Baldur's Gate had Pause and no one complained.
If you were really the character, you wouldn't have wasted 3 seconds to select your spell as every spell is in your head. Also you would've remembered easily what skills you know, you wouldn't have to look for your bow nor an appropriate healing potion. You wouldn't have to scroll arround, while being attacked by projectiles, to target your enemy, as You'd see him before you. You wouldn't even have to select "whirwind" attack to perform it. You would've also known where are your healing potions.
