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enurtsol



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 12:15 am Reply with quote
iloveturkey wrote:

I took it as a joke that a lot of games are movies these days, and label themselves as "cinematic experiences" so we watch them instead of play them. Ah well.


Whadjahave against VNs?! Cool
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Polycell



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 10:52 am Reply with quote
I'd say calling a pure VN a game is a categorization failure(though I've seen suspicions of a relationship with point-and-click adventure games).
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Fedora-san



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 11:44 am Reply with quote
Cinematic Experience is a general buzzword developers use to refer to games where it gives the player the illusion they're playing a game. A very overused example I see all the time are those segments in shooters where your character is forced to walk forward slowly while your AI teammates or someone over your radio talks to you and you're forced to listen to it and unable to move around as normal, or when the camera shifts upwards or to the side to show you something by force, like a building collapsing or a helicoptor flying overhead. Rather than allowing you to discover it for yourself, it uses a very hand-holding type of mechanic to ensure you don't miss it. It's a term that's come to mean when games prioritize doing cinematic style presentation over actual gameplay. Visual novels do not deceive the player on what they are, they are exactly what their name implies.

Walking Dead is a good example, it bills itself as as adventure game, but it completely lacks the elements of adventure games like puzzle solving and item hunting. It was more like a visual novel than anything else. Though it's problem was no matter what choices you made you still got the same ending, where as visual novels will generally have multiple paths and endings to choose from. I'm not sure if WD still calls itself an adventure game or not, but given it calls its installments 'seasons' and 'episodes' it's probably forgoing calling itself a game, but more of an interactive TV show.
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enurtsol



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2014 3:12 pm Reply with quote
Polycell wrote:

I'd say calling a pure VN a game is a categorization failure(though I've seen suspicions of a relationship with point-and-click adventure games).


T'was just a joke, though I agree with you. Just because VNs appear on some game platforms, generally it's literature - that's why "visual novel" is an apt name. Just like my Choose Your Own Adventure books or "audio books" are still literature.
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