Can we have a way to skip scenes?

[The_Glenlivet]

I was really impressed with this game and the ability to make choices throughout - I know a lot of people are recommending some changes (i.e. way to fast forward or skip scenes). I think it would add a lot of value if we didn't have to play through the entire movie just to see the different endings..I died WAY sooner then I expected..lol

[SickRamen]

I see what you mean a bit better now. That said, no offense mate, I believe you might be overthinking the intent of the director. This isn't some form of artistic endeavour, it's a B movie (again, no offense, it was super entertaining, but it's no experimental cinema).

Picture yourself a run of the mill straight to DVD action movie where you can't select the chapter or fast forward. Would you call that an artistic choice?

Most likely explanation is just cost vs benefit decision; the game is very light in terms of programming, and it's not done via an adventure game engine with these preprogrammed, so the replay feature would come with a lot of extra workload, coding, QA, etc. I'm sure it's not an oversight, the devs must have weighed the option and decided it wasn't worth it.

That said, as gamers, we can easily show them that these things are worth it, and garner more engagement. Replayability means making your game more appealing to explore, and not litteral replayability where you watch the same VHS tape 20 times!!

[sling_shot]

I'm not sure a selection tree screen, or a skip button, are really that hard to implement though. for a speculation, that's kinda...

[SickRamen]

I never said it would be hard. It's just time and money. The dev is based in Switzerland, where minimum wage is $20 an hour for a cleaner at McD's. That's why they don't make this many games.

Also never claimed it's the truth, just an educated guess. Your artistical design intent is a different theory. You could think of more, for example, the movie lasts about an hour. The dev wanted to increase the length of that second replay so you exceed the refund period, if people replayed all the endings fast they could get around it and refund the game. Ok that one is a bit mean, but not completely implausible.

In the end there is just one truth: this is a good game which is flawed by the lack of a critical feature.

[Mexaddon]

When you can't even skip the credits, then you got a real game design problem on your hands.

[BridgetFisher]

is this added to the game yet? would give this title alot more replayability if it had this option.

Devs are very active on steam with the community which is great, hope they can add this to the game so we all can enjoy it more.

[Mexaddon]

Not yet, and they haven't given any indication that they will ever add it.

[alboma]

I got all endings but sure why not +1

[Incia3000]

Every single bad review about this 'game' was the missing of a skip button, I still bought this game and hope this isn't as big of a deal as it sounds. But yeah at least on every other game with long cut-scenes they have always had a skip button. You still watch it fully on first go, why buy the game otherwise?

I mean every single movie can be fast-forwarded, who the fk fast-forwards a movie only to see the ending? This makes no sense. Add a skip button so we can enjoy the game on the second try.

[pop pop]

You dont understand
Its a movie. Not a pleb game. You cant ignore glorious plot and action that was filmed using real planet earth engine.

[Incia3000]

Originally posted by pop pop:

You dont understand
Its a movie. Not a pleb game. You cant ignore glorious plot and action that was filmed using real planet earth engine.

You must be new with programming.

[sling_shot]

Originally posted by Incia:

Originally posted by pop pop:

You dont understand
Its a movie. Not a pleb game. You cant ignore glorious plot and action that was filmed using real planet earth engine.

You must be new with programming.

You must be new to sarcasm.

[SickRamen]

Originally posted by Aspira:

I will sure go for the others, but not today, not tomorrow, maybe in a week or two. I will certainly take 2 or 3 months to see all possible outcomes, and I am glad on that.

You're basing this on the belief that you will get a different ending every time you play.

It's not the case. You can take 2 separate branching paths and then make one mistake which will take you to the same bad ending you've already watched. Then you have to watch the game from the beginning again.

I've watched the game maybe 6 times now and got 3 endings :( I'm a bit sick and tired of the first 2 scenes by now. At least let me replay from after the auction...

[Psyringe]

I came here because I just bought and played the game and couldn't find two very simple and very fundamental functions: skip scene, and post-play chapter select.

Are you guys telling me that these developers are asking for 7+ bucks for a game that patronizes its players and grossly disrespects my time by not even offering those basic functions? This turns a game that _could_ have been pretty good into something that's either a) too short for its price with less than an hour running time, or b) a boring chore to find the content I may have missed because I'll have to keep fully rewatching scenes that I already saw and fully remember.

I won't refund the game because imho it would be unfair to do so after more or less enjoying the run up to this point. But with only 1 hour of playing time, and considering that any further involvement with the game will include the boredom of having to rewatch most of the scenes, I understand everyone who would, and this kind of disrespect towards the customers' time certainly warrants a negative review.

[Psyringe]

Originally posted by Aspira:

Maybe people are seeing this the wrong way. This is not a movie to watch many times in a row to reach 100% achievment asap, maybe its that kind of movie that you have in a old dvd in yor shelve that now and then you pick it up. I reach one of the possible ends, and I will sure go for the others, but not today, not tomorrow, maybe in a week or two.

Let me put it this way.

I have roughly 10,000 games in my Steam account that I can play instead of rewatching a movie that I already saw. If a developer really thinks that I should deem it worthwhile to watch the same scenes over and over instead of experiencing some of the new and fresh games that are readily waiting for me in my library, then I would deem that pretty arrogant.

(And for the record, why would I watch a movie again after some weeks? By that time I will still fully remember it, so what would be the point? I've never done this - even for movies that I deem great, I'd rather wait 2-3 years, so that my memory has faded. And to be frank, while Late Shift _is_ a pretty decent thriller, I certainly _don't_ think it has the quality of the movies that I'd rewatch.)

I understand that you are coming from a different angle than me. And if it's okay for you that the skip function is missing in this game, then that's absolutely fine with me - I won't even try to convince you otherwise, different strokes for different folks and all that. But for me, personally, developers that disrespect my time to the degree of leaving basic functionality out of their game can't expect me to cheer such arrogance.

[Incia3000]

I found a solution to this problem, just watch all the endings on youtube. No need to replay whole game 6 more times, saved me useless 6 hours of same footage. Also the endings are pretty disappointing, 3 are basically same endings, 2 are same endings, 1 bad ending and 1 good ending. So basically just 4 unique endings. Time to uninstall this game.