Chronos should not be able to un-pause your game

[Forblaze]

So this was a really cool interaction, really. If you pause your game, he'll make a joke about how you're foolish for thinking you could control time and then close the pause menu. Again, really cool thing to discover. But like, I needed to pause the game. Really lame way to lose a run.

[MidnightMist]

That's cool, but I get your frustration. Alt-Tabbing freezes the game completely for moments like this you may run into in the future.

[Fuzen]

Just alt-tab if you REALLY need to pause…

Plus, you actually get a lore-sensible way to pause the fight (and re-enable your time-slows, or at least the one from the Arcana I, not sure about the rest) later on.

[Blacksnake]

They really lean into the Feels Bad moments. While I appreciate them for a nice surprise, I can see them getting annoying. Like Nemesis blasting a door out of existence, or buying something from Charon that you wanted. Hopefully, he unpauses the game only once, then the subsequent times allows the pause to happen, but talks ♥♥♥♥ while you are paused.

[Stret]

Originally posted by Forblaze:

So this was a really cool interaction, really. If you pause your game, he'll make a joke about how you're foolish for thinking you could control time and then close the pause menu. Again, really cool thing to discover. But like, I needed to pause the game. Really lame way to lose a run.

you unlock a way to pause the game later

Originally posted by MidnightMist:

That's cool, but I get your frustration. Alt-Tabbing freezes the game completely for moments like this you may run into in the future.

Originally posted by Fuzen:

Just alt-tab if you REALLY need to pause…
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actually high iq move, thank you

[Forblaze]

Originally posted by MidnightMist:

That's cool, but I get your frustration.nts like this you may run into in the future.

Originally posted by Fuzen:

Just alt-tab if you REALLY need to pause…

That is good to know. I didn't know that was a thing. Still though, is that really what they want the player to be doing? It's not like the pause menu confers some gameplay advantage.

Originally posted by Blacksnake:

Hopefully, he unpauses the game only once, then the subsequent times allows the pause to happen, but talks ♥♥♥♥ while you are paused.

Yeah, I feel like even him just commenting on the pause menu having been opened is enough to preserve the moment.

[Forblaze]

Originally posted by Stret:

you unlock a way to pause the game later

You actually unlock a way to pause the game right at the start, through the start button. It may sound a bit OP but is typically balanced by the fact that you can't play the game while it's opened.

[Fuzen]

Originally posted by Forblaze:

That is good to know. I didn't know that was a thing. Still though, is that really what they want the player to be doing? It's not like the pause menu confers some gameplay advantage.

I’m really on the fence on this one. I *really* like the idea of taking away such a meta tool from the player – something that the Souls games have done for literally forever. Though the cost of dying in a Souls game is lower than that of losing a whole 20-30 mins run…

But on the other hand, sometimes you really HAVE to pause and the fact that you have to metagame for that is… not ideal. Having it happen only once would be a solution of course but I feel like there should be an alternative. For instance a penalty based on how long you have paused the game or something.

[Adrenaline Seed]

What about the time when Mantis read every input from the P1 socket before it was registered in the game. You know how many runs I lost? lost 1 run, ha!

[GeminiEclipse]

Originally posted by Forblaze:

Originally posted by Stret:

you unlock a way to pause the game later

You actually unlock a way to pause the game right at the start, through the start button. It may sound a bit OP but is typically balanced by the fact that you can't play the game while it's opened.

This thread is about a boss that unpauses the game when you pause it using the start button. Just so you are aware.

[Taishon]

I appreciate that our pausing the game is actually acknowledged in the lore as Mel literally pausing time. Plus as others have said you do get an incantation to restore your temporal control in that fight which I appreciate as a nod towards Mel breaking the chains of fate.

[Aetherwitch]

I really am not a fan of this mechanic. Meli is not pausing time to think strategy for 3 minutes. I the player am pausing a video game because I'm using the umbral flames, this fight has been going on for 7 minutes I'm still in phase 1 and I need a piss.

[Yevon Blackwolf]

Just pause enough times and you will unlock an upgrade to take away his abillity to unpause.
I think its a fun little easteregg because hes the incarnation of time

[FreudsHedgeHog]

Lots of games you can't pause during combat at all so I don't really see the big deal TBH.

[Soulcatcher]

How about to play more and learn more about the game before posting?..

[Forblaze]

Originally posted by Yevon Blackwolf:

Just pause enough times and you will unlock an upgrade to take away his abillity to unpause.
I think its a fun little easteregg because hes the incarnation of time

It requires three kills. Realistically five or six because you're going to want the other upgrades.

Originally posted by FreudsHedgeHog:

Lots of games you can't pause during combat at all so I don't really see the big deal TBH.

In a game like dark souls, for example, how much progress do you lose when you die? The answer is less than 45 minutes.

Originally posted by Soulcatcher:

How about to play more and learn more about the game before posting?..

What heat level do I need to have cleared to have an opinion? I've done 9.