Current Events > I don't like all the bloat that's in modern games.

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Like when you start up Breath of the Wild, the first thing you're doing is watching a meaningless cutscene. A bright light. Some sparkly blue stuff. A fancy voiceover telling Link to wake up. It goes on for literal minutes and serves no purpose. It's just pointless bloat.
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That's called set up you cutscene skipping manchild.
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I agree completely, although I don't like your example.

Too many otherwise good WRPGs are tainted by courier quests and other boring shit that tries to stretch the game to 200 hours.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1ZKcZbi1rg
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weapon_d00d816 posted...

That's called set up you cutscene skipping manchild.

It adds literally nothing.
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yet if all that shit gets removed everyone complains it's too short

Steve Nick posted...

weapon_d00d816 posted...

That's called set up you cutscene skipping manchild.

It adds literally nothing.

Neither does anything else that's aesthetic or cosmetic. It doesn't mean it has no purpose or value just because it doesn't directly, physically affect the gameplay.

Hence, manchild.
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DuranOfForcena posted...

i think you have some bloat around your brain TC

I agree but intros aren't bloat imo. RE6 having a cutscene every 20 seconds of a boss fight is bloat.
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Lost_All_Senses posted...

I agree but intros aren't bloat imo. RE6 having a cutscene every 20 seconds of a boss fight is bloat.

The intro is just a single example of it. Obviously I don't consider only the intro to be 'too much', but it's a symptom of what the problem is - Games illustrating or drumming up every little thing in the game. Like Andromeda's stupid thing where you had to watch the ship take off everytime you went anywhere.

I just want to play the game. Not watch frilly shit.
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Intro cutscenes've been around for a long ass time dawg
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I agree somewhat. To me, they now try to make games supersized and it usually backfires on them.
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If you can't skip it, chances are the game is loading in the background. Would you rather stare at a static load screen?
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The beginning cutscene for BotW was short as hell then they toss you into one of the greatest adventures of all time. The fuck.
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Steve Nick posted...

Like when you start up Breath of the Wild, the first thing you're doing is watching a meaningless cutscene. A bright light. Some sparkly blue stuff. A fancy voiceover telling Link to wake up. It goes on for literal minutes and serves no purpose. It's just pointless bloat.

Games have been like that since 3D rendering became a thing
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Smashingpmkns posted...

The beginning cutscene for BotW was short as hell then they toss you into one of the greatest adventures of all time. The fuck.

It goes for like 30 seconds wtf
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Didn't Ocarina of Time, which is now like 20 years old, start the same way?
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*Skips all the cutscenes *

"I don't know what I'm doing. This game sucks"

~ Everyone that skips cutscenes.
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It's hilarious you used Breath of the Wild as an example