When You Skip the Cutscenes in an RPG

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[@CircleToonsHD]

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[@Mac1081]

I can’t buy one.

[@borates]

Interesting

[@Cardboard_object]

Boop

[@irsyadzakaria8574]

God of war (4) when kratos picks up his blades of chaos

[@kagemushashien8394]

I know what will solve this problem, have all cutscenes skippable (especially the long ones that lead to a boss fight), then put in the menu or options the [Replay Cutscenes] just in case you missed something, also great way to observe lore if there was a pause button too, so they can stop and find a hidden detail, Ooooooo I'll make my games just like that.

[@mike81356]

They’re the same type of people later that says the story was terrible 🙃

[@PixelBrushArt]

Oh hey, that's me

[@CBman11037]

​@@PixelBrushArt Drone Stike activated. You have 18 hours left

[@024Arceus]

Arin Hanson be like:

[@ArDeeMee]

@@PixelBrushArt Oof. Brave of you to admit to that. 😀🔪

[@huginnandmuninn4865]

Yup lol

[@Fizz-Q]

The skip the cutscene into random character death is a classic.

[@WL-bs4nc]

It’s that one IShowSpeed moment when he was playing DDLC and he said “bro when does this game get good?” As he was skipping important stuff

[@hrishikeshaggrawal]

lmao

[@BknMoonStudios]

Fire Emblem Awakening / Fates / Engage say hi!

[@Fizz-Q]

@@BknMoonStudios brother did not look at my pfp. (It used to be alcryst)

[@jk56]

Reminds me of Diablo 3 with Deckard Cain

[@tylermccaw8092]

Can we talk about how Chris has improved with his animating ? Like seriously, at 0:35, 0:58, and 1:16 all look so terrifyingly humanistic.

[@billybobjoephilcorncobtiptopge]

IKR

[@Ked676]

And he says he can’t draw hands.

[@canadadry5449]

I dunno, man. Didn't look like circles or toons. Pretty disappointing to be sure.

[@acewmd.]

Can we talk about how strange it is for random people on the internet to refer to KZbinrs by their real names because they feel familiar enough with them despite being perfect strangers. Like why do people think a para-social relationship is real like that.

[@tylermccaw8092]

@@acewmd. I’m sorry, what?

[@ReikerForge]

Imagine a game that keeps track of how many skips you do and drops a megaboss on you if you skip too many cutscenes

[@Hauntaku]

New Dark Souls idea right there. "Your impatience will be you downfall!" _ Angry giant dude with a huge spiky club

[@kal_elthegolden]

I kind of feel like that would start ENCOURAGING people to skip cutscenes. 😄

[@erickchristensen746]

Sounds somewhat like how Undertale had Flowy go "Awe you killed her didn't you and reloaded your save?" just to mock you past the 4th wall lol.

[@austin529]

He gets stronger with each skip. ⏭️

[@josephjoestar953]

Nah, every five skips before you beat the game kills a random NPC, and the final boss is a boss that normally requires NPCs to fight.

[@SleepyLuigi]

It’s even worse when you skip a cutscene and you just end up in a COMPLETELY different area,meaning you must’ve skipped something very important in the game

[@_Lis25]

Basically Ratchet & Clank

[@WL-bs4nc]

Or the Final Fantasy franchise, specifically 7 remake

[@gaming2ebbrell136]

elden ring rune of death moment

[@Kawatsume]

Or games that have no confirmation popup and just skip :) I remember getting really motion-sick during some incredibly story-heavy adventure game that I do not remember the name of, and accidently resting my hand on the Escape button with how ill I was feeling. Though I suppose it wasn't the only oversight, with not being able to fix the fucking head bob. Who even likes that?

[@maurissergio8282]

​@godsabitch2031chill out man

[@demonico28]

Gamedevs usually never win with cutscenes. Either they make an important cutscene skippable and loads of people miss out on important lore, or they make a fifteen-minute long unskippable cutscene and you forget that you're playing a game and think that you're watching a movie or something

[@NagKai_G]

OMORI is a game that, although it has a good story and gameplay, only has 3 to 4 skipable cutscenes in the entire game (all of which are for the major bosses of the game), which although not a problem the first time around, makes subsequent playthroughs a bit sloggy when there's a 3 minute cutscene you can't skip.

