[billybolton]

Nintendo, unlike most companies are focused on making games with gameplay. Most companies are making movies with gameplay segments in between.

[scrooched_moose]

That's been my biggest gripe with modern gaming. It feels like 2 of the first 3 hours of most modern games are cutscenes. I miss powering on a game, hitting start, maybe reading a paragraph, and going straight to the action.

Luckily some recent indy games have filled that itch. Yooka-Laylee, A Hat in Time, and Hollow Knight have felt like modern updates of what I grew up on.

[duxup]

And bad cut-scenes.

There are some notable exceptions, but storytelling and just narrative quality and variety is .... not really there.

If they're going to fill my time with cut scenes they should be good.

[azeirah]

Hollow knight, aside from Breath of the Wild, was my favorite game of the year.

It's such a great, great game. It offers a fantastic atmosphere supported by a fitting score, an unexpected amount of unique content, an interesting story and a fitting amount of challenge.

Fantastic experience overall!

[Semirhage]

Try Nioh or Dark Souls, you’ll have gameplay coming out of your ears. If you want cutscenes and dialogue with balance, try Persona 5, which is balanced by very tight gameplay; likewise with Yakuza 0. Avoid anything from Ubisoft like it was carrying plague.

[billybolton]

Speaking of Ubisoft, is it just me or do they repackage the same game with different skins over and over gain? I swear Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Ghost Recon and Watch Dogs are the same game with different skins.

[pavelbr]

Ubisoft's Tom Clancy games are still generally Gameplay.

Rainbow Six Siege is still one of my favorites.

[agumonkey]

Companies of this era, before ps2 hardware class you had to make something a bit fun in its more trivial and most interesting sense.

[mpg33]

Sony is the most guilty of this imo. Even Microsoft's 1st party games are more "gamey" than Sony.

[billybolton]

cough Uncharted, Last Of Us cough

[floatboth]

Good old id still makes games with 99.9999% gameplay. DOOM 2016 was all about the gameplay.

[mrob]

I like how the (brief) opening cut-scene ends with Doomguy losing patience with the computer trying to narrate to him after only a few seconds, and smashing it. The game's attitude to storytelling is established quickly and decisively.