I remember the old style interactive movie, where there would be a huge pause, and everyone in the audience would "vote" with a little button on a remote or on the arm chair, then whichever direction was voted for, the requisite scene would play. It was fun, but never really had the feeling of interactivity, just direction.
Final Act, it seems, is trying to bring back the experience, but smoothed out to avoid the huge cut scene, and to make it more "interactive," is adding in voice recognition and in the most attention catching way - by calling your phone.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe9CiKnrS1w
This sounded fun, right up until they mention that you give your phone number into a huge database for this to work. That's some great marketing right there. Take the last line the "bad guy" says, and imagine it coming from the studio execs.
It still seems like the basic formula is the same: protagonist comes to a crossroads (sometimes literally), then someone in the audience (random, instead of voting) decides left/right/up/down/sex/eat/etc. and the requisite scene plays.
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I can't see this working in the theaters (asshole factor), but on an Xbox or something with a smaller group (where you can control who you watch it with) it'd be pretty nifty.
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We already have those, they are called VIDEO GAMES.
Not exactly the same. Cinematic POVs vs 1st or over-the-shoulder 3rd, for starters.
I'm not saying it's a great idea, just that the idea completely sucks with a theater full of idiots and would be better on a small screen.
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I remember the slew of them when the Sega CD came out. Night Stalker was fun, and the one where you fly through the sewers.
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I [have a life], it isn't that it's boring or that I do nothing, it's just shitty, and the things I do suck. - roidmonkey | Sometimes I feel like I'd rather be forced to shoot a home invader or beat up some crackhead on the street than have sex. - wounded ronin | I'd go farm methane off Europa.
It had the vid of the fat guy that would yell at you as you got closer to his stronghold. It was weird - like he was your employer, but you stole the craft you were flying and were coming to kill him or something? Anyway, you had to find fuel for the craft which meant following some bird (?) as it made quick left/right decisions with epilepsy inducing graphics.
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I [have a life], it isn't that it's boring or that I do nothing, it's just shitty, and the things I do suck. - roidmonkey | Sometimes I feel like I'd rather be forced to shoot a home invader or beat up some crackhead on the street than have sex. - wounded ronin | I'd go farm methane off Europa.
