Guild Wars 2

I think we will all agree that seeing the story conversations once can be fun.

Sadly, when you have to do it a second time, you have to listen through (what I estimate to be) 30 minutes for the first part of LS3 of pure unstoppable instanced dialog again. Because it’s instanced you can’t do anything while waiting.
If/when we get next map, going through Bloodstone fen AND fire island will take even longer to get to it.

I ask that there’s an option implemented for instanced story chat to be skipped. It can be achieved by adding the special interaction skill [I don’t care] to any instanced situations without any combat. (Optional) As a bonus when used a character can interrupt the NPC to say “Hey, Taimi?” “I DON’T CARE!”.

PS: I am well aware there’s an item to teleport to the new maps you can buy for the map currency, and that’s besides the point. The main problem is having to listen through the same thing multiple times.

And make this “Skip All Dialogue” button retroactive in Season 2. Please?
I dreaded the thought of trying to farm it for achievements, so much so that I spammed LFG for Triple Trouble instead!

Really though, without exaggeration, if achievements are going to be a thing, there needs to be a way to bypass lengthy scenes and reset certain fights/tasks after a failure.

The link below is why the skip dialogue button isn’t currently in the new style story journals

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Please-allow-us-to-skip-cut-scenes/first#post4604049

The could probably implement a “fast forward” option fairly easily. Cut the voices and let dialogues play out instantly.

Randulf.7614:

The link below is why the skip dialogue button isn’t currently in the new style story journals

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Please-allow-us-to-skip-cut-scenes/first#post4604049

Like Healix was saying, I think most of us realize the technical limitation, so a fast-forward button would be a dandy compromise without much threat of breaking scenes.

That’s really sad, because what’s first time a nice experience ends up being an infuriating waste of time the other 7-8 times.

1. If the instant skip cannot be implemented, then as Healix said, why not skip the talk and play the animations at like…. 10 times the speed? Again, hard to say without knowing their limitations, but it should be possible.
2. Another lazy, but nice, option:
Offer to skip before going into areas with cutscenes (or have an option in settings) and load into “next” area, one right after the cutscene, if all that area has is dialogues. So for instance, first episode 2 quest could go like this if option to skip dialogue is selected:
-Enter portal in Rata Sum (to activate enter the quest instance) and obviously chose to skip.
-Get loaded straight into Taimi’s games
-After games, get loaded into the new map (because there are no more meaningful interactions in there.

For the record, this should also enable skipping the first LS3 quest (commemoration) if it’s already completed once on account.
3. Final option: Account wide unlocks for “new” quests (basically all future quests that are not class/race specific or central tyria quests). So for instance, after finishing LS3 on 1 character I should have starting waypoints for BSF and Fire Islands unlocked on all characters. A nice bonus: completed quests being marked as “done” (so they can be re-done, but the green quest tracker doesn’t appear on screen).

By the way, quests in HoT expasion could all be converted, because even though sylvari got a little different treatment, quests and results are still the same.

PS: I wrote this message while waiting for story dialogs to finish… -_-

yes! some kind of skip dialogue and enough with the npcs stopping if you get to far ahead or behind, making you turn around and go back to get them to move again!