How to skip cutscenes or dialog?

[jinxsaur]

I get that this is mostly a story but I can read faster than the cutscenes and don't need all the delays. How do you just skip the slow dialog?

[Fulguro Geek YouTube]

You quit the game so tou can skip everything. Try it its very fast!

[Rhonya]

Controller: B
Keyboard/Mouse: right click

[jinxsaur]

Right click isn't working for cutscenes, any working suggestions?

[Tedward]

I know this is a bit old, but it's the top Google result, so:
You can't outright skip any cutscenes, but you can skip the dialogue in some of them as Rhiana mentioned. There doesn't seem to be a hard rule but in general if it feels like a movie you usually can't skip, if it feels like just chatter you can. Some cutscenes go back and forth, so if it isn't letting me skip I just try every now and then and sometimes it'll suddenly let you.

[Mr. Lambert]

This is ridiculous. I guess the only way I'm going to be able to play this and not drive myself crazy is to have it in windowed mode and switch to another window and do something else while these endless movies and conversations are playing in the background. Developers need to learn that nobody wants to WATCH your game; we want to play them. There's 1000 better shows I can stream if I want to just watch something.

[Uriel]

Originally posted by Mr. Lambert:

This is ridiculous. I guess the only way I'm going to be able to play this and not drive myself crazy is to have it in windowed mode and switch to another window and do something else while these endless movies and conversations are playing in the background. Developers need to learn that nobody wants to WATCH your game; we want to play them. There's 1000 better shows I can stream if I want to just watch something.

Go tell that to the guys who developped Heavy Rain and the like.

Also, everyone's life is so busy those days that some wasted seconds to reach the end of a dialogue is absolutely unbearable, for sure.

Anyway, thanks for convincing me I really should buy this game for when I want to play something relaxed.

[Manwe]

Originally posted by Mr. Lambert:

This is ridiculous. I guess the only way I'm going to be able to play this and not drive myself crazy is to have it in windowed mode and switch to another window and do something else while these endless movies and conversations are playing in the background. Developers need to learn that nobody wants to WATCH your game; we want to play them. There's 1000 better shows I can stream if I want to just watch something.

Why would you skip cutscenes on a interactive movie game, are you twelve? Really, get some popcorn and watch the damn movie.

[Sunshine]

Originally posted by Manwe:

Originally posted by Mr. Lambert:

This is ridiculous. I guess the only way I'm going to be able to play this and not drive myself crazy is to have it in windowed mode and switch to another window and do something else while these endless movies and conversations are playing in the background. Developers need to learn that nobody wants to WATCH your game; we want to play them. There's 1000 better shows I can stream if I want to just watch something.

Why would you skip cutscenes on a interactive movie game, are you twelve? Really, get some popcorn and watch the damn movie.

Replaying, having being loaded back into a previous section despite leaving after the "Save icon", many, many reasons come up as to why someone would want to skip something and I can understand, there's only so many times I feel like watching the outro-intro anims for locations, interactions, etc. Especially with fragments between the two mains, that entire cutscene or small snip is pointless imo, it only leads into a loading screen anyway. /end rant

[jinxsaur]

Originally posted by Manwe:

Why would you skip cutscenes on a interactive movie game,

What is an "interactive movie game"? It's either an interactive movie, or a game, it's not both. But I guess to answer:

1) Replaying the game for the GAME and not the PLOT.
2) Not caring about the plot because you're playing a game and not expecting a movie. The latter is probably because this game misrepresents itself as a "game" and not one of these "interactive movie" things.

The game should probably call itself a visual novel if it has no actual game elements. Most of us saw this trailer and expected much more choice and less popcorn.

[Jesse]

Q button worked for me.