Anyway to skip the slow sections?

[Kora Lionheart]

I really want to replay this game again, but it's sooo slow, especially the story moments, anyway to skip them so I can actually play the game, I know I can skip cut-scenes but there's soo much time spent walking around doing nothing and was wondering if I could skip it.

[Xelane]

No. The game isn't meant to be a roguelike where you just hop from one room to another fighting enemies 90% of the time you play it.

[Kora Lionheart]

why does it expect me to play it multiple times with difficulties, builds, choices and a ton of achievements requiring at least 3 playthroughs?

[Xelane]

It doesn't expect you to do any of that. They exist as options for a player to offer an incentive to replay the game if they want to, but the devs aren't going to add an option to just strip away all of the story and cutscenes so you can just wander from area to area fighting enemies and bosses for seemingly no reason.

I don't think I have ever seen a non roguelike game do that--especially not a Final Fantasy game.

[Kora Lionheart]

Why not? that'd be great! I'd be able to play as I want! And also EVERY other final fantasy does that, skippable dialogue, sometimes even difficulty selects From the start (if it didn't want me to replay, it wouldn't hide them exclusively behind a second play-through) I see almost every game offer these sorts of options to allow players to play as they wish, this one is a massive outlier from almost all games I've ever played.

[Xelane]

Publicado originalmente por Kora Lionheart:

Why not? that'd be great!

Because such a feature does not match their vision of what the game should be, and it would be a lot of work to implement.

Publicado originalmente por Kora Lionheart:

I'd be able to play as I want!

You realize that the devs aren't going to make a mode that matches every player's preferences, right?

Publicado originalmente por Kora Lionheart:

And also EVERY other final fantasy does that, skippable dialogue, sometimes even difficulty selects From the start

This game does let you skip dialogue. And cutscenes. It just doesn't let you skip entire sections rf scenes of the game.

Publicado originalmente por Kora Lionheart:

if it didn't want me to replay...

Nobody said that they don't want you to replay. They clearly give you options for replayability. They just don't expect or in any way force the player to do so. It's an option if the player wants it.

Publicado originalmente por Kora Lionheart:

it wouldn't hide them exclusively behind a second play-through I see almost every game offer these sorts of options to allow players to play as they wish, this one is a massive outlier from almost all games I've ever played.

None of the FF games do this and I can't think of many games that do besides roguelikes or soulslikes.

[-|Nur|-]

So what exactly is it that you want to skip? As pointed out, you can skip the cutscenes & dialogue. Which FF game allows you to skip more than that?

[Moogal™]

Publicado originalmente por -|Nur|-:

So what exactly is it that you want to skip? As pointed out, you can skip the cutscenes & dialogue. Which FF game allows you to skip more than that?

Might as well skip the whole game, it is like walking through sticky goo, except for the combat, which arguably is the only strong point. Boring rip off story from the OG with cliché dialogue. I didn't finish chapter 3 yet but man this game is a disappointment so far. Back to replaying the OG i guess (yet to beat the final boss since my saves were gone). BTW i heard that Yuffie is in Midgar now, which never happened in OG as well. Not sure how she got there. Paying for rip off altered story without any feel of OG.

[Xelane]

Publicado originalmente por Moogal™:

Publicado originalmente por -|Nur|-:

So what exactly is it that you want to skip? As pointed out, you can skip the cutscenes & dialogue. Which FF game allows you to skip more than that?

Might as well skip the whole game, it is like walking through sticky goo, except for the combat, which arguably is the only strong point. Boring rip off story from the OG with cliché dialogue. I didn't finish chapter 3 yet but man this game is a disappointment so far. Back to replaying the OG i guess (yet to beat the final boss since my saves were gone). BTW i heard that Yuffie is in Midgar now, which never happened in OG as well. Not sure how she got there. Paying for rip off altered story without any feel of OG.

The OG had a lot of sections like that too. It had many sections where control was taken away from the player as a scene played out and the characters spoke at length.

Final Fantasy is a story-driven series that tries to balance action and storytelling. It's to be expected that there are going to be times where control is taken away from you so the story can happen.

[Kora Lionheart]

my only problem IS the amount of aimless walking, it feels like half the game is just walking, even skipping dialogue and cut-scenes (this is my 8th play-through cut me some slack) and I Love everything else about it, it's just how slow it is, other FF games don't make me wait ages to do things, I didn't arrive in Luca in FFX and have to slowly walk around with Yuna, it was a minute long walk, quick dialogue and bam back into the action, FFXIII, despite its pacing issues kept almost all story progression to cut-scenes, meaning on a new play-through I can go faster and wont be slowed down, there's literally like one area where you have to go slowly (think it was Hopes house) and then you're back into a boss fight, I love the game to bits but having to slow walk around every town when I arrive, visit every area, slowly walk to an apartment, slowly walk back and to each shop (thanks Tifa) do a single side quest then slowly follow Johhny, then slowly walk around a town for 7 minutes, sit around on a train for 5, walk around the slums for 20 mins with 1 (one) side-quest, It kind of drags instead of just a cut-scene or two! and I described roughly 6 hours of game-play, and it just kills all desire I have to keep going...
This is the only game I've ever played where the slow parts have zero way to be skipped or done in anyway quickly, It's like the bits from half-life 2 except in that game it knew to keep it short and only do it like 3 times across the whole game.
I don't want to skip the whole game, but the dialogue and story do nothing to me on the 9th playthrough, I want to try funky builds, different weapons, try different materia out, but it feels like my fun is being held at gunpoint and told to have fun slower...

