You’re free to skip cutscenes on your first playthrough but if you then ask questions like “what’s going on” or “ why is this happening” then everyone has a free pass to fucking slap you.
He's done a skit based on exactly this where it's just him skipping cutscenes and playing the game I think it was a card game Here it is : th-cam.com/video/GkpgP8ovFZQ/w-d-xo.html
I never skip cutscenes unless it’s my 2nd or 3rd time playing the game, or if the cutscene is like the same automated one before a battle or something. Skipping cutscenes first time around is a sin.
The first playthrough: You're new and just read the text and understand the story at face value The second playthrough: You read the text and have a good understanding of the foreshadowing and odd comments by the characters that predict something Once you've gone through that, only then will the community and I allow you to skip the the cutscenes!
I skip all cutscenes too because I just want fun gameplay loop, like borderlands 3 I’m playing through I don’t care about the story at all, I just want cool loot and to see numbers get bigger. I’m like that in all single player games, if you don’t catch me within the first hour with your gameplay I’m done and will refund it.
it was funny to me how this topic came up considering there is a ProZD skit about skipping cutscenes. it's actually one I never re-watch because it bothered me so much 😂 like it's fine if you're replaying a game (I personally would very much like the option to skip for certain games) but on your FIRST playthrough?????
Sometimes when the cutscenes are really good, it's welcoming to see them again whether it'd be the dialogue or music ques or transition to gameplay or all three. Odin Sphere: Leithrasir on new game plus, rewatching them with a more open mind about how the story unraveled, puts things into perspective and pieces of the puzzle are somewhat solved.
Yeah, what's wrong with skipping them to get to the gameplay? Gameplay is the crux of a video game, unless you're buying a game with the understanding that you're getting an interactive story simulator rather than a game, there shouldn't be any issue skipping the story
The difference is you read a VN specifically for the story. When you play a game sometimes you just want a fun gameplay experience and I can understand not caring when you are just vibing with the gameplay
@@PurpleRupees This probably why i couldn't get into Persona 4 Arena. Even though I was fine with the regular Persona games which have heavier story. This is probably because I went in expecting a normal fighting game story (which almost nothing)
We need a game for connor where every cutscene, some of his equipment or abilities will be disabled or he'd be punished a lot if he use a disabled ability
That sounds like something Yoko Taro would do i'll be honest XD like how ignoring/skipping the cutscenes represents the character having amnesia/memory lapses which affects their abilities.
I do wonder when Conner will realize that this is probably one of the dumber hills to die on. I can feel my blood pressure rising every time he goes on a rant about how a game story is garbage even though he skips the story.
The whole "Le monke XD" meme is such a massive part of his character at this point that he just plays it up for the bit. He was fine sitting through all of MGR, and I don't think he actually skipped cutscenes in Elden Ring either. Also I feel like in general he just defaults to saying he doesn't like something or that he'll hate something but usually likes it if he gives it a chance.
@@Sharkofspace As much as I like Connor, I do think he does skip the cutscenes, even in Eldenring. To me he is that guy that skips everything, then complains when he has bo idea whats happening or what he is supposed to do. Or the guy that pays attention to chat instead of playing the game. What I dont understand is why he would play games then. Go and play Smash or any other game that has no story then.
Thank god as a JRPG enjoyer i thought i was the only one that gets supremely annoyed whenever Connor starts talking about how video game stories are shit
@@DrackenSlayer I don't think you're in the minority on that. Anyone with the average IQ above room temperature would agree. If you're going out of your way to avoid the story you have no room to judge the story. It's almost as if you watch the Lord of the rings and you drop all the movies after the first 30 minutes of fellowship of the ring. Then you go on a tyrant about how the entire trilogy sucks I think everyone has the god-given right to slap you into next week.
The skipping cutscenes part is fine if either the story isn't interesting or the gameplay is your only priority for you and anything else makes the game a disaster, but you have to be either braindead or a Metahuman to be able to watch a TV show or movie at increased speed, because I sure as fuck could never remember anything about it if I tried to do that. Kids, if you wanna review something, then pause frequently and take notes, maybe even compile a Google Doc if you're streaming it with permission from the rights holders. And if you're watching a TH-cam video or livestream and you find another that looks more interesting, just skip the one you're currently on and come back to it later.
Connor doesnt get the right to call Metal Gear Rising a game that is a "movie with QTEs" considering how much he sucked at the "QTEs" and how much time he spent being bad in it
@@joedorben3504 Idk man Joey beat Jump king faster than Monke did, and Garnt beat Connor at chess something he was a "pro" in at a young age, also seems to be really fucking bad at QTEs (Quick Time Events) during MTR despite it not really being a problem for someone like me and most of chat lmao. He definitely plays the most games out of all of them, but the best? nah.
@@SavantGardeEX Well to be fair, at one point conner got to the very top, but misclicked a button and had to start over. So the time may be skewed because I personally count that as conner "beating" jump king
He would totally be fine with playing Metal Slug, arcade games that have very little cutscenes. But if he's playing a BioWare or even a Telltale game, the chat would go nuts with how Connor's basically eating a full course meal in a minute at that point. And not like savouring it by eating at a normal person's pace.
