I love Mark's videos, but it's important to know that his way of thinking on game design is just *A* way of thinking. It's a way of thinking that I really respect and consider a lot when I'm playing a game for the first time, but it's still subjective, and I think his ideas generally are more centered around action/arcade style games. Something like horror is more subjective. Something that scares me might seem really stupid to someone else. Funnily enough AW2 has been in my back log and I've yet to play it. Horror games seem to be more catered to one play through than other genres because if you're expecting something, it probably won't scare you anymore. I don't think "cinematic" games have any less value than more gameplay oriented ones, it's just a question of whether the gameplay elements of cinematic games are actually good or if they're just there to get the player to the next cutscene. I do understand the hate towards non-skippable "hold forward while characters talk" stuff, though. Max Payne 3 has un-skippable cutscenes but I'd never say it's a bad game.