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Away all Goats posted:Oh believe me, as someone who literally skips every cutscene the first time I play game, the required friendship building is easily the worst part of the game for me. what the gently caress? why are you even playing games at that point?
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Conversely if you actually watch cutscenes, why are you playing videogames instead of watching movies?  e: The last cutscene I can remember not skipping immediately when given the option is the intro cinematic to Dawn of War 1
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deep dish peat moss posted:Conversely if you actually watch cutscenes, why are you playing videogames instead of watching movies? Because the gameplay and cutscenes should both work in tandem to deliver an experience? That's like saying watching movies with the sound off is identical to the same experience you'd get with the sound on. You're just ignoring a portion of the experience.
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I never skip cutscenes because I'm not a barbarian and have manners.
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what's the deal with this game that disappeared from steam? The Day Before? Is this some kind of scam game?
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Away all Goats posted:Oh believe me, as someone who literally skips every cutscene the first time I play game, the required friendship building is easily the worst part of the game for me. I like the superhero friendship simulator part of Midnight Suns, but if you don't they made it all skippable and they clearly labeled which dialog option makes which number go up for maximum gaming efficiency. If you think the gameplay might be your jam I urge you to try it, especially since they have already started selling it at a discount.
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kazil posted:what's the deal with this game that disappeared from steam? The Day Before? It's supposed to be a technical issue on Valve's side but people have been talking about smoke from The Day Before for awhile now
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pentyne posted:what the gently caress? why are you even playing games at that point? To play the actual gameplay portions? I treat the story of games as bonus content. I don't see the point in getting invested in a story if the gameplay sucks. If I really want to know a game's story but the gameplay sucks I'll just watch a Let's Play or something.
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I only skip kojima cutscenes
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slamming past everything that gives a game any kind of non-mechanical warmth is psycho poo poo to me but we all do what we have to to get by
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I don't read comic books and I haven't seen all the Marvel movies but Superhero Friendship Simulator was very good and cute, and the devs are obviously super into the genre instead of just chasing those Disney Ducats.
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Eason the Fifth posted:I only skip kojima cutscenes Also the gameplay parts.
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pentyne posted:what the gently caress? why are you even playing games at that point? Gameplay. video games are a poo poo medium for story telling  Agent355 posted:Because the gameplay and cutscenes should both work in tandem to deliver an experience? That's like saying watching movies with the sound off is identical to the same experience you'd get with the sound on. You're just ignoring a portion of the experience. Pretty sure deaf people watch things with subtitles on all the time
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fez_machine posted:It's supposed to be a technical issue on Valve's side but people have been talking about smoke from The Day Before for awhile now Maintenance is done and it's still not back. I hadn't heard anything about the game before this and everything I see makes me think it's not a real game.
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Sab669 posted:video games are a poo poo medium for story telling malarkey Opera's a bad medium to tell a story but they're still better for having them
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They're not video games, they're interactive multimedia experiences.
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Dismissing legitimate issues and concerns as "poo poo Reddit says" is something of a cope if the game's Steam reviews are trending towards Mostly Negative and there isn't even a capital-G Gamer thing behind it. Like, games that are genuinely mid to decent don't have that happen. It's OK to like Darktide, but lmao if you're trying to say critique is just Reddit being huffy. If that was the case the game would be hovering around 70ish %, redditors being unjustifiably whiny can't move that needle all on their own, since, you know, presumably the majority like the game, reflecting it in the score? Since that's not happening here, well...
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deep dish peat moss posted:Things that reddit posters are foaming at the mouth about : Lots of posts in the darktide thread complaining about these things too, weird
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Away all Goats posted:Oh believe me, as someone who literally skips every cutscene the first time I play game, the required friendship building is easily the worst part of the game for me. I realize everyone's entitled to their own ways to play and that the nature of games means that there's really no "right" way to play and that claiming that someone is playing a game wrong is at the end of the day narrow minded and antithetical to the whole concept of play, but you're playing games wrong.
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skipping cutscenes is what speedrunners do so you're just getting a headstart on your next career
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Cutscenes are a trap put in by the villain to make you beat them slower or feel bad about kicking them in the face. Don't be fooled.
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I play all games on PC with the DVD tray open so cutscenes don't load.
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Agent355 posted:Because the gameplay and cutscenes should both work in tandem to deliver an experience? That's like saying watching movies with the sound off is identical to the same experience you'd get with the sound on. You're just ignoring a portion of the experience. Believe it or not people play games for all kinds of different reasons! I have not paid attention to the story in a game since the SNES Final Fantasy games because it's not the part of games I'm interested in, I am interested in the part of the game that's a game, and full of complex interactive problems to solve. If I care about the story I will read the wiki because reading is a much more natural and enjoyable way for me to enjoy a story. Get this: I also skip dialog whenever possible! I will literally just click the first option, or whatever option is colored for "use this one to unlock new things or progress the game". I will absolutely never under any circumstances listen to voice acting! Even in the extremely rare cases where I get temporarily invested in a game's story for the first 30 minutes before it wears on me I will absolutely never allow a voice actor to speak a full skippable line because it's agonizingly slow compared to reading and makes games actively un-fun for me. I play most games with the sound off, too  I'm not "ignoring the experience" with games like Disco Elysium or whatever - it's just an actively un-fun and grating experience to me, so I don't play it. Unsurprisingly this plays a large part in determining which games I think are good. deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 03:50 on Jan 25, 2023 |
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Even though it makes no sense to me, its probably fine to skip all cutscenes in videogames if you literally don't give a gently caress and can't bring yourself to try to. Its still very funny to imagine the cartoonish oaf version of this dude open palm slamming the skip cutscene button every time and then getting mad at the game because the story is bad and doesn't make sense.
