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Message: [QUOTE="RETRO-VETRO, post: 320919, member: 95464"] That’s an interesting analogy, but I think it oversimplifies both FMV and skeletal animation. You're right that sprite-based fighters like those on Neo Geo or SNES required animating full frames, while PS1/PS2-era games used skeletal rigs to animate limbs independently. But that’s not really comparable to FMV, which isn’t rendered in real time it’s pre-recorded video, not dynamic assets. The idea of a “modern FMV game” where every possible movement is pre-recorded and accessed instantly from a disc sounds cool in theory, but in practice, it’s wildly impractical. Even with DVDs or Blu-rays, the sheer number of permutations needed to allow free camera movement and responsive gameplay would balloon storage requirements and create massive bottlenecks. You’d need to record every possible angle and action, and the system would have to load them seamlessly. That’s not just a matter of “fast enough storage” it’s a design nightmare. Also, FMV by nature is static. You can’t modify lighting, physics, or interactions dynamically. That’s why polygonal graphics won out they’re flexible, scalable, and allow for emergent gameplay. FMV couldn’t evolve in the same way because it’s locked to whatever was filmed or rendered ahead of time. And while DVDs offered more space, they didn’t solve FMV’s core limitations: lack of interactivity, inability to respond dynamically, and the challenge of syncing player input with pre-rendered visuals. That’s why even during the DVD era, FMV remained niche used mostly for cutscenes, not gameplay. So yes, FMV had potential, and some games like Her Story or Telling Lies have used it creatively in recent years. But as a primary gameplay format. XD [/QUOTE]

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