How Much of a Savegame Coward Are You?
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I save constantly just in case I die but I rarely reload if things don't go my way, especially in RPGs. I sort of like going the whole way without reloading, it makes all the decisions more final.
I recall once I was playing a game, and at some point, having been playing for a solid six or seven hours, I did somethign a bit silly wihtout thinking and got a gme over. I relaised at that point that my last sve from from the beginning of my play sessionthat day.
So, I hit the load button, reloaded, and kept playing. Caught up to myself by the next day with no real sweat.
So... no, if anything I forget to save far too often, but it rarely bthers me whn I lose data in games.
This is probably because I have lost far worse things: several months worth of creative work, writing and design, within mod-mkaing for a game, lost in a blink because of my own misreading of save versions. I'll lielky never attempt to re-write the creative material for htat mod, becuase it's simply too much to recover and capture as I wish to... but as a result, very little inthe way of lost data fazes me.
My partner get exceptionally disgruntled when they lose data, however, and has been known to give up on a game entirely, due to browning off, from the loss of a hour's worth of play time.
-Harla
So, I hit the load button, reloaded, and kept playing. Caught up to myself by the next day with no real sweat.
So... no, if anything I forget to save far too often, but it rarely bthers me whn I lose data in games.
This is probably because I have lost far worse things: several months worth of creative work, writing and design, within mod-mkaing for a game, lost in a blink because of my own misreading of save versions. I'll lielky never attempt to re-write the creative material for htat mod, becuase it's simply too much to recover and capture as I wish to... but as a result, very little inthe way of lost data fazes me.
My partner get exceptionally disgruntled when they lose data, however, and has been known to give up on a game entirely, due to browning off, from the loss of a hour's worth of play time.
-Harla
Pffft, of course.
I thought everyone is.
Heavy Rain. A person died? Fuck that, I'm resetting.
Demon's Souls on the other hand... we formed a love/hate relationship.
I thought everyone is.
Heavy Rain. A person died? Fuck that, I'm resetting.
Demon's Souls on the other hand... we formed a love/hate relationship.
Always. Even on games I've finished before, like Mass Effect 2, where I save just before a mission to see if my paragon/renegade score is high enough for a speech check. Or Fallout 3, where I save before doing stuff even when I'm basically a walking nuclear bomb. Great perk, btw.
I never was a savegame coward until I played S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky.
That game was extremely hard and I ended up saving every one or two bad guys I killed.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/271-S-T-A-L-K-E-R-Clear-Sky
That game made me a savegame paranoid.
Out of habit now I save usually in other games even if I really don't need to.
That game was extremely hard and I ended up saving every one or two bad guys I killed.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/271-S-T-A-L-K-E-R-Clear-Sky
That game made me a savegame paranoid.
Out of habit now I save usually in other games even if I really don't need to.
Heh. The moment that I read the OP I thought "Oh yeah, Hitman 2!"Images said:
But I wasn't such a save-a-holic for H2 because of two things. First, you could get the ninja-class rating if you finished the levels by firing no more than one bullet, and thats more a challenge if you do it from the level start. And secondly, the OTHER uber way to do Hitman 2 was in speed-run. Also I don't think I could save Hitman 2 in mid-level.
As far as limited saves, it depends on the game. I'm play-testing a really buggy Stalker mod right now that would be a total ass sandwich if I could only have 4 saves, because I can guarantee that at least three of them would have serious errors in the save file.
I'm not really sure, I think it was just paranoia. I do this with almost every game. Oblivion I have over 3000 saves, Kingdom Hearts has around 900, and Fallout 3.....I have a seperate hard drive for all of them.DustyDrB said:
I think the problem is that games these days seem to actually require less "skill" and just heightened reflexes in order to come back from a mistake. That and with games giving you "choices", you tend to want to save before setting on a course of action that might remove whole sections of gameplay from you later on. Some people don't mind replaying a favorite game over and over, but a lot of gamers just have the one playthrough, especially on epically long games.. After clocking in 150 hours into Oblivion, do you really derive that much joy starting over as Sir Stick-waver McNoobinpants?DustyDrB said:
Some games assuage this.. I had a blast with Assassin's Creed 2, completed it nearly to 100% without having to go through it a 2nd time. And I liked how if I failed for most missions, I just restarted right before it, or if I goofed, I could still rely on my own skill in combat to save me. Games where a bad dialogue choice or popping out of cover too soon and being spotted can lead to being obliterated by overwhelming A.I. attacking en mass tend to drive you into auto-saving far more than people would like to admit. Especially in games like Fallout where a poor decision choice can ruin your whole day.
Depends on the game if it's games like Deus Ex: HR or Mass Effect I'll save often if it's sandbox games like Just Cause 2 or Saints Row 2 then I almost never save because I spend most of my time fucking around
Is that actually possible? I don't know if it's me using Steam Cloud or something, but the game flat-out refuses to let me save after thirty separate files. I have to start deleting a few so I can save some more. It's really annoying.Judgement101 said:
Otherwise, yes. I really am a savegame junkie. I think I topped 300 saves for New Vegas, around the same amount for Fallout 3 and, surprisingly, only 47 for my last Oblivion character. I must've overwritten a lot, I suppose. I'm really finicky about my progress being properly taken into account, largely after one bad experience too many.
I'm lookin' at you, Crysis 2...
Not at all. I grew up with consoles, and those games usually start you off from the same area after you die instead of ending the game completely and making you revert to your last save. Also, when you WERE given the chance to save it'd always overwrite your previous save, so I grew accustomed to having one save slot for each person in the household playing the game. There was no going back if you made a mistake, you just incorporated that mistake into your gameplay experience (on most occasions you could do over anyway, so no big deal).
When I moved onto PC games or games that handled saves like PC games I found it so unforgiving having to constantly save and manage save states. Since I was used to playing with the knowledge that if I die I'll just get some small penalty and placed back at the start of the level, I'd play carelessly then find myself having to restart from my last save an hour or two ago and ragequit.
I don't particularly like games that only give you one life because it just leads to this "savegame cowardice" the OP speaks of.
When I moved onto PC games or games that handled saves like PC games I found it so unforgiving having to constantly save and manage save states. Since I was used to playing with the knowledge that if I die I'll just get some small penalty and placed back at the start of the level, I'd play carelessly then find myself having to restart from my last save an hour or two ago and ragequit.
I don't particularly like games that only give you one life because it just leads to this "savegame cowardice" the OP speaks of.
