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[AshenSugar]

It must have happened to every single person reading this, at least once.

Control is taken away from your character(s), the cut scene begins - some major exposition or plot development, heavy with dialogue, you sit back in your chair, watching the development, and the action on screen....

... When the phone rings, and it's your friend wanting to have a good old natter about their latest relationship problems... or the doorbell rings, and it's a brush salesman... Or your wife/husband/kids/parents calls in from the next room, asking for help because the cat's stuck in the tumble dryer again....

No chance of seeing that cut scene now, unless you laboriously go back to a previous save, trawl through the gameplay once more, so as to repeat the cutscene.

Wouldn't it be great if a simple pause function were added to these scenes, allowing us to freeze the action with a simple mouse-click or controller button?

Just a thought.

[Fast Jimmy]

I can pause cutscenes. By pressing the XBox button.

[General TSAR]

Or your bladder's about to explode.

And yes it is!

[Thebar]

Yes, it would be great.

[XX-Pyro]

I can do that perfectly fine on my Playstation.

[Faust1979]

It would be great to be able to skip cut scenes to if you die in game and don't want to watch it again

[Kidd]

Open the Origin interface, press the Xbox Guide button, or press the Home button.

Choose your pick =)

[Sylvius the Mad]

The Origin interface will suffice, I suppose, but it's annoying to have to have a separate pause command for cutscenes or dialogue compared to the rest of the game.

[AshenSugar]

So consoles already have a pause do they?

I know nothing about consoles, and so I had no idea that this was the case.

My request then is specific to the PC.

[Kidd]

AshenSugar wrote...

So consoles already have a pause do they?

I know nothing about consoles, and so I had no idea that this was the case.

My request then is specific to the PC.

You do the same thing on console as you do on PC. You open up the interface for your "launcher." On console, that's the Xbox Guide or Home, and on PC it's the Origin interface.

[Sylvius the Mad]

KiddDaBeauty wrote...

You do the same thing on console as you do on PC. You open up the interface for your "launcher." On console, that's the Xbox Guide or Home, and on PC it's the Origin interface.

PC users often don't know that, as those launchers are a fairly new development, and they don't all work like that.

I've certainly never used the Origin interface in this way.  I don't even know how to open the Origin interface from inside DA2.

[Thrillian]

Sylvius the Mad wrote...

KiddDaBeauty wrote...

You do the same thing on console as you do on PC. You open up the interface for your "launcher." On console, that's the Xbox Guide or Home, and on PC it's the Origin interface.

PC users often don't know that, as those launchers are a fairly new development, and they don't all work like that.

I've certainly never used the Origin interface in this way.  I don't even know how to open the Origin interface from inside DA2.

I don't know how either, but I do know that if it isn't with the push of a button, it isn't really good enough.  I don't want to have to play in windowed mode or drop to desktop in order to pause during cutscenes.

[Sylvius the Mad]

Dropping to desktop doesn't actually work - I've tried that. The cutscene continues playing even while the game is minimised.

[Thrillian]

Sorry, I meant play in windowed mode or drop to desktop in order to open the launcher.

[Sylvius the Mad]

I suspect it works like the Games for Windows Live interface (which itself mimics the XBox Live interface).

[Thrillian]

I've never used either of those. Oh well, I'll just hope for the best. To be honest the inability to pause during cutscenes never bothered me until I had played a game with it and realized what a convenience it is. For some reason being told "Just wait, I can't pause right now" tries my family's patience.

[Knight of Dane]

I no give damn yah. But it couldn't hurt yah?

[bclagge]

AshenSugar wrote...
the cat's stuck in the tumble dryer again....

Happens more often than you might think.

[Talagen]

THIS!!!!! YES!!!! God I need this...I can't tell you how many times I have had to replay a fight scene because I was called away from the computer for one reason or another and then missed the cut scene that immediately follows. PLEASE GIVE US A PAUSE BUTTON!!!!

[Zatche]

As a PC player, I would like to be able to pause cut scenes separately from Origin, which I only use because I have to.

Not that I'm big on mods, but disabling Origin-In-Game was the only way to make mods work for Mass Effect 3 (I really wanted that Cerberus Nightmare Armor skinned with the N7 decals).

[Dio Demon]

Yes definitely, makes life easier. But one important question... how did a cat get stuck in a tumble dryer!?

[AshenSugar]

From her point of view the tumble dryer, when it's full of freshly-dried clothes, is a nice, snug warm place for any self-respecting feline to snuggle up and have a sleep...

((Just to reassure any animal lovers, it happened exactly once. I was emptying the drier, the phone, it was my mother wanting to nag for umpteen hours about how she never sees me and I never phone (both untrue) when I got back, there was my cat Diziet Sma curled up in the tumble drier, and giving me that "yes? Can I help you with something? Begone peasant if thou hast no business with your Queen" look that cats do so well. I was far too abashed to argue with her)).


As for this Origin Interface thingy, I think I have some vague, theoretical knowledge of this thing. To be honest I try to forget Origin exists wherever possible.

[BIGMIKE4444]

if only if only

[The Sarendoctrinator]

Yes, it would be great for everyone to have an option to pause cutscenes - and regular character dialogues too. I play on consoles, so this is already possible, but I only found out about that on BSN. I don't even know if that's written down anywhere as a control function, or if people just realized the menu buttons do that on their own.