I once caught an episode of Community, one of my favorite shows, on TV and was hoping to get a friend into it since it came up. It was sped up, which made it sound strange and ruined the pacing/timing of so many jokes. I looked into it and found out many channels do this to fit ads into the timeslots. The ads should be sped up, if anything. Don't ruin a show and make me stop watching the entire channel just to appease the advertisement overlords.
@@makairidah8354 It’s the only time I’ve ever noticed it, and I was like 25 and had watched tv my whole life, so it’s not exactly common. The episode I mentioned was on IFC, which is sort of an odd channel and does things a little differently anyway, but from what I read online it happens with local channels pretty often also. I’m guessing it’s channels that don’t get the major funding.
Coming back here after the Trash Taste Awards and I'd forgotten how funny the salt was here. ProZD's sheer disdain was amazing, truly the only fair winner of that category.
I'm more of a gameplay > story person, and I think every game should have skippable cutscenes. But no, if it's your first playthrough, then you probably shouldn't skip cutscenes. No, no you shouldn't. No you shouldn't. Why would you? Stupid or something? Silly or something.
Exactly, video games are another medium to tell amazing stories. Like imagine skipping all the cutscenes in red dead redemption or any of the nier games, like goddammit connor. An absolutely AWFUL and PURELY trash take
If you’ve seen it before, then feel free to skip it. It’s games with unskippable cutscenes that grind my gears (looking at you: Halo Reach’s Long Night of Solace mission). But yeah, stuff like this is why Connor will keep winning the Clown of the Year award.
Watching things sped up is a common ADHD thing! It helps with focusing for a lot of us especially when it's not something you're super into. Forces you to pay attention to take it in without being as easily distracted.
Yep, have to watch youtube stuff sped up or I completely lose focus, even if it's stuff I'm interested in, I'd love to be able to watch things at normal speed as watching things sped up hurts the watch time, but it's a choice between watch the whole video and cut down the watch time, or get distracted and click off the video.
Connor is the type of guy who'd relish in more games like Doom where, sure there might be a story to it, but that's not the MAIN focus of the game (granted the reboot REALLY gave some lore to the franchise, most people just see pew pew shooty shooty demon time, which in all fairness, as I've said earlier, is the main point) instead of a beautifully done story like, say, the Persona series
I cannot play persona it’s so fucking boring, everyone told me to try 5 and it was not enough action, it was a walk and talk simulator and all the action bits were too short.
14:00 AA is a perfect game to remove Connor's habit of skipping cutscenes. You'll never be able to advance if you do after all. I hope he plays the AA trilogy
I vary the speeds I watch videos based on a few factors like "how understandable is the voice in the video?", "how enjoyable is the video?", "how long is the video?", and probably a few more factors.
The weirdest part about Connor's perspective is that it seems like he doesn't actually understand his own taste. Games that feature way more story than gameplay should be harder for him to enjoy, not exceptions to the rule. Based on the info he gives, It seems like his issue is less an exclusionary preference for gameplay and more like an extremely short attention span. If he never skipped a cutscene ever again, and simply tried to pay more attention , he'd probably enjoy games more.
Story is the main reason i play games especially RPGs ... Every RPGs or jrpgs usually get repetitive at some point , story/cutsence is the main reason it kept me Playing even if it's repetitive...
Sungwon has to be annoyed that people are out here watching anime at different speeds because he knows exactly how much work goes into the pacing and performance, only to have ADHD brainrot throw that all away.
Watching anime at 1.5x speed is kinda like speed reading in a sense, so I kinda get it. Meanwhile Connor skipping cutscenes is just heresy, though fgc pros might be as monke brained as he is. Persona 4 Ultimax might just be his cup of tea though.
has anyone else noticed that Joey and Garnt are both wearing shorts and sitting criss-cross and then Connor and ProZD sitting with their leg propped on the other and wearing full length pants? there's the left side of screen and then there's the right.
This is hilarious. So I’m over here watching the podcast while learning mandarin and I realized he’s right. I’m not watching. I’m just listening to them laugh. While I’m over here practicing my strokes on 谢 and 没.
Skipping cutscenes is only acceptable if you have completed the game and are replaying it to get missed trophies. Why would you want to skip cutscenes? Sometimes they are the best part of a game.
When I played Persona 4 I was only interested in the story, so I put the difficulty on very easy and breezed through every fight. Still a 10/10 game though
@@PillowHeroReact yeah and it’s weird that I liked it, because normally I don’t really like visual novels that much. And I didn’t mind the gameplay, I just wanted to progress in the story
I have friends (yes multiple) that skip scenes in shows, like they see a scene with a character they don’t like and they’ll just skip the whole thing. Though it’s not as bad as one of them that skips whole episodes and on some rare cases he skips full seasons. All of them piss me off
To me you can only skip cutscenes if you've already played through the game once or if you have already watched someone play through the whole game on or off the internet. But Connor's just like only gameplay no story, and the only story he likes is Movies or TV shows. The man should just be banned from playing any games that have story and only play like Balloon Tower defense, Dragon city, Clash of clans or whatever doesn't have story.
