Is there any way to skip the mass relay cutscenes?

I noticed this too, it was very frustrating when I was pulling an all-nighter to finish the game! I'm sure there are more detailed options on the PC, but on the Xbox 360 version if you go to audio settings and turn off "high dynamic range" (or something similar) these scenes become much quieter. I think this option is on by default. It's geared towards high-end audio systems but it's not much use on tinny built-in monitor speakers like mine. Hope this helps!

Unfortunately you cant, Mass effect uses that time to load the next set of graphics. I have mine on an ssd drive which should load that in next to no time, but because its been ported from console they haven't bothered to allow that cut scene to be skipped i guess.

You can remove any video file from ME3 but after doing any changes to the game data you need to run the "Auto TOC Generator", which is included in "ME3 Explorer by Warranty Voider".

I removed the following from "Mass Effect 3\BIOGame\Movies"

• GLO_01_Relay.bik
• Cithub_Load01.bik
• ...
• Cithub_Load08.bik

The reason simply removing the file does not work is that the game has an index file, that has to be updated after any changes to files are made.

PS. Heh, talk about necromancy...