History Quotes / StoryToGameplayRatio

->'''Yoshinori Kitase:''' ''([[MushroomSamba stoned off his ass]])'' Cutscenes are the new boss battles! [=FMVs=] are the new dungeons! Conversations are the new enemy encounters! Less random battles -- more [[{{Soaperizing}} five-minute exchanges between party members talking about their feelings!]] THE OLD WAYS ARE DEAD! '''''VIVA LA REVOLUCION!'''''
-->--'''[[http://socksmakepeoplesexy.net/index.php?a=ff08 Pat R.]]''', "A Series [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Discovers Its Crack Pipe]]"

->'''Yoshinori Kitase:''' ''([[MushroomSamba stoned off his ass]])'' Cutscenes are the new boss battles! [=FMVs=] are the new dungeons! Conversations are the new enemy encounters! Less random battles -- more [[{{Soaperizing}} five-minute exchanges between party members talking about their feelings!]] THE OLD WAYS ARE DEAD! '''''VIVA LA REVOLUCION!'''''
-->--'''[[http://socksmakepeoplesexy.net/index.php?a=ff08 Pat R.]]''', "A Series [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Discovers Its Crack Pipe]]"

->''The [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots fourth game]] elevated video game meta-conflict by trying to [[SuckinessIsPainful defeat the player with relentlessly extended cut-scenes]] instead of bullets.''

->'''Yoshinori Kitase:''' ''([[MushroomSamba stoned off his ass]])'' Cutscenes are the new boss battles! [=FMVs=] are the new dungeons! Conversations are the new enemy encounters! Less random battles -- more [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII five-minute exchanges between party members talking about their feelings!]] THE OLD WAYS ARE DEAD! '''''VIVA LA REVOLUCION!'''''
-->--'''Pat R.''', [[http://socksmakepeoplesexy.net/index.php?a=ff08 "A Series Discovers Its Crack Pipe"]]

->"That's been business as usual since the advent of the CD-ROM. 15 years ago I found myself beating ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' the same night I brought it home from Blockbuster. It was a very different economy back then; but these short, "cinematic" games full of cutscenes and letterboxing and gameplay compromises are decades old."

->"''Read my lips: Computer games tells [sic] stories. That's what they're for.''"

->Practically all I do is harp on the lack of atmosphere and quality storytelling in modern games, as though the entire "fun" aspect is tangential to the serious business of video games. If I seem to rant too much about the lack of story in games, it's only because I concede that games pretty much nailed the entertainment bit, and I think it's time for them to expand. So, yes, story is important, both to me personally, and to the overall growth of the entire medium. But sometimes, just sometimes: [[NoPlotNoProblem Fuck it.]]
-->-- '''''{{Website/Cracked}}''''', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-things-all-games-could-learn-from-saints-row-iv/#ixzz2q77HEXJx Five things all games could learn from Saint's Row IV]]

->That's been business as usual since the advent of the CD-ROM. 15 years ago I found myself beating ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' the same night I brought it home from Blockbuster. It was a very different economy back then; but these short, "cinematic" games full of cutscenes and letterboxing and gameplay compromises are ''decades'' old...Last week I did play through [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil2 RE2]] from 1998, and after beating it, it said [[KillScreen I lasted about 4 hours.]]

-->--'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bJtnbRhSMs George Weidman]]'''

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->''"Practically all I do is harp on the lack of atmosphere and quality storytelling in modern games, as though the entire "fun" aspect is tangential to the serious business of video games. If I seem to rant too much about the lack of story in games, it's only because I concede that games pretty much nailed the entertainment bit, and I think it's time for them to expand. So, yes, story is important, both to me personally, and to the overall growth of the entire medium. But sometimes, just sometimes: Fuck it."''
-->-- Cracked, [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-things-all-games-could-learn-from-saints-row-iv/#ixzz2q77HEXJx Five things all games could learn from Saint's Row IV]]

->''"'Cutscenes are the new boss battles! [=FMVs=] are the new dungeons! Conversations are the new enemy encounters! Less random battles -- more five-minute exchanges between party members talking about their feelings! THE OLD WAYS ARE DEAD! [[SeriousBusiness VIVA LA REVOLUCION!]]'"''

->''"'Cutscenes are the new boss battles! FMVs are the new dungeons! Conversations are the new enemy encounters! Less random battles -- more five-minute exchanges between party members talking about their feelings! THE OLD WAYS ARE DEAD! [[SeriousBusiness VIVA LA REVOLUCION!]]'"''

->Oh God, and that's coming from me? Practically all I do is harp on the lack of atmosphere and quality storytelling in modern games, as though the entire "fun" aspect is tangential to the serious business of video games. If I seem to rant too much about the lack of story in games, it's only because I concede that games pretty much nailed the entertainment bit, and I think it's time for them to expand. So, yes, story is important, both to me personally, and to the overall growth of the entire medium. But sometimes, just sometimes: Fuck it.