AAA Cutscenes Mechanics 
Game Refinery
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
However, these storytelling elements go far beyond the main narrative, with cutscenes and dialogue seamlessly integrated throughout the experience to build a truly immersive world. Goddess of Victory: NIKKE features high-quality anime cutscenes. Despite the dark setting of the story, dialogue is peppered with humor.
Radiator Blog
MAY 5, 2021
This is a convenient diegetic way of locking the player in-place for a cutscene, while also priming the player for an extended cutscene. It is much better than the boring shot reverse-shot cutscene stuff going on in AAA RPGs these days, and makes Skyrim's "sit" mechanic more meaningful. Expendable companions.
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Keith Burgun
APRIL 28, 2024
The side quests and smaller interactions in the game are good, those cutscenes are great. These kinds of games are really “stuff reliant” – new characters, abilities, mechanics, loot, story events, monsters, etc need to be fed into the system at a good pace to continue being fun. actually a remake?
Radiator Blog
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
unlike Outer Wilds, golden loop here is heavily hard-gated by quest progression, not a "true" information game, compromise with AAA market? This fighting game health mechanic is too fussy and unreliable for a busy shooter. sorry if your game happens to crash, or you get a dreaded UI freeze. Limited regen (e.g.
Game Designing
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Combined with his love for film, this leads to deep story-driven games with lengthy and cinematic cutscenes (Metal Gear Solid 4 once held the world record for the longest cutscene in any game). Beyond pushing video games artistically, Kojima has also worked to push video games mechanically. Games Credited.
Keith Burgun
APRIL 10, 2023
Secrets are hidden, but findable parts of a game that help give games a sense that there is “more than meets the eye” and that this is a world , not just a content delivery mechanism. They are findable. The same is true for secrets in games. Of course, this is the developer’s problem to solve, not ours as players/critics.
Keith Burgun
JULY 29, 2022
It’s the fault of developers for not exploring new kinds of stories, new kinds of worlds, new kinds of mechanics and so on. Even a handful of new mechanics or other properties are often enough to help create that question in people’s minds: “what else might be possible in this game?”
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