10 WORST Cutscenes in Video Games 

Honestly the medal of honor cutsenes look great compared to some of the recent cutsenes in games..

Medal of Honor Warfighter honestly looks really good. Especially for a PS3 era game.

I dont see the issue with the medal of honor cut scene. The CGI was great, especially for the time and in a video game.

Man, every time I think game journalism sounds fun, a game like The Walking Dead Destinies comes out. Thank you for your service. 🙏

I kinda like that Zelda cutscene animation. It's "80s cartoon-esque" with a hint of "someone spiked my LSD with more LSD"

I think it'd be cool to see the 10 BEST Cutscenes in Video Games, the ones that really go above and beyond with the storytelling and graphical fidelity ya know.

I like how gameranx really solidified the hate of these cutscenes with a warning in the description😂😂

I expected something worse, but I guess I've got a strong resistance against cringe.

Maybe it's just because I've spent time in *very* rural parts of the United States, but the Medal of Honor cutscenes just didn't look weird to me. Actually looked pretty good. I've seen weirder looking people and much weirder looking children.

The characters in Walking Dead: Destinies look like they were designed by someone who only watched the show through a stained glass window 😂

Medal of Honor Warfighter was ahead of his time.

"MOH Warfighter" is a good game with fairly realistic graphics & animations for it's time. I agee with all the others mentioned being poor but not "Warfighter".

Remothered is closer to clock tower than silent hill

The worst cutscene imo is the one where I accidentally walked in on two trolls… erm… “messing” around, to put it lightly in Baldur’s Gate 3. That was traumatizing

It looks as though the devs were basing the character of Dr Reed in Remothered: Tormented Fathers on Jodie Foster's portrayal of Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs.

What I learned today is in bad games scary ends up goofy and whimsical ends up terrifying.

Medal of Honor Warfighter was 2012 wasn't it? I feel like compared to other things at the time it wasn't the worst thing out there.....

Who told these people that it's normal in voice acting a scene for people to cut off the end of every sentence said by the other person? People talk over others to a degree but not like that. Also, the cutscene moment that still give me nightmares... "I should have been the one to fill your dark soul with LIIIIIGHT!!!!!"

I genuinely thought (the little girl aside) that the Medal Of Honor one looked really good considering it's a decade old game now. I've played games this year on the PS5 that don't look that good. Really strange one to add I have to say. Surely there's worse than that in the history of gaming?

The worst cut scene is when the video ends and we don't get to play the game anymore :(

It's interesting how most of these are horror games, shows how developers have to be careful to keep the tension in a horror setting otherwise they just end up looking just uncanny and weird

For me the worst scene in modern gaming is when Abby seems to take it full from her behind on on that boat in TLOU 2. It was disturbing to say the least

The crazy part is that Medal of Honor cut scene is miles ahead of anything from Starfield

Can't forget 90% of the cutscenes in Mass Effect Andromeda... What actually happened in the cutscenes weren't that bad, but for some reason, a lot of the scenes with characters talking to eachother made the characters look like they had ben dipped in wax, their eyes either fixed to a spot somewhere behind you or just randomly darting all over the place, and often with closeups so close that i was scared that my glasses would fog over from their breath when they talked...

I feel like you were being way too harsh on that Medal of Honor: Warfighter cutscene. The daughter's face looked a bit strange, but I thought everyone else looked amazing? The animations were excellent, and the detail was great... ? I'm really confused by that entry.

The kid is the only substantially weird looking one in the Medal of Honor cutscenes IMO, the others look pretty good

Darkseed 1 was one of the best horror games at the time, the oppressive, unhealthy atmosphere, full of anxiety and horror, all bathed in the art of Giger was impressive. I loved and love that game. It's almost never mentioned much unfortunately.

