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Eh, I feel they've run their course. Maybe as a time-waster in arcades, but consoles? Eh, I dunno.
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They feel like the sort of thing that would be perfect what with the rise of XBLA / PSN / Wii Ware - their control schemes lend themselves to controllers, and you'd only need to pay 10$ bucks in one go for a game to waste time / frustrate yourself with when you're not playing something bigger and longer.
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Asuras Wrath could technically count under this, but as an episodic anime with rail shooter and beat em up segments thrown in.
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You know, I think if Capcom marketed it as that, it wouldn't be so polarizing.
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It was marketed precisely as that in Japan.
Some DLC matches this even more, like episode 11.5:
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The World's Only Snow Fan.
Probably the natural evolution of visual novels.
Thought to be honest, budget restraints will severely limit creativity here.
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True. Not everyone one of these can have Don Bluth behind them.
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.
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In particular, games like Dragons Lair, Space Ace or Braindead13 - those games where the entire adventure is a Quick Time Event.
It's odd: even though you can sometimes figure out what you have to do through context and what's going on around you, these games are pretty much entirely trial and error and memorization centered gameplay and I usually hate that - but with these kind of games it's kind of fun. Maybe it's the often way-out there events you have to counter, maybe it's the frenetic way everything is going on at once, maybe it's the fact that the game doesn't really pretend to be something else.
I dunno. It's one of those things, you hate 'em in one context and love 'em in another context - I especially love games like this with a wide array of areas and interesting things to deal with.
Anyone else feel these should make some kind of comeback? Making some of these with more in depth mechanics and gameplay sounds like something that would be risky, but might stand to be pretty fun.
"The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense." - Tom Clancy, paraphrasing Mark Twain.