[@fegoracedia6080]

Or worse a combination of both, a long cutscene that you cant skip and you must press the button for the next dialogue

[@tuseroni6085]

that's why you make video games, instead of movies. just don't have cutscenes, people aren't here to for a movie. i think the souls series gets it just right, minimal cutscenes, lore is optional, focus entirely on having good gameplay. i feel like game devs think the primary gameplay loop of most games is "get cutscene, proceed to next cutscene"

[@kagemushashien8394]

I know what will solve this problem, have all cutscenes skippable (especially the long ones that lead to a boss fight), then put in the menu or options the [Replay Cutscenes] just in case you missed something, also great way to observe lore if there was a pause button too, so they can stop and find a hidden detail Ooooooo.

[@Manganization]

Why not just add a cutscene journal, or an actual journal in the menu? It's just weird how few games have this.

[@jasperzanovich2504]

This reminds me of when Game Grumps played the Attack on Bikini Bottom but Arin kept skipping all the jokes and references only to then say that he doesn't get why people like the game.

[@Broomer52]

He’s a master at ignoring key information

[@jasperzanovich2504]

@@Broomer52 In that case it wasn't even key information but the main feature of the game. That's like cheating in Dark Souls.

[@thesteampunkhorror388]

​@@jasperzanovich2504 I mean cheating in any game defeats its core purpose and I would have said ignoring adaptability in Dark Souls 2

[@jasperzanovich2504]

@@thesteampunkhorror388 I didn't even knew that was a thing. I stopped playing Dark Souls games when I repeatedly tried to fight the skeletons in the graveyard of DS1.

[@thesteampunkhorror388]

@@jasperzanovich2504 honestly understandable, rage quit DS2 for a year after I tried it for the first time but got super bored one day and tried it again. Now I am hopelessly addicted to souls likes.

[@Nyghtking]

It reminds me of Arin from Game Grumps, because he would constantly skip tutorials and then have no idea how to play the game because he wanted to learn "organically" and would end up complaining.

[@gnimag6674]

The guy playing the game is what I like to call "KZbinr Syndrome". He gets confused in the cutscenes he skips and resorts to asking the comments what happened because he couldn't just WAIT 50 GOD DAMN SECONDS

[@graphicthereal]

If you skip cutscenes there's no remorse for your pain.

[@Engineer_124]

True

[@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger]

agreed

[@SweetSylvie]

However, there should be a confirm pop-up so you don't accidentally skip a cutscene, because that sucks a lot when an input is made when you're just trying to rest your hands

[@Foobin_Lera]

This is on par with someone showing you a video they like irl, but they skip around the video to find the jokes they like instead of letting it play out.

[@Mrhellslayerz]

They do WHAT!?

[@LinkDawnbringer]

Generally if I do something like that it's because I'm intending to show them one/two specific joke(s) and not the whole video.

[@Femaiden]

every time someone tries to show you a video they like, it's never as funny as they seem to think it is, and then they get mad if you don't like it as much as they do. .

[@callmecharlie4250]

I usually skip around a video to get to the parts I think the person I'm showing it to would actually be interested in. especially when the video is like half an hour to a few hours long.

[@5ivecats836]

This legitimately happened to me and a friend once, they were playing the game and were skipping past all of the tutorial dialogue, when they got to gameplay they turned to me and said "what do i do?"

[@Mrhellslayerz]

Reply with "watch the tutorial cutscene" and nothing else. He'll get the incentive to watch if you put him through a trial by fire.

[@The_Hussar]

Just reply "Die"

[@erickchristensen746]

@@Mrhellslayerz *"THE RING OF FIRE!!!"*

[@Nadeli0]

My brother does this, it kills me everytime

[@knownas2017]

rest in peace my dude

[@Nadeli0]

@Known as Thank you, hopefully I do, but I can hear my brother skipping the cutscenes, so I doubt it.

