The game is intended to be played online, and obviously you can't pause an online game.

The article has a few points. People with kids are never really on break. And pausing to use the bathroom, wouldn't kill any tension.

ER has unlimited lives. Shut it off a pick it up again later.

I played 150 hours of the game and didn't even notice or i can't remember what i did. I probably just pressed the home button.

Was never an issue with me.

Or play something else.

To be fair you can actually pause it

The "journalists" that write these "elden ring needs to be easier" "stories" are only doing it for clicks.

I concur, but you can pause Elden Ring.

"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one." - Bruce Lee

This discussion happens every Souls game. Just stop. It isn't there because they don't want you pausing and having time to strategize. There are enough ways to cheese enemies as it is.

You need to go back to your social responsibilities…. The rest of us will enjoy the game how it was intentionally designed.

People coming up with these stupid reasons for why the game doesn't pause. The simple truth is that it is designed to be an online game. It has nothing to do with tension or time to come up with strategies quit your BS.

If you play the games offline on PC you can find mods that pause the game while in menu. Console players will just have to quit to the main menu. If your family is choking to death during a boss fight you'll just have to decide for yourself what is more important.

It's not about quality of life here

Log out, clear a group of enemies, warp to a grace, jump on a pillar where enemies don't reach..plus many more I'm sure.

Go to the title screen if you need a breather... Since Demon's Souls you can do that and you start at exactly the same spot

Also I doubt anyone buying elden ring dlc at this point has much issues with the pause

No pause, please

i dunno, i wasnt all too bothered not being able to pause. there are plenty of safe spots imo.

There is a pause function in the game if you go to menu. Can't remember were in menu but Used it many times on the game when looking at YouTube of something.

No

LOL at souls game having a pause. XD

Utter nonsense that contradict the very core of souls like gameplay.
There is multiple ways to make a break while you are not on a fight: quit the game, rest to a site of grace, find a safe spot in the scenery ….

You are on a fight ? That’s not a damn time to pause, fight for your life!

What does removing the ability to pause do for the game? Nothing, just adds extra frustration and doesn't give you the ability to do other things, for example, in middle of a boss fight, Amazon knock at the door and you've been fighting it and nearly killed it after struggling for ages. Now some of you nerds will say miss the delivery, but that's just not real life.

Add the pause button From soft. There's a difference between gameplay difficulty, and difficulty introduced by the systems they omit, it's stupid.

‘No it doesn’t.

If you need to pause just fast travel to a site of grace and sit at it.

No? The souls games have been fine without a pause button for over a decade.

SoUlS gAmEs NeEd An EaSy MoDe

foh. none of the games have had a pause button. you just suck.

No it doesn’t.

I get the frustration but let's not act like this is something new. This is one of from software's shticks. It's one of the reasons people love theor games.

Uh, hit the menu button! Problem solved!

Isn’t the lack of a pause button more a feature of the asynchronous multiplayer system that allows for invasions. I don’t really engage with those features so correct me if I’m wrong, but I always suspected that that was the real reason you couldn’t pause the game.

Man, older I get, harder these games become... 😅

No pause button when playing Destiny 2 . You have to go into orbit or a safe place for a pause . Not a big deal .

No.

At least I'm happy to know that Fromsoftware will never add this to the game, no matter how much people cry.

NO PAUSE BUTTON! Play when you have free time.

What next then, quest log and compass pointer?

Its good, but not that good, Elden ring better for sure

Deserved but it's not the revelation people make it out to be. If it was made by Square, EA, or any giant publisher out there, I guarantee it won't get the recoginition they deserve. People just love and sympathize with the underdog story.

Elden Ring kept me hooked for around 250 hours, whereas with Clair Obscur, well, I just can't move forward with the game. The exploration in the game is so lacking, just a tunnel after another to the next location or awkward jumping and always the same type of a battle waiting behind the corner. Reminds me of FFXIII, which is the least favourite game in the series for me and I played all of them.

I think Clair Obscur is good, but not great. For me personally, Elden Ring is 9.5/10, and Clair Obscur 7.5. I really like what the studio did, though, and they should be proud of it. I just think the hype got away a little bit.