I've seen quite a few streamers that click through the text and don't care about the story.

It's even more common among playtesters. Ever noticed how some games seem to go out of their way to avoid any subtlety and repeat the major plot points at least 4 times? Or give way too many hints for the easiest of puzzles? One of the causes is that a game was playtested within an inch of its life.

Someone ended up optimizing for the kind of player who doesn't care much, because the playtesters didn't care much - they were only there for a paycheck.

But I've also seen a couple of streamers that can just scan entire pages into their mind in a second and click through text while retaining all the information.

I thought myself a quick reader, but even I was in a disbelief seeing someone read this quick on the first playthrough.

I'm sure some do, but also I know some don't, because I typically don't. There are (rare) exceptions, but most game dialogue is predictable and boring, and so after the first couple of screens I will just hammer whichever button to skip the dialogue as fast as I can, repeatedly, until the dialogue is gone whenever it pops up.

I’m also a speed reader, grew up on Infocom text adventure games. Interesting connection!

Two words: Disco Elysium

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Most of the time I wish games had an option to auto-skip everything that’s skippable (and just about everything that isn’t gameplay should be skippable).

I usually start a game intending to fully immerse myself in it, but the story part of the game usually doesn’t click with me. I’m playing Ghost of Yotei right now and it’s a perfect example of that. Super fun game, boring story.