Game intros

Guest2 · 24 Mar 2010 at 14:36

I hate game introductions like videos. In Dirt 2 you have to practically watch a whole race before you get to the menu screen, is there a simple of of getting around things like this? Sometimes its the videos folder than just needs renaming or deleting but other times there isnt one.

It would be a lot better if the escape key worked and took you straight to the game menu

z3r0 · 24 Mar 2010 at 14:40

I know how you feel.

Annoys the hell out of me.

iviv · 24 Mar 2010 at 14:47

For Dirt 2, Enter seems to skip all of the intro stuff.

trickycurve · 24 Mar 2010 at 14:49

Guest2 said:
In Dirt 2 you have to practically watch a whole race before you get to the menu screen, is there a simple of of getting around things like this?

Press Enter/Esc/LMB? I've never not been able to skip an intro in any game on PC by pressing one of the aforementioned buttons. Dirt 2 has atrocious loading times between races (that annoying side scroll thing of the outside area when you finish an event makes me rage), but I can get through the intros when I launch the game in a matter of seconds.

Guest2 · 24 Mar 2010 at 16:12

Stupid loading times between races too? I usually end up hammering alt&F4 or alt ctrl delete if i cant get out of an intro movie, then quickly to program and features to remove. Im just too impatient and have better things to do instead of watch some intro rubbish

Stonedofmoo · 24 Mar 2010 at 16:16

trickycurve said:
Press Enter/Esc/LMB? I've never not been able to skip an intro in any game on PC by pressing one of the aforementioned buttons.

You clearly never played Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War..

I don't mind actual game video's so much, but endless manufacturer/developer/sponsors logo's irritate the hell out of me

Borrish · 24 Mar 2010 at 16:18

The intro to both of them is definitely worth watching once though!

Wyrdo · 24 Mar 2010 at 16:19

Stonedofmoo said:
You clearly never played Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War..

It's only the first time you can't skip it, subsequent plays can be skipped.

iviv · 24 Mar 2010 at 16:21

Also, I do love the few games that have the intro videos as seperate files. Just delete them, and create new, empty files with the same name. It loads the file, nothing there, so it just moves onto the menu. Just a shame they don't work like that anymore.

James J · 24 Mar 2010 at 16:22

Some intro videos are well worth watching imo if you havent seen them before. The warhammer ones are superb

MoRT489 · 24 Mar 2010 at 16:33

In some games u can rename the .bik files in the Videos folder to .bi for example and that skips the selected videos.

Stonedofmoo · 24 Mar 2010 at 16:43

Wyrdo said:
It's only the first time you can't skip it, subsequent plays can be skipped.

Thanks for telling me what I already knew

Guest2 · 24 Mar 2010 at 17:01

Stonedofmoo said:
Thanks for telling me what I already knew

I didnt know. Thanks Wyrdo

alex24 · 24 Mar 2010 at 17:05

I find the menus of new games often annoying. I played the Dirt 2 demo, and the menus are irritatingly inefficient and overly flashy. I miss simple menus where it's easy to choose what you want. Like Gran Turismo 2, that was almost perfect. The original DiRT was also really annoying when you have autosave on, as instead of doing it intelligently in the background, there's an annoying animation you can't skip. EVERY time.

Another vote for intro vids to be annoying, unskippable ones that is, like intel/nvidia/ati logos and such. They help pay the bills mind.

Stonedofmoo · 24 Mar 2010 at 17:12

Guest2 said:
I didnt know. Thanks Wyrdo

lol well you would have if you had played the game!!

Shamikebab · 24 Mar 2010 at 20:25

Wyrdo said:
It's only the first time you can't skip it, subsequent plays can be skipped.

And in the end if you don't watch that absolute masterpiece once then you are dead inside.

KNiVES · 24 Mar 2010 at 20:28

Crysis is really bad for this, you have to watch three or four introductory videos. I normally go to my Crysis folder and delete the videos by hand. You can do this with virtually any PC game, if you can find the video files for them (rename them instead of deleting though, in case it breaks the game).

illogik · 24 Mar 2010 at 21:58

I can totally relate to this. It drives me crazy when these games force me to sit through endless AMD/Intel/Nvidia logo's. Even more so when pressing esc/enter etc don't work.

OrphanBoy · 25 Mar 2010 at 00:38

It's further annoying-er where you have to see those intro movies over and again if you keep having to quit the executable as part of the process of finding the right graphics settings, eg if the game has an external config program (or you wanna wiggle ini files).
Okay, the way it's meant to be played - I get it!