Solar 2. I pretty much have to before those stupid nomad ships laser away my hard earned mass. You'll have to buy it to know what I'm talking about. It's a $5 indie game, so it's probably in your price range.
How Much of a Savegame Coward Are You?
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I also tend to save a lot in games before I do something that might be "morally" wrong with consequences... Like stealing in games like Oblivion. I'll slip into a house and steal or murder the occupants, but I'll save first, in case I get caught.
Since everyone seems to be using DE:HR as an example, I will too. I am definitely not a save game junky, at least not in HR. In fact, I didn't even know there was a quicksave feature in the console version until I left Detroit, and even then I didn't use it. I really want my first run through to be as immersive as possible.
Like when you have the chance to convince Tong to reveal himself through conversation, I fucked it up and missed out on the achievement. I didn't reload the save though, I just decided to roll with it and go talk to the bartender for the backup quest. Then I fucked that up. I'm also trying to do a stealthy run, but I won't reload when I get caught. This makes getting through rooms a lot less frustrating.
Like when you have the chance to convince Tong to reveal himself through conversation, I fucked it up and missed out on the achievement. I didn't reload the save though, I just decided to roll with it and go talk to the bartender for the backup quest. Then I fucked that up. I'm also trying to do a stealthy run, but I won't reload when I get caught. This makes getting through rooms a lot less frustrating.
I don't revert to saved games when I mess up in a game, I typically just roll with the consequences. However, when I was playing Half-Life 2 on the Nova Prospekt level, I made it though most of the level with only 5 health, because I kept hammering the quick-save button practically every five feet. I couldn't find any health packs so my only option was to quick save every single time I killed an enemy and take them out one by one.
I used to play a game for several hours without saving but after playing FF: Tactics Advanced for 14 hours straight (PS3 broke and I was on a 4 day weekend with no money) and fighting a battle I wasn't prepared for, I quickly learned to save as often as possible. Oblivion was one of the worst, Shogun 2 is right up there too.
Most of the time, yes. However, the main reason I save games so often is because I'm far too lazy to redo a series or a long chain of quests (etc) once I've already completed them.
The Total War games in general are my worst offenders, but thats generally because of that whole problem with the enemy AI that they've only just got to grips with. I always felt I had to in case that ally i've had next door for 200 years with a perfect record and great trade relations had a spaz attack and decided to attack me.Pr1de said:
Uh. I have like 13 copies of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and wrote a script to savescum by copying the directory and all save files in it to a new location.
I don't think I'd have 600+ saves in Detroit but I have yet to boot up Deus Ex: HR yet.
I had well over 300 in Fallout 3, not including quicksaves.
Doom 3, I think I pressed quicksave more than the fire button...
I don't think I'd have 600+ saves in Detroit but I have yet to boot up Deus Ex: HR yet.
I had well over 300 in Fallout 3, not including quicksaves.
Doom 3, I think I pressed quicksave more than the fire button...
It's funny because that was my exact experience with Deus Ex today...Images said:
Of course the AI is a bit tricky...walk right in front of them, nothing...
walk across a ledge with a bunch of barriers and they spot you from a mile away...go figure
Soooooo many reloads....the game would probably be a lot more fun if I just rolled with the punches and adapted to the situation....but NOOO for some reason it bugs me if I don't ninja the entire level....
If anything, I don't save nearly enough. Usually about evey three hours, whcih I payed the price for playing Mass Effect.
I have so many Fallout (3/NV) saves that when I zipped about three quarters of them up and moved them to a different drive I freed up multiple gigs of hard drive space. True story. Part of that, though, is due to wanting events to play out in a way that fits my vision of my character's story.
In other games I'll often try to save right before a decision point or other critical juncture, but nowhere near every five minutes or anything...though sometimes I wish I did.
In other games I'll often try to save right before a decision point or other critical juncture, but nowhere near every five minutes or anything...though sometimes I wish I did.
Save game coward? Since when is saving considered cowardly? I've always viewed it as simply wise, like the gaming equivalent of buckling up in the car. Then again, my earliest gaming experiences WERE Sierra games... in any case, I usually rely on a rotating system of five to eight saves so my save directory doesn't get too cluttered. It also prevents counting my total saves, not that I care anyway.
In the past.. not at all.. I'd frequently load a game only to find myself miles back because I'd forgotten to save.
Since I got Deus Ex HR? Every time I try anything I hit quicksave...
Of course this is mostly because my power supply was having a heart attack over the last few days and kept rebooting my computer.
Since I got Deus Ex HR? Every time I try anything I hit quicksave...
Of course this is mostly because my power supply was having a heart attack over the last few days and kept rebooting my computer.
I think I only use save games on the original Half-Life, mainly because it feels like ages between 2 autosave sections,
and also because of this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJroK5-eyd8&feature=related]
and also because of this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJroK5-eyd8&feature=related]