred tia carrera and margot kidder.

XENOSAGA FUCKING SUCKS and I'm one of the bigger RPG nerds here.

I would say the moviefication of games is a more (de)pressing issue than novelifcation!

They stopped using the phrase "interactive movies" just after everyone called "YEAH, BULLSHIT" on the CDTV, innit? (i know this isn't true, because 7th Guest was billed as one. Prize for spotting the interactive parts. Also prize for spotting the movie parts, script & actors in particular)

Xenosaga sucks? I've never played it, but I did play through Xenogears a few enjoyable times on PSX, and it was pretty great.

Yeah Xenogears was waaaaaaay better. See if you can dig up any of TOMBOT's comments regarding this as well. He's OTM.

Xenosaga is mad boring, with lousy-looking 20 minute CG cutscenes, corny ass character design (fuck a chaos.) and almost no music except during battles.

Seriously, there isn't even music on the TITLE SCREEN.

Here is "chaos.":
http://xenostar.etherealdestination.net/xenosaga3/artworks/chaos.jpg

Here's an insane person dressed as "chaos.":
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b113/SithLord555/DJHHGFDGD.jpg

I rest my case.

haha

it's all fine if there's a story "on rails" with 1-2 predetermined endings, but let me go ahead and get from point A to point B on my own without countless interruptions of expository (or simply confusing) dialogue between characters I'M ostensibly controlling.

1. I don't want to know about any dialogue between some unknowns that my character cannot see or hear

2. I don't want to have my character rambling on and on about shit they understand that I never, ever will

the player is best served by being planted into a tabula rasa of sorts who doesn't already know the entire fucking backstory and can learn it as they go along, just like the player has to.

games that don't do this force you to try and put up with hours of utterly inconsequential nonsense trying to figure out which of the PCs you can feasibly attempt to give a shit about. Amnesia and orphans may be a cheap cliche but I'd play 1000 of those games before I'd try anything remotely resembling the aforementioned Xenosaga/Front Mission garbage ever again.

i totally agree with tombot. that's why i dig the half-life expository style so much.

this is why metroid is so great, especially prime, in which the story is revealed by those alien relic things that you can basically choose to ignore if you want to.

"1. I don't want to know about any dialogue between some unknowns that my character cannot see or hear "

one of my favourite things in twilight princess was being able to listen in on the invisible spirit dudes in the twilight world, i know this isn't exactly what you mean but did you not enjoy this?