[@Teenage_Mutant_Ginga_Ninja]

I've had a friend for about 15 years who couldn't give a shit about a story or a cutscene. It took a while for me to stop being bugged by it. In his case, he literally doesn't care about world building. He just wants to do the playing part. I just let him enjoy things his way and make sure if it's something good, that I play it first for myself. Lol

[@Nadeli0]

@Alexander Harvey Yea, my bro is the same way, I love worldbuilding, but he is an instant-gratification kinda person, so I'm normally play the games before he does so I can explore the world building without bothering him. Still kills me when he skips cutscenes on coop games we play together 😭

[@Teenage_Mutant_Ginga_Ninja]

@@Nadeli0 yeah. Coop is our only weakness. Lmao

[@DocStro]

You know I'm really impressed that the new guy managed to make it to the early game super-boss. Normally you'd only find out that you have to skip every cutscene up till that point AFTER the second playthrough in the text of the tutorial cards.

[@YasugoLiehu]

I would love it if there were a game that forced players who skip every cutscene into an early game superboss out of spite. 😂

[@vcommandarv5916]

​@@YasugoLiehuYes please 😭

[@LithmusEarth]

ah yes, forgotten city style.

[@jeromefournier9667]

@@YasugoLiehu yeah like "HO you already played this, you know what you are doing... here's a boss, I'm sure you will kill it no prob." Just like a teacher poping a surprise quiz on students who are talking in class.

[@Too_Tall_64]

I had the same problem with my cousin playing Minish Cap. "Where do i go?" "You... You've literally JUST left the house, the princess was JUST telling you where to go! The camera panned up and she called out to you before walking upward off screen! THE CONVEYENCE IS CLEAR IF YOU DIDN'T IGNORE IT COMPLETELY!"

[@jonsku6662]

"Man this story stinks!" "Well you kinda skipped *all of it* so how do you know?" "Idk, like.. maybe they could deliver the information better?" "They do it *in the cutscene!* "

[@jasonvolpe4801]

Real

[@OmegaHeroLegacy]

Very true. I've always found that when people skip cutscenes, it tends... [[SKIP]]

[@StygianIkazuchi]

eyo this game's broken. I didn't tell it to skip!

[@taraktaras7327]

@@StygianIkazuchi Same, i mean i didn't even... [[SKIP]]

[@ReeseHosgood]

I don’t skip cutscenes if it’s my first time seeing them because I want to understand what’s going on in the game.

[@RootBeerIsGood]

Same, I only skip cutscenes on my second playthrough.

[@Merilirem]

@@RootBeerIsGood Yeah skipping stuff you already saw is normal. If you really like it you can let it play. I really don't like games that don't let you skip at all. All games should unlock skipping for seen content.

[@xceptionalartist6266]

I’m with you too, unless the story is just really good

[@PixyEm]

Metal Gear. The first time around, never skip a second On a replay? *Hell no, I'm not watching the hour long cutscene in MGS4 AGAIN*

[@R3_Live]

I had a friend when I was younger who would always speed through the dialogue when playing Zelda games and then wonder what was going on. It drove me insane.

[@nomiss9246]

Imagine a game mechanic that spawns the final boss if you skip all the cutscenes

[@Hauntaku]

"In a hurry, huh? Well HERE I AM!" _ Angry final boss dude

[@FICUSULXD189]

Speedrunners be like: Hehehehe

[@Merilirem]

Better yet take all the shit they would have gotten from the tutorial and cut scenes they clearly didn't do. That cool sword you picked up during the second cut scene? Yeah no you didn't do that. Good luck punching enemies until they drop something. Just make sure you give them a message warning them that they can skip too.

[@PixyEm]

Speedrunners LOVE this one trick!

