12 Things Games Must Stop Doing Right Now

11. Drawn Out Dull Cut Scenes II

Wait, didn't you just do this one? In fact, now that I think of it I like some cut scenes especially when they add to the storyline and look great. You don't know what you're talking about... Yes, but let's add a new twist; UNSKIPPABLE cut scenes; so dire and hated it was necessary to invent a new word. So if you were one of those who previously thought you liked cut scenes let me ask you this: do you still like them when you have no choice but to watch them over and over again? Be it when you're running through the game a second time or when you've died and have to sit through that quirky cinematic for the tenth time? The first Assassin's Creed had a completely ridiculous unskippable section at the beginning of the game - you are stuck in a small library/church area and have to listen to several lengthy tedious speeches that weren't interesting the first time you heard them and boy they were cruddy by the twentieth time. All you can do is take a few steps left or right and wait for it to end. I would mash random controller buttons just on the off-chance it would skip ahead and I could get my medieval parkour fix on the go. It never worked. Although the cut scenes varied depending on which memory sequence you were on, they were still forced on you every time you put the game in the console and I heard them so many times I could recite them word for word. Dirt 3 had unskippable tutorial scenes filled with witty banter and radio DJ style rambling. It added nothing and yet happened before every event. Every one! It's a racing game: you press the right trigger to go forward and use the thumbstick to turn. I don't need 99.8 Kitsch FM's "Whacky Jarvis" and the Bubble Fart Crew to introduce each race. Neither do you.
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A Welsh semi-retired television producer and actor known for low end work that astonishingly people actually watched and even garnered some awards. Originally residing in the electrically-challenged Amish areas of Pennsylvania he has written a few books (Hollywood Pants and Hollywood Horrible Hints and Terribly Fake Tips vols 1 & 2) which you can buy on amazon and all great book stores. After a brief stint in Australia he now finds himself back in the Welsh valleys of his home country noting that it hasn't changed a bit!