Those mouths moving in Ride to Hell are very similar to the first Half-Life almost 20 years ago. 😂

Two things I genuinely hate in video games…#1, Static cutscenes (which are essentially the ear marks of a tight budget, or a lazy team). #2, Game where details go into the playable character but not into the environment or NPCs. That’s usually when one finds themselves trying to justify the drivel they’re pushing through because they paid for it.

the ones you cant skip

Remothered certainly ain't deserve this. Its a great indie horror, made on a very tight budget and one of the hidden gems of this genre.

Press 'F' to... 😅

falcon is the last of his species because i ate the other birds

Those Walking Dead Destinies cutscenes are straight out of a Midway game in 2003.

The Remothered dialogue actually seems pretty natural to me. I like how he's constantly cutting her off. He's hurriedly making excuses. I know it's not normally how cutscenes play, but it's how people talk in real life. I find it really cringe when the opposite happens in games - long pauses where there shouldn't be, or even pauses when it's clear the dialogue was written as if the character should be getting cut off.

I liked remothered. Being chased relentlessly was way to tense

I had no idea those Zelda the faces of evil cut scenes were real. I thought that was some fan made stuff that became popular on early RU-vid as a meme. that is hilarious.

Oh dang, Blood came out 2 days before I was born. I'm so glad aged better than that game.

ok i LOLed at that kids face right after thinking "oh its not that bad"

In the Stray Souls one, the wife is cooking what looks like half a human torso (arm and all) and the child is already covered in blood. No wonder the husband blew them all away. Just adds to the unintentional hilarity though.

The worst cutscenes are the ones you can't skip.

Im genuinely blown away you put blood so high. Those cutscenes are ICONIC

What's sad is the first medal of honor reboot game was amazing

One cutscene that always bothered me was the cutscene at the end of the first mission in Halo 4. I remember I was so excited to play the game, was excited to blow up another covenant ship and then when you do it breaks into like 3 pieces and is completely hollow inside - just kind of disappointing, especially the first time I played it.

the keys being destroyed in the fall had me rolling lol

I like to imagine that I’m in a video game college class, and Falcon is my professor going on a rant about anything and everything

Good god. After actually finishing the video, I’m even more flabbergasted at your choice of number 9! Seriously, you’d have to either be delusional or have a vendetta against EA or Medal of Honor to include it on this list along with all the other insane shit that actually deserves to be here.

I'd love to see a "Top 10 Sound Design in Games" gameranx video. Sound design is such an important part of games that gets overlooked sometimes. Two that I can think of with fantastic sound design are Elite Dangerous and theHunter Call of the Wild, but there's so many more.

Blood is a great pick for #1. Monoloth didn’t have a lot of money to do CGI and voice acting. The head of the studio actually did the big bad’s voice. However, they made one of the best shooters of all time, with one of the best protagonists of all time and they got Stephen Waite to do the voice. Blood is phenomenal. But the cutscenes are impressively bad. Even in the Fresh Supply remaster there was nothing Nightdive could do fix those train wrecks. Seriously, if anybody hasn’t seen it, I recommend Civvie-11’s Pro Blood series. It’s great.

An honorable mention: The cutscenes in the original Mirror's Edge game could have easily been mistaken for those horrible Esurance commercials from around the same time.

Omfg they had NO budget for those Walking Dead cutscenes

Hey, RE:Dead Aim's main cutscenes were super detailed back then....The inengine cutscenes, 😂. Also, the mismatched subtitles & sound mixing's glorious in that wonderfully bonkers game. ❤ it forever!

Pretty sure Remothered is in the Clock Tower verse.

Remothered tormented father visuals are actually good, cutscenes wise too. I honestly don't know if the graphics, pace, movement and dialogues are bad but served some consistent thematics, or it was done on purpose. But the end results is serving the horror and creepy story very well 😂

I love how whenever somebody brings up the Zelda CD-i games, they always forget that there were THREE of them. Sure, everyone remembers Faces of Evil and Wand of Gamelon, but nobody talks about the FMV disaster that is Zelda's Adventure. It's not really relevant to this list, just had to mention it after Falcon clarified that there were "2 in total" on the CD-i.