[@zerodark3505]

Me playing Elden Ring and not knowing what the red square is after hugging a lady

[@Akita23]

Sadly red and a down arrow never mean good things 😔

[@Benjobros]

You, me, and everyone else

[@erickchristensen746]

@@Benjobros Well not everyone, some got spoiled for answers like myself n accident xD so I knew not to hug the lady

[@Benjobros]

@@erickchristensen746 ah, in which case I should clarify, everyone that went in blind**

[@FreakGeSt]

That's a very bad example, you only now what is the red square with down arrow after read the description of the item she gave you.

[@darkner2390]

Reminds me of people who skip the tutorial, because they think they got it after "WASD to move, space to jump." then complain all the way through that the game's "too confusing".

[@007feck]

It would genuinely be cool if devs see all this and start adding important guidance like “don’t forget to take the right doorway for the special item” then skippers miss it

[@notitle835]

reminds me of the back in day when i watched GameGrumps. Arin skips all cutscenes then complain the game makes no sense and that the plot is dog water.

[@MikeHawk-bg5ss]

Would making cutscenes unskippable for first time playthroughs and then making them skippable every subsequent playthrough fix this issue

[@ArDeeMee]

In short: Yes.

[@Ccaapp1996]

Yes. Unless you have long cutscene that immediately goes into a difficult boss fight.

[@ToastyCola]

That just makes the people who routinely do this go on a bathroom break or snack run. There's no helping those who choose to remain ignorant.

[@_Cetarial]

I feel like holding down a button to skip a cutscene is enough. Gives you enough time to change your mind.

[@thecreatorofpc7929]

@@Ccaapp1996you could make that skippable once you’ve died at least once

[@dardevid6006]

I felt those last 3 seconds

[@Rainok]

I always want to see the cutscenes, even if I played the game before. It just feels like it's part of the experience and I don't want to ruin it

[@nicko4752]

That was a smooth transition from your ad to the video itself

[@Grozmai]

Best part of waking up, circletoons in your cup~

[@Hauntaku]

Little CircleToonsHD dude: "Sup?"

[@CherryBlossommoon]

"Your father? Ha, I have no father" *Skips cutscene and he's just dead*

[@borates]

The animating at 0:35 is impressive 🫡

[@superdupergrover9857]

THis is precisely why i always play the cutscene. If I play it often enough to memorize it, only then will i skip it. KNOWLEDGE (and by extension, context) IS POWER!

[@NekoEchoflower]

Perfect representation of my brother skipping through dialogue like crazy and then asking me for the plot

[@perplexasaurusrex6217]

Arin playing anything in a nutshell.

[@Nekosierra]

I've been waiting for this! Egoraptor and Circletoon collab! Always skipping the tutorials....

[@nat-uraldisasterpieces8647]

When the cutscene showed you how to beat the enemy/boss but you skipped it So now you're doing 0 damage cause you have no idea that they can only be hurt by weapons colored purple for some reason

[@ArDeeMee]

It’s the reCAPTCHA of gaming. 😂

[@Lacroyx_Harris]

I haven’t even watched the video yet, but I already know it’s gonna be 100% accurate 👌

[@LobsterFusion]

Skipping cutscenes is one thing but PURCHASING story skips from a micro transaction shop is just bonkers!

[@ianfitchett2768]

Every damn time that elden Ring music hits, I get goosebumps, regardless of context

[@AmayaAiKaida]

Not gonna make an Egoraptor joke... It's too easy. Gotta hold it in.

[@chibbiChibb]

Some of these animations looks sooooo realistic its insane!

[@DegradationDomain_stuff]

This is exactly how I played games when I was a kid. And nor only RPGs, because I remember I skipped EVERY CUTSCENE in Vice City.😂

[@Kortezxero]

Dude, I still remember watching my little cousin playing ff7. This kid would skip every cutscene and text speech every chance he got. Then look at me, completely serious, and ask where does he go.....every damn time.

[@GambitsEnd]

What would have really brought this together is if the character then posted to social media about how shallow and confusing the story was.

