Yes, that does make things easier. Actually, I found the pause function on Xbox to be much more useful than PC. Specifically, locking on to targets (using right stick to cycle through) and using an attack skill to come out of pause was quick and easy; on PC you can not cycle through target selection when paused, IIRC, and you have to manually click on a target to use an attack skill. It's been a while since I've played, though, and never did do a complete playthrough on PC.
