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Why did they stop making these kinds of games?

posted 15 years ago by premier69
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I remember when i was a kid I in like '97 i used to play lots of games like this, like:

Wing Commander (3rd game being my favorite)
Phantasmagoria 2

probably more....

These Video interactive based games just dissapeared, how come? seems there would always be atleast some sized market for games like this...

oh I liked the intro in resident evil 1 more than the later games in the series. filming instead of computer animated.

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[–] cwy2009 15 years ago

Ironically, it was mainly because games like Phantasmagoria killed the genre. Incredibly pixellated FMV clips, bad acting, inferior gameplay due to most of the budget spent on shooting the FMVs, spelled doom for the genre.

Exceptions were Wing Commander 3 & 4, the Tex Murphy games, and Gabriel Knight: The Beast Within, all of which were able to offer great gameplay. WC4 and the last Tex Murphy game even had DVD quality FMVs (though they didn't look as good as today's DVD).

[–] CasseroleWorshipper 13 years ago

And the game came on like 8 discs.
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[–] dbrennan-6 10 years ago

I think the pixilation in the background killed for most people it did for me. The actors looked great but the background was always sh!t.