Quote Originally Posted by Del Murder View Post
I believe Dragon Quest XI has an auto save. And it's fun!
Yes, and now that it's on Game Pass for PC, I have no excuse to at least try it out lol. Same for Octopath Traveler now, which I'm hearing does have auto-save. Looks like Square Enix has its act together. Save for Nier Automata, but I'll chalk that up to Taro Yoko.

Quote Originally Posted by Lord Golbez View Post
I dislike autosaves at least when they come at the exclusion of manual saves. I don't want to automatically have my progress saved after an event with no manual file to rely on if I did something wrong. Also auto-saves tend to leave me unsure where the game save past and where it will take me back to. Even when games with auto-saves have manual saves, the types of games with auto-saves often seem to so some form of checkpointing, so even 8f I load up a manual save, I likely won't be starting up again exactly where I saved and may have to redo some stuff. This is a little distinct from just having set savepoints, because there you know exactly where you can save and you'll naturally stop at a save point. While autosaves in theory seem to be a good quality of life addition, in execution it's often more of a pain in the end.
I don't think I've ever heard anyone actually say autosaves are a pain. I've heard various complaints ranging from potential tech issues to having a "purist" mentality, but not actual poor execution of the feature. MAYBE when they were first implemented like a decade ago? But I think almost all autosave systems are pretty well-refined these days.

But now I'm curious about games that only have autosaves, like you mentioned. I know they exist, pretty sure I've played some? I just can't remember lol. That'd be an interesting list, too.