Game movie cutscenes

Does anyone ever watch these on YouTube? It's where people play some games, but they just use the cutscenes as opposed to gameplay footage, effectively turning them into a feature length movie.

Generic Dreadhead

I did this with Resident Evil 5.... I made other people watch them too.... people who hadn't played the game, no wonder I've f**k all friends now

TerrorFirmer

There's a really good one for Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena. It's over 2 hours long.

I watched one for Dead Space 3. Knew I had no intention of ever playing it, so I didn't mind. Currently watching one for evil within.

johnny_ultimate

No. If a game has a worthwhile narrative, it is usually part of an otherwise well made game that is worth experiencing as the gamemakers intended. To pick one of the few games with legitimately well-directed and written cutscenes, The Last of Us is a game where the 'passive' viewing is supplemented massively by the story and character details that emerge when we're 'actively' playing (even if there's a lot of pointless shooting along the way).

But the biggest problem is this: most game stories with even decent or tolerable cutscenes are significantly inferior to watching an actual movie, even if it's only a mediocre one, let alone a great one. When there's an interesting game around that, it can be overlooked. But remove the game and you're left with a **** film. I'd rather watch a good film.

Corvo

Rarely, but I recently watched the Mortal Kombat one (don't really know what installment it was) - was pretty enjoyable actually.

degrassinoel

watched the mass effect ones, 12 hours of them!

Captain Chaos

I did for Res 6 to see how the story goes as I couldn't bring myself to play any more of it.

At times I forget how the story in detail went in MGS2 and 4 and go back to watch it. I now find MGS2's story now makes alot more sense in todays world than it did when the game was released.

Concannon7

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Currently watching one for evil within.

Probably more entertaining than the game itself actually. Very disappointing.

Kiith

I'll occasionally watch bits of them, for games i've already completed. Can't be bothered playing some games again, so just watch the cool parts. Wouldn't do it with a game i've not played though...or at least i haven't yet.

Penn

I recently watched the Mortal Kombat (2011) one, in preparation for the release of MKX. I just couldn't be arsed playing through the story again myself, had already completed it four or five times.

The_Valeyard

Watched my fav Mass Effect ones again,

Ive also watched the ones from Worms2, Command & Conquer, amongst others.


Edit: Cutscenes from Starcraft II, its like watching a movie.

Robert ninja

Yeah I've noticed these. Only watched 1 or 2 myself purely out of curiosity. There's some games out there that have more cutscenes and cutscene quality than they do gameplay and gameplay quality. But with games that bad I'd rather read a book or watch a foreign movie and get some actual story and non-cringe worthy writing... or play an actual good game.

SeantheMan

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Edit: Cutscenes from Starcraft II, its like watching a movie.

Blizzard definitely do some of , if not 'the' best cutscenes out there.
Warcraft 3 was over 10 years ago and the cutscenes are still amazing.

Dave_The_Sheep

Starcraft 2 works really well for this kind of thing.

I think Heart of the Swarm works the better of the two.