Unskippable Cutscenes OR why Company Of Heroes pissed me off

hey everybody
so the other day I decided I'd try the demo for Company of Heroes.

Any it had two long cutscenes that I couldn't skip.

Now, you're probably going "but that had information that was really important!"
no, infact it did not. It was just there to create the setting, which I got from looking at the goddamn startup screen.

It's WWII and you're playing an RTS.

Is there really any more that we need to know? seriously!? what kind of information could they possibly bestow upon us other than "it's WWII and it's RTS."

I mean, sure I'm not new to storylines in RTS games, but is a story even needed for any WWII games anymore? I mean, we all know what happened. And the reason we're playing isn't for a historical recreation of events or even an engaging storyline (this is especially so for the case of RTS, as the story is few and far between for missions, also generally the missions are very much split up and non-fluid).

It's ridiculous!
I mean, there I was, waiting for an RTS game.. I mean.. sure the games aren't so much action oriented, but damn. Why can't I skip it? there's absolutely no point. Okay, Assassin's Creed had unskippable cutscenes, fine, that has an "interesting" story. Sure, maybe the newest Prince Of Persia, because hey, that has a story too, right?

but CoH? wtf!?
That's like putting unskippable cutscenes in DOOM.
Nobody fucking cares about the story. You don't care, I don't care, let's just fucking play. Or an Unskippable Cutscene in Team Fortress 2. Can you imagine if they played Meet The Scout every time you unlocked a Scout weapon? In game, Unskippable?!
It's inane, and game companies need to realize that unskippable cutscenes are total trash. Yes, sometimes people accidentally press that button and skip the scene, but that's why you either make the trigger for skipping the cutscene a combination of buttons or you have a library mode where people can watch the cutscene again!

Goddamn you ambiguous (it's not all ubisoft, okay?!) companies who put unskippable cutscenes in games that don't even need cutscenes to begin with.

Tetris Attack Addiction

I pick it up and can't put it down, for hours.. i should have gone to bed, but i spent all night on the john playing Puzzle League...

Thunder Stump

Hey, I'm the bassist for the band Thunder Stump, primarily I write, but lately I've been using my talents for bass playing instead. And it's a lot of fun, last gig we played was at the buffalo chip saloon over on cave creek, and it was fantastic.

we got there at about 7:00pm and the gig actually doesn't start until 8, but I wasn't on at 8, we were sixth to play, and it wasn't based on time slots, so I couldn't say exactly when we started playing. But anyway, the place is really country western.
the place we played before was country, but not country western.

the buffalo chip saloon was actually founded by a guy named kit carson.. if that means anything to you, I sincerely apologize.

Anyway, we were a little worried, the place is so country western and we're so punk. We were expecting to see The Blues Brothers all over again. And if that was the case we were in some trouble, because we were without a chicken wire fence.

Anyway, after hearing a few people play, they played something a little Jazzy, so we decided to start out with something they might like, Speed bump. But ultimately we couldn't stick to it. Half way through it, we said "awe forget this!" and switched over to "1,2,3,4" which I'm sure many of you have no clue what I'm talking about, but I won't give the song away, you'll just have to see us perform it.

Anyway, lucky for us we ended up making them laugh their asses off. Our drummer met a lady there who said she was going to give us information on all the punk open mics in town. Which I think is really going to help us, because we're going to get a fanbase that would enjoy our stuff for more than just an evening.

Anyway, we've done really well for ourselves and we need to write some new songs. We're going to work hard at it!

Spell o Play

hey, http://www.spellofplay.com/ is having a contest, and it happens so frequently that the last time I posted, I didn't win, but they're holding it again for every ten entrants!

taxes

i owe a lotta money. :"(

taxes

i owe a lotta money. :"(

STREET FIGHTER IV VIDEO APP

Indie Games

hey guys, this weird dude on twitter started following me, and I noticed he was a part of Spell of Play, which is this indie game website, it looks like they have a lot of arcade based titles, and to be honest with you, I like arcade based titles. :D

anyway, it's worth checkin' out, here's the link again: http://www.spellofplay.com