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Devs who don't implement pausing should be beaten with a rusty pipe in Minecraft (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 11 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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[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Whether not having a pause is justified or not, you surely must know this isn't a good response, right? "Just play wildly suboptimally for dramatic effect" is not viable game design.

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 11 months ago

So not building in a pause button automatically makes gameplay wildly suboptimal?