Times where the gameplay was canon.

A lot of the time in the story or cutscenes in games, you don’t see them using abilities or gear that you can use when your in control. This can be when someone is injured but no one uses the healing spells or healing kits you have been spamming this whole time or when you carry an arsenal of weapons on you but the character never uses them in cutscenes and are only seen with the weakest weapon or just their fists.

With this in mind, what are some times when characters in the story or in cutscenes use things that the player can use and makes you go “They used the thing! The thing that I use!”

Destiny does this a fair few times where in cutscenes it show’s characters dying and respawning, just like you do, and even use abilities and supers in the same way you do.

In the Division, there are a few found footage cutscenes that show other agents uses abilities like ballistic shields and seeker mines which reminds you how they are not just guys with guns but futuristic tech.

In wolfenstein, you just tank insane amounts of damage and move on and rarely suffer from the “cutscene gun” trope, like the infamous QTE where you and another dude are just stabbing each other over and over until one falls over and you just move on as if nothing happened.

Any time a game has you put all your weapons down and shows you putting an insane amount which confirms that your character is hauling around this pile of weapons at all times.