10 Video Games You Play For HOURS Before Starting

Lots of people love The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess for very understandable reasons, but you know what almost nobody loves? That two-ish hour tutorial in Ordon Village.

The game kicks off by forcing players to hang out with the village's locals and perform generic fetch quests and tasks, like catching fish, and it's actually closer to three hours before you actually end up at the first dungeon.

Had this been a brief 20-30 minute sequence which expediently onboarded players while presenting a sense of Link's community, it could've been plenty charming, but distended to hours, it feels like doing a job you're not getting paid for.

Producer Shigeru Miyamoto was apparently concerned that players would need a lengthy tutorial to acclimate to the Wii's mandatory motion controls, and so apparently tripled it beyond its original length, which totally tracks.

But by the time Link has finally thrown on the iconic green tunic and the adventure begins in earnest, it feels like you've been repeatedly dropkicking a brick wall for the entire runtime of Oppenheimer.