Current Events > Explain to a rational adult why you cannot pause the game in Soulsborne.

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By the way I love their games!

But try to explain this to a rational adult.


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No explanation except from soft

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Why would a rational adult need this explained to them?

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SrRd_RacinG posted...

By the way I love their games!

But try to explain this to a rational adult.

If you are playing offline you should be able to. Playing online I see why.

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Because a paused games means that you can deed and From Software is anti-deed.

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Wait. I think OP is trying to state that being unable to pause is irrational.

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"The pause button doesn't pause, this game doesn't want to make your life easy."

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It's fucking inexcusable that you can't pause offline

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Because most modern From Soft games have online features, including co-op and invasions, and being able to pause the games could throw off matchmaking. That's my guess as to why you can't pause in their games and they were too lazy to implement a pause feature for offline play. Best solution for wanting to pause for a short period of time is to end the game via the menu, which will autosave it and return it to the title screen.(If no one is attempting to enter your world for online features, otherwise you won't be able to end the game like this.)

Because you can quit out in a split second and save your progress

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Invasions is why. And programming is hard.

Sekiro let's you pause for real though

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Because unless you are Zack Morris life or death situations dont have a time out feature usually.

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They make challenging games. I feel like that aspect would be toned down and the immersion would be lost if you could just pause any time.

The real question is who cares? You could comepletely close the game and load back within two minutes.

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OVERGOATED posted...

Because difficulty is measured by how long you can go without pooping.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqPYHxKs0e8

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Because you can't pause real life. Sure in real life you may not be fighting the great Grey Wolf Sif, but you might be fighting the Sif of poverty, or injustice.

I agree if playing offline they should allow pausing, but it absolutely shouldn't be allowed when playing online.

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Irrational design choice.

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If you're an adult, you aren't the target audience.
It's for forum dwelling teens who never have anywhere to be, hence no pausing

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Seriously cant you just save and exit game from the menu? If so that is your pause. You should load back right where you were. If you want mid battle pausing hang on giant monster I am getting a phone call. Monster starts to attack. DID YOU NOT HEAR ME?! I AM ON THE FUCKING PHONE!!! Damn they need to change your name to Seath the ASSHOLE! I will deal with you in a minute you no patients having scaleless dragon bitch!

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Because the pause menu is for cowards

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Besides the whole online matchmaking issue, there's also the fact that mid combat pausing would allow for some ridiculous mid-fight gear swapping that probably breaks the flow of combat and is something they wanted to avoid.

Like, imagine if you could pause the moment you realized you weren't going to be able to dodge a boss attack and just equip the fattest armour that you have to mitigate damage, then as soon as you're hit, pause and swap back to a lighter gear set. Or switching weapons mid-swing after the hit connects as a form of animation canceling. Or firing multiple arrows at an enemy before the first one connects by bow swapping. Combat would be completely broken.

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Being unable to pause while in an offline single player experience is needlessly punitive imo

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As a huge Souls fan I agree not being able to pause in offline mode is dumb.

Nioh does it. It doesnt let you cheese or cheat. Its just there for emergency when you have to leave your game.

Sometimes life happens and its nice to be able to pause when it does so you arent getting murdered while youre afk lol


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Because the developers did not implement a pause feature.

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At least we all agree.

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