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Devs who don't implement pausing should be beaten with a rusty pipe in Minecraft (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 10 months ago by ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml to c/games@lemmygrad.ml
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Nothing frustrates me more than not being able to pause for no seemingly good reason. I'm playing Wild Hearts right now and even though I never play online I cannot pause for some reason. To simulate pausing, I can turn off the xbox and the quick resume feature makes it look like the game was paused when I turn the console back on.

Other games guilty of this are Fromsoft games: Dark Souls, Elden Ring and so on.

Obviously all of these games have an online component. Not allowing pausing when this component is activated makes sense. But if I am playing completely online why cannot I pause? In Soulslike the worst exploit I can think of is switching equipment on the fly but is that really that bad? When stuff comes up in the middle crucial moments it frustrates me a lot.

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[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 10 months ago

I never noticed that in Rise. That's great to know.

[-] Alunyanners@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Well it is hidden in the game menu. You gotta press start to bring it up, go to the settings(?) tab and there you'll find the option to Pause Game.

I think you can also only do this when you're out hunting too. Makes sense because there's not much that goes on in the Village/Gathering Hub.

[-] 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 10 months ago

There's also no real reason to pause for inventory purposes in most MH games due to the way the menu and item swap works. Those games are designed to not need to be paused for that stuff. Or at least, not need it as badly. The pause feature is pretty much entirely for a "I have to step away for a moment" scenario, which is still great they put it in there.

this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2023
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