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[[Live Action TV]] is kind of like live action [[Film]]. Kinda. You have actors on a set, with specific characters, telling a story. You film it, you send it to post-production, and you jazz it up with special effects. When you're done, you have what appears to be [[Like Reality Unless Noted|real people]] in real situations acting unusual stories for your entertainment. And since it's recorded, you can watch it over and over again and it'll be the same every time, unlike [[Theater]]. But TV is different--the stories go on longer and are cheaper than movies (unless you buy [[Better Onon DVD|massive TV box sets]]), but you only get to see a little of them every week.
 
Eventually, someone in the [[Video Game]] industry looked at this model and said: "Huh. Well, if TV can do it... why can't we?"
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'''Games in this format include:'''
 
* ''[[Aveyond (Video Game)|Aveyond 3]]'', a shareware RPG that comes in three installments.
* ''Cutie Mark Crusade'', a fanmade ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' [[Point and Click Game]] by [http://www.manestreamgames.com/ Manestream Games].
* ''[[Final Fantasy IV the After Years (Video Game)|Final Fantasy IV the After Years]]''
* ''[[Half-Life (Video Gameseries)|Half-Life]] 2'''s Episodes were an early attempt, which are more or less infamous for the fact that the gap between Episode Two and (the mythical) Episode Three [[Averted Trope|is starting to get]] [[Vaporware|pretty damn large]] (as of this writing, just over ''four'' years). Whenever Valve goes to a major expo like E3, forumites place bets on whether Episode 3 will be announced or not.
* ''[[Hydrophobia (Videovideo Gamegame)|Hydrophobia]]''
* ''[[I Miss the Sunrise]]''
* ''Learning with the Pooyoos'', targeted at very young children.
* ''[[Lost WindsLostWinds]]''
* ''[[MARDEK]]'', though [[Development Hell]] problems (rewriting the entire engine ''twice'', among other things) caused chapter 3 to be over ''two years'' late, and the experience has exhausted the developer so much that he doesn't want to continue working on it for a while.
* ''[[Penny Arcade Adventures]]''
* ''Penumbra''
* ''[[The Silver Lining (Videovideo Gamegame)|King's Quest: The Silver Lining]]''
* ''[[Siren (Videovideo Gamegame)|Siren]]''
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]] 4''
* ''[[Super Robot Wars Z]] 2'', which is a rare physical product example.
* ''[[Wing Commander (Videovideo Gamegame)|Wing Commander]] Secret Ops'', based on the VISION engine used in ''Prophecy''. It's probably the [[Ur Example]], having come out in [[Older Than They Think|1998]].
* Almost everything released by [[Telltale Games]], including:
** ''[[The Adventures of Sam and& Max: Freelance Police (Video Game)|Sam and Max Freelance Police]]''
** ''[[Back to Thethe Future: (VideoThe Game)|Back to The Future]]: The Game''
** ''[[Strong BadsBad's Cool Game for Attractive People (Video Game)|Strong Bads Cool Game for Attractive People]]''
** ''[[Tales of Monkey Island (Video Game)|Tales of Monkey Island]]''
** ''[[Wallace and Gromit]]'s Grand Adventures''
 
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