I don't unless I've seen it but if it's not voice acted I usually skip it. When it comes to any game but Yakuza I hate reading text boxes. Yakuza unlike any other game has a thing where if you hold a button another one becomes an instant skip of waiting for letters to type out but you can just mash it out. It lets me read things at my pace where most games have a cool down on skipping stuff. Also now I remember why I don't have any desire to watch Connor. He skips cutscenes and doesn't seem like the type to play games I like long enough to get good so I can't respect it.
If it’s your first time watching a show/playing a game you should watch it at normal speed/watch the cutscene. Then subsequent watches/playthroughs you can skip or go to your favorite episode etc . However, if you do want to skip around etc like others have said don’t complain that you don’t understand something because that is your fault.
What do you guys think of skipping cutscenes and dialogue when playing and watching them later on yt? My friend does that and I'm like bruh but at least it's better than nothing ig lmao
Thats acrually really good way to do it. Only negative might be that bosses and fights can lose some emotion because you dont know anything or miss context of whats happening in the gameplay. But sometimes when you want to play a game that has good gameplay you dont want to spend limited time on sitting on a cutscene.
Connor is like me, only difference is I don't skip cutscenes unless the story is absolutely worthless and I can easily ignore it and not lose anything. But if there's too much reading involved, like Persona, I end up having a hard time finishing the game.
What Connor does is he plays every single game like he’s trying to do a damn speed run of it. Worst part is he’ll skip the tutorials and cutscenes but spend the next couple hours complaining that he doesn’t know what to do or understand what’s going on. Lol like if you wanna skip cutscenes fine do you but don’t then complain that your lost and don’t know what’s going on. Connor would literally rather struggle in a game for hours rather than take the time to do a 10 min tutorial. He’s the most impatient content creator I’ve ever watched. It’s frustrating to watch sometimes cus he just is so reluctant to even give things a chance. It’s okay to not like something everyone has their preferences but how can you know what you do and don’t like story wise if you never give any of them a chance?
The only anime that I watch while distracted are those for which I've already read the manga/LN for(in some cases, both). Such that I already know the actual plot, so I'm just watching for interesting visuals at select moments, usually fights or fan service. As a general rule, if you have to hasten the progress in any way, be it not reading dialogue, skipping cut scenes, speeding up the videos, IMO you should just skip whatever it is entirely. You are obviously not enjoying the entire thing, so why not find something that you would? Doing it for one's job is a legitimate reason. In that skipping the title isn't really a possibility. But I would argue it is a bad way to do a job and is cheating either the employer or, in the case of video creator, the audience(which is sort of the employer?) The way Garnt describes his process, for example, means that there is a high likelihood of confirmation bias and missed nuance. So whereas he says 99% of the show confirm his original suspicion, I can't trust that. It's probably still the vast majority as many anime do tend to be formulistic, but maybe only 95% and he missed 4% that are actually different in more subtle ways. P.S. I hate side quests in games that does not contribute to the world building of the game. Because those actually contribute nothing when read. I will stop playing a game if this turns out to be the majority of the side quests. P.S.2 I am very annoyed by skippable cutscenes in multiplayer content that you cannot rewatch somehow later at your own pace. I'm not gonna be a d*** and not skip and make my allies wait, but I do want to watch the cutscene. I've had to resort finding playthrough videos on YT etc to see what those are a number of times.
Connor's sentiment on Stories in video games is something I both hate and completely understand at the same time. I'm like Joey and cutscenes to me feel like a earned break and reward from beating a section. Like I get it when you start up a game your intention is to play the game not to watch a movie or read. I'm sure the feeling Conner gets when he sees the opening cutscene is the same feeling people get when they play a new board or tabletop game and someone has to read the rules or set up the plot. Game developers need to integrate their stories more in the game part of their video games. Involve the player in your story and then they would be more willing to see it play out.
Whats wrong with you people saying, that you watch everything in 1.5 speed, that for me is literally impossible, if I was doing that is better just skip everything to the interesting parts.
I think it’s fine. One of my friends who isn’t very good at video games and doesn’t really care to get better plays games for their story. She’ll try to get to the next cutscene by herself but if she struggles, she’ll ask her husband to do it (he’s happy to help). Someone could easily be the opposite, they play video games for the challenge and don’t care about the story. If the game play isn’t good enough on its own, the game isn’t good enough for them. Not everyone has to enjoy everything in the same way you do.
Watching anime sped up feels like inhaling a well made dish, and never really savoring or tasting it. Really missing out the intended pacing of said media.
Does Connor not understand that story games are supposed to be like a movie interspersed with gameplay? If he just wants gameplay with no story he should go to an arcade.
