Current Events > There is no reason Elden Ring doesn't have a proper pause button

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It so the player cant get a breather during combat . I do sometimes get really panicked while playing. If there was pause button i wouldnt feel as panicked.

Some horror games dont have pause button too like Visage.

This is like the weakest argument I've ever heard.

Is this something the creator themselves has outright come out and said? I don't think it's likely considering Sekiro.

Whenever I ask FromSoft fans why these games don't have pause buttons, they always giving me the stupidest reasons.

Well to me elden ring is a horror game. Sekiro is only a little scary

I have a wife, 4 kids under the age of 9, and a pet. After 80+ hours in this game, I have yet to think that my experience would be greatly improved with a pause button.

Im not against it, but I dont understand the complaints about the lack of one. Anything that I can think of is either solved by a 2 second warp, just accepting that sometimes you die and its not the end of the world, or better planning. And if its truly an emergency then dying in a video game probably isnt a top concern anyway.

Losing progress because we can't pause the game

Ideally people don't need to pause movies either. But we can. Because it's a convenience.

You lose zero progress by exiting the game. You come back exactly where you were.

Movies continue to move when you walk away, it's not the same. You don't miss anything important when you walk away from an unpaused game.

How many times do you pause your game in the middle of fights and why? Why you even playing a game if you can't even do the 1(common)-5(rare) minute fights in Elden Ring without constantly needing to pause?

I dunno man. There's a reason it doesn't bother most people. I could see if you were doing like 15+ minute battles regularly. But it's such an uncommon problem even for busy people to constantly need to pause within 2-3 minute fights.

How many times do you pause your game in the middle of fights and why? Why you even playing a game if you can't even do the 1(common)-5(rare) minute fights in Elden Ring without constantly needing to pause?

The amount it's irritating you guys...I still support it if they come out and say they're just doing it to troll people

It's just one of those things where some people will never be happy. There's always something to complain about.

I know you would.

Because there's literally no logical reason for it to not be there. You're defending it for the sake of it.

It's like defending not being able to interact with doors, ladders or chests when crouched.

Is it a big deal? No. But it's a minor hassle that exists for no real reason. Why defend it even if it's a minor criticism? It makes no sense.

Did I defend it? I feel like I've just heen thrown off by how irritated you are by it. I never actually showed that I personally cared either way. Well, not until I joked about it in the last post. I said I personally prefer it and gave a valid reason I did. But I could still not pause it even if they added it. So, I have no dog in this fight. I just got nothing better to do. You leave yourself open to be easily wound up. It's not worth it bruh

Ah yes that crazy unreasonable ask of being able to pause a game. What will they think of next?

You've been given suggestions on what to do to get around this.

I'm not asking for an alternative. I'm saying there's no reason a standard pause shouldn't be there.

Sounds to me like you just wanna complain for the sake of it.

What other trivial shit should we reach to complain about next and make another 50 post for it? I like making mountains out of molehills too.

why people are trying to shift the argument to it not being a big deal.

Quote where I made it a big deal. I was making valid points and the response was mostly "But, I should be entitled to it because it's what I'm accustom to"

Quick resume is a thing. Why do you need to pause?

On the PC version, can you hit the Esc key to bring up the menu, does that pause it?

For someone who is accusing me of wound up you sure just responded to a message before reading it properly.

Saying that you'd support the lack of pause for 'trolling' doesn't sound like a valid point to me. Asking why I need to pause a game isn't making any valid points. Saying you don't care either way isn't a valid point.

None of your points go against the statement "There is no reason Elden Ring doesn't have a proper pause button."

There should be a pause button because there's no reason there shouldn't be one. That more people benefit from there being one compared to not having one at all. A rather simple concept to comprehend no?

Because real life is a thing.

"Sorry I can't answer the door yet. I need to make sure the coast is clear in this video game I'm playing."

"Sorry daughter who woke up from a nap. You gotta wait."

"Sorry work phone call while I'm on my lunch break working from home. I'll lose progress if I answer."

Quick Resume boots you out of the game and restarts it because the online connection drops out. Speaking of which is another inconvenience that exists for no real reason. Which is still a bigger hassle than simply...adding a pause button.

Like why are you guys coming in here blabbing on about less convenient alternatives to argue against a pause button? It's silly. The reason a pause button should be there because it's convenient. There is no reason it isn't there.

Answer your work calls when youre on the clock. The point of lunch is not to work.

Why are you complaining about lack of a pause button from a developer known not to put a pause button? This isnt new.

The only valid complaint I heard was if your daughter wakes up.

You do realize that there are jobs where you can be on call right

So? Are developers stuck doing the same thing forever for no reason?

If a developer never bothers to implement button remapping or crouch toggle then that's just a criticism no one can ever make because they never done so?

Pausing cutscenes was a thing that wasn't always in games. Now it's really common. But going by your logic

From have never had a game with a stable framerate on consoles either. So we just...can't ever expect them to improve? Do you have this logic for every developer who has issues that could easily be fixed like this?

I played the game. I'm making a judgement on the experience. There's no valid reason for no pause button. It's an issue that exists for no reason.

From allowed pause in their last game anyway. So why couldn't that be the new trend? The games would be better for it.

They're not complaints. They're potential scenarios where a lack of pause can be a hassle. Things that regular people face. It happening once is hassle enough alone.

I don't really care what you consider valid or not. As I have said several times in this topic there is no valid excuse for it to not be there. You can rant about how it doesn't matter all you like. It doesn't make a difference to you if it's there or not. It does for me. The biggest reason I want to be able to pause is I often play the game while my wife is next to me on her iPad after we have got our daughter to sleep. I would like to be able to pause the game whenever she wants to tell me something or talk to me. I can for every other game I play.

Really don't understand how hard this is for people to comprehend.

And? Take a couple minutes, get to a stopping point and end the game. TC could say he was in the restroom.

On call doesnt mean hey you have to drop everything literally this instant.

And? Take a couple minutes, get to a stopping point and end the game. TC could say he was in the restroom.

On call doesnt mean hey you have to drop everything literally this instant.

What you dont comprehend is you either get to have Elden Ring or have a life. You dont get both. You tell your wife to wait and your daughter to go back to sleep.

This is because the developers see the "solo" gameplay as you playing an online game offline. It's the same reason why oldschool PSO can't pause the gameplay, because you're playing an online game offline.

This topic reminds me of when I made a topic on the FF XIII about how the game had so many save points that they might just as well have put the save option in the menu. And for that incredibly minor complaint, people still were hell bent on defending the game like "you don't have to use them all" or whatever. When it's just like, it's ok to admit that your favorite game has this one minor inconvenience, it's still fine to like it.

This topic reminds me of when I made a topic on the FF XIII about how the game had so many save points that they might just as well have put the save option in the menu. And for that incredibly minor complaint, people still were hell bent on defending the game like "you don't have to use them all" or whatever. When it's just like, it's ok to admit that your favorite game has this one minor inconvenience, it's still fine to like it.

Im not saying the game shouldnt have a pause button

but people know what they signed up for. This isnt some new development.