[Xelane]

Publicado originalmente por Kora Lionheart:

my only problem IS the amount of aimless walking, it feels like half the game is just walking, even skipping dialogue and cut-scenes (this is my 8th play-through cut me some slack) and I Love everything else about it, it's just how slow it is, other FF games don't make me wait ages to do things, I didn't arrive in Luca in FFX and have to slowly walk around with Yuna, it was a minute long walk, quick dialogue and bam back into the action, FFXIII, despite its pacing issues kept almost all story progression to cut-scenes, meaning on a new play-through I can go faster and wont be slowed down, there's literally like one area where you have to go slowly (think it was Hopes house) and then you're back into a boss fight, I love the game to bits but having to slow walk around every town when I arrive, visit every area, slowly walk to an apartment, slowly walk back and to each shop (thanks Tifa) do a single side quest then slowly follow Johhny, then slowly walk around a town for 7 minutes, sit around on a train for 5, walk around the slums for 20 mins with 1 (one) side-quest, It kind of drags instead of just a cut-scene or two! and I described roughly 6 hours of game-play, and it just kills all desire I have to keep going...
This is the only game I've ever played where the slow parts have zero way to be skipped or done in anyway quickly, It's like the bits from half-life 2 except in that game it knew to keep it short and only do it like 3 times across the whole game.
I don't want to skip the whole game, but the dialogue and story do nothing to me on the 9th playthrough, I want to try funky builds, different weapons, try different materia out, but it feels like my fun is being held at gunpoint and told to have fun slower...

You have to walk to get to places. That's why we have legs. You're naturally going to be walking around to get to various locations and the game is naturally going to make you slow down so story events can occur.

Also, when you arrive to Luca in FFX, there's a ton of plot that slows the game down. You literally arrive, the cutscene introducing Seymour happens, you walk around asking people if they've seen Auron, Kimahri has a scene with the other Ronso, and then finally things start to pick up when you find out that Yuna is missing, but even then you're talking to your team and looking around a bit before action starts happening.

And then the game slows down again while you play blitzball until the coliseum is attacked. This is how story-driven games work. There's no avoiding it.

[SlickDrickle]

Sounds like you dont want to play a JRPG. Id recommend not buying this and going back to roblox where you belong.

[-|Nur|-]

Publicado originalmente por Moogal™:

Publicado originalmente por -|Nur|-:

So what exactly is it that you want to skip? As pointed out, you can skip the cutscenes & dialogue. Which FF game allows you to skip more than that?

Might as well skip the whole game, it is like walking through sticky goo, except for the combat, which arguably is the only strong point. Boring rip off story from the OG with cliché dialogue. I didn't finish chapter 3 yet but man this game is a disappointment so far. Back to replaying the OG i guess (yet to beat the final boss since my saves were gone). BTW i heard that Yuffie is in Midgar now, which never happened in OG as well. Not sure how she got there. Paying for rip off altered story without any feel of OG.

Well I consider the original the best game of all time and I'm still enjoying the remake a lot. Yes, the dialog is borderline terrible, but it was that way in the original too (granted, it was more forgivable with cartoony characters and plain text than with human-like models and voice acting). Unfortunately this is a running problem with the series.

[Kora Lionheart]

Publicado originalmente por SlickDrickle:

Sounds like you dont want to play a JRPG. Id recommend not buying this and going back to roblox where you belong.

bruh I am 75 hours into persona 5 right now and have played the original at least 20 or so times, and yes, as I joked I've done like 7 playthroughs of this game, my point is that the pacing is so just off, and there's no way to skip it, it's just slow walking, congratulations you've arrived in a town, walk slowly to each side of it, at least in Dragon Quest or THE ORIGINAL I arrive in a town, the party advances the plot (the entirety of the nibelheim flashback could be covered in some of the slow sections of this game)
That was my major issue, its slow at points in a way other jrpgs are not, for example, escaping the church with Aerith, original: it takes roughly 40 seconds, like 15 lines of dialogue easy...
Remake it's a full 5-7 minute section of the most awkward climbing through the rafters, slow walking as the spirits do stuff and then slowly navigating across the rooftops, being forced to stop about 3 times, even sprinting does nothing as you have to wait for Aerith,,,
that's my point, I'm the biggest JRPG nerd out there but this game takes its time in a way that's actually unlike any of them I've ever played, with sections that drag on and on, I can wait an hour in any of the persona games without combat, I'm levelling up social links, the story is actually, progressing, here there's literally nothing to do but watch, and in a game that covers the story of the first 3 hours of FFVII split across 20 it feels like so much padding with so little to actually do... especially trying to do repeat runs like the game very clearly wants me to do...

[Kora Lionheart]

Publicado originalmente por Peter Quincy Taggart:

Kora, I wouldn't bother defending yourself to rude replies like that. I know exactly what you are saying, which is that you would like this game to be playable by jumping into specific chapters and sub-chapters like many other single-player games allow. And you are correct that the slow walking and dragging on in this game would make replaying the game cumbersome. They likely added many of those elements to make the game artificially longer. I have no interest in replaying this "remake," but if I did I wager I would also be annoyed by some of the slower elements of the game.

For this reply to assume that wanting to waste time is a staple of JRPGs is silly. Most modern great JRPGs have good QOL.

1000% I fully agree, that's the exact wording and exactly how it feels!