FMV

[koemo1]

Can we perhaps get a new genre in the database: FMV or full motion videogame?

[davifus]

FMV as in Dragon's Lair? ETC?

[koemo1]

Yeah like dragon's lair, space ace and things like nighttrap

[davifus]

How many FMV are there? I feel like its a very very niche thing game wise.

[exonerator]

I personally don't have a problem with there being more genres to choose from, it's just a descriptor. And there should be no confusion about games that have FMV elements like Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective, The Terminator, or Bram Stoker's Dracula; games that have shitty video cutscenes on the Sega CD but are different genres that aren't "click at this time for something to happen". I think it would be a good way to clarify on games like Sewer Shark, Time Gal, Night Trap, Corpse Killer, Star Strike, the list goes on and on and on and on oh god there are so many FMV games auuughhh

[koemo1]

Well, Sherlock Holmes i would add at FMV because the main selling point was the FMV and you only click on thing and see some little videos^^
FMV games are very plentyfull, You got FMV games where you use a cursor to shoot things like Thunder in Paradise, Crime Patrol, Solar Crusade, Sewer Shark, Round 14 and Cobra Command.
FMV games where have to put in the right controls in the right time: Dragons Lair 1 and 2, Space Ace, Night Trap, Wire Head, Road Avenger and Double Switch

[burningdoom]

How many FMV are there? I feel like its a very very niche thing game wise.

Nearly an entire generation of games had FMV. It's not a thing anymore, but it was thought to be the future of gaming at one point. There are a lot of FMV games out there. On systems like Sega CD, 3DO, CD-i, Saturn, and the early days of PS1.

[insektmute]

I've always viewed FMV as more of an approach rather than a genre, and almost all of them are adventure or action-adventure games. Dragon's Lair, Phantasmagoria, 7th Guest, etc.

[exonerator]

Phantasmagoria has full-motion video elements, but it's not all video, where you have to time inputs to make another thing happen. It's not like Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, etc.

[insektmute]

Phantasmagoria has full-motion video elements, but it's not all video, where you have to time inputs to make another thing happen. It's not like Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, etc.

FMV only refers to pre-recorded video being used for the graphics, not game mechanics. Having to time inputs in that fashion isn't synonymous with FMV, either.

[exonerator]

Phantasmagoria has full-motion video elements, but it's not all video, where you have to time inputs to make another thing happen. It's not like Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, etc.

FMV only refers to pre-recorded video being used for the graphics, not game mechanics. Having to time inputs in that fashion isn't synonymous with FMV, either.

It is synonymous though; it's another word for an interactive movie, and it shares its name with the technique of video cutscenes in games that pioneered the genre of interactive movies, and what FMV is typically referred to as.

[insektmute]

It is synonymous though; it's another word for an interactive movie, and it shares its name with the technique of video cutscenes in games that pioneered the genre of interactive movies, and what FMV is typically referred to as.

Yes, I know. I'm old enough to remember when they sprang into existence.

Interactive movie/FMV refers only to the use of pre-rendered video footage, not the use of pre-rendered footage with timed inputs.

[desocietas]

We had a huge thread on genres and subgenres and I thought the consensus was that we didn't want to clutter it up too much.  Understandably, "adventure" is too broad, but we might have to keep going with that one lest we fall into separating it out into things like FMV, visual novel, point-and-click, etc.

[koemo1]

perhaps a run&gun genre ^^