Radiator Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

You're fighting not only the privatization of public health but also reckless climate engineering! Instead there's cutscenes without animation, scripted conversations without choreography, and readables you rarely read because the game never pauses. Three safehouse skulls + main quest macguffin = boss fight. But not really.

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Radiator Blog

APRIL 1, 2022

If you want to do anything more technically advanced than static monster placement in vanilla Quake, you basically have two options: (1) build a "monster closet" and open the door to start a fight, (2) build an inaccessible room filled with inactive teleporters, and trigger the teleporters to spawn-in monsters.

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Radiator Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This fighting game health mechanic is too fussy and unreliable for a busy shooter. So to survive fights for the first half of the game, you have to trust the level designers to leave enough health consumables around, Doom / Quake style. Bot invaders often don't interrupt a boss fight. Limited regen (e.g.

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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. It's more paranoid than a Ubisoft game.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 7, 2023

This is one of those situations where simply putting it into a cutscene would easily cause a separation of the player from Kratos - it’s a reminder to the player that Kratos is someone who would have to do such a horrible thing, which serves as a bit of a shock. When you’re sitting down to write and design your story, you must remember this.

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Rampant Games

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the later game Alfheim Online , level and skills were all but ignored, emphasizing player skill like a shooter or fighting game. In Aincrad, players could trigger a combo skill as in a fighting game, launching into an unstoppable sequence with often devastating results. Cutscenes in an MMO? Sword Skills. So where are we?

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Keith Burgun

JANUARY 27, 2023

The opening cutscene literally made me cry. I mean, you spend a LOT of time fighting in this game. There’s several systems of collectible quest kind of things where you find an icon on the map, do a boring, easy fight, rinse and repeat. The Good The writing starts off incredible.

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The Bottom Feeder

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Because the activities you actually do in a video game, in-between the cutscenes and the conversations, may be part of the story, but they don't move the story forward. Shoot the same enemy, fight the same fight. Like you need to fight Archduke Bob. You have to fight Bob, therefore you enter the sewer.

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