I'd do that if I replay a route in FE 3 houses but then I'm like "wait... It looks more like I'm speedrunning the game by skipping every cutscene even though I've watched it once already"
I can't watch normal YT videos on anything but 2x anymore. Only exception is when I'm tired/exhausted or when it's music or something cinematic where I don't want to ruin the pacing. But if it's just somebody talking, I don't see any reason not to watch it sped up. I can understand it perfectly well and it's not like it chances what they're saying. And for most stuff, the pacing is irrelevant or even way off anyway. I don't watch anime sped up though.
God help Connor’s future kids when they try and talk with him and he just leaves the room complaining that this dialogue is boring.
hahahaha
Damn.
Connor's kids: Dad! Let me tell you what we did in school today!
Connor: WHERE'S THE X BUTTON TO SKIP THIS CUTSCENE?!
Better strap connor to a chair and forced him to play a visual novel.
Who else watches uni lectures at 2x speed?
You’re free to skip cutscenes on your first playthrough but if you then ask questions like “what’s going on” or “ why is this happening” then everyone has a free pass to fucking slap you.
AMEN
True, and if you got lost because of it then allow me to send him/her to Jesus!
Fair
AGREED
Also, streamers who use cutscenes as time to interact with chat instead of paying attention.
Connor is the type of monke to skip all the Yakuza cutscenes and then say he didn't like/understand the story
That's funny how you mention Yakuza, seeing how ProZD is Ichiban's bro best friend (I forgot his name) in the dub.
Preach
@@galaxy_kitten95 Mitsu?
Totally not me playing through Yakuza Like a dragon that way.
He's lazy
The moment the man heard "skip ALL cutscenes", he was this close to leaving and never speaking to Connor again.
ProZD nailing Connor's ass to the wall over this was supremely satisfying.
He's done a skit based on exactly this where it's just him skipping cutscenes and playing the game I think it was a card game
Here it is : th-cam.com/video/GkpgP8ovFZQ/w-d-xo.html
so satisfying and so deserved
I mean skipping cutscenes makes perfect sense if you're there to play a game, not watch a story
@@joedorben3504 the game is supposed to be an interactive story unless it's an online multiplayer game like cod and CSGO
Nice profile picture by the way
Ah yes the moment when ProZD almost killed Trash Taste
I never skip cutscenes unless it’s my 2nd or 3rd time playing the game, or if the cutscene is like the same automated one before a battle or something. Skipping cutscenes first time around is a sin.
The first playthrough: You're new and just read the text and understand the story at face value
The second playthrough: You read the text and have a good understanding of the foreshadowing and odd comments by the characters that predict something
Once you've gone through that, only then will the community and I allow you to skip the the cutscenes!
I've played New Vegas for 795 hours over dozens of characters and I still avoid skipping dialogue.
I skip all cutscenes too because I just want fun gameplay loop, like borderlands 3 I’m playing through I don’t care about the story at all, I just want cool loot and to see numbers get bigger. I’m like that in all single player games, if you don’t catch me within the first hour with your gameplay I’m done and will refund it.
@@WilliamLucian Another monke brain.
@@manueljaramillo2520 Yeah I generally don't play single player games if I can help it, I generally only play things like csgo.
ProZD slowly losing all his faith in humanity during this section of the podcast was absolutely hilarious!!!
His visible pause while Garnt was talking about watching anime at 2x speed is priceless
it was funny to me how this topic came up considering there is a ProZD skit about skipping cutscenes. it's actually one I never re-watch because it bothered me so much 😂 like it's fine if you're replaying a game (I personally would very much like the option to skip for certain games) but on your FIRST playthrough?????
That skit was one of my favorites lol
Connor moment
Sometimes when the cutscenes are really good, it's welcoming to see them again whether it'd be the dialogue or music ques or transition to gameplay or all three.
Odin Sphere: Leithrasir on new game plus, rewatching them with a more open mind about how the story unraveled, puts things into perspective and pieces of the puzzle are somewhat solved.
Yeah, what's wrong with skipping them to get to the gameplay? Gameplay is the crux of a video game, unless you're buying a game with the understanding that you're getting an interactive story simulator rather than a game, there shouldn't be any issue skipping the story
Connor’s hell would be being stuck in a visual novel. All story usually and no motion gameplay lol
The difference is you read a VN specifically for the story. When you play a game sometimes you just want a fun gameplay experience and I can understand not caring when you are just vibing with the gameplay
@@PurpleRupees
This probably why i couldn't get into Persona 4 Arena.
Even though I was fine with the regular Persona games which have heavier story. This is probably because I went in expecting a normal fighting game story (which almost nothing)
@@revolvingworld2676 I mean the game is still there, it's still a functional fighting game.
This entire episode was just ProZD Validating all the things these 3 say that makes all of our collective blood boil
We need a game for connor where every cutscene, some of his equipment or abilities will be disabled or he'd be punished a lot if he use a disabled ability
That sounds like something Yoko Taro would do i'll be honest XD like how ignoring/skipping the cutscenes represents the character having amnesia/memory lapses which affects their abilities.
