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Maybe this is just me being a grumpy old fart, but I swear so many modern games make the player sit through ages and ages of cutscenes and tutorials before letting us play the damn game.

I miss being able to boot up the game and get stuck right into the meat of the adventure, without having all this tedious red tape getting in the way.

I get that some degree of setup is necessary for a narratively focused game, or to explain the game's mechanics, but for pity's sake, keep it to like 10 minutes or less please, recently a game took me nearly an hour of bullshit before it let me off the leash, and I only get like an hour of game time per day, so that's a whole day's worth of leisure time wasted.

Granted not every game is like this, but it feels like a much more common problem than it should be.

Am I the only one or do others find this frustrating as well?

Last edited by curl-6 - on 10 November 2025