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Quantum Break
2016 · TV series · 20 min episodes · 1 season
Created by Ben Ketai
Follows the exploits of Paul Serene and Martin Hatch of Monarch Solutions as well as three Monarch employees (Liam Burke, Charlie Wincott and Fiona Miller) as they fight to prevent or survive the approaching End of Time.
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CDPR also owns GOG, the only major PC storefront where everything is DRM Free, at least for single-player. You can download installers from your web browser and use them without any internet connection at all, or any "client" to speak of. And GOG has been getting more and more AAA titles—Prey, Quantum Break, and Horizon Zero Dawn are all available right now!
They also have all of the Batman Arkham games! Can you imagine if Warner Brothers released DRM-Free versions of the Batman movies? That would be practically unprecedented, and yet it's relatively common for video games, largely because GoG has been pushing for it.
It would really suck if GOG got caught up in the Cyberpunk fiasco.
There was a Tex Murphy game (Tesla Effect) released in the last couple of years (and was Kickstarter backed), and Her Story made a big splash slightly more recently than that. Several Her Story inspired productions since have been in the works or released. They'll probably never be mainstream/"AAA" again, but there likely will continue to be some people building them so long as they can find their audience.
Plus, AAA game mo-capping has gotten to the point where some of them such as Uncharted and Quantum Break feel very close to classic FMV, with the benefits of a full 3D environment. Quantum Break even had entire "TV episodes" in the middle, making it perhaps the wildest "FMV" game of the last few years.
There's probably many movies like this, but I'm not a movie buff so I can't give an example right off the bat. I know of the video game Quantum Break, which included short live-action episodes between gameplay chapters from the villain's POV. They served to explain the villains' actions and humanize them.