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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?"
* [[Arbitrary Skepticism]]: In their ''[[Damnation]]'' video:
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''"And the robots are?"''
''"...Yes?"''
''"Okay."'' }}
* [[A Good Name for a Rock Band]]:
** [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] in the ''[[Magna Carta|Magna Carta 2]]'' video:
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"Despite the name, Lords of Neighboring Cities is actually a solo artist, he and Alex used to be roommates, so they formed an army." }}
** "The Power The Baby Gave Me" in ''[[Metroid: Other M]]''.
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*** Not to mention their cover band from ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution]]'', "Backblast Problem".
* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: Watching ''[[Bayonetta]]'':
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Graham: ...I hope so! }}
** Also during their ''[[Dark Messiah]]'' review.
** Paul hints at it with a comment about the girls' outfit in the ''Vanquish'' review.
* [[Artifact Title]]: they now mock skippable cutscenes, and even not-particularly-interactive first-person sequences. This is [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] first in the ''[[Quantum of Solace]]'' episode, and then again in the ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' episode.
* [[Bait and Switch]] - ''Venetica'' Part 2's [[The Stinger|Stinger]];
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* [[Big No]] - In their ''[[Red Faction|Red Faction: Guerilla]]'' video, when {{spoiler|the brother dies}}
* [[Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys]]: Subverted. They doubted other countries would do much better against the demon invasion in ''[[Onimusha]] 3''.
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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]] [
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I don't think we're allowed to use that joke. }}
** Many references to Samanosuke from ''Onimusha 3'', and "That guy from ''[[Lost Odyssey]]''". "Well hello there, Mister Resilient. Didn't he just get blown up? Twice?"
** 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.
** From their ''[[Battlefield (series)|Battlefield]]: [[Battlefield: Bad Company|Bad Company]]'' episode: "And thus is the curse of the controllable vehicle section at the beginning of first-person shooters. ''[[The Darkness]]'', ''[[Far Cry]] 2'', ''[[Bad Company]]''... you will never end one ''conscious''."
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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''.
* [[Franchise Zombie]]: "You get the impression Sonic Team really wants to be making other games, but they aren't allowed to, so they keep having to ram Sonic into the games they'd rather be making?"
* [[Freud Was Right]]: "''That'' did ''not'' sound like dying."
** [[Credits Gag]] in ''[[Shadows of the Damned]]'': "Let's just say what the developers were all thinking: PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS"
* [[Fridge Logic]]: Invoked in the ''[[X-Men]] Origins: Wolverine Uncaged'' video. "[[Shooting Superman|Were these guys]] ''[[Shooting Superman|briefed]]''?" "Why would you arm your men with weapons you ''know'' won't hurt him?", etc.
** They also wonder where all the skeletons that make up [[Dark Souls|Nito, First of the Dead]] came from if there wasn't anyone to die and make skeletons.
* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: Thoroughly mocked in several episodes. In their ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' video, they [[Crowning Moment of Funny|actually took a moment to demonstrate this.]]
* [[Genre Savvy]]: They sorta have to be to spot all the clichés.
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* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Their reaction when they realized that the same voice actress did the opening monologues for both ''[[Eternal Sonata]]'' and ''[[Ace Combat]] 6'', and again, though with a different emotional response, when they realize "Commander 'Lightspeed' Kenny" is also in ''[[Red Faction]]: Guerilla''.
** And in the end credits of ''[[Assassin's Creed]] II'', it becomes "Hey its that guy", with "Nolan North isn't just doing the same voice in every game, he's doing the same character."
** The ''[[Halo]] ODST'' credits read "[[Nathan Fillion]] plays the same character in everything and, frankly, I'm okay with that."
* [[Homage]]: Noted in the video for ''Hunted: The Demon's Forge''.
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* [[Hostile Show Takeover]]: Graham took over ''[[Zero Punctuation]]'' on [[April Fools' Day]] 2009 (Yahtzee regains power less than two minutes in).
* [[Hot Mom]]: Miranda surprises them by being one in ''[[Grandia III]]''.
* [[Ho Yay]]: Hooo boy, [[Devil May Cry|Dante vs. Nero.]] "Stop it, now I'm seeing symbolism in everything!"
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: The ''[[Bionic Commando]]'' video. "All right, you guys might wanna settle in, [[Lampshade Hanging|we got a million of these]]."
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: In the ''[[Arc Rise Fantasia]]'' video, the hero and a dragon are falling from the sky, and Paul says the game should be called "Arc ''Fall''Fantasia". Graham imitated a shout, saying "Get off the stage!".
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* [[Memetic Badass]]: They think the dog in ''[[Dead to Rights]]'' is way more badass than his owner and suggest that to underscore this there should have been a scene of the dog lapping up whiskey out of a bowl.
