I have a problem.

[Stella Q]

I'm an obsessively compulsive quicksaver. I quicksave before I enter every room. I quicksave before (sometimes during) every gunfight. I even quicksave every time I pick up a health pack or ammo. If I have to walk down a hallway, I quicksave before I start walking and quicksave again when I get to the end. It probably averages out to a quicksave every 10-15 seconds or so. Often I reload a gunfight over and over until I do it perfectly without being hit and without a bullet wasted.

It takes all of the challenge out of every game and ruins my immersion, but I can't stop doing it. It's gotten to the point where I wince when I see that a game has a quicksave option because I know what kind of gameplay experience I'm inevitably in for.

Does anyone else have this problem? Is there a cure?

 

[Omnipotent]

Can't you move quicksave to the same button as the exit button?

 

[VVL]

Can't you move quicksave to the same button as the exit button?

Well played, sir.

 

[Alex_P]

I kinda like doing that.

Set the difficulty way up and think of it as an elaborate performance?

-- Alex

 

[HSIAMetalKing]

That's an interesting dilemma.

Would removing the quicksave key from the keyboard help? Or maybe just binding it to a hard-to-reach button? I would think that the best "cure" for quicksave-fever is just to not quicksave-- so making it difficult to do so would be the first step.

 

[OurGloriousLeader]

Yeah I do that, the original half-life got quicksaved every metre I walked through a room. But on the hard difficulty, you had to, because one minor fall and all your suit and health is gone.

Anyway, it became an instinct, and Mass Effect and Bioshock were the same. I have no cure.

 

[PurpleRain]

Don't cut it back. Just stop. Never quicksave. Try and go through an entire level without it. As long as you can keep this up, you might kick it.

Unless of course you really suck at games and die at every room.

 

[Erana]

*gives Stella Q the Xbox version of Morrowind*

The loading is so long, it would make you save only once a year.

 

[the_tramp]

I have a nasty habit of forgetting to save, I always rely upon the auto save features (beginnings of levels and after certain key points). This becomes very infuriating when I replay slightly older games that rely upon the user saving it. Nothing like having to replay 10-15 minutes of a game...

I honestly can't suggest anything bar binding quicksave to alt-f4.

 

[Erana]

I have a nasty habit of forgetting to save, I always rely upon the auto save features (beginnings of levels and after certain key points). This becomes very infuriating when I replay slightly older games that rely upon the user saving it. Nothing like having to replay 10-15 minutes of a game...

I honestly can't suggest anything bar binding quicksave to alt-f4.

1. Try replaying three hours worth.

2. Better yet, put quickload to where you currently have quicksave.
Hilarity insues.

 

[Copter400]

Don't cut it back. Just stop. Never quicksave. Try and go through an entire level without it. As long as you can keep this up, you might kick it.

Or we do things the hard way. Y'see, it's a lot harder to quicksave when you're too busy thinking about the wolverine in ya' pantry...

 

[Dommyboy]

Buy a game that doesn't have quick save and long save/load times?

 

[PurpleRain]

Don't cut it back. Just stop. Never quicksave. Try and go through an entire level without it. As long as you can keep this up, you might kick it.

Or we do things the hard way. Y'see, it's a lot harder to quicksave when you're too busy thinking about the wolverine in ya' pantry...

When I read that, I automatically thought of the Xmen Wolverine, not the animal. That would make it much more frightning. Anytime you try and quicksave: *Shnk*

 

[Sayvara]

I recognize the problem... I do about the same. Suggested remedies: forbid yoruself from quicksaving. Undefind the QS/QL buttons. Play it not for perfection but for the heck of it. Go Rambo... dash in and kill everything in sight just because it's fun.

/S

 

[KenzS]

I would suggest shock therapy. Everytime you quicksave, you get an electric shock. Maybe that will help cure your disease.

 

[Fire Daemon]

Maybe try playing games with no Quicksave on a super hard difficulty.

I'm not sure if CoD2 on the PC has Quicksave but if it dosen't, try that.

 

[franzuu]

i don't save enough. I lose hours on a regular basis in games.

 

[M0rp43vs]

In persona, I have the opposite. I never save until about 8 hours and after at least 1 full moon.

But in morrowind, I have this problem. I don't care how long it is, getting the damn "your disc is dirty"....