What truly defines a movie game?

Your mom on coke.

For me a movie game is a game that:
>Aspires primarily to tell a story, not to provide a challenging experience (whether in the sense of being difficult or having mechanics one must actively think about). Gameplay will always be bog standard, usually third person shooter
>A merging of gameplay and cutscenes, rather than them being segregated. One moment you're in a shootout, the next you're hitting a QTE, the next you're being forced to walk slowly while you listen to banter and look for a ladder to prop yourselves up. Because of this the cutscenes are generally unskippable, as very little of the "story" is actually contained in cutscenes, but is instead part of pseudo gameplay.
>Every playthrough will essentially be the same thing, as there are no deep mechanics or systems to grasp, everything is designed so that someone who started playing games half a year ago will be able to jump in with no issue
So I consider games like The Last of Us to be a movie game, but not a cutscene heavy game like Metal Gear Solid or a game with very little traditional gameplay like Life is Strange. Because no movie game could ever have a fight like The End from MGS3.
No. It's an extremely gamey game even if it does have some cutscenes that break the 30 minute mark. As noted above, the first two or three chapters could feel like a movie game but it opens up afterwards.

Heavy reliance on QTEs in place of actual interaction, even when interaction would be easy to program
Fake interaction, being able to walk around while the characters talk and you can't actually do anything but look at the scenery until they're finished
Complete linearity to such a degree that there are constant points of no return every couple of steps even if the game rewards exploration in principle

No one cares, whiny ninchildren

When the developers know everything a player is going to do. Atmosphere and storytelling above everything else. Abundance of cutscenes.

when the characters move like Commander Sheppard with super detailed walk cycles and most of the game is people walking and talking

>When the developers know everything a player is going to do.
This is a very good indicator. Would the developer be able to watch you play and know just about every single thing you're going to do before you even do it?

when you can have the exact same expirence and satisfaction by watching it on youtube rather than playing it

no its a weeb game so its not a movie game

movie game is just a meme word when you dont have actual criticism but wanna shit on games, usually sony exclusives. it doesn't apply if its multiplat or japanese. case in point, Yea Forums considers GOW a movie game, but not RDR2

/thread

It has to be a sony game and can't be japanese. Jap games and PC games get a pass because Yea Forums is biased

it's not cutscenes, it's when the game constantly takes control regular gameplay controls away from the player to make a more cinematic scene.
some common tells are constant sections of pushing/carrying an item in a zero risk situation so characters can play out a small scene, constant sections where you're forced to walk at a slow pace so you can have some NPC interaction, and setpieces where all you really have to do is run in one direction because there's literally no where else to go.

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Wouldn't that also apply to something like Planescape:Torment and Fallout 1 though?

no. PS:T and FO:1 have bad combat, but great gameplay.
they're cRPGs, not action games.