* [[Moral Dissonance]]: Lampshaded [[In-Universe]] with ''[[Genji]]: Days of the Blade'', when they note the good guys were apparently trying to commit genocide.
* [[
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'''Graham and Paul (singing): '''Next Sunday, AD...''' }}
** And becomes a brick joke in their ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'' review:
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'''Graham (singing): '''In the not-too-distant future...'''
'''Paul: '''We've already done this joke.'''
'''Graham: '''Well it's not my fault it starts the same way as Wolverine!''' }}
* [[Mundane Made Awesome]]: "FRANK WEST, ACTION PHOTOGRAPHER"
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* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: (From ''Damnation'') "What, mechs ''and'' Lincoln?! Fingers crossed for [[Historical Hilarity|Mecha Lincoln]]!" And later, Zombie General Mecha Grant.
* [[No, You]]: From ''[[Digital Devil Saga]]''.
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'''Paul:''' YOU'RE a terrible strategy.
'''Graham:''' ...Ouch. }}
* [[Obviously Evil]]: From their [[Star Wars: The Old Republic]] episode.
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* [[Reference Overdosed]]
* [[Running Gag]]: The line from ''[[The Darkness]]'', "And that was the first time I died."
** Also from ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]: Dirge of Cerebrus'': "I've got my eye on you, moon."
** Today's soundtrack brought to you by Eyebrows And The Thugs.
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*** ...which is a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Monkey Island]]'' or ''[[Get Smart]]''.
** The frequent appearance of a [[Russell Crowe|crow named Russell]] to talk to the audience whilst he eats dead bodies.
*** Recently [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in their ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'' video.
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*** The best part about this one is that, according to [[Word of God]], the pun in Russell's name was ''unintentional''.
** "''(I) blame the taint''." referencing the ridiculous name for the forces of evil from the ''[[Two Worlds]]'' intro cutscene
** "Traffic chopper nine, we have serious [event] here" whenever a helicopter appears.
** Evil porpoises.
* [[Say My Name]]: Thoroughly mocked in the ''[[Devil May Cry|Devil May Cry 4]]'' video.
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''"Kyrie!"''
''"Dante!"''
''"KRATOS!"''
''"[[
* [[Shooting Superman|Shooting Wolverine]]: "Were they not briefed?"
* [[Shout-Out]]: Many.
** To ''[[The Goon Show]]'', of all things:
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"She's a shepherd."
"SHEPHERD SPY!" }}
** And in the Dark Sector episode ''Six String Samura
** In the ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]'' episode:
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'''Graham and Paul:''' [[Wizard of Oz|Oh my.]] }}
* [[Sorry I Left the BGM On]]: Played with in ''[[Radiata Stories]]'', but also in ''[[Genji]]'': Days of the Blade'': "Oh, there's an actually flute in the scene. I thought that's just what Japan sounded like at night."
* [[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.
* [[Stock Scream]]: Lampshaded in the intro of ''[[Red Faction]]: Guerilla''.
** Also in the Bionic Commando intro, when there is a particularly out-of-place Wilhelm scream.
* [[The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much]]: When a woman in the ''Vampire Rain'' intro feels like she's being followed on a brightly lit street, [[Too Dumb to Live|she ducks into a dark alley]]. The crew comments that in horror movies, this is clasified as a suicide.
* [[They Fight Crime]]: The protagonist setup in ''[[Onimusha]] 3''.
* [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works]]: "Huh, I guess arrows are for sissies, real men throw swords."
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** Likewise, in their review for ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'', both are taken by surprise at the ability to skip the cutscene that they scramble looking for the controller, only to find it has run down its batteries, forcing them to continue to watch.
** For their [[Let's Play]] of ''Legaia 2'' Graham noted that he was pressing every button he could to try and skip the opening.
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: ''Wolverine Uncaged'' - "Good ''lord'' man, do you have a stabbing quota?"
* [[Wall of Text]]: ''[[Zoids]] Assault''. "Did you load a ''book'' into the 360?"
* [[Weird Moon]]: A [[Running Gag]] is that the moon in (especially JRPG) cutscenes is "so big that if real, the Earth would long ago have been torn apart by tidal forces". Seeing a big moon in a non-JRPG game sometimes causes them to quip "Is this set in Japan?"
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* [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]]: Made fun of in the ''[[Two Worlds]]'' episode.
* [[Your Mom]]: courtesy of [[Zero Punctuation|Yahtzee]]:
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** In the ''Viking'' video, Paul does this to ''himself:''
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'''Paul:''' ''Hey! Leave my mom out of this!'' }}
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