General video game discussion

[Gradine]

EDIT: That reminds me, does anybody know if there's a word for sequences that are like cutscenes but aren;t cutscenes? Like the part in Half-Life 2 where a bunch of boring people yammer at you in a cave, or the bit at the beginning of Skyrim where your character is a prisoner and a bunch of the other prisoners talk interminably. Like, you can still technically move your character to a degree but you can't actually do anything so it might as well be a cutscene. What's that called? Does anyone know?

I have often heard them referred to as "walk-and-talk segments", almost always disparagingly

 

[Reynard]

I have often heard them referred to as "walk-and-talk segments", almost always disparagingly

I did some googling and it is interesting that there isn't a generally agreed upon term. The best one I could find is "scripted sequence" which is accurate but not very pithy.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has quite a lot of that, but on the other hand they are much more entertaining than the last two movies.

 

[CleverNickName]

I am loving Veilguard so far. I don't get why people don't like it.

Same here.

 

[Gradine]

Most of the hate for Veilguard had little to actually do with the game itself, sadly

 

[trappedslider]

I have often heard them referred to as "walk-and-talk segments", almost always disparagingly

the only time i've seen that term spoken in a positive manner is when it's in a movie or show lol

 

[Gradine]

the only time i've seen that term spoken in a positive manner is when it's in a movie or show lol

From a game-design standpoint it's basically an unsolvable problem, because what happens if you make the NPC too fast, or too slow, and there's absolutely no way to make them feel good