Amazing video gameranx of the worst cut scene in video games,fantastic job.

That Medal of Honor cutscene looked good to me

Bro, the worst cutscenes are the ones where the game is unpaused and you get shot in the back then the enemy randomly combusts into funny ragdoll, which kills you when you leave and you are playing on a permadeath or forgot to save

Looking back on it I don’t really know how I though it, but I remember mistaking medal of honours cutscenes for real life, having to question myself. Definitely looks dated now but for the time it was insanely impressive.

3:35 "With Preacher's ghoulish looking wife, and hideous child, triggering all the wrong emotions in what are meant to warm family moments."

Medal of Honor looked better than starfield

I used to think cutscenes on games is the rewards you get playing the game. Specially with RPGs after a tedious grinding, then overcoming a crazy boss fight, watching the story unfolds with the use of CGI made me fell inlove playing RPGs since the psX era, like a book that comes to life.

didn’t think medal of honor looked that bad… then the wife walked in

One of my all-time favorite game videos was Game Informer's look at Ride to Hell. Dan Ryckert said at the start "I wanted as many people in here as possible because I just played the first hour and you all need to see this." Didn't take long to see what he was so excited about. God, what a train wreck that game was.

I love cutscenes in games especially when your customize character appears within the cutscenes with all your edits, makes you feel that the games story respects you. 😉

Darkseed 2 is hilarious because poor Mike Dawson (the REAL Mike Dawson who programmed and acted in the original Darkseed) lost the copyright to HIMSELF. The Mike Dawson in Darkseed 2 is neither played by nor voiced by the original guy. That's gotta be surreal for Mike, who now actually teaches computer game making.

Wait, Blood had cutscenes? That was one of my favorite games, I still quote it all the time (especially the cultist weird language shout out lines), but I don't remember it ever having cutscenes...

I think the cutscenes in MoH Warfighter aren't that bad for a 2012 game. It wasn't the best at its time, but nowhere to be included in Top10 the WORST cutcenes. I've seen many worse for 2023 games.

Falcon, you are one of the best commentators I have ever heard. Keep it up. Sir. You're hilarious.🎉

BEEN waiting for a list of this

Hey i love CDI zelda and link! I own the physical copies since they released when i was a kid, my dad gifted me the CDI and those games for birthday since his best friend was a philips employee back then, those games have always been precious to me but now that my dad has passed away so they became even more legendary!

"I respect the deranged energy in a weird way" absolutely sent me lol

Remothered was inspired by Clock Tower and was originally going to be a Clock Tower game, but I think due to legal reasons everything was restarted into what we have today. Chris Darril is a guy to look into and they have a new game coming soon. The story is bonkers once you make it to the end as you unravel the truth ( especially when you find out about the Old Man and what happened to them when they were younger )

I'm pretty sure Walking Dead Desitinies 3D models are made in a free tool that "a certain video game genre" uses in visual novels that they put on Steam these days. I forgot the name of that tool, but these models and their poses are way too unique looking to miss. I believe animating them aren't that big of a deal, so that's %100 cut costs. I can't believe very qualified people at Skybound looked at this and said it's alright to publish.

Falcon, regarding the Blood cutscenes... look up the last one where you beat the end boss. That is always worth a laugh from how silly the scene is, if nothing else.

"Speaking of insane indie horror games made by creators with more ideas than sense..." has gotta be the greatest Falcon takedown in the history of the bird.

100% agree on the weird cutscenes in Remothered Tormented Fathers, however the game did give me the spookies 👻

Suggestion: Can you make the number scenes dark mode? Idk about other ppl but I watch your videos at night, and they are like a flashbang in cs.

The log left on the toilet in stray souls gets me.

When Falcon says "Everytime I boot up the game"... yeah sure you do bud

17:41 I LOVE Falcon’s endless tangents that come out of nowhere, and this was probably my favourite so far! 🤣 “It goes in here, and it STAYS in here!”

