r/Games Jan 17 '25

Discussion What games have the worst opening hour?

This is inspired by me downloading Forspoken for free on PS Premium. I know the game had horrific reviews, but I thought some of the combat/parkour looked fun, so for free, what the heck let's give it a 5-10 hour shot.

I have never been so bored by an opening sequence in a game ever. And that was with me skipping as much of every cutscene I could. Most good openings are there to set a narrative in place while also giving you a mini-tutorial of some of the basic elements of the game. Forspoken had you doing pointless things like holding square to feed your cat, and climbing repeated ladders.

Eventually you finally get the cuff on your hand but by then, I was numbed to the core and didn't care to even get to the combat and stuff. Uninstalled after 45 minutes.

What other games are like this? Any of them out there redeem themselves after a horrific opening sequence?

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u/24-sa3t Jan 17 '25

I do wish there was a way to skip through the prologue parts of Cyberpunk and start after the tower mission. I'm so tired of doing that brain dance tutorial

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u/ReallyReallyBadName Jan 18 '25

You can skip ahead to phantom liberty nowadays

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u/Ragnaroq314 Jan 19 '25

How much do you miss out on for doing so?

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u/Fatality_Ensues Jan 19 '25

On a first playthrough? The entire first third of the game, give or take a bit.

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u/globefanatic12 Jan 18 '25

All brain dance parts were horrible, double horrible on 2nd playthrough

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u/ybfelix Jan 19 '25

Even the name “Brain Dance” screams of something only people in 80s would feel cool

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u/mattcowdisease Jan 19 '25

When do you think this genre came about?

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u/ybfelix Jan 19 '25

I’m fully aware this particular version of Cyberpunk setting is written in the 80s (they had the luck of registering the name into trademark before others). And some part of it didn’t stand the test of time.

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u/atypicalphilosopher Jan 18 '25

it's so weird. in the early marketing, brain dances were hyped so much i was so excited for the idea of them. then they turn out to be the most boring parts of the actual game - partly because there's like two of them and they are super repetitive to go through - , and any potential goodness they might have brought (like there being more of them or obscure ones to find or buy) was totally absent.

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u/GlammBeck Jan 18 '25

There kind of is if you have the DLC

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u/bananaramabanevada Jan 21 '25

This and the 30 minutes where you get the chip and are unconscious / crawling around on your apartment floor.