PEPSIOTAKU'S PROFILE

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It depends on how the story is told IMO. The most important part of any rm game is the first 5-10 minutes. If you want to make a long intro to your game, fine--make it long, but it absolutely cannot bore the player to death. I think a lot of RPG maker games make the mistake of explaining their worlds with walls and walls of text in the opening scene, but they don't realize that the player doesn't give two shits about any of that yet. If you have to set up anything about the world itself, keep it at like 2-4 sentences and move on (like FF6). Explain the rest of the world's back story later on in the game through dialog and other means of storytelling.

There usually should be some kind of character interaction, where you see the main hero for the first time that really cuts to the chase and explains what type of character he is. Another mistake I see a lot in rpg maker games is that they show too much of the villain, who really shouldn't be revealed until the player is used to some of the initial characters. That early on in the story, the villain shouldn't be the main focus.

To answer your question, yes, long intros bother me because 90% of the time they are the reason I turn off the game.

Also for the record, you should never ever have to put a "skip intro" option in your game. That's just ridiculous. Work on storytelling instead.

I got bored one day and drew a weighted companion cube (from portal) and placed it as a cameo in one of Everlasting Journey's maps. Originally I had all sorts of talking cameos, like kirby, glatis from grim fandango, and ninja turtles but it kind of took away from the whole experience, so I took them out. The companion cube doesn't say anything, and you have to be a map hunter to find it, so I figured it wouldn't hurt to put it in.