10 Most TEDIOUS Opening Levels in Great Video Games

[@aaronpuckett993]

Assassins Creed 3 felt like it took a very long time to start playing without it feeling like a tutorial

[@JRibs]

That intro was so long... The game was stupid as fuck too. They nuked the fridge. I wanted national treasure stupid, not ancient aliens.

[@AmericanKeagle]

Agreed Haytham was a cool character tho

[@notoriousbig3k]

@@JRibs assassins creed brotherhood came up with it

[@braindeadcrew]

@@notoriousbig3k agreed bro, like what made them think playing the first 5 sequences as not an assassin was a good idea?

[@sirpotatousheadislimberg6346]

J Ribs wtf are you on about? AC3 doesn’t have any fucking aliens lmao

[@greggorious]

MSG5 “really loooooooong interactive scene” for sure

[@tonyflamingosucks6590]

Metal solid gear five?

[@amoebainyoface9390]

And the audacity of them to repeat that again later in the game. Damn turn off lol

[@davidhayter1179]

Well worth it though.

[@Don_Sosa]

I bought that game in 2015 and played that intro..Thought the game is shit and left the game..5 years later (In August) I thought i’ll give it a try once again and now I realized how good that game is! I’m still playing this game everyday..Still hate that intro tho 😂

[@charliemilroy6497]

The opening of metal gear solid was the only good part of the game

[@bronwynecg]

“It’s not “regular complicated”, it’s “Kingdom Hearts complicated “......” 🤣👍🏽

[@christianbaumgartner1321]

When you Load a Save in Skyrim, you can choose a new Character there. You start at the Chara Creator, so you skip the boring Starter Scene.

[@luizfernandodonascimento3413]

Nier Automata: fastest ending ever.

[@Pslyse]

I'm just going to say that Dragon's Dogma's intro also falls into this category

[@jwb943]

Am I the only one that likes the opening level for Skyrim although I haven’t replayed Skyrim a ton of times so that might be why

[@kingcronecker]

Driver is the Myspace of open-world action-adventure video games.

[@striker121S]

Talking about kingdom hearts 2 breaks my heart. I was young playing it and I got really said when I realized that Roxas doesn’t exit and he just a vanished, after getting kinda connected to him through the game, made me depressed for few days. Man you just opened a wound with this :’( 😂😂

[@JohnnyStashh]

I cant believe you didnt mention Mike Tyson's Punch Out! Everything up until the final boss is a total drag, then you Reach Tyson... and THATS when the Real game Starts!

[@nastybedazzler]

Man I hear you on Nier Automata. When I first got it I was trying to figure out how to play it since it was my first Nier game ever, and I kept dying and thinking I was doing something horribly wrong and missing something crucial. Like I kept thinking there's no way I have to start all over again I must not know how to save, etc. I actually shelved it and stopped playing it for like a year until giving it another shot not too long ago. They fucked up so hard at that intro.

[@Tri-formis]

Ha, just my reaction. After almost an hour of play I got killed and was brought back to the title screen. Next thing I did was to uninstall the game. If I have to play something for a long time and my progress(we are talking near 1 hour) is not even acknowledged then that is the definition of time wasted.

[@clydemd]

Great list. Now do one for best intro games

[@jessestrings]

When i first played driver as a child i thought something was wrong with me because i was unable to get past the tutorial 😂😂😂

[@Naemen]

The first Black and White game.. OMG!!

[@LynxGGTV]

I remember playing Driver as a kid and my Dad stepped in to help me finish that tutorial he had a hard time too and suggested we go buy another game but the next day after school I saw him playing it in my room and told me he did it. man, time flies so fast I miss playing games with my Dad..

[@keybladerasta4142]

:(

[@alienlife7754]

😞☹️

[@sccoltsfan8242]

My dad passed this year, and I miss playing games with him. We rocked every mega man when I was a kid, dk country, mario, he was the man! Bet hes beating every high score in game heaven right now!

[@undergroundish3135]

@@keybladerasta4142 g uh Zhang zag 17th 9-6

[@boblee1902]

I remember Driver I could never pass the tutorial I was probably 8 then one day my dad who had never played a ps game done it while drunk idk what else to say about that

[@fazrulhazriel2061]

its miracle 😂

[@theedge205]

It was so bad that on a PS1 demo disc you got with magazines at the time PlayStation gave you the chance to skip the tutorial.

[@vonSaufenberg]

Thats the reason i am suprised by hard sections of a video game i have played trough before. There is something about drunk me that is much more focused on games.