I just wouldn’t play the game if that were the case. I’m sure Connor feels the same.
I do wonder when Conner will realize that this is probably one of the dumber hills to die on. I can feel my blood pressure rising every time he goes on a rant about how a game story is garbage even though he skips the story.
The whole "Le monke XD" meme is such a massive part of his character at this point that he just plays it up for the bit. He was fine sitting through all of MGR, and I don't think he actually skipped cutscenes in Elden Ring either.
Also I feel like in general he just defaults to saying he doesn't like something or that he'll hate something but usually likes it if he gives it a chance.
@@Sharkofspace As much as I like Connor, I do think he does skip the cutscenes, even in Eldenring.
To me he is that guy that skips everything, then complains when he has bo idea whats happening or what he is supposed to do. Or the guy that pays attention to chat instead of playing the game.
What I dont understand is why he would play games then. Go and play Smash or any other game that has no story then.
Elden Ring cutscenes are like 5 seconds to hype up the boss you're about to fight, not really the same thing.
Thank god as a JRPG enjoyer i thought i was the only one that gets supremely annoyed whenever Connor starts talking about how video game stories are shit
@@DrackenSlayer I don't think you're in the minority on that.
Anyone with the average IQ above room temperature would agree.
If you're going out of your way to avoid the story you have no room to judge the story.
It's almost as if you watch the Lord of the rings and you drop all the movies after the first 30 minutes of fellowship of the ring.
Then you go on a tyrant about how the entire trilogy sucks I think everyone has the god-given right to slap you into next week.
Alternate title: Garnt and Connor driving ProZD insane for 18 minutes straight.
The skipping cutscenes part is fine if either the story isn't interesting or the gameplay is your only priority for you and anything else makes the game a disaster, but you have to be either braindead or a Metahuman to be able to watch a TV show or movie at increased speed, because I sure as fuck could never remember anything about it if I tried to do that.
Kids, if you wanna review something, then pause frequently and take notes, maybe even compile a Google Doc if you're streaming it with permission from the rights holders. And if you're watching a TH-cam video or livestream and you find another that looks more interesting, just skip the one you're currently on and come back to it later.
Connor doesnt get the right to call Metal Gear Rising a game that is a "movie with QTEs" considering how much he sucked at the "QTEs" and how much time he spent being bad in it
Is he actually bad at QTE???? Bro i did that shit in MTR at 8 years old, was it on the hardest difficulty or something.
Any opinion Connor has on games with any story is worthless with the way he plays them lmao
has the 'game grumps' mentality of ignoring the cutscenes/instructions and just ends up butting their head against a wall until it gets frustrating.
Well tbf he is the best gamer of Trash Taste and is genuinely really good at games
@@joedorben3504 Idk man Joey beat Jump king faster than Monke did, and Garnt beat Connor at chess something he was a "pro" in at a young age, also seems to be really fucking bad at QTEs (Quick Time Events) during MTR despite it not really being a problem for someone like me and most of chat lmao. He definitely plays the most games out of all of them, but the best? nah.
@@SavantGardeEX
Well to be fair, at one point conner got to the very top, but misclicked a button and had to start over. So the time may be skewed because I personally count that as conner "beating" jump king
He would totally be fine with playing Metal Slug, arcade games that have very little cutscenes.
But if he's playing a BioWare or even a Telltale game, the chat would go nuts with how Connor's basically eating a full course meal in a minute at that point.
And not like savouring it by eating at a normal person's pace.
1:37 "Someone is watching this at 1.5x"
Me listening to the audio at 2 times speed: *sweats*
Same.
I once caught an episode of Community, one of my favorite shows, on TV and was hoping to get a friend into it since it came up. It was sped up, which made it sound strange and ruined the pacing/timing of so many jokes. I looked into it and found out many channels do this to fit ads into the timeslots. The ads should be sped up, if anything. Don't ruin a show and make me stop watching the entire channel just to appease the advertisement overlords.
How the fuck? Since when is speeding up a show on tv a thing?!
@@makairidah8354 It’s the only time I’ve ever noticed it, and I was like 25 and had watched tv my whole life, so it’s not exactly common. The episode I mentioned was on IFC, which is sort of an odd channel and does things a little differently anyway, but from what I read online it happens with local channels pretty often also. I’m guessing it’s channels that don’t get the major funding.
Coming back here after the Trash Taste Awards and I'd forgotten how funny the salt was here. ProZD's sheer disdain was amazing, truly the only fair winner of that category.
I'm more of a gameplay > story person, and I think every game should have skippable cutscenes. But no, if it's your first playthrough, then you probably shouldn't skip cutscenes.
No, no you shouldn't. No you shouldn't. Why would you? Stupid or something? Silly or something.
It’d be nice if we could skip cutscenes after we already completed the game instead of forcing us to watch it over again.
@@diiii_mond Most games can do that now we're not in 2002
So in a game where you can encounter an NPC you can talk to and get more story. You’d ignore them as get to the gameplay.
