Heh, understandable. For me it didn’t click because of all those intermissions. It didn’t help that my first playthrough was on hard difficulty and enemies can randomly oneshot you, adding frustration to an experience I was already barely enjoying.
Excessive cutscenes are certainly a problem, but I think Quick Time Events are worse. They're this unholy half-arsed mix of cutscene and gameplay that tries to be both and does neither well. The cutscenes are my time to take my hand off the mouse, sit back, and soak up some story. Do not violate that with an input prompt! They suck because the two things they try to combine are fundamentally opposed in design. Gameplay is active and cutscenes are passive, so when you try to combine them, you end up with this mess that feels like it should be passive, but never lets you relax because it keeps asking for input. They're like a stroad. Those horrible multi-lane roads lined with car-centric businesses and hectares of parking lots that nobody would ever want to visit on foot.
Although I don't agree with some points, you cooked way to hard with this one 🔥
Thanks :D but now I’m curious about which points you didn’t agree with 👀
Even with the over abundance of cutscenes, Mad Payne 3 is still one of my favorite video games of all time. John Wick before John Wick.
Heh, understandable. For me it didn’t click because of all those intermissions. It didn’t help that my first playthrough was on hard difficulty and enemies can randomly oneshot you, adding frustration to an experience I was already barely enjoying.
dangit i'm already subscribed. can't sub again
I’ll just pretend the subs counter has increased by one :D
Excessive cutscenes are certainly a problem, but I think Quick Time Events are worse. They're this unholy half-arsed mix of cutscene and gameplay that tries to be both and does neither well. The cutscenes are my time to take my hand off the mouse, sit back, and soak up some story. Do not violate that with an input prompt!
They suck because the two things they try to combine are fundamentally opposed in design. Gameplay is active and cutscenes are passive, so when you try to combine them, you end up with this mess that feels like it should be passive, but never lets you relax because it keeps asking for input.
They're like a stroad. Those horrible multi-lane roads lined with car-centric businesses and hectares of parking lots that nobody would ever want to visit on foot.
The video starts at 3:15.