CGI Cheating or Not?

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#1 imothissucks
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What do you think of CGI cutscenes?

Do you think it's cheating for them to look better then they are? (Most noteably FF13)

Or do you think it's just a better way to tell the story? (Most noteably FF13)

Vote and discuss if you want. 

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#2 Dashtal
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I don't mind, it adds to the experiance.  It sucks on PS2, though.

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#3 SpaceMatt
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If you use all-cutscenes as marketing (AKA advertise precisely 0 in-game/in-engine stuff), and your actual gameplay sucks, it's cheating. If it's just for storytelling, go for it
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#4 bri360
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Of course its ok to use CGI for cutscenes... Its like a movie clip and it just makes it looks better. Whats wrong with that? Some games use actual in game graphics and rendering though in their clips and that ok also.
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#5 Koalakommander
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um hi, some of FF13's footage is ingame.
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#6 imothissucks
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um hi, some of FF13's footage is ingame.Koalakommander
some but the uber looking stuff is not ingame
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#7 Tonindo
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I don't have much against CGI, although sometimes when a CGI cutscene ends in a game (for example FFVII, FFVIII or FFIX) and the game goes back to the realtime graphics it's like someone's sticking 4 different kinds of forks in my eyes.
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#8 Koalakommander
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[QUOTE="Koalakommander"]um hi, some of FF13's footage is ingame.imothissucks
some but the uber looking stuff is not ingame

i thought the gameplay clips were pretty fantastic. And i didnt know it wasn't cgi until i read up on it.
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#9 Nex_Ownage
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I don't mind, it adds to the experiance. It sucks on PS2, though.

Dashtal
CGI sucks on PS2? O_o Are you serious?
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#10 VinnoT
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nah it isnt cheating. I prefer CGI cut-scenes sometimes. Give you a sense of acheiving the amazing view after beating a boss or something :)
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#11 -Sora
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i would rather not have CGI in my games
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#12 AfterShafter
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[QUOTE="Dashtal"]

I don't mind, it adds to the experiance. It sucks on PS2, though.

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CGI sucks on PS2? O_o Are you serious?

Yeah... The graphics sucked on the PS2, which is why they needed to use CGI - which was often quite good.
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#13 Hoffgod
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Look at FF8. Final Fantasy 8 used CGI to great effect to create excellent cut scenes that still look good to this day. That's good use of CGI. They also promoted the game with scenes like this When the real gameplay looked like this That's BAD use of CGI and is cheating.
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#14 -RPGamer-
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Why are we using FFXIII a game that hasn't even been released as a reference for things like story and how much CGI plays a role in said story? :|

From what I've seen the CGI in FFXIII is some of the closest we've seen in a FF title, the advantage now is less noticeable than it was in the past.

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#15 Tony_aaaa
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CGI,,,,,,,Hate it. All of it. Hate it in games. Hate it being used in modern movies as a crutch for special effects--that are no longer special.
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