[@mrdorf2784]

Took me forever to get past the tutorial.

[@Reverend_Nada]

Yeah, I think I completed it for my friends while intoxicated

[@GeneralNickles]

"it's not just complicated, it's kingdom hearts complicated." I'm totally gonna start saying that about anything I don't care enough to understand.

[@joedemelfie5509]

Agreed

[@DarkAnomaly]

It's a joke you nerd.

[@Justin-td2er]

Truer words have never been spoken

[@ralphisxamida8533]

Me:" It's a long, complicated story" (means I don't want to talk about it) Friend :" How complicated?" Me:" Kingdom Hearts complicated" Friend: " Oh, ok"

[@lanceroberts3955]

With Skyrim tho you can always have a save at the character creator and just load that save when you want to make a new character

[@jamiebarrientos9969]

Omg. Genius. I feel so dumb now....😔

[@chaotic3962]

Thought everyone did that haha.

[@TheBatzFiend]

Except you still have the sit through the execution and the entire escape from Helgen. Both of which combined likely take just as long if not longer than the wagon intro.

[@cs1458]

You still have to sit through the execution, though.

[@relical_latte1223]

That's what i do

[@mysterymayhem7020]

Where is Dragon Age: Inquisition's 10 hour long intro just to get to the real part of the game.

[@kaoridovani8284]

My GODS you aren’t wrong

[@promise1693]

What 🤡

[@nevermore7285]

To be fair that’s more a prologue chapter than just a tedious introduction. There’s still a lot to do even if the game only gets serious rather far in.

[@Blackfist030]

Only thing really bad about it is no storage, other than that it's not that bad, it's just the beginning of the story, the part where you get interrogated then freed is the intro

[@BigDub24]

i gave up before reaching that point unfortunately

[@arminabdi]

I remember "playing" driver as a kid and not being able to finish the intro.

[@The101Point1]

Yep even on the PC version I couldn't beat it so that's why I used cheats and played take a ride

[@stryker0ae]

Same. I actually rode my bike back into town and the chill blockbuster dude let me exchange it for a different game. Positive vibes to you Jeremy the blockbuster kid.

[@CLove511]

Thank the gods for a Gameshark

[@ChristophGeiser]

Same here. Played it as teen... well, it took me veeeery long to get it. When I finally did it, I already lost interrest on that game. Freeplay-Mode was still a lot of fun though :D

[@justinjones5778]

I'd actually beat that intro probably my first real dark souls like experience time and time again until you figure out what tricks to do when youd have to squeeze a couple in together

[@frederickjk3]

The driver tutorial should be something people need to pass to get their real life driving license.

[@sephiroth21347]

I remember Taris very fondly from KoToR. It was tense exploring the city while trying not to get caught by the troops, joining in on the Dueling Ring as "The Mysterious Stranger" to earn some credits and XP, meeting the great cast throughout. It never once felt tedious to me.

[@zero.9803]

Definitely, the skip peragus mod is basically always installed when I play KotoR 2, but I never skip Taris. The Endar Spire maybe, but without Taris KotoR 1 just doesn't feel complete for me.

[@Tri-formis]

Taris was a good way to get started on earning ig money and level up, which you need for your Jedi set up right after. Paragus is just damned long and it makes you invest in skills you will not need the rest of the game... worse still, it's like having to dungeon crawl with your cranky grandmother and shifty neighbour 😒

[@Forever_Zero]

"it's not regular complicated, it's Kingdom Hearts complicated" Man, I love Falcon

[@spheromancer_]

Whats with all the sex bots recently, jeez

[@KnightSlasher]

@@spheromancer_ ikr KZbin doesn't handle stuff well at all

[@T4751001]

As a Kingdom Hearts fan, its true

[@toddthesweatynerdguy1450]

@@spheromancer_ What bot? I don't understand I'm sorry to say.

[@joedemelfie5509]

Yes lol so true so clever so funny.

[@tamilarasanr4353]

I clicked the video as fast as lightning when I saw CJ in thumbnail ,without even reading the title😂

[@loud4life920]

I instantly thought of mgsv

[@TheMakronX]

I remember playing Driver's tutorial when I was younger and boy it almost stopped me from playing the game! Not only was it one of the first driving games I've ever attempted to play but I also didn't understand English by that time (I'm a Spanish native speaker). So what a "Slalom" was was beyond me, and Internet was not an option XD. I gave up, then my father continued playing the tutorial until he accidentally pulled the right move and we were able to beat it. It was a game I really enjoyed afterwards.