[@SucastFH]

Just ordered a Goblo Plush, looking forward to hearing you scream :)

[@giacomogiachetto1532]

OOOooohhhh the foreshadowing of his table top card game now I saw it

[@vinnycasarotto5924]

GameGrumps in a nutshell

[@brandonzacher5263]

This is my favorite comic by you. I love the ending. I can hear and feel the pain and frustration in your voice

[@poshuwog9181]

Title change "kid having a short attention span" chuck a subway surfer video on the bottle and he'd be good

[@crisp7468]

Who needs cut scenes when I can make up my own story

[@goldenhorse4823]

I can confirm. The story fallout fans make up for roleplay is 10 times more interesting than one in the game

[@Bicorn711]

When u ask these guys why they skipped the cutscenes, they give u an essay long explaination y they did it

[@vizthex]

i'll never understand why people do this in a game they've never played before.

[@CoolLookinPea]

Game developers be like: stop skipping our cutscenes! My developers in Christ, you made the option

[@icycloud6823]

Well.... true, but usually if you're playing a game that's cutscene heavy then you're only really expected to skip the cutscene after you've already seen it once. Say you died and you reloaded to before the cutscene. Or it's your second playthrough. So it's not like they can just have the cutscenes be completely unskippable.

[@SpiritOfGotham]

​@@icycloud6823 Exactly. Kids these days need to learn what it's like to have a difficult boss fight after an unskippable cutscene. If I have to hear "it is I, Ansem, the seeker of darkness" or "open the door, lead me into everlasting darkness" again I'm gonna snap

[@lunch_trey]

BBEG: You took everything from me! Player who skipped the cutscenes: I don't even know who you are.

[@SuperBootsTheDog]

Multiple times I skip dialogue and then don’t know my quests

[@FortressWolf97]

In situations like this, I refuse to answer their questions on what's going on. I just give them a silent glare until they decide to stop playing.

[@benfarrar741]

I love how all your skits go completely off-the-rails!

[@keulron2290]

My friend: *skips literally every cutscene and all the dialogue* Also him: “So like, is there a reason we’re killing all these bosses and bringing them back to Firelink?”

[@TouchingMyself]

I love how clean the switch from the ad to the actually was

[@jryhpk]

Do you guys ever appreciate the perfect number of pixels these guys have in their eyes to convey emotion?

[@nezt50]

Just noticed the foreshadowing of Fool's Blade...1:07

[@Omashu2425]

Skipping a cutscene in God of War can make you go from the verge of a nap to a boss fight on the other side of the map.

[@YasugoLiehu]

It's like if someone was reading a book and complained that it was confusing because they would skip 8 pages for every 2 pages read, or watched a movie and skipped 8 minutes for every 2 minutes watched. Like, no shit you're confused, you skipped 80% of the context!

[@tl1326]

wrong game for wrong person subject him to league hell

[@KHJohan]

Guys who skip cutscenes are the male version of girls who asks questions during a movie like “who is that person?” In a character introduction scene

[@sushiman345]

This reminded me of a streamer who doesn't like reading through dialogue and cutscenes, and even when he does, he forgets it all in 3 seconds anyway lol

[@iman132394]

Anytime I introduce one of my friends to a game, theyre the type to skip all the tutorials because they wanna play with me faster. Then I have to spend an hour or more teaching them the game that the tutorial got done in 10 minutes.

[@louseflyemilacemacko381]

Bro's made so many plushes he's basically a toy maker.

[@RenegadeLK]

People who skip cutscenes on their first playthroughs should never touch a video game ever again.

[@cancerino666]

pays for game, all its expensive beautiful graphics and animation - skips cut-scenes you paid for

[@NeverEvenThere]

This is basically my nephew, the kids brain is so fucked by modern storytelling that he can't handle more than a few seconds of "boring talking" before he demands action again.

