What's the story about the multimedia era?

[commodorejohn]

Video looked like crap unless your machine could handle MPEG and CDs couldn't store much reasonable-quality MPEG, sound was all too often mono 8-bit 22KHz, and nobody had any idea what the hell to do with the technology beyond "uh, let's do Myst, but with nonsensical puzzles and ugly-ass graphics because none of us know how to use a rendering program!" At least that's my observation.

[commodorejohn]

Cinemaware should have done some original CDTV games with FMV then it would have made sense. And they already invested the resources into the PC-Engine CD version of it came from the desert.

I dunno, I never cared for most live-action FMV games (with rare exception.) I'd liked to have seen more companies do animated video like various PC Engine and Sega CD titles did - it's a lot easier to look good on vintage hardware with traditional animation than with converted video/photos, what with the resolution and color-depth issues.