[@cs1458]

Driver was the game that taught me my local video game rental store doesn't offer refunds.

[@jorgealfredorodrigueznajer3515]

Same here!! Omg i was about to throw my ps1 into the wall when my dad told me what SLALOM is... Good memories with this game but boy i played the tutorial for about 2 months

[@shararm]

Even me and my dad knowing what slalom meant still had us trying for months lol

[@MarcosMiltonCastro]

It stopped me from playing. I just gave up.

[@mksmike]

The first driving game I played I couldn't even make it past the first turn on most tracks because you couldn't change the keys and instead of A and D it had these weird ass keys (< and >, which are in a single key and in a different place in our keyboard) for the steering. We only figured out the actual keys because a guy who had used an american keyboard came visit and told us where they were.

[@UKHaiku]

On Skyrim I get that interminable ride started and go make a cup of tea.. :-)

[@MrPrideHyde]

2:00. "It's not like regular complicated, it's Kingdom Hearts complicated" 😂🤧👏

[@GEWB2105]

The greatest true ever spoken, and in such an off hand matter.

[@joedemelfie5509]

@@GEWB2105 haha yes so true.

[@joedemelfie5509]

It's he sora s nobody ? Roxas right?

[@Sphynx-jt2vr]

Red dead’s intro is sick you get to rob a train what are you talking about

[@rambot_14o43]

It means it was long, he didn't say anything bad about the game

[@clump3061]

Nah dude that mountain shit was way too fucking long and super slow. It was cool maybe twice but afterwards the game gets pretty top tier

[@Arnell_Mediocrity_Long]

@@clump3061 I'm glad 95% of the time I only play intros once.😊

[@erfanesmaili12]

Imo Skyrim's intro meme is really something else😂

[@Johnbrowningmusic]

ngl, i like the opening sequence, very well made

[@erfanesmaili12]

@@Johnbrowningmusic Totally agree with you, It is a masterpiece

[@topdog2007]

oh your awake?

[@Johnbrowningmusic]

topdog2007, Damn you Stormcloaks. Skyrim was fine until you came along. Empire was nice and lazy. If they hadn't been looking for you, I could've stolen that horse and been half way to Hammerfell. You there. You and me -- we should be here. It's these Stormcloaks the Empire wants. jk, fuck the empire, i worship talos and talos alone, the thalmor suck. however i don't hate the dunmer, they're not that bad

[@topdog2007]

@@Johnbrowningmusic excuse me lesser being i am a vampire do not compare to me your mortal races BAH i have the blood of gaul bul in me XD

[@Prod_D]

“Grove street, home... at least it was before the intro f***ed everythang up....”

[@fica1137]

Well at least it puts you into the game two spacebar presses later

[@DutchDouchebag]

"Everythang" lmao

[@TheFloorballer]

Although I’ve played RDR 1 I actually enjoyed the opening of RDR 2. You get to learn so much about some new features, like hunting animals for the skins. Stamina of your horse and much more. So yeah even though a bit dull at times I found the starting chapter in RDR 2 pretty good!

[@maxbracegirdle9990]

Yeah it's not bad at all, I don't think anyone's saying that. It's really important in meeting the gang and finding out their personalities and rivalrys, Sadies storyline, and learning the ropes. But when you do it on your 3rd or so playthrough, it gets quite slow and annoying.

[@mars6282]

I recently started playing and the intro had me confused I thought it was an open world game not a scripted game then kept playing and oh finally the world

[@davem7705]

The opening is the best part of the game the rest is an absolute bore fest and not worth playing.

[@IXXIMASONIXXI]

I remember being so annoyed and pissed off with Driver tutorial that i refused to stop playing it until i did it, 2 hours of pure rage later i was finally able to enjoy Driver :D

[@AjaySharma-bm5mb]

Lmao that is exactly why I never played Nier after dying in that intro sequence a couple times 💀

[@Lighterfoxx]

I had to play on easy on that part, because I was so done with it.

[@ikbendom5663]

noob

[@chiefinasmith]

Overrated game.

[@josh7624]

Don’t forget though rdr2 is supposed to be a slow paced game and the story of the game is the best I’ve seen so far

[@Pokemark17]

Yeah never really got the complaints tbh

[@omarasif2068]

I love red dead2 and Arthur Morgan is gaming's best protagonist but my favourite game in terms of story will always be witcher 3.

[@JohnMarstongamimg]

I got the game 2 days ago and I agree it’s amazing.

[@-Flabbergasted-]

RDR2 tbh suck..