[@PSYCHOpaty4]

Nah, I remember that I skipped pretty much all cutscenes when I was a kid and it was long before I knew what KZbin is and TikTok wasn't even a thing back then. I just wanted to shoot people, not listen to them talking

[@chickennugget6684]

It's the exact same energy as someone clicking on a well marked spoiler post and complaining about how it contains spoilers

[@lukesgamingadventure8227]

I love skipping cutscenes because those situations are hilarious to be in

[@alanorcotch7822]

people who skip the cutscenes are the same people who later get confused and say the story sucks. if you want to know what's going on just try and pay attention to the story the writers are trying to tell you

[@FreeOne64YT]

This is amazing the best type of animation

[@JJK10293]

More accurate title "In any game" Idk how often I meet people that skip cutscenes in any game, even outside of RPGs

[@jarrod752]

You know what I hate more, when you _accidently_ skip a cutscene you now can't rewatch...

[@kaleenar963]

I think it should be mandatory to have an option to rewatch unlocked cutscenes in the pause menu

[@archergrey218]

This is so accurate. Made me tear up laughing 😂

[@Merilirem]

Imagine a game where skipping the cut scene invalidated what happened in that cut scene. Like you show a cut scene of them picking up the starter sword but if they skip it they never picked up that sword.

[@jimbo9305]

"You would like to know where you fit into this adventure? Well it all started 20 years ago. I had just grabbed a bowl from the cupboard. As I was about to pour in the cereal I noticed a spec of dried food. I was already mid-pour so I continued on, surely it wouldn't..." SKIP "And that's why you must save this realm from the dark forces of Kukamunga!"

[@MagicCardboardBox]

I do not understand skipping cutscenes the first time through, you cannot enjoy mechnaics so much more that nothing else matters

[@videakias3000]

when I played blazblue(a fighting game not an rpg) I was initially watching the cutscenes, but the first cutscene was dragging on and on and on, so I ended up skipping it, and then I realized that the characters aren't doing anything aside from talking so I skipped the entire game. that game had A LOTS of cutscenes, I just wanted to kick some ass godammit. a simple generic "good guys good, bad guys bad" would be enough for this game. I wonder what the hell was going on in the story.

[@ericlee4177]

Now have the sequel people who ask questions for a movie you're watching for the first time.

[@That-one-guy-named-Neo]

It wouldn't be a problem if the cutscenes WEREN'T SO DAMN BORING. But I agree you should watch the cutscenes on your first playthrough.

[@n3ckb3ard35]

ok, gotta give props for the meta plug-in there. that made me laugh pretty hard.

[@Dragon10526]

You just summed up my friend to a T good sir I felt all the exasperation coming back to me while watching this

[@lightyagami77777]

"I'm a person that learns by doing!" skips tutorial, 5 mins later "What am I supposed to be doing?"

[@SanaTT]

I do it and regret it every time... but I keep doing it HAHAHA

[@noskalborg723]

Well said

[@xenodo597]

its just funny because like rpgs are usually story heavy so there's bound to be lots of cutscenes so people end up being really confused after they skip said scenes

[@pumpkin_pants3828]

*skips cutscenes and tutorials* "I have no idea what's going on, terrible game design"

[@ninjaydes]

When I was playing FF9, I had KZbin open so I could watch the cutscenes at 2x speed while playing. It was alright.

[@charizardtrainer626]

I swear i hate when my friends do this JUST LISTEN TO THE DAMN CUTSCENE

[@yureiotakughost9464]

In south park and the fractured but whole, if you skip too much too fast they stop you and delete the option to skip

[@twilightnight6283]

This is why I don't skip cutscenes.

[@ShryStar]

That end bit was just the plot of Shovel Knight: King of Cards.

[@asmosisyup2557]

Or when you accidentally skip an important cutscene, but the game doesn't have autosave.

[@muskdeer]

Well, still beat waiting for 15 minutes 5 times in a row

[@hwtvi3466]

Oh my god, my brother is the same way. He recently did this with _Persona 5,_ and the kicker? Halfway through the game, he says “This story doesn’t make any sense!” WELL OF COURSE THE STORY DOESN’T MAKE ANY SENSE, *YOU SKIPPED MOST OF IT.*