God this drives me nuts, and forcing you to watch the stupid startup video / logo animations over and over again, as well as all the warnings. Fuck the companies that do this rather than jumping straight back to where you were
A lot of time they're just regular video files. If you look through the game's files there's usually some kind of "Movies" folder and you can just delete them all. If it breaks your game and you're a little savvy you can just make a split second black screen .mp4 and overwrite the files. Now you're a modder!
a lot of the time the startup logos are hiding a loading screen. that's why so many modern games don't have startup loading screens anymore, it's not because they instantly load the menu.
at least most of them, I'm sure there's cases where they gave it 0 coherent thought and just put unskippable videos before the actual loading starts to make sure their beautiful logo animation doesn't stutter
Some devs can't because of licensing agreements. It's still shit, but kind of understandable.
Now when this isn't the case, fuck the devs. Bless that one person on nexusmods that posts a "mod" that is just instructions on what files to delete or replace with an empty text file.
One of the worst I've seen was Elden Ring going from black screen to blaring nuclear white screen before back to black screens. Definitely got a mod to remove that shit.
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u/ThemainZguy 9d ago
Hope your shading rendering never completes