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.
Uhh you shouldn't have mentioned a fromsoft game. How many skeletons do you have telling you that not having pause is actually cool and great? Lol you're not allowed to not like anything a souls game does online. I mean you can try not to like it, but hoooooo boy are you gonna hear about it.
Btw i think there might be a pause mod for one of the souls games on Nexusmods, have a look!
Souls games just aren't for me. I keep trying them (Demon Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Elden RIng so far), and I keep absolutely hating them, more than most anything I have played. There's a myriad of specific reasons I could give, but they simply weren't made for me and that's fine. I have come to terms with the fact that I will never like a From Software game, assuming no significant design philosophy changes.
Interestingly, I have had no issues having that opinion on Lemmy. When I mentioned it back in the Reddit Days, I would usually be downvoted/lambasted with people telling me to just "git gud and I would enjoy it" or the ever-popular "you aren't a real gamer". Or THIS one would make me change my mind.
Haha! I feel you. I dont get when people put so much of their egos into a hobby where they feel the need to police their fellow hobbyists. Its an old and tiring tale, but one that never ends.
For myself, the souls games tickle my exploration and co-op bug, the former especially in DS1s map. However fromsoft does some dumb crap too, and things i simply don't enjoy. i understand the allure but personally have never enjoyed playing video games with strangers and despite many, many messages telling me the reason they think I'm wrong and dumb, that will never change
Sekiro and Elden Ring are my favourite games of all time. Not being able to pause is one of my few issues with them.
god this gives me flashbacks to a few weeks after elden ring released when I got downvoted into the negative triple digits for daring to criticize the game in r/eldenring lol
I tried one for Elden Ring. It basically freezes everyone (including you, but you can still control the camera) and everything in one place, so I guess it's technically a pause.
Interesting! I only play elden co-op so Im really loving the seamless mod. Hard to believe i put up with the vanilla way for so long!