That’s a REALLY long clip for a video game. Are you saying that you guys spend most of your time just watching crap like this when you could be…um…playing?
Sadly way too often. I’m a big advocate of keeping game stories to “Oh look, aliens! Let’s shoot them with big guns!” since as I mentioned game stories and acting make Sturgeon’s law (90% of everything is crap) look hopelessly optimistic. With video games it’s closers to 99.99% and I’m probably being generous. Those cut scenes fill time though and there’s a very large group of players who couldn’t identify a good story if an infinite number of monkeys typed one up for them. So many game developers prefer to pretend that they’re making movies rather than games and condemn us to lengthy, painfully bad cut scenes (I’m looking at you Metal Gear Solid series!).
Mena Suvari voicing Aerith in Kingdom Hearts II always bugged me. It got to the point where I’d have to skip every scene where she talked. I probably missed some good scenes, but Suvari did such a horrible job.
Mandy Moore was much better as Aerith in the first Kingdom Hearts.