[@josh7624]

Omar Asif still need to play the Witcher 3

[@heckpeanuts]

I always loved the opening to zelda. Felt like it gave me something to care about in Hyrule

[@philithegamer8265]

Fanboy.

[@Tw1stTech]

Don’t mind me, I just came to make sure that with this title and thumbnail, Driver Tutorial was in at least a top 3 spot - it’s number #2 life can go on

[@lenzmillana8840]

Bruh. Persona 4 makes you listen 3 hours of conversation at the beginning of the game

[@codyb.3015]

Don't get how someone can get themselves through that multiple times

[@distractedFreek]

Haven't even watched this and I'm already predicting Kingdom Hearts 2.

[@roohiirfanlutfi891]

Congrats you're right

[@selrahceipoop6914]

MGS5 where you have to crawl and very very slowly walk through 45 minutes of cut scenes

[@blaniac6591]

Just to let you know, clicking the “i” button on an advertisement will allow you to skip it if you click “stop showing this ad.”

[@VictorPloeger]

Use adblock on your browser or youtube vanced on your android android device, on apple youre screwed tho.

[@blaniac6591]

Victor Ploeger i don’t feel like downloading anything when all i have to do is click three buttons

[@VictorPloeger]

@@blaniac6591 yeah its up to you but I downloaded adblock and KZbin vanced 2 years ago and havent seen any ad since then.

[@kirbylover37]

@@VictorPloeger and you haven't been supporting the channels you watch since either! You know if everybody blocked ads there wouldn't be any free content to watch, right?

[@VictorPloeger]

@@kirbylover37 not those living of ad money through youtube indeed

[@TheAnarchistmediaHOG]

I loved the rdr2 opening.. probably my favorite part of the game, gave me some Hateful 8 vibes.. kinda.

[@Eadwulf_Skald]

Hateful 8 if it was made by Christopher Nolan instead of Quentin Tarantino because it plays the long game.

[@davidbarnett342]

Id perfer the game ditch me from the start with a parting "good luck"

[@surprisinglyblank2392]

Don't Starve immediately popped into my head when I read this. What are some other games that do this?

[@davidbarnett342]

@@surprisinglyblank2392 Recently I have enjoyed Grounded and being terrorized by spiders

[@AmateurStorytime]

@@surprisinglyblank2392 Minecraft.

[@surprisinglyblank2392]

@@davidbarnett342 Just watched the trailer and it looks like fun.

[@kartikranjha1533]

@@surprisinglyblank2392 Every Fromsoftware game

[@loonyman83]

meh Taris wasn't terrible... but good god Peragus was a slog. I definitely remember getting the skip Peragus mod for Kotor 2 lol. With driver I remember playing that back in the day when it was new (I'm old deal with it lol) but I honestly don't remember that tuturail section taking more than like 3 attempts to clear it. Never understood why it's soo hated. Always thought it was pretty self evident and not THAT challenging.

[@nathanielbower6367]

Skyrim's intro is the only one thats SO bad that I knew it would be on here. Alternate start is an absolute must if you play through more than once.

[@lanceroberts3955]

Nathan just make a save when you get off the wagon and you’re good

[@jimm.127]

Nathan Bower The intro to Skyrim is awesome imo. Of course it’ll be boring if you play it for the 100ths time, but that goes for any intro.

[@odinson5911]

I just use the skip intro mod.

[@mrhamsam243]

Rorikstead, i’m from Rorikstead.

[@XxKidnoffxX]

People use alternative start because the opening is too much scripted and some mod just make you crash. Thats why you need to use it when you mod your game. But if you play Skyrim for the first time 100% vanilla, this opening in really really good. One of the best I ever seen in a video game. Its short, set the table for the rest of the game, its really immersive And almost act like a benchmark to play the game lol.

[@Xkdashing]

Also Prince of Persia The Warrior Within's first level was so hard.

[@EmiAizat]

"You finally awake".. Best motivation line of all times

[@avalentin1993]

Honestly, Fallout 4 I got tired after my first playthrough pretending to care that my wife or husband, whom we only spent 5 minutes with, just got shot and our baby, again whom we only spent 5 minutes with, just got stolen. It tries way to hard to make you care.

[@pacoramon9468]

And makes no sense if you become a drug addict canibal.

[@shawnwolf5961]

@@pacoramon9468 I mean, it could make sense though. Your journey in the wasteland changed you. The loss of your wife/husband and child, along with the stress of this new, chaotic world, drove you to drugs and cannibalism. Use your imagination, damn.

