Fable 2 does away with HUD and cut scenes

Fine by me!
All pre-rendered cut scenes do are show off the inadequacies of your game engine anyway.

Im all for it. Love clean interfaces.

To answer the question.

Kojima!

i guess this for the a.d.d. generation of gamers.

Are "pre-rendered cutscenes" the same thing as "cutscenes"?

I always thought cutscenes were pretty sweet (a la mass effect, GTAIV etc e).

So they'll still have interactive cut scenes? I hope so because I don't see how else they'd tell the story.

Hud, that was a good movie. I'm all for less HUD cluttering up the works. I do like prerendered cutscenes though, or at least prerendered game openings and endings. In-game graphics just don't look as good generally.

"Less than 5 minutes of non-interactive cinematics" = 49 second intro cut scene + 3:22 second end game cut scene

not sure about the hud. Perhaps they coulkd of removed most of it, but a simple map cpmpas and power bar could of been left in.

As for the cut-scenes, good. I hate retarded games that your playing and all of a sudden switch to amazing pre-renedered impossible graphics. This goes all the way back to RE2. I remember playing Resident evil 2 with those playstation graphics and then all of a sudden there would be some computer animated scene with the story being played out using graphics that wont be possible in gaming until 2020. Makes no sense at all. Final fantasy games are the worst culprit.

Agreed i never watch cut scenes, unless there are achievements of course ha

Hi,
I hang around the lionhead forums, there is cut scenes, but like somebody said 5 min of non interactive in the whole game, there are more, but in those you will have the ability to fart, laugh and do emotions

...I guess I'm the minority, but I actually like my games t have HUDs.

I actually care to see my stats at-a-glance without having to pause or go to some other screen.

Wasn't that why we had HUDs in the first place?

Seems like a step backwards to me.

...I guess I'm the minority, but I actually like my games t have HUDs.

I actually care to see my stats at-a-glance without having to pause or go to some other screen.

Wasn't that why we had HUDs in the first place?

Seems like a step backwards to me.

What no cutscenes!?

Umm sorry but I'm sorta disappointed by that....like seriously considering not buying the game. I love cutscenes cuz they explain the storyline. As long as they're not overused or anything I want them.

I can't believe how so many companies spend years worth of personnel time to create stupid CGI intros and cut scenes. I wish they would take that time and effort and put it into the gameplay itself. I skip cut scenes 99% of the time.

Peter Molyneaux (sp?) talked about this in one of the dev diaries. All of the scripted cutscenes in the game are skippable and blend seamlessly. I think he mentioned something about being able to interact some way. I'd have to go back and look...

I'm definitely partial to this type of gaming rather than the 5 hours of cinematics in MGS4.

Meh, I like cutscenes. Hell, most of the time I play an RPG I feel like I'm playing the core of the game to get to my eventual reward: the next cool ass cutscene.