
Originally Posted by
Bubba
It depends entirely on the game, I think. Some games I don't think would suit it. For example, the original Resident Evil game had typewriters as save points which I rather liked. It wouldn't make sense for a typewriter to heal you... unless it was made by Steve Jobs. Then again, Resident Evil is survival horror so healing save points would make it far too easy.
I'm not a huge fan of save points anyway. They had their place back in the day but I'm more a fan of auto-saving these days. I suppose it depends on the game though.