The Escape Button

[daortir]

On the one hand I'd say it's like playing any MMORPG or MOBA. In those games you can't pause, and you get used to it. Yes you'll die stupidly sometimes because you have to answer THAT phone call, or yes you'll fail something because you have to go to the bathroom at the wrong time. But I think pausing the game is an easy way of avoiding the fear. It's one of the things that could change to make Amnesia more terrifying in my opinon.

On the other hand, it is true that it would be forcing people into a very brutal gameplay change, and a one that can really be a problem considering eventual IRL issues.


So I think an answer to the debate might be to propose it as an option. You can check or uncheck an option box saying "Game keeps running while paused". This way no one is forced into anything, and people are free to make the game slightly scarier, or at least the atmosphere harder to escape.

I don't see any counterparts to that, people who like things this way could do it, and people who wanna change could experience it, yay !
Still I don't know if FG will do anything about it, but if any Full Conversion modder is listening... : p

Edit : I used pause during the Choir and the Prison, by the way. And probably at other points throughout the game, but I always felt bad for it, it always came as a reflex. So yeah, if that'd be given as an option, I think I'd at least try enabling the game running while paused, just because I feel it is anticlimatic to have such an easy answer to the fear available.