[@jarvis8635]

I think it would be interesting to play out a pre apocalypse fallout. Then the sequel could be yourncharacter as a goul, vault dweller, raider, or whatever.

[@The_Cadaver]

@@shawnwolf5961 I'm imagining a game that allows you to create/select a unique backstory and play a role in-game without having to play make-believe IRL.

[@shawnwolf5961]

@@The_Cadaver EVERY fallout game has had your backstory premade to some extent. FO1, you came from a vault. You've been there your entire life, and you were chosen to leave it. FO2, same thing. You came from Arroyo. NO questions asked, that is your background. Maybe what you DID in Arroyo was up to your interpretation, but the fact is, THAT is your background. You were chosen to leave to find the GECK, you are a tribal, and you literally just passed the temple of trials--and you are the ancestor of the original vault dweller. FO3, you are James' son. Also from a vault, even though you were born outside it. Your parents were working on project purity. Again, no getting to choose your background here either. FONV, you were a courrier who caused a catastrophe earlier in your travels. you were designated to carry a platinum chip. While there is more freedom here, fact is your backstory, to some extent, IS prewritten. So, as you can see, the same thing can be said of ANY Fallout game. 4 just went a bit more all in on it than the others did, giving you a specific child, a spouse, and a job--and the job thing wasn't even unique to FO4, because New Vegas did that first making the player a courrier. Ya'll can split hairs all you want, every fallout game has had your background determined for you to some extent.

[@RioKurniawanpsi]

"Hey you, you're finally awake"

[@justanobody8010]

you were trying to cross the border too?

[@TheDorianTube]

Persona 4: Before getting into the actual gameplay, you spend 2h40m in walking around and reading stuff. Still, best game that was on the Vita

[@WhyHighC]

TheDorianTube I came here expecting JRPG comments (Persona specifically). Surprised I found one that quick tho.

[@AARGamer28]

Boring 🤣

[@PhantomTissue]

Yea, I got bored with that game, I got about 2 hours in before I finally gave up and refunded it. 2 hours for 1 single battle.

[@ogway1772]

Poor soul bought a vita

[@TheDorianTube]

@@ogway1772 You kidding me?! I bought one last year, it's the best handheld I ever owned (Switch included) once hacked. The stuff you can do with it it's amazing. Highly satisfied. Vanilla Ps Vita tho, yeah...not that exciting at all lol

[@warrengrady9644]

So I was a huge fan of Fallout 2, and put waaaay too many hours into it. I still fire it up now and then for nostalgia value. It's interesting that the temple in Arroyo is seen as a "tutorial / opening level" section. XD We never saw it as that back in the day, it was more of a way to test out your character build. So much so, that a high charisma character could just talk his way out of doing the trials entirely, a stealthy character could just sneak past everything, there were secrets and shortcuts and so many ways of approaching (or avoiding) the trials depending on your build, without giving away the surprises in store in the main game like being a tribal with a spear and running into folks with laser weapons and power amour, and going "wtf!?" because you were expecting to come across folks like yourself. (You're pretty much treated like crap by everyone who recognizes you as a "f**king tribal." You weren't ever really "forced" to do the trials, and even if you couldn't get out of it there was a path you could run to the exit without having to engage with much of anything. I always saw it as more of a "is this build going to cope" test. If you couldn't get through the trials with your build, you weren't going to survive a day in the wastes. Also, it was probably the shortest "tutorial" or "intro" section out of everything you've listed here, so it really wasn't nearly as tedious as you're making out. :p And to answer your question: If I recall correctly the tribe you belong to was descended from the original vault from the first game. (Which happened about 80 years prior to the sequel.) They lost their vault technologies (like their GECK and water chips), hence why they reverted back to tribal living. The temple isn't "ancient", the trials were built as a brutal test for the warriors and "Chosen Ones" of the tribe before they went out into the wastelands, which goes back to what I was saying above about it not actually being a tutorial or opening level.

[@philithegamer8265]

Fallout 2 is how you make a prologue.

[@MiketheMadness]

Glad Falcon got some new animations beyond frowning and smiling.

[@crazyblood8483]

The intro of Skyrim is amazing. It sets the scene so well and gets you hyped. I don’t know what you’re talking about.

[@AbG-pk4ti]

Yeah, it's a breeze if you already know what to do.

[@odinson5911]

It's amazing the first time, not the tenth time.

[@derekmenebroeker4993]

The Harvest Festival in Neverwinter Nights 2. Sure you CAN skip it entirely, but you miss out on all the stuff you can get that is pretty helpful early in the game, like a Cloak of Resistance +1, the Harvest Cup (cure light wounds 2/day), and even some scrolls to add to your spellbook if you're a wizard.

