Take most cinematics out of games and instead invest in better/more game mechanics or story. All they do is cut up the fluidity of the gameplay
In the case of an action game like god of war or assassins creed, making the in game camera able to do cinimatic style motions while in a fight scene makes the game that much cooler.
For instance XCOM made use of this idea when performing the actions of the turn weather it be breaking through doors, or getting a good camera angle on shooting the bad guy and I think it enhanced the genre with that.
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