Blood Will FlowCutscene of Trevor walking into his apartment.A video game's story is told through its cutscenes. You can't talk to your characters or form relationships with them, you can't bother the developers to give you advice about what choices to make, and if something unexpected happens, there's no way for you to be involved. Instead, the player is given the option of watching a cinematic scene on their screen that helps advance their understanding of some aspect of their story or that displays some significant event in-game. These scenes are usually done well enough that players don't mind sitting through them repeatedly as they progress through a lengthy game.  Game designers are itching to give you some sort of cinematic experience, but don't want to break your immersion by doing anything that doesn't display something significant.TV shows are made to be watched repeatedly. You watch an episode on the television, then record the show on your DVR so that you don't have to wait for it to rerun. Now, I'm not saying there isn't value in making a game so long that it can take more than one viewing for most people to finish playing it, but I am suggesting that there is value in allowing players an additional way of experiencing their narrative. How can a narrative be enhanced without making it into a movie? There's the option of presenting the story in a novel format, but what you're really doing is just giving players another way to read things for themselves. The rest of the gaming world has followed a similar path; instead of frustrating players with countless hours of cutscenes, games make the best use of their limited screen space by displaying text on your screen, often both during and after gameplay. Players must read dialog and gain insight into their story themselves, and if they don't like what they see or don't understand it, they can skip ahead to another scene that clarifies what's going on.  Of course, you don't get to see the world while you're reading, but while some players might be annoyed by this fact, others may appreciate it.Some games decide to display their cutscenes with voice acting over still images. Gameplay is paused while the game displays these scenes on your screen; there are no text boxes or any other distractions. Although some games like Dragon's Lair (1983) and The Walking Dead (2012) do this effectively, many games dealing with cinematics make it clear that they are trying to copy the movie experience rather than telling players what they need to know in a different way.   If you don't have a video codec installed on your computer, you won't be able to watch the cutscenes. If you have a good enough gaming rig, you might be able to play the whole game with no slowdowns. But how is the person who hasn't been given this option supposed to follow along?It's not as if there aren't games that choose not to have any cutscenes at all.  The basic idea behind these games is that you're going through a story without being told what's going on or why it's important.cuts img download gta sa 208eeb4e9f3249

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