Published , by Sam Chandler
Published , by Sam Chandler
Gears 5 has a lot of cutscenes, and on subsequent playthroughs you might want to skip them. Or you might even be on a tight time-limit with the kids asleep and the partner out and about. Whatever your reason, there’s an easy way to skip cutscenes in Gears 5.
For those playing on PC, skipping cinematics is usually as easy as mashing Esc or Space, but Gears 5 does things a little differently. For those playing Gears 5 on PC, you will need to press the Backspace key to skip any cutscene. Anyone playing on Xbox will need to hit the X button. This is certainly outside the norms of pressing B or hitting start. Thanks to Chatty user tested2 for providing this information.
There’s really nothing much else to it. In terms of ease-of-use, Gears 5 cinematics are incredibly easy to skip, it’s just odd that it’s assigned to a different button. But these days skipping in-game movies seems to be a bit of a coin toss and can even require a bit of fiddling around in system folders.
The recent looter-shooter masterpiece, Borderlands 3, has some seemingly unskippable cinematics throughout the entire game. To make matters worse, when starting a new character, players are subjected to a few-minute-long clips that cannot be skipped – unless you go and actively rename movie files. It’s certainly an odd choice to limit the player’s ability to skip cutscenes, but perhaps this will be amended in a future update.
Shout-out to Chatty user EnderWigginDA for bringing this Gears 5 cutscene skip to our attention! Now all those looking to speed through Gears 5 should have no trouble zipping right past the cinematics and into the action. Now that you’ve saved some time skipping clips, why not take a moment to check out Shacknews’ Gears 5 page where we’ve collated all our guides and information?