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Even worse. Games with a mysterious auto save “feature” that don’t allow a manual backup save. There’s a special place in hell for those developers.
There’s also a place in hell for devs who don’t include a “save and quit” in rogue like games because they’re worried people will save scum. As if honest people who can’t devote enough time for a full playthrough are less important than people lying about progress in a non competitive single player game.
I assume it’s more about the hassle of implementing a way of serializing the game state for storage in most cases but if people want to cheat in a single player game let them or better yet seed the rng so that the outcome is the same anyways.
Idk, I feel that’s okay as long as the saves are incredibly frequent and reliable.
I’ve never lost progress in a From Software game for instance, and they have an only auto save system, but it saves literally everything you do as soon as you do it, so unless you deliberately alt-F4 instantly after doing something, you won’t lose any progress.
Can you reload old saves, or only the most recent? I think being able to reload an older save is important in the case of glitches (NPC walks through wall and is unreachable etc)
Ah, the trauma of every Bethesda RPG player.
There are game studios out there that don’t release broken garbage that needs the player to walk on eggshells, backup saves, and do arcane console commands to make the game playable.
Or whatever the fuck Dragon’s Dogma 2 had
We need a Luigi on the inside
Some games actually have this feature.
Props to Animal Well developer, it doesn’t prompt you if you saved in the last minute.
Me:
- Saves Game
- Tries to exit
- Confirm exit?
- No
- Saves again
- Hits Save and Exit
Waaay too much trouble to compare the time-of-last-save with minimum-time-to-ask-save. 🙄
Or even just “Has the menu been closed since it was saved?”
Day 347: I’m still trying to exit the game. Send help, I can’t close the game without losing my progress!
Somebody never played Nintendo back in the day
Ah a first time vim
userplayer.
Why… why am I in this meme?
I be zipping up the directory and uploading my save files to the internet
One time during the final mission in Batman Arkham City I hit the power button at the same frame the auto-save turned on. My save was corrupted and I had to speedrun the story again. Thank god I wasn’t doing Riddler trophies I would’ve gone insane.
This is why I have no tolerance for games with limited saving… Which is painful as a Resident Evil fan who prefers the early games
(No surprise that I use unlimited saving mods)
Flashbacks of playing Metal Gear Solid 2 at a time of frequent unexpected power cuts. Painful.
