I'm not sure how Gabriel Knight fits into all this, but I think it's a really cool idea having the start of a story expect the player to know what's going on. When you go to see a movie, you expect the first half hour or so to deal with setting up the story. But say that part is radically different from the tone of the rest of the movie, or the pacing is completely different. The filmmakers could release a video setting the whole thing up on the internet, so that everyone going to see the movie will know enough going in to make sense of what happens.
Okay, so it's not commercially viable, but it's still a good idea. You know what, it could work with DVDs the same way it does with games- replace the video with a comicbook packaged in.
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