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I did for one. I loved the look it gave many games. Even to a less extent on game like Wrath of the Gods which GOG has yet to get.
I do like FMV games. They have a certain B-movie charm that really appeals to me. But then I do love B-movies as well.
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thebes: I did for one. I loved the look it gave many games. Even to a less extent on game like Wrath of the Gods which GOG has yet to get.
I never minded it but honestly, it's hard to think of good FMV games. Off the top of my head the only one I genuinely loved was Rebel Assault II.
I can't recall ever playing any FMV games actually. But since GOG got a few of them, I will obviously try it out at some point.
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thebes: I did for one. I loved the look it gave many games. Even to a less extent on game like Wrath of the Gods which GOG has yet to get.
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F4LL0UT: I never minded it but honestly, it's hard to think of good FMV games. Off the top of my head the only one I genuinely loved was Rebel Assault II.
That was always the issue. They were very expensive to produce and writing them was really challenging, so the writing tended not to be there.

Rebel Assault II was definitely my favorite. And I just now noticed that it's already available here.
Eh most of them were crap. Besides Wing Commander 3 and 4 the only good one I can think of was Daggerfall's FMV:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niU1bRqxrIU

But I like to know any other suggestions because I suspect there are Point and Click Adventure games that uses it well.

But we all the FMVs in the Sega CD games were all crap.
Post edited March 06, 2016 by Elmofongo
Nope. I strongly dislike the genre.
I liked FMV, because they added a lot of realism to the games back then, expecially for adventures.
Even if many of the videos were heavily compressed, they had a lot of charm.
Too bad that the cost of production was absurd, the space very limited (CDs!!), the acting often clumsy, the plot usually crap. O_o'
FMV?
It's more like HFMV or better yet, HEMV (Half Empty Motion Video) games.

Well, Wing Commander III and IV were okay I guess, and maybe few other ones too.
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phaolo: I liked FMV, because they added a lot of realism to the games back then, expecially for adventures.
Even if many of the videos were heavily compressed, they had a lot of charm.
Too bad that the cost of production was absurd, the space very limited (CDs!!), the acting often clumsy, the plot usually crap. O_o'
err for the time cd's were anything but limited
they were gigantic and offered developers a wealth of space

before cd' developers had to make do with 32 mb or less
650 mb is enormous


on topic
cant stand fmv games the acting is abysmal the production values deplorable and would make 1970's doctor who shake its head

and they are barely interactive movies
like ff 13 only uglier
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snowkatt: err for the time cd's were anything but limited
Limited in the sense that you couldn't fit much video onto one of them, so trying to put an entire FMV game onto a CD was a struggle. Often FMV games would require multiple CDs. Ironically, with modern algorithms CDs are far less limited today than they were in the 90s.
I like them. There's a certain charm to them, and the way the videos were integrated with gameplay varied greatly, sometimes displaying a great amount of creativity.
Weirdly, utilizing FMV would probably be more feasible nowadays than in the 90s, thanks to the much lower costs for video production, means of data storage that aren't anywhere as limited as CDs, and the constantly skyrocketing costs for creating pre-rendered CGI or in-game cutscenes.
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Elmofongo: Eh most of them were crap. Besides Wing Commander 3 and 4 the only good one I can think of was Daggerfall's FMV:
Personally, I think a lot of them are better than their reputation, although the cheap Dragon's Lair knock-offs that had basically no interactivity were rather numerous and awful.

Here are some that I like quite a lot:

Realms of the Haunting
Normality (uses the same engine as Realms of the Haunting, but all its FMVs are CG animated, so it's not as noticeable)
Mega Race
Crusader: No Remorse / No Regret
Dragon's Lair (say what you will about its simplicity, it's a fairly entertaining game, especially Dragon's Lair 2)
Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Dark Forces 2
Harvester
Alan Wake's American Nightmare (not strictly an FMV game, but it made great, continuous use of the medium)
Toonstruck
Command & Conquer series
Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh (not that great a game, but a pretty interesting B-movieesque horror experience with fairly high production values; gameplay-wise it's more akin to visual novels than most point & click adventures, though)
Post edited March 06, 2016 by InfraSuperman
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snowkatt: err for the time cd's were anything but limited
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Barefoot_Monkey: Limited in the sense that you couldn't fit much video onto one of them, so trying to put an entire FMV game onto a CD was a struggle. Often FMV games would require multiple CDs. Ironically, with modern algorithms CDs are far less limited today than they were in the 90s.
yeah but even then it was a huge improvement over floppies
Short answer, yes, long answer, depends.
Not really, have yet to see a FMV game that I like.