Things In Gaming You Wish Were Fixed

[Zkuq]

StarOcean said:

Zkuq said:

I really don't understand why anyone would make either of those mistakes. Well, I guess I can sort of understand the first one, but I still don't agree with it. But the second one, it's a simple UI design decision, and it should be blatantly obvious to every game dev that people are going to make mistakes, and they're going to miss cutscenes they want to watch unless precautions are taken against it.

FF12 had a good system in place so you didn't miss cutscenes. As did Persona 4

Yeah, a lot of games have these days. I think the first one I noticed to have it was MGS4. On Playstation, Start to pause and then X seems like an excellent way to do it. Holding X would probably be OK too, since holding a button accidentally is much harder than pressing it quickly. But Start + X is better, I think, because it implies being able to pause cutscenes. Oh, pausing cutscenes should totally be a thing too!