[@warfordjokes]

I don't disagree that the fest drags a bit, but I always kinda enjoyed doing the fest, personally. When I dust off NWN2 and remember the fest I realize--deep down--I'm stoked.

[@Renanpulga10]

i dont think skyrim is that bad, i see it as an interactable cutscene more than an actual opening level

[@LightlySalted26]

its not bad but without mods it takes like 15 minutes to get into the actual game

[@Iamgudjoe]

Monster Hunter: World. I'm never deleting a save ever again.

[@megamanx1291]

World? dude try 1,2 or 3

[@eastsiderage5532]

Can't agree with RDR 2's intro being on this list . Being up in the mountains for the first missions wasn't that bad and gave you a taste of things to come

[@bpmotard1458]

Okami also has this problem... It takes ao much time to get going, thank god I managed to push through, since after completing it it's the most gorgeous game ever

[@Indurok]

I have no problem with Twilight Princess's opening. I literally played the game for the very first time just last year, and it's one of my all-time favorite games. Honestly, I just love the GameCube in general. I never owned one until last year, when I bought it on Amazon.

[@asrofthegreat9045]

"its not regular complicated but kingdomhearts complicated" best line ever to describe kingdomehearts

[@Eztli122]

me playing kotor on android: finaly finish Taris corupted save files: "Oh, i don't think so."

[@ajanthony1356]

I can die in peace knowing someone else felt my pain

[@DoomedFriend]

*wakes up on January 1, 2021* "Great, you're finally awake" Wait it's all Skyrim? Always has been. crashes 2010 starts

[@Kris.G]

You mean go through 2016 AND 2020 AGAIN? FML...

[@DoomedFriend]

@@Kris.G don't forget 2012 "the end of the world"

[@DunCcanST4R]

Kh2 opening section was where i got stuck for a whole year when i was a kid 😂

[@stevewf]

I still remember that Driver tutorial. Uff. It would have been so much easier if they'd have just removed the timer ! Loved the game once I got past it though.

[@simonleduc4876]

I remember the Driver's tutorial. I was like 12 years old...never played something else then the free mode :P

[@Johnbrowningmusic]

lol, just came here taking a break from playing skyrim, god i love that game.

[@soupeverywhere9565]

Same lol.

[@gladimirputin6300]

Everyone dose

[@demetriusmccray1574]

LIAR! YOU TURNED HER AGAINST ME!

[@reiodion6256]

"It's not regular complicated it's Kingdom Hearts complicated" might just be the best way to explain the story of kh to someone that has no prior experience with kh ive ever heard

[@Toniebones]

At this point I'm just used to them leaving kingdom come out of everything

[@kbzonmarko]

When will Andrew stop being the "New Guy" on the outro animation? 🤣🤣🤣

[@Mn0ty]

The Witcher 1's intro is longer than some games.

[@thrallingFRglory]

It isn’t tedious tho

[@zax2004]

I was living in the dorms at Texas A&M (mentioned for size info) and I had a slot on my memory card with a save of Driver immediately after beating the tutorial driving test that I let others around the dorm copy over so that they could play the game since few of us could get past it at the time. Felt so cool back then for a few weeks, lol.

[@kevincampos2587]

GAMERANX, this game has a very tedious intro too The game its called Kingdom Come Deliverance, it's a role game about The Medieval Age, and the game starts like at a village and you have to do several missions to get to the reall game, the worst thing is that the game has a really big map, and the game doesnt give you a horse till 15% on the story. So you have to travel with your bare feet till the game gives you a free horse

[@AnthraxOfDoom]

Yeah, the whole beginning of Kingdom Come is what made the game gather dust in my steam library at first. The intro is like 2 hours long until you are able to do what you want, and even then a lot of the stuff that you need to really enjoy the game is "locked" behind the firsts main missions. Still an amazing game though.

[@kevincampos2587]

@@AnthraxOfDoom yes it's a great game ngl, is one of the best role games I've played but God dam bro the intro, and the hole "tutorial" is long and boring asf, also you have to travel a lot with your bare feet before getting the first horse (well you can steal one but that makes you a bad person and bla bla bla). But in the end is a great game

[@p-y8210]

I don't think that one fits as the whole game is slow. And you can fast travel if you want the whole point of the game is to immerse you into medieval peasant life.

[@kartikranjha1533]

I liked the intro a lot.

[@Amarth13]

The AC3 opening takes for ever.

