So sick of missing my queue because of storyline

[NozomiAru]

Sometimes when I was talking to Minfilia there would be pages and pages of text, so finishing that quickly was near impossible. Also, since I play on PS3, loading back out of those cut scenes would take 10-15 seconds, further cutting down the time I had to complete them.

Really, the cut scenes I'm talking about here are the ones with text but no voices, as those are the ones I've had problems with, and generally don't find available at the inn. Those or the "wall of text" that shows up when initiating some quests, such as certain job quests.

[Niwashi]

Just leave the pop up hanging there, finish reading the text very quickly, then click commence if it has not timed out already.

That's the problem. Unless you're already on the very last dialog window (and the chances of that are slim given just how many screens of dialog most conversations seem to have), you're guaranteed that the DF will have timed out if you try doing that. You have a choice. You can either read the text so you know the story, OR you can accept the duty that you've been waiting half an hour or more to do. You CANNOT do both. We need a way of exiting out of dialog without finishing it (and without any quests being advanced as though we'd finished it), so that that dialog can be available later when we have time to read it.

And no, having cutscenes available at the Inn doesn't help this problem (or rather, it only helps one little piece of the problem but not the rest), because the majority of dialog isn't in cutscenes at all. It's the regular non-cutscene conversations with NPCs that create most of the issues here.

[Laraul]

The best solution I think would be to simply provide a way to break out of NPC conversations by pressing the cancel button twice, similar to the way it works when a cinematic is in progress.

The story line cinematics for The Praetorium and Castrum Meridianum are oddly located under "Duties" in the inn. And playing them back in the inn, they feel out of context, since you don't know how or where in the dungeon a cinematic was triggered or what you did that preceded it. Story line Lengthy event triggered cinematics do not belong multiplayer dungeons. When I first tried both of the dungeons, everybody rushed ahead when I tried to watch them. I got completely separated and felt forced to leave because it appeared I couldn't continue.

[Raestloz]

I'd rather have them add the non-cutscene dialogues to the Inn book

so many funny Hildibrand moments are not captured in the cutscenes