It only happens to me in RTS games. It's just natural for me to save at every opportunity on a console game.
But then again, I don't let people watch me play video games.
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It only happens to me in RTS games. It's just natural for me to save at every opportunity on a console game.
But then again, I don't let people watch me play video games.
I wish all games would implement some form of auto-save. Having to remember to save or else lose hours of gameplay doesn't count for a challenge, it's just a chore that the developers could've prevented but didn't. Manual saving these days just seems like a remnant from past limitations.
You would think that until you come across the day you accidentally get stuck or lose an important item and the game auto-saves and prevents you from completing the game without restarting. ;)
Oh, you misunderstand me. For one, having the game auto-save doesn't mean it can't still have manual saving for those paranoid about losing items like that. Secondly, if the auto-saving is clever that doesn't have to happen; just as an example, it could provide loading options such as "Retry battle", "Return to chapter start", "Return to chapter x", in addition to restarting. It doesn't have to be oversimplistic just because it's automatic, it just takes some creative development.
auto-save has really spoiled me. Sometimes I play for hours without even thinking of saving, and then I die and then I quit playing that game forever if it doesn't even have checkpoints. :(
I think Oblivion and Fallout 3 have the best save system. It auto-saves if you so much as enter a building or talk to someone important, and then there's as many manual save spots as you want that will save everything. You could be looking into the sky with no pants on with an ugly old woman NPC about to bump into you, and when you reload that's exactly the situation you'll find yourself in.
Nothing like Zeldy's situation has ever happened to me. I'm lucky :shobon:
I don't actually use the auto-save function, I've never loaded up a save from it. But I do think that more games should lift save restrictions and just let you save anywhere, it's about damn time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rantzien
I'm sure I've had some very annoying incidents, but I just don't remember anything specific. I'm pretty good at remembering to save my games - I often take up two files in Final Fantasy games just to be sure.
I usually save my 360 games really quite often like in Dragon Age every time I enter camp (which is usually every time I leave an area) even if I merely went to the Brecillian Forest Dalish camp to buy more ingredients for potion making when I leave the forest I go to camp and save the file. I'll also generally keep a minimum of 2 files but up to 6 files per character so I have multiple progression points so if I completely smurf up I got a good option somewhere where I can restart from.
The main issue I have is with DS games, I often play DS games at night when I'm trying to get to sleep because it helps for me to do so, weird I know but I can read a book all night long and end up thinking "holy cow, I gotta work on no sleep AGAIN?" but DS games don't have the same effect on me. I end up falling asleep with the DS on and when I wake up in the morning it's batteries have died and I've lost the progress I made the night before. I once ended up re-doing the same FFTA2 mission like 10 times in the end I got so fed up of re-doing the same fight and falling asleep in it I sat there and got past it on my day off just so I didn't need to do it once more. I now have taken to accepting just 1 quest at a time (excluding dispatch quests) and saving prior to entering the battle and again after finishing it. I know that sounds excessive but it's better than repeating the same fight a hundred times. Pokemon is worse however because when I need to grind up pokemon levels I end up saving infrequently (like every 5 - 10 levels gained) and then get annoyed when I fall asleep and lose progress.
Hee, I always do that too :D but never for any other game than ffQuote:
Originally Posted by Breine
I had 7 manual saves in Mass Effect 2. The system there worked perfectly for me. But I am a fan of having manual saves just in case I miss something, or screw up. Or you get to something like the Duke/Duchess of Mania/Dementia quests in Oblivion and end up having to replay the entire Shivering Isles arc because you forget to manual save D:< (in other words, manual saves are good to explore different alternatives)
I find that the Auto-Save in Oblivion will sometimes save in a different slot than the last Auto-Save and it gets on my nerves. I'm a very organized person about my save files and such, so I took it off, hence my frustration with the Gray Fox quest.
Thats just horrible Zeldy ;o I've never forgotten to save, I just overwrite important saves ¬_¬
I used to do this alllll the time. I'd make a save before a significant event and try and see if I could get a better outcome than the one I originally picked, it's pretty damn useful sometimes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jiro
It wasn't too bad, I knew exactly what to do in the dungeon I'd spent that long in it xD The boss is a fun one anyway!Quote:
Originally Posted by Drift
I've done that aswell though, except they weren't even my important saves. My Brother killed me for that.