Yeah the cutscenes in both those games look equally good.
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Days Gone: Main story completion will take about 30 hours with 6 hours of cutscenes
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Yeah the cutscenes in both those games look equally good.
Quite the opposite, I feel invested in TLoU, but this just left me cold.
Western AAA storytelling just doesn't grab me, unless it's a Santa Monica or Naughty Dog game.
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And just as many people care about a good story its great to see devs strive for them.
Of course, no one is demanding the devs to stop telling stories, I think it's great that people are enjoying them.
We are just explaining why it's okay to skip cutscenes, it's okay that some people prefer gameplay over story, and vice versa.
For me personally I always love a great story and will pay 100% attention to it if it's something that I cared about, but if the story or universe doesn't grab me then I stopped caring and would start skipping cutscenes once It gets boring. I would NEVER skip cutscenes in Uncharted games because they are just amazing.
Awesome. But just hours of cutscenes is not saying much. Not sure why everyone is already taking conclusions over it.
I'm actually more curious with the side content and post credits to do activities.
I'm actually more curious with the side content and post credits to do activities.
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cutscenes too overrated, we need just action with no context and cut to the chase basically turn on console/pc and play
Nah I think games like Bloodborne, Ori, Ico, Dishonoured actually tell a great story that fully uses the gaming medium.
Any game that has 6 hours of cutscenes is way too excessive
Weird comparsion, especially games like Ori or Ico...
And the second part is only your opinion...
Just one advice. Stay away from Remedy games, you will hate it.
cutscenes too overrated, we need just action with no context and cut to the chase basically turn on console/pc and play
Incredibly shallow read on this debate.
People are not saying they don't want stories, people are saying that the cutscenes in this game takes too long and that's not the kind of storytelling they want.
Some people prefer a more engaging type of storytelling such as gameplay or environmental storytelling. Not everyone likes watching movies in a video game.
Besides, just because games like Last of Us, Uncharted and God of War have amazing cutscenes doesn't mean video game cutscene are all amazing by default, a lot of them are garbage. Even games that are supposedly highly story focused can have really bad cutsceness, the final season of Telltale's Walking Dead is a great example, and don't even remind me of The Order 1886, the cutscenes in that game is downright laughable.
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Great! 30h main story +50h total (at least for me, can'twait to cruise the pacific northwest with a bike)
Most of those who wanna skip the cutscenes don't even own a PS4 so it's the same old story of attacking Sony's games for being too cinematic...
We know how that turns out though, with Sony's games dominating sales and awards so keep on fightng, Sony we'll keep on making the games we all love :P
Most of those who wanna skip the cutscenes don't even own a PS4 so it's the same old story of attacking Sony's games for being too cinematic...
We know how that turns out though, with Sony's games dominating sales and awards so keep on fightng, Sony we'll keep on making the games we all love :P
Absolutely disgraceful.
You have your answer.
90% of cutscenes sucks in gaming. Only Naughty Dog matches TV series or movies.
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In lots of games you can clearly notice how the story has been constructed as flimsy excuse around the gameplay concept, not the other way around.
You are not wrong, the best gaming experience are usually about the player's own story. It's storytelling through gameplay.
Bloodborne, BOTW, Dark Souls, REmake/REmake 2, RE4, Hollow Knight, Castlevania SOTN etc.
Not saying cutscenes can't be great, lots of Sony games have great cutscenes, but they are the minority.
We will see about Days Gone, it could be a masterpiece for all I know, still six hours is a LOT of cutscenes. I just hope they are worth it.
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Just to be clear I never skip cutscenes unless the first few are a slog or bad but its really interesting where the discussion went in this thread and im not even going to get this game. I unknowingly helped spread a fire by my jokey response.
To all the people complaining that they prefer telling stories through "gameplay"..... Have the devs mentioned not doing that too? Game seems ripe for world building through loot descriptions, audio logs and random events in the open world
It's very discouraging tbh, all Day's Gone threads end up being derailed in the same way.
It's been going on for more than a year and I don't see it stopping anytime soon, specially with the game coming out next month
Why is this not happening to Death Stranding and Ghost of Tsushima? Why are people only ''hating'' on this game?
It's insane to see so many people in this thread being seemingly personally offended by people claiming they will skip the cutscenes. Those people need to chill. 6 hours of cutscenes is way too much for some of us and it's okay to prefer playing over watching the game.
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It's the Days Gone thread. People will complain and shitpost about absolutely everything.
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After Day's Gone is out and we know more about those games guess what will happen...
It happened with Horizon Zero Dawn, that came out and now is happening with DG, etc...
Horizon storytelling and cutscene direction and writing is several notches below God of War and spiderman tho.
So, you're saying the story and cutscenes in this game are likely to be garbage, eventhough it's not even released yet? Why not wait and see, if they're actually as good as in the three games you mentioned? It's pretty damn dismissive to compare Days Gone to The Order at this point, considering Sony hasn't published such a failure since then, and all of their big story-driven games have been both critical and commercial successes, Horizon Zero Dawn and Spider-Man included. Based on the ratio between successes and failures, the chance of another Order like dud seem rather small.
Come on, people are super defensive about days gone for whatever reason. Some poster even called for ban because of negative opinion. And this is not the first time I'm seeing this.
Spider-man and God of War are among those 10% ;)
Horizon dialogs and cutscenes were just standard video-game snorefest.
When it's a big open world game, that lasts around 30 hours, I don't think it's excessive. It's nice to have context to what we are doing in the world and get to know the characters through the story.
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I bet you watch the theatrical version of Lord of the Rings at 2x speed
And? i said that REmake2 it's the perfect mix for me as far as the frequency, lenght and rhythm of cutscenes goes (wich is what 30-40 min cutscenes for both campaigns?)
Should i drop my pre-order receipt to post in this thread now? lol
I guess you never played Red Dead Redemption and it's sequel, Nier/Automata, Yakuza? Because these games have meaningful stories.
These monsters in this thread skipping cutscenes. Big weirdos.
As for the game, I really like Bend, but it's like the knock-off Last of Us. I'm struggling to get any kind of excitement going for it.
As for the game, I really like Bend, but it's like the knock-off Last of Us. I'm struggling to get any kind of excitement going for it.