Quote Originally Posted by Jorpho View Post
What makes you think it's expensive?

There are considerably more atrociously mediocre independent films made every year.
A couple of articles I read regarding the facial scanning and muscle structure animation in regard to the uncanny valley phenomenon called it cutting edge enough that only a few developers such as EA and Activision had access to it at the time. That's why I think it's expensive.

Yes, there are crummy independent films. There are also lousy blockbuster studio films. There are tons of lousy video games in FMV, 3D, and 2D. That doesn't negate the possibility of quality on a budget. Like I said, it's irrelevant, because it wouldn't be profitable anyway. When FMV games were new, the hope was that they were the next big thing, and as such, developers weren't afraid to spend the money to shoot footage and even hire legitimate acting talent. Clearly, they weren't successful, and any game made of that type now is for a niche audience. Making a sequel to Night Trap is the sort of thing that gets a couple thousand people riled up and excited enough to talk about it and even donate to kickstarters, but the other 5,999,998,000 people on the planet don't care. These days it'd be a passion project or nothing at all, and yes, that likely means its quality would be a crap shoot. It's not wrong for fans to hope for the best, though.