Absolutely no to a pause function!King Billi said:Make using two weapons at once a viable strategy and make ones shield and sword hand interchangable. By the way I'm saying "sword" in place of whatever weapon you like to use.
And let me bloody pause the game!
If you want to pause the game, quit to the main menu, go to the loo, interact with people, find food and drink and take care of your metabolic functions... and then go back to playing * Souls.
At first, I thought they were being obnoxious. I died putting down the pad, I killed NPC merchants putting down the pad... or picking it up again, accidentally throwing a poisoned dagger at one - pretty vital - merchant that then started to curse at me horribly, which was bad enough - I just ran away and felt bad. The next time I felt like going shopping, she was lying dead on the floor, with rats gnawing at her. It had quite an impact on me, even before I realized that it could not be 'fixed' and that, nope, I could not bring her back to life.
Easily letting me pause the game would take that feeling of importance and responsibility away. You don't step away from a * Souls game. It's not bloody Mario.