Why buy a book if you are going to immediately flip to the last page and put it down? When you boil it all down, games are all about putting a delay between the start and the goal, if you think it's a waste of time I can save you $60 - just look at screenshots & videos online or buy "the art of...." books, that's what I do…
agreed. gameplay and cutscenes should all be skip/fast-forward-able and let us quicksave/-reload at all times as an option for the casual player. it's not very entertaining having to repeat some frustrating bit over and over again, nor is searching for the save-point when real-life demands your attention. not everyone has…
Someone wanting to skip a part of a game doesn't necessarily mean that this player wants to blindly rush through the game. It simply means that for whatever reason, a given part of the game might not be to this player liking. (there could be multiple reasons for this - a drop in quality ; bad writing ; bad gamedesign ;…