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'''''Unskippable''''' is a weekly web series hosted on ''[[The Escapist]]''. Graham and Paul [[Deadpan Snarker|snark]] over the opening [[Cutscene
The show was born as part of the Escapist Film Festival, where its pilot episode garnered enough votes to become a regular feature. It proved successful with the site's audience (who liked a bit of [[Zero Punctuation|game humor]]), and has continued ever since.
Cutscenes are chosen based on several factors ([[Artifact Title|and yes, they can be skippable]]). Terrible writing, poor pacing, and [[Cliché Storm
In 2009, ''Unskippable'' finally took on [[Hideo Kojima]], the king of overwrought cutscenes, with [[Metal Gear Solid|Metal Gear August]], a satirical look at ''Guns of the Patriots''. As expected, the game was so cutscene-heavy that it took them 5 episodes to get through the cutscenes. And by "the cutscenes" we mean ''some'' of the cutscenes... in Act One...
The episodes can be found [https://web.archive.org/web/20131024021252/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/unskippable here.]
The snarkers in question, Graham Stark and Paul Sanders, are also the creators of ''[[Loading Ready Run]]''. They have also experimented with a live [[Let's Play]], found [https://web.archive.org/web/20130117011817/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/lets-play/2031-Legaia-2-Part-1 here]. This morphed into a new series called Graham & Paul Let's Play, found [http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/archive/gplp/date/desc here].▼
▲The snarkers in question, Graham Stark and Paul Sanders, are also the creators of ''[[Loading Ready Run]]''. They have also experimented with a live [[Let's Play]], found [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/lets-play/2031-Legaia-2-Part-1 here]. This morphed into a new series called Graham & Paul Let's Play, found [http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/archive/gplp/date/desc here].
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* [[Aerith and Bob]]: Noted in ''[[Magna Carta]]'' 2: "Schuenzeit, Rzephillda, and... Alex?"
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*** And again in their ''[[Digital Devil Saga]]'' episode. This appears to be a trend.
*** The Darkness spawned a running tally on the theme of "And that was the ''Nth'' time I died", for whenever the protagonist loses consciousness while in first person.
*** [[Shout-Out|It even popped up]] [
{{quote|And that was the seventh time I died.
I don't think we're allowed to use that joke. }}
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** And the shouting of "MATILDA!!!" when the planes took off in ''[[Haze]]'', a nod to an emotional cutscene from ''[[Ace Combat]] 6''.
** Flowers coming from "scenic [[Eternal Sonata|Tenuto]]"
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130205092745/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/unskippable/1431-Darksiders A reference] to the "Bernie" cutscene character from ''[[Lost Planet]]'', which goes all the way back to [https://web.archive.org/web/20120511014229/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/unskippable/394-First-Place-Unskippable-01-Lost-Planet the pilot episode] (which some viewers might not have seen, because the pilot wasn't available among the regular episodes initially).
** When they did ''[[Jak and Daxter|Jak II]]'', they equate the Dark Jak transformation with a Werehog. When they actually ''do'' ''[[Sonic Unleashed]]'', One of the lines used for Sonic's transformation scene is "I'm gonna kill Praxis!"
** Their riff of ''[[Grandia III]]''' involved them mistaking a particularly [[Hot Shonen Mom]] for the main character's older sister. The very next video had them purposely going out of their way to avoid referring to the characters' relationships to avoid a repeat mistake.
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* [[Disturbed Doves]]: Commenting the wedding at the start of ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'' must have had a [[John Woo]] fight scene in there.
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Okay, not really an ensemble, but the guys declared the chicken in the opening of ''[[Fable]] III'' to be the "most compelling" character of any cut scene they watched.
* [[Fake-Out Opening]]: Done for their [[April Fools' Day]] 2010 episode. {{spoiler|Instead of ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'', they riff the opening cinematic and credits for ''[[Final Fantasy VI|Final Fantasy III (USA).]]
* [["Faux To" Guide]]: Their 100th episode was about how to make more cutscenes like those they mock.
* [[Flat What]]: Their responses to the weird ending to the opening of ''Cursed Crusade''.
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''"Dante!"''
''"KRATOS!"''
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* [[Shooting Superman|Shooting Wolverine]]: "Were they not briefed?"
* [[Shout-Out]]: Many.
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* [[Space Western]]: When seeing a duster-and-fedora-clad man pull out pistols in the trailer/opening cutscene of ''[[Star Wars: The Old Republic]]'', they remark that Star Wars was always a Space Western, but they'd never seen it have a ''space cowboy'' before.
* [[Space X]]: If a spaceship was full of slaves, they should be rowing with space oars.
* [[Special Guest]]: Ladies and Gentlemen, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130929232344/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/unskippable/644-Star-Ocean-The-Last-Hope Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw], of [[Zero Punctuation]]. One of them returned the favor.
* [[Steampunk]]: "Oh man, I wish steam power was ''this'' cool."
* [[Sticks to the Back]]: Mocked in the ''[[Two Worlds]]'' episode.
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