Poll: Training levels

[Dedtoo]

In almost every game there is a area or a level that is easy and mainly for training.
Do you sometimes wish they were shorter/had an option to leave them earlier?
I play through my games more than once and is mostly sick and tired of thoose areas after the first time.

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

I'd like an option to skip training. At least ODST understands this need

 

[Radeonx]

I'm indifferent. Sometimes they give me a feel for how to play the game, and prevent me from getting destroyed, and other times they don't.

 

[StarStruckStrumpets]

I believe it should be compulsory to at least give the player an option to skip the training, unless it is insanely fun.

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

They can be entertaining if done right, but usually it's nice to get a skip option.

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

Sometimes they're necessary, for, say, people who haven't played the game before, of who forgot the controls, having played the prequel, but I do wish I could skip them if I know the controls.

 

[NeedAUserName]

Some are good, some are quite annoying, like the Fallout 3 and Oblivion ones, they just drag on for far too long.

 

[QuirkyTambourine]

I'd like an option to skip, only for repeat playthroughs. When I play a game, I always play the game to the fullest the first time, do every training mission, watch every cutscene, etc. But if I'm replaying it, I like to skip the training since I should probably have mastered the controls by the end of the game

 

[ae86gamer]

It depends. If I just started the game then I will most likely need it, but if its my second play through then I would like the choice of being able to skip it.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

Handled well they can be interesting. If it takes the form of a series of quicktime events then no, but something like Max Payne IIRC was good, where it gave you the controls, and then you had an option to kill endless waves of baddies, or you could ignore the tutorial entirely.

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

I enjoy going through them again and attempting to break them by being too awsome or doing the objectives too fast. The ability to skip (gears came to mind here) would be nice.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

I think the best one I've played was Splinter Cell's training mission at CIA HQ.

 

[Ryuk2]

I like it, but it needs to be short. ''Press this to take a gun, press that to run, go, shot and your ok to go...now go go go''
The first two Call of Dutty had that kind of training and it was amazing and i loved it.

 

[EscapeGoat_v1legacy]

Generally, I don't mind them, although I would like the option to skip, in case I'm replaying the game, or have already grasped the basic controls.

 

[SaunaKalja]

I want an option to skip. A fun thing I noticed in VTM: Bloodlines just recently. If you play through the tutorial, you will start the actual game with a set of lockpicks, but if you skip it, no lockpicks for you. I want to skip, but not with meaningful consequences

 

[ygetoff]

I like some training areas (CoD4 and Fallout 3 spring to mind), but for some reason, I hate it when a game leaves them out. When I first played Halo 3, I was really pissed, just because the whole training consisted of "look up, look down, congrats, let's go fight giant armored gorillas with laser guns."

 

[high_castle]

Must...have...a...skip...button.

Oh and cut scenes too. Mass Effect comes to mind on the cut scene front. LET ME SKIP!

Er, you know you can hit the X button to cut off all responses, right? And basically turn a 10 minute conversation into a 10 second affair?

OT: I don't mind training levels if they're interesting. Speaking of Mass Effect, the first mission on Eden Prime is definitely for training's sake, but it also ties directly into the main plot. And it's light on tutorials, basically just dropping you into the middle of the world and saying, "Have at it." That works well. Then you have Oblivion, which is just mindless and rather dull. Thankfully, they let you save right before you leave the world, which also allows you to change your character around, and thus you only have to run through it once if you want. Fallout 3 had the same formula, but at least the beginning was different enough that I didn't mind it. I still only played through it once, though.

 

[CrysisMcGee]

They need to keep training fun, and actually give people an option to skip.

 

[Jedamethis]

I voted for cookies, messing up your poll results

People please stop making these kinds of poll options

 

[Dedtoo]

I voted for cookies, messing up your poll results

People please stop making these kinds of poll options

But they are fun