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deep dish peat moss posted:Believe it or not people play games for all kinds of different reasons! I have not paid attention to the story in a game since the SNES Final Fantasy games because it's not the part of games I'm interested in, I am interested in the part of the game that's a game, and full of complex interactive problems to solve. If I care about the story I will read the wiki because reading is a much more natural and enjoyable way for me to enjoy a story. Get this: I also skip dialog whenever possible! I will literally just click the first option, or whatever option is colored for "use this one to unlock new things or progress the game". I will absolutely never under any circumstances listen to voice acting! Even in the extremely rare cases where I get temporarily invested in a game's story for the first 30 minutes before it wears on me I will absolutely never allow a voice actor to speak a full skippable line because it's agonizingly slow compared to reading and makes games actively un-fun for me. i'd even accept "having your friend tell you what happened" over that
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I'm pretty sure most video game fan wikis contain far more text than the games themselves, the in-game story is practically the abridged version. e: But really I think you're making the mistake of assuming that my taste in stories is exactly the same as yours or that I'm even interested in reading a synopsis of a game like Disco Elysium or whatever. Baldur's Gate is another example of a game that I have never played, will never play, and have zero interest in reading a plot synopsis of - but I love Icewind Dale 1 + 2  Also Storm of Zehir is the deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Jan 25, 2023 |
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youre the only one bringing up Disco Elysium lol i've not even played more than an hour of that game myself
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I'm just using DE as an example of a story-heavy game that would not be fun if you don't care about the story. I don't know many other examples because I don't play those games 
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 IT'S BACK, BABY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvtG2oBwbIA
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https://twitter.com/SkillUpYT/status/1618079446984187905 This The Day Before story is starting to pick up some steam. Is it feasible to somehow just gently caress off to the Bahamas with a bunch of preorder money?
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I enjoyed reading up on the story of Elden Ring after I'd finished it, partly because I had no idea what had happened and it was still mostly a mystery. It was kinda like walking past a huge street brawl on my way home from work, and then later reading a news story about it that explained what everyone was fighting about, and saying "ohhhh, that's why that one guy was so mad".
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I skip most cutscenes in games I know I’m not missing much, like the Just Cause series.
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Trick Question posted:Cutscenes are a trap put in by the villain to make you beat them slower or feel bad about kicking them in the face. Don't be fooled. sometimes the cutscenes make you feel better about kicking the villain in the face! sometimes you can't kick the villain in the face at all during gameplay because the cutscene does it for you in conclusion cutscenes are a land of contrast
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Triarii posted:I enjoyed reading up on the story of Elden Ring after I'd finished it, partly because I had no idea what had happened and it was still mostly a mystery. It was kinda like walking past a huge street brawl on my way home from work, and then later reading a news story about it that explained what everyone was fighting about, and saying "ohhhh, that's why that one guy was so mad". This also applies to opera
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Triarii posted:I enjoyed reading up on the story of Elden Ring after I'd finished it, partly because I had no idea what had happened and it was still mostly a mystery. It was kinda like walking past a huge street brawl on my way home from work, and then later reading a news story about it that explained what everyone was fighting about, and saying "ohhhh, that's why that one guy was so mad".  That's a good example of the kind of game I'll read the wiki plot synopsis for. Or Roguelikes/roguelites, or whatever. Basically I will play a game for 100+ hours enjoying the game mechanics and then go "huh, I wonder what that was all about anyway" and then go read an article that says "Well the moon was evil and it cursed everyone and now you gotta fight it" and I say "oh, neat." and move on.
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AngryBooch posted:This The Day Before story is starting to pick up some steam. It is objectively failing to pick up steam Do Ho Ho
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deep dish peat moss posted:I'm pretty sure most video game fan wikis contain far more text than the games themselves, the in-game story is practically the abridged version. i know i'd always rather read a 1200 page gamefaq written by xXx_s3ph1r0th_xXx than pay attention to a game's story, it's clearly the better experience. it has so many more words!!!
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Black Griffon posted:I realize everyone's entitled to their own ways to play and that the nature of games means that there's really no "right" way to play and that claiming that someone is playing a game wrong is at the end of the day narrow minded and antithetical to the whole concept of play, but you're playing games wrong. If developers want me to pay attention to their storyline they should make a good game first IMO
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Hell yeah, the Mechanist class drops in Chronicon tomorrow https://twitter.com/chronicongame/status/1617902131075321856?s=46&t=oaHxWs3N_abw2jo0fRXTQw
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:i know i'd always rather read a 1200 page gamefaq written by xXx_s3ph1r0th_xXx than pay attention to a game's story, it's clearly the better experience. it has so many more words!!! See personally I agree with this statement because (1) I am a very fast reader and (2) In text form like this, you don't have to be linear and chronological and you can instead read the parts that are interesting, go back to old parts to re-read them, etc. But if I were to actually play the game I am stuck at the glacially-slow pace the developers set and the pacing and flow is constantly broken up by switching between action and cutscene (and I have pretty bad ADHD so that is intolerable to me). And also (3) because I 100% guarantee you that xXx_s3ph1r0th_xXx has played the game back-to-back every week for the past 16 years and has an encyclopedic knowledge of it that would put its own writers to shame. I miss giant gamefaqs guides 
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