Skip the Opening Animation?

[PlasteredDragon]

Sitting on the train is not entertaining, is there a way to skip this lengthy animation sequence?

[live22morrow]

Start from the next chapter. That's what speedrunners do anyways. Inbound is basically a cutscene you can walk around during.

[esopedantric]

Originally posted by PlasteredDragon:

Sitting on the train is not entertaining, is there a way to skip this lengthy animation sequence?

The amount of time it took you to type your complaint, you could have just sat through a very purposeful narrative intro and let that propel you through the game.

[Kolibria]

Originally posted by esopedantric:

Originally posted by PlasteredDragon:

Sitting on the train is not entertaining, is there a way to skip this lengthy animation sequence?

The amount of time it took you to type your complaint, you could have just sat through a very purposeful narrative intro and let that propel you through the game.

Speaking as a Half Life fan and not a moderator, what esopedantric said. It's world building.

[Mikel S]

Weird that I've seen two of this thread in the past few days. You only have to sit through it once, and then you can just select "Anomalous Materials" as your starting point. "Unforseen Consequences" if you don't want to walk around the lab before the disaster, even.

I'd say that is better than some introductions or cutscenes from other games I've played. It's 10 minutes that you have to sit through once (less if you don't mind popping in a few console commands), and it's recreating the most iconic bit of Half-Life, which was the goal of this project to begin with, over 15 years ago.

[Peter Brev]

It's understandable why you'd want to skip it, though. You're in a tram doing... basically nothing for a long time. There's no gameplay, there's just observing the environment at a fixed rate, and the mentality about this in games has changed drastically over the years based on what I've seen. Players don't seem able to stay idle for a few second, let alone minutes, there needs to be action going on or something interesting. That's why Half-Life 2 switched it up a bit, you can visit City 17 at your own pace rather than being constrained in a vehicle.

Has any of you played a game with a younger person sitting next to you and told you "why are you not doing anything?" when you're just thinking and taking your time?

[Venom415]

can confirm, newer generation of gamers dont care about story anymore, just action and skins/emotes. a plague compared to what gamers used to like. Games are just interactive movies, what movie has you just jumping into action without world building lol

[Roxor128]

Games don't have to be all action all the time, and it's better when you get some downtime, or a slow build, as is the case here. Just admire the pretty pixels while you can. You'll be over your head in nasties soon enough.

[Cursed Hawkins]

Originally posted by Roxor128:

Games don't have to be all action all the time, and it's better when you get some downtime, or a slow build, as is the case here. Just admire the pretty pixels while you can. You'll be over your head in nasties soon enough.

Its really upsetting that people and this goes for video game companies as well think zero world building is good for their game! I mean as an example Fallout 76 while having all of its flaws on launch also didn't have a single once of world building to it, just "here's this and that and out the door you go"
Edit: ♥♥♥♥ even Fallout 4 at least had some world building because you got to SEE what the world looked like BEFORE the bombs dropped, you always heard about it through audio logs as well as seen what it was like in simulators but to physically BE there during that isn't the same hearing it from an audio file or simulator.

[King of Yugoslavia]

start new game from any chapter youwant
in your instance, pick chapter 2

[Soko]

The scenery is cool tho.

[esopedantric]

Originally posted by Soko:

The scenery is cool tho.

So is adderall.