The Master

[maninahat]

One unusual feature I found in Far Cry 2 is that instead of saving over the same file, every quick save is saved as a separate file. By the end of several playthroughs, my save scumming had produced 12GB folder of saves. I think all games should keep a record of how often you saved, just to shame you at the end.

 

[Zeraki]

A few years ago I wouldn't have gotten this joke. But now that I'm pretty much exclusively a PC gamer, I find it all kinds of hilarious... because it's true.

A bit off topic, don't you guys hate it when a game screws with the traditional placement of the mystical quick save/load keys? Especially when the keys aren't listed in the bindings, so you have to look it up online (I'm looking at you Far Cry 3).

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

This is how I made it past Jedi Knight II, Desperados, Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines and Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine.

 

[Darth_Payn]

Maybe she's just playing Divekick with Dive! and Kick! bound to F5 and F9?

Or maybe she's just bad at whatever game she's playing currently. That explains her elitist attitude, covering up her failure.

 

[BobisOnlyBob]

 

 

[punipunipyo]

LOL Reminds me of the movie "Next", I watched it, and the first thing that came to my mind is "F9" I think this is what the movie SHOULD HAVE been called... nice one!~

I still considered that "Hardcore" because check point games are the same, only you just "restart from check point" all the time.... waste time, and sometimes you have to go through the same lame cinematic sequences.... either that... or going through the game knowing that you didn't accomplish best you COULD HAVE DONE...

 

[GabeZhul]

The comic is a satire on PC elitism and a very striking one at that. I can't think of any PC gamer (myself included) I know that doesn't do this.

I don't.

In fact, I use quicksave/loads so little that I would frequently forget they even existed in Skyrim, which multiple times led me to losing about two or three hours worth of exploring because the game had a balls autosave system.

How the hell did you do that? Skyrim has the most friendly autosaving system ever! For what you describe you would have had to not fast-travel, open your inventory or go through a door for three hours! How do you even do that!?

 

[punipunipyo]

Sadly true. I never learned to quicksave/quickload, so I still get burned by games whose difficulty is built around them. (Half-Life, I'm looking at you.) I much prefer things like the Souls games, which are constantly, quietly autosaving. Quit your game at any time, it won't get you out of your predicament and you won't lose any progress.

Hated that... people try saying that you COULD do it iff you Alt F4 on time... I didn't.... I want my 200K soul back.... Freaking DLC DRAGON, and his "CHEAP ASS 500FT Radius SWEEPING HEAD BUT"... it's STILL ALIVE! I CAN'T KILL THAT FREAKING THING!~ I think one of these days... I'd forget his stink'in tail... and just go naked Demon axe(fully upgraded) on him...

 

[sageoftruth]

Beautiful! I wish there was a "like" button for this comic. Resisting the temptation of the save button has been a lifelong struggle of mine.

 

[Rad Party God]

Sadly true. I own Megaman for the NES and PS2, but I first beat it on an emulator because I could quicksave on it...

Pfff... I scoff at Megaman's 2 puny difficulty, everyone knows the Ninja Gaiden trilogy is where it's at*.

OT: Well... that pretty much sums up my initial experience with Baldur's Gate... and I hated it for that. It should be called "F5: The RPG".

[small]*Thank God for quicksaves.[/small]

 

[sageoftruth]

I loved those games like Hitman: Blood Money or Soldier of Fortune where you could save anytime, but only for a limited number of times, forcing you to budget your saves and not abuse them.

 

[lacktheknack]

Spoiler: Look at us, and look at them

These inferior console players do not deserve the glory of the quicksave. They cannot grasp how much more difficult it makes games, to be able to save anywhere and return to that spot. They lie, saying things like "this makes everything extremely easy," "you can abuse it to make random events always turn out in your favor," and "please stop torturing me."

They can never understand. They are not worthy of enough to understand.

My face cracked at "please stop torturing me". Well played.

 

[jmarquiso]

I have to say - I'm a PC gamer and this wooshed past my head until I stared really closely at the keys she's pressing.

That said, that takes more skill than fucking checkpoints.

Casuals.

Edit: the end of this post was sarcastic if that wasn't obvious.

Grey! Another great one!

 

[probably_insane]

Since so many people mention skyrim, it's an aweful example of a hard game, because:
higher difficulties just change the damage taken, damage done ratio, with adept being both 100% and master being 50% done and 200% taken. The game mechanics themselves are quite simple since the ai works by a pattern.

Guilty as charged me too, thanks too that one bloody skyrim boss with the hammer, who killed my char (300hp about as much armor) in one hit (or out-of-thin-air finishing move -,-)... must have saved like 8 times on that guy alone.

I would really love to see Skyrim with a difficulty mechanic, which is more like:
damage-done/damage-taken/ai-behaviour
1/1/lenient-learn the game
1.1/1.2/new tactics (by enemy)
1.2/1.4/higher speed or lower reaction time for the player
1.3/1.6/new tactics
and so on...

I like the new xcom on classic ironman though (somewhat 70 restarts until i beat the game, because I was stubbornly trying to use a southamerica-scientist based start x) )

[guilty as charged of alt-f4 in my more recent xcom runs]

 

[Atmos Duality]

Quicksave, I spam in games where I'm paranoid of it crashing. (hello Oblivion, you poorly coded polished turd)
Quickload...eh. I can live with my mistakes. Only way to improve. That and it's very easy to get caught in a nasty place if you save in a bad spot.

I can't see the appeal in being "The Master". Constantly rewinding the present to the past or skipping to some known future. Unless you have some fantasy about being "The Master of Time"...like a...lord, of time.
A "Time Lord" if you would.

 

[Charli]

*looks at my worn out quicksave/quickload keys*


...Ermhm. Yeah... Fun. '-'

I have masochistic viewpoints of fun, I never encourage anyone to follow in my footsteps. Stay away consolers, you know not what they speak of. It is a strange and bizarre fetish! Fleeee, fleee my good children.

 

[dblkknight]

i actually did a spit take.
good response.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

*twitch*

MUST SAVE, I PICKED UP A THING.

[sub][sub]Fallout New Vegas has given me bad saving habits... <.<[/sub][/sub]

 

[Velocir_X]

Pshaw its like this guy has never heard of Ironman Impossible in XCOM, Insane mode in Witcher 2, or the entirety of IWTBTG.

 

[Ushiromiya Battler]

I don't save scum. Instead I forget to save at all and lose multiple hours of progress on death. Clearly being unable to remember to save is the proper way to play games.

This! So much this!
I remember crying myself through S.T.A.L.K.E.R on hard mode since I constantly forgot to QS.

I will never be a true pc gamer, QS and QL is just to hard for me. T__T