Meme transcription: A table comparing the steps to start a game ‘then’ vs. ‘now’.
Content of the “Then” column:
- Double-click GAME.exe
- Play game
Content of the “Now” column:
- Launch Steam
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Steam updates
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Steam opens
- Close Steam’s ad window
- Select Game
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Game launcher starts
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Game launcher launches Game launcher updater
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes
- Ok
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Would you like to sign up for our newsletter?
- No
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Our EULAs have changed. Please review them before continuing
- Scroll
- Scroll
- Scroll
- Scroll
- Yes
- Yes
- Yes, sell my soul
- Start game
- Skip vendor intro
- Skip vendor intro #2
- Skip vendor intro #3
- Sit through nVidia The way it’s meant to be played
- Skip opening cutscene
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Main menu opens
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Would you like to connect your Steam account to account?
- No
- Press play.
- Play game.
To be fair, the vendor intro 1-2-3 taking a while has been a problem since PS1 era. With the PS2 came an extra serving of infinite cutscenes
You cannot tell me that the opening/title cutscene of Chrono Cross is anything less than a legendary example of a proper opening sequence both visually and musically.
https://youtu.be/180sjeAMKPE?si=xRFXcywMYCQo7TyR
https://youtu.be/PZ595N9NZVg?si=T76rJ3M3tGO1zUu8
Agreed, it has been around way before that. The Apogee intro is still engrained in my brain.