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Over the years, I've been skipping more cutscenes. Have your habits changed?
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No, never.
Story and cutscenes provide context for doing what I'm doing in a game. I'd never want to skip over that.
Story and cutscenes provide context for doing what I'm doing in a game. I'd never want to skip over that.
I give the game two cutscenes to show me they're worth my time and if not I'm hitting skip on everything. If you just want to show me a short movie between levels that tell me bad guy is bad or violence is wrong nah thanks I'm good bro
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Trying to distinguish between "never" and "almost never" is not worth cluttering the poll, imo.
Especially since literally never is unnecessarily strict as a poll option. Plenty of people are close enough that it makes little difference.
I'll skim through dialogue pretty fast if it's not very good, but I never skip cutscenes the first time.
For any MMO I'll typically start skipping cutscenes after awhile if the story isn't hooking me, so essentially all of them besides FF14. Story is typically the last reason I would ever want to play an MMO.
If I skip the story, the gameplay itself will feel worse to me because I'm disconnected from the context.
As I get older, I'm more deliberately selecting games with enjoyable stories.
As I get older, I'm more deliberately selecting games with enjoyable stories.
Wow didn't think I'd see this thread. This has been me since I wanna say 2020. Like even if I like the story I kinda just still skip the cutscene. Just been wanting to play stuff lately. I actually fell asleep playing the game tired watching some cutscenes this year. Just completely uninterested in long story cutscenes for some reason couldn't tell u why
I've found I'm much more likely to skip cutscenes in a lot of stuff. This seems doubly true for me when I'm playing a game from GamePass, PS+, etc., as I just have literally no investment until the game gives me a reason to, and frontloaded cutscenes in non-narrative heavy games just do nothing for me anymore.
Yeah. I hate it even more when they don't let you skip them or overly long animations of NPCs doing something. Get a move on, I wanna play the game.
Might as well throw the game away if I'm gonna skip the cutscenes. That's a cardinal sin. If a story is that terrible, I wouldn't have purchased the game in the first place.
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Interesting, I'd say the same except it had the opposite effect on me.
Although I enjoy a really good game story more than ever, the average game story has become much less interesting to me over time.
Like the chat or dialog after turning in 1 of 500 side quests I'll totally skip, if I get the gist of what the characters are saying but they won't stop talking then I will skip.
I started skipping the Tales of Arise skits after the first 150.
I started skipping the Tales of Arise skits after the first 150.
I have definitely been skipping more in recent years. The writing in most AAA games just isn't very good and I want to get to the gameplay. Depends on the game ultimately. A Naughty Dog game? Never, the dialogue, VA, and character work is in a class of its own for AAA. Ubisoft games? I'm probably skipping that shit, though I did enjoy Kassandra's VO quite a bit in AC: Odyssey.
Of course when you're dealing with a game that's dialogue focused like Disco Elysium what are you even doing playing it if you're not paying attention to the writing, that IS the game.
Of course when you're dealing with a game that's dialogue focused like Disco Elysium what are you even doing playing it if you're not paying attention to the writing, that IS the game.
Horizon Zero Dawn is as close as I've come to not wanting to choose every branch of dialogue and to skipping cutscenes. Thy and the Tomb Raider reboot.
Something about the writing in those two games just puts me right off. I think because both games have such a large budget and they're are presented so seriously that I can forgive them for their B grade quality like I can most other games. Games like Skyrim or the Metro series don't have much better writing or voice acting but for some reason I find them far more palatable.
Something about the writing in those two games just puts me right off. I think because both games have such a large budget and they're are presented so seriously that I can forgive them for their B grade quality like I can most other games. Games like Skyrim or the Metro series don't have much better writing or voice acting but for some reason I find them far more palatable.
A game like The Last of Us / Destiny - I am glued to the screen for every second of gameplay and cutscene. It's obvious how much effort the team put into making an amazing game and story and I'm 100% invested.
A game like Outriders - I don't really mind if I miss most of the story. I barely pay attention to the dialogue. It feels like the team put in the minimal amount of effort even when making important story cutscenes. The way the characters talk and are animated, the way they barely interact with each other... I find it hard to be invested in their story when the people who made it barely seem invested.
A game like Outriders - I don't really mind if I miss most of the story. I barely pay attention to the dialogue. It feels like the team put in the minimal amount of effort even when making important story cutscenes. The way the characters talk and are animated, the way they barely interact with each other... I find it hard to be invested in their story when the people who made it barely seem invested.
Not even the shittiest story in a game will get me to skip cutscenes. I'll drop a game in general before I skip a cutscene on purpose. I'd have to have played the game a billion time and just playing for gameplay/trying to speedrun before I skip one.
Never. Not even when I'm playing it for the second time. I want to know what's going on in the story.
Depends if they add much to the game. Its a case by case basis, but certainly care less about time wasting the more you deal with mortality in your life.
I don't skip cutscenes I haven't watched. If I'm at a point where I feel like skipping them, it is because I'm ready to drop the game because it isn't good.
I think i'm less likely to skip cut scene's than i was in the past, cause voice acting is a lot better than it was 20 years ago. The last game i remember i getting to the point of skipping all the story but still finished was Kingdom's of Amalur.
The only game I started doing this in recent memory was Outriders, and that was only because I didn't want to play it in the first place.
And even then, after a few hours I stopped skipping them because I just can't play anything without context.
If I feel the need to skip cutscenes, I'll instantly uninstall.
And even then, after a few hours I stopped skipping them because I just can't play anything without context.
If I feel the need to skip cutscenes, I'll instantly uninstall.
This is kinda how I feel as well. Basically if I'm skipping cutscenes, why am I even playing it in the first place?
I did recently start skipping cutscenes when I was wrapping up Triangle Strategy though...
As I got older I started skipping more and more. I skip dialogue too if they left me. I play games to interact with the mechanics, not sit around to watch/listen/read some bullshit story. It's gotten worse over the years too. Like devs trying to shoehorn some fuckin lore into a racing game.
