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Gamechanger: You can suspend Dark Souls Remaster on Switch/XB1/PS4
- Thread starter Ex-Psych
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Yes it did. The only souls game on which you can resume from Sleep mode straight to the game is SotFS and even then it forces you to sign in to play online after resuming.
You quit to menu and resume from where you left off.
Ooooh, I see what you mean now. Actually killing the process instead of quitting through the menu.
Good point.
yeah and its great when you gotta leave the crib and cant pause, like its 1973
Play a different game or suck it up!
Dark Souls not giving a fuck about you is half the point.
just cross the road while you playing, if you die in real life, you die. this is not for casualz
if you play dark souls wrong you get your gamer's license suspended sorry
i'm not a gamecop i just respect the gamelaw
You stay on and play until the guys at the bus depot drag you out kicking and screaming.
It wasn't that hard to implement, eh? Did it hurt?
Hope they continue with that.
On my PS4, the game keeps running even though you're on the home screen.
Hope they continue with that.
On my PS4, the game keeps running even though you're on the home screen.
You dodge roll out of the bus, those iframes will save you and your Switch but make sure it isn't fat roll
I don't think not being able to pause is such a fundamental part of the game's design. What is fundamental is the game not stopping while you mess with your equipment, inventory and even the options. If the whole game stops while it's paused, so it's just a pause button, it's whatever.
Every in-game action needs to happen in real time, but if you can't do anything while it's paused, it's fine.
You can't even use it to cheese bosses in this case, for example, because you can't see anything while it's paused, so it's not even useful to read moves or anything like that. It's literally just a suspend feature with pause.
Every in-game action needs to happen in real time, but if you can't do anything while it's paused, it's fine.
You can't even use it to cheese bosses in this case, for example, because you can't see anything while it's paused, so it's not even useful to read moves or anything like that. It's literally just a suspend feature with pause.
You can't pause on Dark Souls, you can put Switch on Sleep Mode.
Two different things, yeah I know, fucking semantics.
But it is a console feature, not game feature.
On PC, if you play it windowed, clicking & holding the Window border essentially pauses the game aswell.
It isn't a pause, you're just freezing the game.
Two different things, yeah I know, fucking semantics.
But it is a console feature, not game feature.
On PC, if you play it windowed, clicking & holding the Window border essentially pauses the game aswell.
It isn't a pause, you're just freezing the game.
It might just be a slightly quicker variation of what people do. They just get to the menu and quit before death comes haha.
it also makes it so you never progress
literally
because the game state is frozen
Right, but it functions differently compared to the other console sleep modes.
I mean, I've only played bloodborne, but that game at least had tons of places where you can stand and take a breather. Is Dark Souls different?
Considering that screwing over people who are changing configurations, repositioning the system, etc would be messed up even for Dark Souls, I believe it is a welcomed feature.
You may need to use your hands for other things while you're on the toilet.. for example. :D
You may need to use your hands for other things while you're on the toilet.. for example. :D
No, but the idea is you have to get to those places first to take that breather. You can't just create a safe spot out of thin air to collect your thoughts, or look up a strategy for the enemy you're in the middle of fighting.
so you're playing dark souls on transit. you're near your stop, the last checkpoint was quite a while ago. better miss your stop instead of pausing because it's less tense.
You can in the game's offline mode, so I don't see what's different here.
I love it when Dark Souls elitists alternative to this is always "Don't play Dark Souls!"
Ok, I won't.
But you can do that if you quit to the title screen and then continue.
Like, I've never really thought Dark Souls needed a pause button as you can just quit to the title screen. But I also don't think it shouldn't have one.
The not-pausing is there because you might be invaded if you are playing online, just like you can't pause in most multi-player games.
Why you can't pause while playing offline is probably the developers trying to keep the experience consistent, but I have really never seen a reason for not being able to pause when offline, specially when the alternative (quit to menu) can be so easily exploited (to avoid deaths by fall damage or to reset certain enemies / game states)
Do people not know how dark souls works? If you quit then you'll restart exactly where you left off. It's essentially a pause button lol.
Edit: Though I suppose this would allow for pausing during a boss fight.
Edit: Though I suppose this would allow for pausing during a boss fight.
This is pretty rich given that Namco Bandai delayed the Switch version because they were afraid that the naturally hardcore Nintendo fanbase would opt for Donkey Kong.
yea, I phrased my original statement to exclude online-enabled place since that's the only legitimate reason. I remember playing Phantasy Star Universe's story mode, being pissed that you couldn't pause, which was a big oversight to me