[@MidnightClubStillCancelledSoz]

The tutorial in Driver was the Demon Souls of driving tutorials back in 1999.

[@nabru3491]

Dam I love driver back in the day, oh the joys of early games

[@GunslingerLv]

No one: Not a single molecule in the universe: Elder scrolls games: you want to play , its prison brake time

[@Dontgetenslaved]

Do a top 20 games with the longest amount of cut scenes.

[@shawnwolf5961]

MGS4 would top that list.

[@Dontgetenslaved]

@@shawnwolf5961 xenosaga

[@jp9707]

The Wolfenstein games (in terms of time spent watching cutscenes Vs time actually playing the game)

[@ericb3157]

@@Dontgetenslaved reminds me of a gag in an old online comic: "oh, you're playing Xenosaga?" "more like...NOT playing it!"

[@glowingdawn9179]

Falcon: "Roxas turns out to not actually be real" Me : cries in Xion

[@Hinokassaudifan1]

I've played the opening of skyrim so many times I've lost count but I love it any way.

[@bobby_c07]

It's not even long.

[@lucasmartinsdemorais3138]

Its not even that boring, it's just that boring because we have played to much

[@codystegemueller9428]

No it's terrible

[@alphabetaomegainvestments3444]

Wish the game dropped the player outside the cave so you can start exploring.

[@FreakinfreakInfreaki]

Driver may be one of my earliest childhood memories. I don't think I ever got past the tutorial.

[@Metroyed]

I like the twilight princess intro. It establishes what normal life looks like in Hyrule and stands to contrast the severity of the conflict that follows.

[@sodaftpm185]

It lasted for way too long.

[@ledumpsterfire6474]

Agreed. Guild Wars 1 went a similar route, and it really hit different because of it, you were really watching the end of the world play out. Could they have stood to make more of the intro interactions optional so that returning players could zoom through it and get to the meat and potatoes, while new players can take their time exploring and getting to know the world as it (was)? Sure, but the reason for it existing is solid.

[@Axess-sv8nq]

Hey you! You're finally awake! You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush - same as us...and that thief over there.

[@topdog2007]

pfft dont compare to me your mortal race i am a vampire

[@colewilder7353]

Shut up back there

[@londonmockett8952]

Saints row 4 you can’t walk at full speed and you’re throwing up for a little bit then you keep crashing the ship

[@greendude0420]

“Hey you, you’re finally awake! We have a city to burn!” 10 minutes later:*Helgen is in ashes*

[@ChulioRCHulio]

Not gonna lie - if Keanu Reeves would be there I would not skip that intro...for the first 10 times at least ^^

[@darthremy1802]

Who didn't hard save at character creation on skyrim, I only ever saw the cart scene once for each time I bought the game Also RDR2 was art if u didn't enjoy the opening everytime u played it then u and me can't be friends

[@ThatWeebyGamer]

Am I alone in saying I really enjoy the start Kingdom Hearts 2, it was my first Kingdom Hearts game and Roxas has special place in my heart. I've been known to just say "Hayner, Pence, Olette", the part with the 7 wonders was so fun. I was really disappointed with how small Twilight Town was in 3.

[@thedadfighter]

same

[@miarok3]

Super paper mario 3d literally has like a 3, 4 hour long game start it's aweful

[@sikandarsaeed9162]

I loved the beginning of kingdom hearts 2 tho, it was confusing but utterly beautiful and memorable

[@biscuit1388]

Fr, and it was only really complicated because most people skipped COM. It all made sense later tho and now it’s so awesome when you re play it

[@davedoes1298]

Was very much expecting both prologs for kotor. Started to get nervous they wouldn't show as we got to the top 3. They're very much deserving of the number 1 spot when considering multiple play throughs. It had a great amount of content, but very much would have like some degree of proportionality to the remainder of the game. Either as extensions of everything else, or as the prologs condensed.

[@multiiv487]

Already knew the intro for LOZ TP was gonna be on here

[@alphabetaomegainvestments3444]

The first 8 hours of Twilight Princess ruined it for me.

[@thomasrankin6867]

Bioshock Infinite. It’s absolutely amazing the first time through and your first experience in Columbia, but after the first play, when you know what’s going on, it takes forever to get to the actual gameplay.

[@KorilD]

Making a save I can load up in the character creator of Skyrim has saved me so much damned time.

[@Comissar_Carolus]

Same here. I use the auto save just before the character creator.

