The Definitive list of Games with Skippable cutscenes and gameplay focus!
7 years ago
Victoria, Australia

Also posted this on the Speedrun subreddit.

Firstly, let me introduce myself, I am an avid gamer who has been creating this list from extensive remembering and Google for about a week or so. This list was originally a method for me to personally find games to play straight through without cutscene/scripted interruptions.

I actually got into Speedrunning by researching for this list. I am practicing on Megaman ZX Advent (which isn't on the speedrun.com game list for some reason) and just doing my first play of Ratchet and Clank PS4 which I want to speedrun in the future.

There's still a fair bit of games missing so you're more than welcome to help.

It's done in chronological order up to the PS1/N64 era. Again, this was a personal list at first cause I'm pretty bad at some of the more retro/hardcore stuff.

Aaaaaanyway, here's the list!

Gen 8 (PS4, Xbox One, 3DS, Wii U)

2014 Watch_Dogs Wolfenstein The New Order Bayonetta 2 Shadow Warrior Kirby Triple Deluxe Assassin's Creed Unity

2015 Halo 5 Guardians Dying Light Mad Max Rise of the Tomb Raider Assassin's Creed Syndicate

2016 Ratchet and Clank Shadow Warrior 2 Mirror's Edge Catalyst Kirby Planet Robobot

Upcoming (confirmation would be great)

2016 Watch_Dogs 2 The Last Guardian

2017 Prey Gravity Rush 2 Ghost Recon Wildlands For Honor Project Sonic (tentative name)

2018 Psychonauts 2

??? Spider-Man (tentative name)

Gen 7 ( Xbox 360, PS3, DS, Wii)

2006 Crackdown Gears of War Megaman ZX Castlevania Portrait of Ruin

2007 Crysis Megaman ZX Advent Lost Planet Extreme Condition Ratchet and Clank Tools of Destruction

2008 Saints Row 2 Mirror's Edge Gears of War 2 Star Wars The Force Unleashed Resistance 2 Grand Theft Auto IV Lego Batman

2009 Red Faction Guerilla Wolfenstein Bayonetta Batman Arkham Asylum

2010 Darksiders Transformers War For Cybertron Sonic Colors Castlevania Order of Ecclesia

2011 Gears of War 3 Killzone 3 Bulletstorm Resistance 3

2012 Binary Domain Darksiders 2 Gravity Rush Sleeping Dogs Assassin's Creed 3

2013 Anarchy Reigns Metal Gear Rising Revengeance Legend Of Zelda A Link Between Worlds Tomb Raider Killzone Shadow Fall Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag Metro Last Light

Gen 6 (PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, GBA)

2001 Klonoa 2 Lunataea's Veil Sonic Adventure 2 Crash Bandicoot The Wrath Of Cortex

2002 Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland Legend of Zelda Wind Waker (HD) Ape Escape 2 Ty the Tasmanian Tiger Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (PC) Ratchet and Clank

2003 Ratchet and Clank Going Commando Jak 2 Renegade Primal Sonic Heroes

2004 Ratchet and Clank Up Your Arsenal Jak 3 Kirby and the Amazing Mirror

2005 Ratchet Deadlocked Grand Theft Auto San Andreas Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow Psychonauts Ape Escape 3

Gen 5 (PS1, Nintendo 64)

1997 Crash Bandicoot 2 Klonoa Door to Phantomile Megaman Legends

1998 Crash Bandicoot Warped Banjo Kazooie Sonic Adventure (DX) Spyro

1999 Spyro 2 Ripto's Rage Ape Escape

2000 Perfect Dark Spyro Year of the Dragon

UNKNOWN (no results on Google) Jet Set Radio Pac-Man World 2 & 3 Kameo Elements of Power Banjo Tooie Legend Of Zelda Minish Cap Apocalypse (PS1) Quake 1-4 Batman Arkham Knight Shadow Of The Colossus

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Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

2004: Crash Twinsanity.

Victoria, Australia

@OddsomeOddy

A friend of mine recently played it and the cutscenes actually aren't skippable unfortunately. Great pick but not for this list xD

Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Oh you talking about games without ANY cutscenes in runs. Idk then lol

England

2008: Lego Batman: The Video Game

Cambridgeshire, England

2002: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (PC version)

Victoria, Australia

HP & Bats: why not? Seems decent :3

NES: Ahhh yeah as this was a personal list and I can't beat retro games for crap I didn't include them but I definitely will. I'll do a bit of research.

Norway

2013: Marlow Briggs and Mask of Death (at least on PC)

The skip button appears after a few seconds and can be a little iffy, but all cutscenes except the very last is skippable. It's not a good speedgame though :(

Victoria, Australia

Marlow: I've never heard of it. I just looked it up and it looks pretty fun. Will add, I haven't added any downloadables/cheaper-than-40 games only cause there are so many of them. :D May have to add a separate category

Kochi, Japan

Metal Gear Solid 2 !

European Union

2013 - Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae (PC, XBone, PS4) 2015 - Xenoblade Chronicles X (WiiU) every scene can be skipped.

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Portland, OR, USA

super mario 63 every cutscene longer than 20 seconds can be skipped

Bavaria, Germany

2003 legacy of kain: defiance

United States

@BrandonScottHill

Backing you the fuck up right now.

Also I would have to suggest as a contribution Monsters Inc. Scream Team for the PS1 and PC

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Finland

Many Assassin's Creed-games, like Black Flag, are not particularly well suited for this kind of a list IMO. They're modern games through and through; holding the player's hand unnecessarily long via forced tutorials, and featuring, if not straight-up unskippable cutscenes, at least a lot of waiting around.

The Batman: Arkham-games became more and more cinematic and cutscene-heavy as they went. Knight is a particularly bad offender with a ton of waiting around the game.

In case you want more suggestions, here are some off the top of my head: all Siren-games, all Devil May Cry-games and all Silent Hill-games (excluding Shattered Memories and Downpour) only (or mainly) feature skippable cutscenes.

Friesland, Netherlands

[quote]Grand Theft Auto San Andreas [/quote]

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May I inquire about your research method? Half of this game's cutscenes are unskippable

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