In-Game Live Pause Feature for Instant Replays/Photomode

  • Thread starter Thread starter Dessy182
  • 4 comments
  • 642 views
Messages
896
Ireland
Carlow, Ireland
Messages
GTP_Dessy
I've been thinking, wouldn't it be great if you could pause the game at any point and enter Photomode while your race is ongoing?

Let's be honest, this idea has been done quite a bit in the past with games such as Grid, Dirt and F1 2010. Since GT5 saves replays for viewing straight after a race anyway, why not allow the player to view up to the last 30 seconds of the race at any point. It shouldn't put too much pressure on the system and would allow players to capture great unique shots much easier, as well as view some one off incidents without the torture of waiting for the exact moment to come and then pause.

Obviously a lot of guys just want to race, but there is a big community of people taking photos in this game and this would be of great value to them. Think about it, if a crazy glitch/one of incident happened halfway through a 2 hour endurance race, it would be painful to have to wait for the exact moment to come around in the after race replay with the potential of possibly missing the shot. At least if it just happened, you could have as many goes as you like at trying to capture the right moment.

There are plenty of other problems in this game that need fixing and should get priority over this sort of thing, but I feel a lot of people would like to see this feature implemented. Thoughts?
 
I know what you mean, but I think that decent Replay controls would alleviate this. If you could rewind, fast-forward and skip laps properly in the replay, it would mean you could skip straight to any incident.

Plus, these controls would be much easier to add than putting the entire replay functionality in as a "live" option.

Just my €0.02
 
Like BadDoggie says, the ability to fast-forward and rewind replays would alleviate the need for this. I really can't understand why PD haven't implemented this, especially as they put so much effort into the models and photo-mode. After all, the replay data must be held in memory so fast forwarding by skipping frames should be trivial to program in.

Live pause would be cool, too, but you would still really need a rewind feature to make the most of it.
 
Back