How long until we have auto pause in games ?

I've been noticing games are becoming extremely easy lately. I beat Metal Gear Rising the other day said to be one of last year's toughest games and i was like oh my gawd i couldn't beat a Hack n slash before so this is weird. So by now i'm either just very good at games or the only way to die is if you leave the controller there and go away for something to kill you. Then again that's when that comes in, how long until developers do auto pause to make sure you don't die if you're away from the controller ?

Seriously? Just hit the pause button lazy.

My guess is never, because even if a game is easy, you have to be pretty damn stupid to just walk away from the controller without taking the tenth of a second to press pause.

i wouldn't bet on it, it doesn't seem like games are trying to beat you anymore...

What difficulty did you play it on?

And how would Auto Pause even work?

I have seen one game that has auto pause by the way. My friend has AC4 on the Xbone. When you step out of the kinects view the game will pause. This however can be a pain in the ass if you lean back or someone walks in front of the thing. From what I have seen, it is a lot more convenient to use a pause button yourself.

auto pause?

look i don't know. but dark souls pause system has almost the opposite of what you're describing. very good game, highly recommended.

Auto pause? What a horrible idea.

That is the kind of worthless innovations i expect MS to bring with their next system

Auto pause would be annoying. That would be like having your controller set to turn off after 30 seconds of idle time.

Would get extremely annoying.

If you get upset by getting killed because YOU didnt hit pause then you dont need to be gaming.

Actually auto pause would be very useful, for example when reloading checkpoints if you wouldn't be around because you went to make yourself coffee or something. I think Kinect would make it possible.

Funny, its on the internet that everyone is a stellar gamer. When I talk with gamers face to face, we usually have stories of tough spots in games that we relate with. MGR had some tough bits, like the final boss. He wasn't the hardest Ive ever played, but he was tough. But on the internet, people are like the greatest gamers ever.

Some of us are born pro

Some of us die noobs

I actually forgot to pause my MGS3 game yesterday. Ended up getting bitten by a snake that poisoned me.

I hear ya. Like shooting I guess. Country kids grow up with rifles and guns, thought they were the shit in the Army. City kid comes along qualifies expert. Still all fun I guess.

Not So Fast Princess !

Two things: 1 On What Difficulty ?

And 2 What was your Rank ?

People Assume Hideki Kamiya's games are all just about winning, well thats not true, true be told, Winning in Devil May Cry and Bayonetta is freaking easy, just spam the most powerfull moves and voila ! But won't get a good rank.

Which is kinda the whole point to those games.

Batman too, if you button mash its pretty freaking easy. If you actually try to switched up then you get a challenge. Its at its best in Challenge Mode

So wait you're playing on the standard boring cutscene heavy game and waiting for it to get through its bollocks and it pauses because you haven't pressed anything in a whole or left to get a cuppa/ have surgery?

Beat it first in normal to get a good feel for the game.. hell i didn't even know how dodging worked until the last boss.. lol.... but then after i learned to dodge the game did became a lot easier.. parrying became easy with practice and then the dodging supplemented the parrying making it great for gameplay but then the game felt normal in hard and very easy in normal.

I found the last boss to be very easy... it was really fun though but very easy. Was you trying to parry him all the time ? try dodging him it makes him a lot easier. He got me like the first 5 times and then i had to search online to see how you actually side step in the game and then omg! he became one of the easiest bosses in the game. Moonsong being the hardest in my opinion. The game wasn't a cake walk but compared to hack n slash before it's a lot easier which is what i was going by.. it was actually the first hack n slash i ever finished.

You gotta be the laziest gamer ever if you can't be bothered to press the pause button

If Samsung made a console it would have auto-pause technology. "We use the integrated camera to tell when the gamer is looking at the screen and when they are not we pause the game for them. Simple. Brilliant. Samsung."

Baldurs Gate had auto pause in 1998. It has more depth than any console game.

I noticed, that you didn't notice, that none of you noticed this. This indicates most of you are very young and relatively new to gaming.