You can only manage or move your items while the game paused. Why would I ever be forced to watch a cutscene at any pace other than my own? It’s a frustration I’ve battled with on multiple occasions and I am hopeful it’s something will soon be a remnant of video games past.My bad. I don’t have to wait to watch television shows at specific times with on-demand options, and the same goes for radio thanks to podcasts and services like Spotify. In an era where all media is at our full control, it’s odd I would ever be in a situation where I would be at the mercy of the entertainment on screen. It may be called something different these days, or be a picture of two overlapping squares on the Xbox One controller for some reason, but that button still exists and should be used. The NES controller only afforded itself four buttons (eight if you include the d-pad), and even that, in 1983, had a button dedicated to making things stop when you needed to use the bathroom, eat, or check the 1983 version of twitter. Many games, thankfully, no longer function this way and do allow pausing, but it infuriates me that there would ever be a situation where I can’t.Ĭontrollers have had a dedicated button for pausing the action for decades. It’s confusing that a cutscene would ever be incapable of being paused, or worse, is skipped with a press of a button, accidental or otherwise. I made it all the way to enjoying a meal with Pagan Min fewer times, but even that grew tiresome as I watched my limited gameplay time tick away in favor of watching something I had already seen all because I couldn’t simply pause and I didn’t want to miss any important character or story development.
Six times I handed over that passport, and six times I watched that curious monkey get smacked in the back of the head. The only solution I could ultimately find was to close the Far Cry 4 application and start over from scratch. I tried pressing the share button assuming it would pause the game while I crafted an annoyed tweet about not being able to pause cutscenes, but that didn’t work either. I tried pressing the PlayStation button to pull me back to the home menu, but that didn’t work – the cutscene soldiered on.
The giant rectangular button in the middle of the PlayStation 4 controller (which I’ve heard rumor is also a touchpad) did little to pause the action. The start button was no help and neither were any of the face buttons. As the soldiers appeared with their mirrors to look under the bus in the game’s opening cutscene, my daughter, who has an antagonistic relationship with bedtime, continually demanded my presence. I had to restart Far Cry 4 six times recently because I couldn’t pause the opening cutscene.
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