I was gonna make a joke about skipping every single section of the game and beat it without playing it.

But...I'm a little dumbfounded about this feature.

"We want everybody to be able to finish our game,"

At the cost of them not actually playing it I suppose.

I can't really consider one beating a game unless it's actually...you know....played.

Real endings only count if you beat the actual game?
That would probably work a bit better.

Bad idea. Some people are simply going to ruin their experience, and thus their opinion/view of the game, by using said "feature". It's like making a great, balanced and fun RPG, but putting in a hidden super weapon that makes the rest of the game trivial - for any player that finds it and figures it's par the course, he's going to say the game was easy and boring. Yes, it's a good idea in theory, but you have to protect the gamer from the game itself - on both ends of the spectrum.

Another way to think about it, what if putting on god mode was as simple as going into options and enabling it? And how many of you have cheated at a game before and then felt a distinct lack of fun/accomplishment thereafter? It makes a huge difference, even if only subconsciously.

Furthermore, it's a shitty cop out to just making the damned game difficulty balanced and I'm surprised they even think this is worth PR'ing about. Sounds about on par stupidity-wise with the "we're not going to have pause so our game is intense" idea that other developer was raving about.

Thats a copout, IMO. I wont be using the skip feature

On the one hand, there is the theory that if you pay for an expensive piece of software, you should be able to access it all without fuss.

On the other, what's the cunting point buying it if you're not going to play it?

Definitely a feature for pussies, though I wonder if this means the devs will be lazy as shit about balancing the game now. :-/

@Jim Sterling

They could just do difficulty levels; having an Easy difficulty makes a game more accessible to people. Oh wait, that would take some effort on the developers' part, which is obviously something they don't want

I suppose some people may like it but in a way it might annoy me.

Like when my mate says he's completed MGS3. I tell him "No you haven't!" It just doesn't count if you play it though on Very Easy with an unlimited tranq gun that has enough kick to bring down a fucking elephant and all the enemies/goons are near blind.

Pussies.

This sucks, it reminds me of the instant travel in Oblivion, but with a little more suck thrown into the mix.

I don't like it, but I see where they're coming from. I'm sure that the moment the player skips a section is the moment they their "Wimped out" Achievement worth only 10 points and they aren't allowed to get any more achievements.

I don't know how difficult these games typically are so I won't say "omg anyone who uses this is a huge pussy lolz" but it is strange. I'd be hard pressed to get the same experience out of a movie if I skipped a chapter or two and it seems like the same thing here. I could see this becoming slightly more common in the hopes it will lure in casual gamers but I'm not a fan.

This makes no sense. This is a survival horror game - not some Barbie Horse Adventure, where I could see skipping a valid tool for those who play it.

If you want to make something more people can "get through," make a movie.

If this is implemented well, as in you were offered to skip a particularly tough firefight after numerous failed attempts, how the hell can it be a bad thing? This is like complaining about games having an easy difficulty, or fanboys complaining about games coming out on other systems as well as their own. If you don't like an optional feature of a game, don't use it. I personally would never use something like this, when I continually suck at a section, I take it as a personal affront and it makes me even more determined to beat it, but if it lets more casual players enjoy the game, what possible harm?

Yeah.... No thanks, there, AITD. I like to EARN my credits, thanks.

You know I think it'd find this acceptable if when you opted to skip a section of the game, the game instead showed a video of a better player going through and beating it on the hardest difficulty while audio that said "YOU FAIL AT LIFE" repeated over and over, and the video itself was unskippable.

Shut up, Topher. You're not allowed to talk here, shmuphead. :)

I don't think it's a horrible feature. As long as they penalize players significantly for doing it, then it should be fine. It's obviously not necessary, though.

They should put this in WoW. Skip all the stupid grinding. Maybe I'd bother playing it then.

Yup definatly something for pussies. However, there are a lot of lazy asses out there that if something is to difficult they would rather skip it and this should definatly appeal to them. But probably not to most of the readers on this site.

The only games I ever got stuck on were NES and SNES games as 3 lives and no continues was, I swear, spawned by the devil.

Newer games don't have this problem (I find) as after a few tries everything works out fine thanks to saves.

After thinking about it for a few minutes, I have to say I really like this idea. Having a wife and a job, I would love it if some games had a "sit back and enjoy the story" mode. If the story and presentation is good enough, why not let someone with bad coordination play through it like an interactive movie? So what if they don't get the same experience you do, it's not like someone else's experience lessens yours.

I think most RPGs should have an adventure mode anyway. 1/10th the encounters with boosted drops and exp. Let you replay a game again without investing another 80 hours. Let busy people enjoy the new Final Fantasy. Show more casual gamers the joy of RPGs. They'll sell more RPGs, we'll get more RPGs... where's the problem?

is this game A BILLION times harder than the last Alone in the Dark? it sounds like it's A BILLION times harder if there needs to be a "puss-out" button

Well, it's a feature that I'd say 99% of people won't use or care... but I hope it won't be a lame excuse for not balancing the difficulty well.

"What do you mean that throwing at you a dozen of rocket launcher armed megazombies it's unfair ? If you are a puss just skip it, no ?"

Seeing as they theyre aiming for like a primetime serial show style like Lost or Supernatural(?), it sounds alright for players who want a more seamless cinematic(even those are TV shows but whatever) experience.

But it depends on the situation like if its a timed sequence,stubborn boss, or an escort scenario then I wouldnt even hesitate to skip that shit. If the games gonna be as easy as Bioshock which had those same brisk cinematic vibes than thats good enough.

eek, i DARE me to make less sense.