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SvennoJ on 12 December 2012
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kitler53 said:
SvennoJ said:
I was going to say the same thing. I have died unnecesarily in Dark Souls because of the baby waking up crying mid engagement. And when my 3 year old unexpectantly walks into the room it's nice to be able to pause instead of give him nightmares.


You can lock out everything during pause and blank the screen, zero advantage, still possible to play without resorting to waiting until the middle of the night tom play undisturbed.

One good thing I hope they keep is the save anywhere function. Games that expect you to get to some arbitrary checkpoint or lose all progress are far worse.

...and withing 3 button clicks you can log off (select, L1, X).  it's effectively a pause as dark souls saves with every action you take so you'll be right back where you started when you get the chance to log back into the server. 

but do tell, what do you do when the baby wakes up crying in the middle of a CoD, Halo, Uncharted multiplayer match, or in World of Warcraft, or whatever else online focused game of your choice you prefer playing??  dark souls is meant to be played online.  don't let the fact that it is possible to play it without internet fool you, this is an online game.  this is the lone hard game in a sea of coddling.   do NOT take that from me.

I hardly play online anymore. Everquest and WoW were great but don't fit into my lifestyle anymore. It's nice to play Dark Souls since it brings that epic struggle feeling back a bit from Everquest. However no pause doesn't enhance that in the slightest.
I only play racing games online nowadays, can walk away at any time without consequences.
It's not just Dark souls, tons of games don't let you pause during cut scenes. Plenty of times I've had to get up, come back a few minutes later and have no clue what I'm supposed to be doing or what the story is about. Just lazy design, add a general pause button.

It's even easier to log off btw, bring up xmb sign out of psn, instant save, also works when other people are stalking.

Back on topic, a WiiU version should enhance immersion immensely since the main screen never has to turn off. Looking down into your 'backpack' on the game pad is a lot more realistic!