10 Obvious Features We Can't Believe All Games DON'T HAVE

10. Pause Cutscenes

It's truly maddening that, in the year of our lord 2024, there are still video games being released that won't allow you to pause cutscenes. 

Once upon a time players who needed to run to the bathroom or, y'know, deal with real life in the middle of a cutscene were all out of luck, though by the late 2000s, games such as Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots popularised the trend of pausable cutscenes.

Today it seems laughable to even consider the prospect of a non-online game that won't let you pause cinematics, and yet, it's far from a ubiquitous feature across the medium.

Perhaps the most infamous recent example is Marvel's Midnight Suns, which launched without the ability to pause its cutscenes, and almost two years on from its release, it hasn't even been patched in.

While there are mechanical considerations which make the ability to have full control over cutscenes a more daunting task for developers, the industry cracked pausing them over 15 years ago. 

How is this not an accepted industry-wide standard nowadays?