Pardon Our Dust.

[p0lar_bear]

Mid-level cutscenes are pretty important. They give you transitions that would disorient you without them (no matter how many times you play the campaign). These include both mid-level cutscenes that take place in the bridge (one in the PoA, and another in The Maw). While some of the mid-level cutscenes can be taken out, some will need to stay, if not in shortened forms. Otherwise you will suddenly be facing Sentinals that just popped out of nowhere, or you will suddenly jump half the bridge and somehow get a pistol out of nowhere.

Of course the final product I'm suggesting wouldn't be as if someone was recording them playing and they cut out the video whenever the letterbox bars popped up, but rather, yes, shortened cutscenes, or use of dialogue from cutscenes during gameplay. An abridged version, if you will.

I guess what I'm aiming for is: this is a gameplay mod intended for players who have already played and beaten the Halo campaign. Cut out the extraneous stuff we know so well and get to the chase.

For example...

A10, instead of making your way to the bridge, the game starts off with Keyes handing you the pistol and saying "I don't keep it loaded..." At the end, it starts playing out normally, but at the point where the camera would cut to the inside of the lifepod, it stays in the ship and it fades out with the Chief saying "Punch it."

B30, you run up to the cartographer and hit it. Instead of a cutscene showing the cartographer going into detail, instead you keep playing, and Cortana says her lines.