Exactly, video games are another medium to tell amazing stories. Like imagine skipping all the cutscenes in red dead redemption or any of the nier games, like goddammit connor. An absolutely AWFUL and PURELY trash take
@@LORDdrPepper FR this is genuinely such a stupid hill to die on it's not even funny anymore it's just cringe
If you’ve seen it before, then feel free to skip it. It’s games with unskippable cutscenes that grind my gears (looking at you: Halo Reach’s Long Night of Solace mission).
But yeah, stuff like this is why Connor will keep winning the Clown of the Year award.
I like how Connor was trashing on Garnt for watching at 1.5 speed but ProZd was way more offended when Connor skipped cutscenes
Watching things sped up is a common ADHD thing! It helps with focusing for a lot of us especially when it's not something you're super into. Forces you to pay attention to take it in without being as easily distracted.
Yep, have to watch youtube stuff sped up or I completely lose focus, even if it's stuff I'm interested in, I'd love to be able to watch things at normal speed as watching things sped up hurts the watch time, but it's a choice between watch the whole video and cut down the watch time, or get distracted and click off the video.
Wtf, Idk why this is a thing that's not supposed to be normalized.
@@Fearseblack what?
@@Fearseblack there’s nothing wrong with it as long as they’re getting the information. that’s how ADHD is
You can only skip cutscenes if you gave the story a chance but weren’t feeling it or your second playthrough.
I feel sooooo bad for ProZD in this. Damn.
Too good for this trash taste hahaha
His Connor impression is spot on
Connor is the type of guy who'd relish in more games like Doom where, sure there might be a story to it, but that's not the MAIN focus of the game (granted the reboot REALLY gave some lore to the franchise, most people just see pew pew shooty shooty demon time, which in all fairness, as I've said earlier, is the main point) instead of a beautifully done story like, say, the Persona series
I cannot play persona it’s so fucking boring, everyone told me to try 5 and it was not enough action, it was a walk and talk simulator and all the action bits were too short.
@@WilliamLucian Eh, maybe it's just not for u.
@@WilliamLucian If you don't like stories in video games, why are you playing a story-rich video game then?
@@SparkShadow212 Same reason I play borderlands, *gameplay* I only play Skyrim with 182 mods installed.
@@WilliamLucian So you played a story-rich game...for the gameplay? That's like eating a sandwich, but without the bread and condiments.
Connor deserves the roast for skipping cutscenes. Like, my guy, JUST STREAM SNES AND ONLINE ONLY GAMES, LMFAO
14:00 AA is a perfect game to remove Connor's habit of skipping cutscenes. You'll never be able to advance if you do after all.
I hope he plays the AA trilogy
To me it’s crazy that he skips all the cutscenes mostly because I only play video games for the stories I hate only competitive games
This video is all just roasting Connor for skipping cutscenes and I'm here for it
If it’s your first time playing a game then no I personally wouldn’t but if it isn’t then do what ever you want.
I vary the speeds I watch videos based on a few factors like "how understandable is the voice in the video?", "how enjoyable is the video?", "how long is the video?", and probably a few more factors.
6:23 The mans appalled lmao
The weirdest part about Connor's perspective is that it seems like he doesn't actually understand his own taste. Games that feature way more story than gameplay should be harder for him to enjoy, not exceptions to the rule. Based on the info he gives, It seems like his issue is less an exclusionary preference for gameplay and more like an extremely short attention span. If he never skipped a cutscene ever again, and simply tried to pay more attention , he'd probably enjoy games more.
I never skip cutscenes, I’m the story and relaxed gamer, I really enjoy the cutscenes.
Story is the main reason i play games especially RPGs ... Every RPGs or jrpgs usually get repetitive at some point , story/cutsence is the main reason it kept me Playing even if it's repetitive...
@@vitadude5004 You said it. I personally don’t care about Combat. If I want Combat I play a full on combat game. I play RPGs because of the Story.
@@spiele_maus same here , if i crave to combat i play full on combat game ..
love how connor is being ripped apart for skipping cutscenes! that's hilarious XD
Sungwon has to be annoyed that people are out here watching anime at different speeds because he knows exactly how much work goes into the pacing and performance, only to have ADHD brainrot throw that all away.
Player: skips all dialogues
Also player: WTH is going on, the story is so bad, it doesn't make any sense...
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At this point Garnt is better off just reading the scripts of anime lol
perfect solution: just read the light novel
Watching anime at 1.5x speed is kinda like speed reading in a sense, so I kinda get it.
Meanwhile Connor skipping cutscenes is just heresy, though fgc pros might be as monke brained as he is.
Persona 4 Ultimax might just be his cup of tea though.
Why FGC pros? Because they skip the intros?
Except they don't like fighting games cuz, according to them, those games are hard.
Watching anime sped up feels like inhaling a well made dish, and never really savoring it.
Really missing out the intended pacing of said media.
@@cherrygrabber7172depends on the anime.
about time someone grilled Connor on his behavior.