How dare you mention the Zelda Phillips CD-I games and not show Zelda and the king laughing. Absolute BLASPHEMY 😂

Halo reach: cutscene you cant skip when you launch into space, takes forever and on legendary you sit through it countless times🎉

Tormented Fathers at least had some solid ideas. But looking at Broken Porcelain, it gets even more ridiculous, although they doubled their budget

Resident Evil 1 cut scene was actually awesome. It made the game feel somehow more real and Jill Valentine actress was my crush back then. Loved her!

Your description of the wife and daughter from Warfighter makes me think you saw the Gametrailers review too a decade or so ago.

When mentioning resident evil I honestly was expecting you to show the “jill sandwich” cutscene 😂

Hello gameranx i wanted to say that the videos you guys make are the best

Dude… that Walking Dead game is… wow. I don’t even understand how something like that even gets made! Why does it exist?! How?! Could they not get likeness rights?! Why does Rick look like a creepy mashup of Rick and Shane or something… it’s soooo bad!

I think the most baffling thing about The Walking Dead cutscenes is that if they couldn't animate it, couldn't they have paid more to just use the scenes directly from the show??? I'd rather see that than static nothings cutscenes.

1:04 if you do a second video, Redfall deserves consideration. Their cutscenes are basically what The Walking Dead did and this was from a supposed AAA studio (despite losing 80% of the workforce that had made them great to begin with).

Great video idea, great job 👍

That number 1 spot seems quite undeserved. Sure, its not great cgi, but it's serviceable for a 1997 game, and a lot of the previous entries were arguably worse than that one.

I actually rather liked some facets of Dead Aim's cutscenes - I will agree about the odd faces and uninspired designs of the human characters, but there were some sophisticated things taking place. For one thing, a lot of the cutscenes involved rack-focuses, which was very new to CGI at the time (as one big advantage CGI has over live action is that, unless programmed otherwise, everything in is focus at all times) - things like rack-focuses involve programing artificial Lenses, which was never really done in game cutscenes, or even movies, at the time. And there are other facets that work - the locations around the characters at times do look rather real, they seem to be lit more akin to how they would look in reality than the usual Cinematic Lighting that all other Resident Evil cutscenes employ, and the explosions, like that grenade, have some well done particle effects for 2003. The biggest problems with the cutscenes are a combination of the absurdist heavy-handed over-stylization of how each moment plays out, and then frankly awful writing. I mean, the opening line is (verbatim) "Why you American agents insist on using such ugly guns, is still a mystery to me!" And many of the lines of dialogue in later cutscenes make NO sense whatsoever - like, you reach the end of the sewers, where Bruce starts having a conversation with radio, and the other voice is too distorted to hear clearly. And Bruce's opening lines are (also verbatim): "What?! Five billion dollars?!" .. "But that would make Fongling's presence here obsolete!!" I have a soft-spot for Dead Aim so I've played through it a lot of times, and I still have absolutely no idea what in the world they were even talking about (anything I understand is from looking it up afterward)

Don't ever watch this in the dark, got flashbanged at every number

While not belonging to this category, for me it's when cutscenes screw up what you are doing. The Resident Evil 4 remake I am currently playing does this. I'll line up a shot but have to watch an enemy point at me, I've lost a grenade because of a quick cutscene of an enemy pulling a lever and I get grabbed. Even forced perspective where I have to watch a tower explode when it spawns four annoying dogs I'd rather be maneuvering around.

While the cutscenes of RE Dead Aim are quite clumsy indeed, listing them amongst the WORST feels like a bit of overstatement.

"Oh no! I'm being chased my a naked man covered in poop wielding a shotgun!" "Nice! A dead body! I am a feeling a little hungry, I guess a quick little nibble wouldn't hurt. Surely, poop man with a shotgun must have forgotten me by now."

Companies shouldnt fear sales dropping, they should fear Falcon roasting the hell out of them. 😂😭

u know as a kid seeing Iris died was pretty sad for me I was very young back then and didn't really care or know abt voice acting in general the scene alone was pretty sad for me overall