Removing Annoying Pregame Videos

[Darunia]

Anyone know a safe way to remove the pre-game videos so that when I boot up the came I go right to the menu? The game in question is Half-Life, and I want to skip the Sierra and Valve logos. They cost me at least 20 seconds of my life everytime I try to boot up.

[EdenMaster]

You could press ESC...

[Darunia]

*EM is found in the Bay of Tendo; concrete shoes, etc. etc.... ruled suicide,*


Now let's go on to assume that I tried that and it doesn't work. No combination of keyboard or mouse clicks will bypass these videos. I have to sit and watch them. There must be a way to remove them from the file, a way to bypass them directly.

[A Black Falcon]

Usually some key or button will skip those things... occasionally they're unskippable, but usually not...

[Great Rumbler]

There are some games, like Borderlands, that have unskippable pregame videos. The only way to skip them was to go in and alter the .ini files.

[Dark Jaguar]

And there are some games where you just can't do anything about the pregame videos. It's differently coded in almost every game, excepting when a company reuses their engine. Your question is like asking "how I sign up webs?" as though every single web site is programmed the same way. There is no universal answer.

In the case of Halflife, you seem to be using an old version if it's mentioning Sierra. The newer Steam versions let you skip the videos with a button, but I can't help you with the old ones.

Some games, you can delete the movie files, but some will crash upon boot if those files are missing. It all depends on the game. Is this really that big a deal to you? Games have startup movies these days. Modern ones moreso. A few seconds waiting for a game to load is no big deal.

[Darunia]

Is this really that big a deal to you?


EVIDENTLY!!


A few seconds waiting for a game to load is no big deal.

A lot of annoying things are 'no big deal,' but they are annoying nonetheless and the world would be better without them. Al Franken, for example. These movies are also examples. You shouldn't have to wait and watch through twenty seconds of narcissistic Sierra and Valve logos every time you boot up a game. I KNOW who made the game. I don't need to be reminded everytime. It's almost as bad as when they put fucking commercials on DVDs! Because, you're going to have that DVD forever and the rest of you life... I didn't care that Chappelle's Show is New on DVD when it really was new, and I don't care now!

*Declares formal state of war on the US video game and DVD industries*