Connor needs to play doom eternal, perfect for his antics
prozd had the exact same amount of just......pain i have when hearing conner talk about this
has anyone else noticed that Joey and Garnt are both wearing shorts and sitting criss-cross and then Connor and ProZD sitting with their leg propped on the other and wearing full length pants? there's the left side of screen and then there's the right.
This is hilarious. So I’m over here watching the podcast while learning mandarin and I realized he’s right. I’m not watching. I’m just listening to them laugh. While I’m over here practicing my strokes on 谢 and 没.
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Yeah I'm with proZD on this about skipping cutscenes
Yeah theres other gamss that dont let you skip cutscenes at all but during your 1st playthough?...really?! 🤣
I watch YT videos at 1.5 speed so often that sometimes when I'm reading text I hear it at 1.5 speed in my head
Pro ZD's "hhhmmms" every time Connor says anything kill me.
ProzD body language through out this is outstanding and just as funny as what he said
If looks could kill
Skipping cutscenes is only acceptable if you have completed the game and are replaying it to get missed trophies.
Why would you want to skip cutscenes? Sometimes they are the best part of a game.
When I played Persona 4 I was only interested in the story, so I put the difficulty on very easy and breezed through every fight. Still a 10/10 game though
Basically it became visual novel for you 😆
@@PillowHeroReact yeah and it’s weird that I liked it, because normally I don’t really like visual novels that much. And I didn’t mind the gameplay, I just wanted to progress in the story
I don't exactly mind it that much considering that most of the Persona series is it's story.
same
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I would play nore visual novels if they were voiced more often. But I understand that requires money so I can't blame them for that.
I have friends (yes multiple) that skip scenes in shows, like they see a scene with a character they don’t like and they’ll just skip the whole thing. Though it’s not as bad as one of them that skips whole episodes and on some rare cases he skips full seasons.
All of them piss me off
To me you can only skip cutscenes if you've already played through the game once or if you have already watched someone play through the whole game on or off the internet. But Connor's just like only gameplay no story, and the only story he likes is Movies or TV shows. The man should just be banned from playing any games that have story and only play like Balloon Tower defense, Dragon city, Clash of clans or whatever doesn't have story.
I don't unless I've seen it but if it's not voice acted I usually skip it. When it comes to any game but Yakuza I hate reading text boxes.
Yakuza unlike any other game has a thing where if you hold a button another one becomes an instant skip of waiting for letters to type out but you can just mash it out. It lets me read things at my pace where most games have a cool down on skipping stuff.
Also now I remember why I don't have any desire to watch Connor. He skips cutscenes and doesn't seem like the type to play games I like long enough to get good so I can't respect it.
connors main things isnt videogames
@@deatheater6222 Yes I only watch real gamers I thought that was clear.
@@M7S4I5L8V2A i meant that you shouldnt skip connors videos because his main content isnt videogames
connor needs to play fire emblem fates. skipping the entire story is the best experience
Connor playing disco Elysium would be a any% speedrun
I dint think so. He played fear and hunger and read everything
If it’s your first time watching a show/playing a game you should watch it at normal speed/watch the cutscene. Then subsequent watches/playthroughs you can skip or go to your favorite episode etc . However, if you do want to skip around etc like others have said don’t complain that you don’t understand something because that is your fault.
Not on the first playthrough!
The funny thing is that there actually was a show that was at 1.5 speed. Saiki Kusuo.
What do you guys think of skipping cutscenes and dialogue when playing and watching them later on yt? My friend does that and I'm like bruh but at least it's better than nothing ig lmao
Thats acrually really good way to do it. Only negative might be that bosses and fights can lose some emotion because you dont know anything or miss context of whats happening in the gameplay.
But sometimes when you want to play a game that has good gameplay you dont want to spend limited time on sitting on a cutscene.
In mexico we need to watch our president speeches at 1.5 speed
Connor is like me, only difference is I don't skip cutscenes unless the story is absolutely worthless and I can easily ignore it and not lose anything.
But if there's too much reading involved, like Persona, I end up having a hard time finishing the game.
I couldn’t read when I started gaming so I grew up mostly skipping cutscenes out of habit until I played the Witcher 3
What Connor does is he plays every single game like he’s trying to do a damn speed run of it. Worst part is he’ll skip the tutorials and cutscenes but spend the next couple hours complaining that he doesn’t know what to do or understand what’s going on. Lol like if you wanna skip cutscenes fine do you but don’t then complain that your lost and don’t know what’s going on. Connor would literally rather struggle in a game for hours rather than take the time to do a 10 min tutorial. He’s the most impatient content creator I’ve ever watched. It’s frustrating to watch sometimes cus he just is so reluctant to even give things a chance. It’s okay to not like something everyone has their preferences but how can you know what you do and don’t like story wise if you never give any of them a chance?
The only anime that I watch while distracted are those for which I've already read the manga/LN for(in some cases, both). Such that I already know the actual plot, so I'm just watching for interesting visuals at select moments, usually fights or fan service.
As a general rule, if you have to hasten the progress in any way, be it not reading dialogue, skipping cut scenes, speeding up the videos, IMO you should just skip whatever it is entirely. You are obviously not enjoying the entire thing, so why not find something that you would?