[@yuri_cobaia]

Everytime a game starts with - "Winter, snow or water scenarios " or with a injury character, overweakened character, is a completely boring intro

[@helikos1]

I hate games where you start as uber powerful only to be weakened in some way and the whole premise is just trying to attain that level of power again.

[@Viper-D-Luffy]

I remember the driver tutorial level , it took a long time of practicing to nail down everything to pass that tutorial level in that 60 second timer.

[@TheTerribleIvan]

Played automata on hard as 1st playthrough. Took me days to get off the prologue

[@m0nsterLiam]

"It's not normal complicated, it's Kingdom Hearts complicated." 😂

[@Dildonion]

Um no i didnt think you would mention driver because you said great games. No one in their right mind would consider driver a great game if 90% of people cant get past the tutorial. If it was just tedious openings sure or tedious openings in bad game sure not great games.

[@mashman9905]

SKYRIM INTRO TIPS: -To avoid the intro cutscene, start it up and make a save as you exit the cart. You can reload this save instead of starting a new character as its after the cart ride but before the character creation. -You can also run right through helgen upto the keep. Once you go up the first towers stairs, alduin will break the wall. After he goes you can run straight to the keep No waiting for ulfric to talk or for the guy in the street and the imperial soldier to die.

[@JP_Crimson]

Funny, that what I did when I got it recently

[@sizenplace4554]

But you use all your progress

[@tfk2328]

I'm pretty sure almost everyone who made atleast 3 playthroughs already did this. Honestly just use alternate start since it's a lot safer if you're running mods

[@BITMajo]

I was surprised to see KOTOR on this list, not to mention on the top of the list, I do think KOTOR2's opening is tedious though, but didn't thought it would made no1 either. I think KOTOR's opening/tutorial level is only limited to the Endar Spire space ship part, once your party land on Taris, you can actually explore around the city freely. You can do the main quest, raid some apartments, or go to the arena. To be honest, there's not really that much stuff to do on Taris, and it's true that the rest of the game are not accessible at this point, but there's still some level of freedom, and I think Taris is more like the first chapter of KOTOR. KOTOR2's opening however, is a different story. First you get a tutorial level on the Ebon Hawk (your ship), which I think is actually more interesting than KOTOR's Endar Spire tutorial, and you can even skip it if you don't want the tutorial, cool! However, the game continues on the Peragus mining station, which is a big level (not as big as Taris though) and you have to traverse the station in a linear way, even while the station's structure is non linear at all. Since you're doing the same things in the same order every playthrough, it start to get boring on the second time, there's even a part where you have to put on EVA gear, slowly walk to the other side of the station, just to play a cutscene. Did I mention the optional tutorial level at the beginning? well the game is still giving the player pieces of tutorials on Peragus station, so what's the point? After you're finally done with Peragus station, you'll get to Telos station, which is kind of like Taris from KOTOR, but much smaller and much lesser places to explore, you can't leave because your space ship is stolen. After choosing between helping some eco friendly aliens or working for a greedy corp, you'll get to leave Telos station and go to the north pole to get your space ship back, so you can travel the galaxy as your will, but before reaching your ship, your shuttle got shot down, so you'll have to fight your way through the surface to get to another shuttle, which got shot down again, luckly this time you crash right at the north pole where your ship is located, go talk to some exile jedi and you're finally free to choose your next destination. KOTOR2's opening (or maybe it should count as the first chapter of the game since how long it is) is so much more tedious than KOTOR's Taris, though they are both unskippable, KOTOR gives the player much more freedom to run around, and not all missions are necessary to progress the main story. KOTOR2 on the other hand, have long linear levels, minimal choices, you feel like doing the same things in the same order and getting the same loot for hours in every playthrough, the only difference is the character you build. To be clear, KOTOR's Taris level isn't amazing, but I still find it somehow enjoyable, and I definitely prefer Taris more than KOTOR2.

[@test.Subject]

I remember me and my friends playing the driver tutorial for a month before managing to pass it 😅 the 90s games were hardcore

[@runforestrun3556]

I disagree, Skyrim intro is damn good. Love to see this again and again. People made that mod because they don't wanna start the main story right away

[@vhierta8723]

Surprised Shadow of War isn't in the list. Considering it's a sequel it's fucking insane there is probably 10 hours of playtime on the harder difficulties and multiple jumps between regions until you get the the real game of taking control of the orc captains and warbosses... It sure feels like an intro especially when also considering there are popup tips and tricks every 2 minutes... [Hold Shift to sprint] Yes thank you game.... I've been playing for 20 hours i sure as hell haven't been walking all that time...