AutoSave

[Blind Punk Riot]

By auto save on this particular game, it actually means it won't save ever.


And thanks to xbox's self defence youve gotten really far in the last unsaved six hours. I had better crash. I have lost a giant amount of the game which i will infuriatingly battle back through.

Other games seem to auto save for real after every mission or little game, and some even when you happen to walk into a new room or move 10 yards of your current position.


Bitter and Angry;
Anyone had worse experiences?

 

[suck it trebek]

What particular game might you be talking about?

 

[Blind Punk Riot]

Saints Row 2. The missions range from annoying to frustrating to easy.

I completed the whole of the brotherhood and one of the other gangs.
Incredibly annoying to start all over again.

 

[Supernovajake]

On Oblivion the autosaves just save over the top of one another. Some stupid glitch which prevents me from continuing part of the game occurs, then autosaves and so I have to start a new game over this one which I have already played for 35 hours.
Wasn't...happy

 

[Johnn Johnston]

Oblivion autosaves at all the wrong times. Earlier today, it autosaved when it glitched and three random NPCs began to attack me, but as I had not gone through a door, it did not autosave after I had taken out a room full of Frost Atronachs and Spider Daedra with a crappy mace.

 

[Generic Hero]

Saints Row 2. The missions range from annoying to frustrating to easy.

I completed the whole of the brotherhood and one of the other gangs.
Incredibly annoying to start all over again.

Saint's Row 2 does auto-save after each mission. So either you've disabled it or your game bugged up.

 

[Blind Punk Riot]

Yeah I broke the game slightly...

Ah well. Back to the grind!


Oblivion sounds good fun for messing up and starting again then

 

[mr mcshiznit]

I was pissed when i played morrowind and i went to sleep as a vampire - it autosaved and thus destroyed over 100 hours of work because i kept spawning into the sun. It also saved out of the blue after i killed a main character by accident - thus removing another 100 hours of work.

 

[OmegaTalon]

Supreme Commander that bloody game, a good chunk of the objectives involve you escorting large amount of trucks that die if anything simply looks at them funny, and your only allowed to lose about 1/4 of them before you lose.

Then considering the fact that the levels in the game last for HOURS and I have to fight to get back to where I was in the first place.

what the hell is wrong with autosaving after I beat a primary objective.

 

[Cid Silverwing]

While I agree that AutoSave these days is dementedly broken, there's a thing called "quicksave" or "assing yourself into manual saving". I picked this up from Final Fantasy Tactics, the very game that can omgwtfpwn your entire party in one battle if you so much as choose ONE WRONG SKILL/ITEM.

 

[Unknower]

I think there should be two slots for autosaves. It shouldn't be too hard to implement, right?

But still, you shouldn't rely only on one save slot. Hell, I used 60 save slots in KoTOR.

 

[Grand_Poohbah]

Sorry to dig up an old topic, but I didn't want to start a new one.

I was just playing Mercenaries 2 and I had gotten the mechanic, the jet pilot, and 3 HVTs when the game froze. I wasn't that concerned because the game supposedly autosaves quite often. Well it seems quite often is about every 3 hours because when I turned my 360 back on I had lost 2 fucking hours of work!