Quote Originally Posted by Belhi View Post
it is amazing how much information people dismiss as 'filler dialogue crap' and then complain later that they don't understand why something is the way it is when it was explained earlier in that dialog.
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Again if they are happy to skip the story and accept that there are things that might confuse them.
It's amazing the number of times I've seen players say "Oh, I don't like the story in this game at all, so I just skip past all the dialog and cutscenes." If they're skipping past it, then clearly they don't even know what the story is, so how could they possibly decide whether they do or don't like it?

Anyway, if a story jump potion were ever to be added (which I hope it never is), there shouldn't be any story summary. You play through the story and find out what the story is about, or you skip it and don't. Any summary that actually covers the plotline is going to be just as long as that plotline it's replacing, since there's hardly any filler there to begin with.