Hey, we are trying to find a way to remove the cutscenes from Remember Me as almost 50% of the run is talking cutscenes, and have had a few leads and small progress but nothing that lead anywhere. Below is the reddit post I made on the speedrun reddit for the bounty, the document I typed up about the progress and everything we found so far, as well as the page for the game itself, thanks!
https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/sdm8ae/bountyadding_a_50_bounty_for_anyone_to_help/?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QZQ8Y_UwiO22WkOcYMx8T3Rt6Ca0ZCj2na0oyCvGH2s/edit?usp=sharing
https://www.speedrun.com/remember_me
Edit: Traiv added some more ideas/info which I added to the docs and reddit
Thank you :) I honestly doubt anything is even possible and we are doomed to 50% of the run is watching people talk lol
I don't even run this game, but I was curious enough to read the link you posted. Very interesting, man. Honestly, the best bet I can make is if the community made a mod to remove the cutscenes and that was made into a brand new category.
I run KH games, and a similar thing has been done to gummi missions in KH2 recently. A new category with a mod that removes these missions was added.
So that is currently the situation we are in with the current "cut scene skips" which was basically just the small amount of .bik files remade into 1-second black screen videos. It has its own category. However, we recently found out you can just delete that folder entirely (does not really save time since we were already doing this in a more complex way) but it is separate to those who did not do that.
If someone ever manages to actually find a way to skip in-game rendered cutscenes then it would just continue to stay in the cutscene skip category separate from the non-tampered with runs!
Currently, runs are estimated to be around 2 hr 45 min. And that is with 20 min of cutscenes already removed from the .bik files, and with a little over an hour of cutscenes still left in the run. Run would drop to probably 1 hour 30 min range if someone did find a cutscene skip or make one for the non .bik files!
You should have all the conversations memorized by now lol. Also you can speedrun another game while the cutcenes are playing, that is what I call productivity x 2