Doing it for one's job is a legitimate reason. In that skipping the title isn't really a possibility. But I would argue it is a bad way to do a job and is cheating either the employer or, in the case of video creator, the audience(which is sort of the employer?) The way Garnt describes his process, for example, means that there is a high likelihood of confirmation bias and missed nuance. So whereas he says 99% of the show confirm his original suspicion, I can't trust that. It's probably still the vast majority as many anime do tend to be formulistic, but maybe only 95% and he missed 4% that are actually different in more subtle ways.
P.S. I hate side quests in games that does not contribute to the world building of the game. Because those actually contribute nothing when read. I will stop playing a game if this turns out to be the majority of the side quests.
P.S.2 I am very annoyed by skippable cutscenes in multiplayer content that you cannot rewatch somehow later at your own pace. I'm not gonna be a d*** and not skip and make my allies wait, but I do want to watch the cutscene. I've had to resort finding playthrough videos on YT etc to see what those are a number of times.
you talked about it so much that i actually put it on 1.5 speed
Oh..When they said someone is watching this video in 1.5 speed i checked and I saw that I watched in 2.0 speed. You get used to it after a while
Connor's sentiment on Stories in video games is something I both hate and completely understand at the same time. I'm like Joey and cutscenes to me feel like a earned break and reward from beating a section. Like I get it when you start up a game your intention is to play the game not to watch a movie or read. I'm sure the feeling Conner gets when he sees the opening cutscene is the same feeling people get when they play a new board or tabletop game and someone has to read the rules or set up the plot. Game developers need to integrate their stories more in the game part of their video games. Involve the player in your story and then they would be more willing to see it play out.
Watching One Piece in 1.5x speed feels like normal speed
This is legit the best moment in Trash Taste ever for me.
...So uh, I may have been watching this on 2X speed in the background while playing Genshin Impact
Man this conversation is even funnier at two times speed
Sitting here at 2x speed wishing Netflix or Hulu would increase the speed because 1.5x seems slow
Someone please force this man to play Metal Gear Solid 4 with no cutscenes skipped.
me: watching literally everything on two times speed
Congratulations on being the saltiest moments on trash taste prozd well deserved I'm relating on you
Sometimes I’ll listen to my colleges lecture videos at two times speed but I also pause a lot.
"I chew it up and spit it out" - Maylene has entered the chat
I love ProZD's impression of Connor.
Whats wrong with you people saying, that you watch everything in 1.5 speed, that for me is literally impossible, if I was doing that is better just skip everything to the interesting parts.
I think it’s fine. One of my friends who isn’t very good at video games and doesn’t really care to get better plays games for their story. She’ll try to get to the next cutscene by herself but if she struggles, she’ll ask her husband to do it (he’s happy to help).
Someone could easily be the opposite, they play video games for the challenge and don’t care about the story. If the game play isn’t good enough on its own, the game isn’t good enough for them.
Not everyone has to enjoy everything in the same way you do.
I watch and listen videos at 2x speed, but only for time saving purposes only.
Skipping cutscenes on the first play through? HERESY!
Connor would love FE Fates Conquest and FE Engage, no overly long school bullshit sections, just good solid gameplay with absolutely skippable stories
Prozd is the spirit of the trash taste audience IRL reacting to the boys
Watching anime sped up feels like inhaling a well made dish, and never really savoring or tasting it.
Really missing out the intended pacing of said media.
I watch my lectures at 1.5x. I'm still able to learn stuff without any issues.
Does Connor not understand that story games are supposed to be like a movie interspersed with gameplay? If he just wants gameplay with no story he should go to an arcade.
It's funny that they talked about skipping cutscenes because ProZD literally made a video skit about it
I agree with Connor. I don't care for the stories in games.
Connor should play Pac Man or Dig Dug, games without cutscenes.
Can't wait for him to play Pong, I hear it's big with kids these days.
I'd do that if I replay a route in FE 3 houses but then I'm like "wait... It looks more like I'm speedrunning the game by skipping every cutscene even though I've watched it once already"
If Conor played the COD MW reboot series he’d probably complain about the dialogue, especially on the night-raid CQB missions
no
1.25 speed for naruto, some of those scenes are sooooo long and slow I sit there just waiting for them to communicate lmao
HOLY SHIT, CONNOR PLAYED BLUE DRAGON!! Blue Dragon is probably the main reason why I don't play JPRGS. The level grinding in that game took forever!
You can feel the disdain in ProZD's voice.
i watch all the trash taste videos on 1.5x speed and i feel so called out rn LOL
I can't watch normal YT videos on anything but 2x anymore. Only exception is when I'm tired/exhausted or when it's music or something cinematic where I don't want to ruin the pacing. But if it's just somebody talking, I don't see any reason not to watch it sped up. I can understand it perfectly well and it's not like it chances what they're saying. And for most stuff, the pacing is irrelevant or even way off anyway. I don't watch anime sped up though.