These days I’m usually just confused about autosaves. Especially in games that don’t have clear checkpoints. I don’t mind taking explicit saving away but don’t oversimplify it by trying to pretend saving isn’t even a thing that happens. Nothing more fun than pointlessly replaying 30 minutes.
(Technology that is needlessly oversimplified just sucks. I hate that if YouTube jams on my smart TV, there’s no option to, you know, shut it down or restart it. You have to literally go and pull the plug. Samsung thinks we’re bunch of idiots but they’re a bunch of idiots I tell you)
Also, explicit saving is still better. To quote one local game journalist, when the PC-focused game magazine expanded to cover consoles: “I want to save the game right away, not after I’ve been run over by a zombie in the subway five times.” /old person whinge of the week
Quicksave first though.
Have multiple save files
This is what I’ve been doing for every game since I had a New Vegas save get corrupted and I had to almost completely start over. I go overboard and make like 5-10 saves now at various points in a game.
It’s like sdcards and external hard drives. After some time i make a new copy of the archive just because.
You can never be too careful. I’ve lost decades worth of crap I’ve collected when drives go bad.
It auto-saves every now and again. Just exit.
But then you realize you were 30s away from an auto save / checkpoint and 10mins of gameplay are lost
I live on the edge
Daredevil!
*Kills the game process and reopens it to play from the last save just before I fucked up…*
All good until Mr Resetti shows up to scold you.
Quick Save (F5) / Quick Load (F9)
Palworld: “Are you sure you want to quit? All unsaved progress will be lost! (game will automatically save on quit)”
Why even warn me, then? 🤨
If the devs are like me they added the auto save in exit feature but forgot to update the text the user sees.
A little fan to the flames of anxiety
Japanese mistranslation or not giving a fuck I’m assuming.
Bruh, I hate how Nintendo only lets you have ONE save file in most of their games, especially in BOTW and TOTK so I have to intentionally try to trigger the autosave and use that as a reload point when I’m not ready to overwrite my only save yet. Like I would load the save, before doing anything, i’d fast travel to a random shrine or town, wait for the autosave icon to pop up, wait for like 5-10 seconds, check the load menu (basically “copying” my only save into an autosave, since I haven’t done anything in the in-game world yet, I can reload this autosave in case I make a mistake with my manual save), and then I go explore a new place or fight some monster.
But they only allow 5 autosaves, so if you explore too long, you can’t revert the state of your world.
What the fuck nintendo?
Also, wtf is a monthly subscription to backup save files?
And for third party games, you cannot export the save files to a pc.
Fuck this bs, worse mistake of my life.
(BOTW was fun, but nintendo sucks, TOTK feels kinda like a clone of BOTW, got so burned out from nintendo games)
BOTW is fun, Nintendo sucks, TOTK is glorified BOTW DLC for standalone release price.
Honestly much better experience emulating them on PC where you have full control over your save files and you can mod if you want. Nintendo could make a lot of money if they officially released on PC but they want absolute control over the hardware and software.
I forgot to check if I could pirate and just went ahead with the switch purchase assuming piracy was impossible. Lol, worst mistake I ever made. Now I have a save file in TOTK half-way done with the game and idk if I would ever finish the game.
Piracy is definitely possible. You just have to find an early switch model, unless you’re good with a soldering iron. I’ve had 2 modded switches for years and there is homebrew that helps you back up your saves. https://www.reddit.com/r/NxSwitchModding/comments/1cpo4r1/how_to_back_up_restore_or_transfer_your_nintendo/
You don’t even need a Switch to play Switch games, just a somewhat decent PC. Keep it on the down low though, Nintendo doesn’t like it and they have an army of fanboys who will defend them.
You only need a physical Switch and to dump the games if you want to do everything perfectly legally.
That’s true, I only recently got a computer that could handle switch emulation but I know it’s been around for a long time. It’s probably a lot easier than dealing updates on a modded switch.
You could make a second profile for an additional save, but then DLC gets complicated.
I always make a second profile to play through Pokemon games a second time.
Right this shouldn’t happen. Rpgmaker makes gives dozens of save files
But you can’t make a save A, then do something, then make a save B, then decide oops, I wanna revert back to save A because I broke my best weapon and I don’t wanna lose it.
The underworld on TOTK just burnt me out. There’s so much of it and it’s all so samey and bleak, like if all of Dark Souls was Blighttown.
I took a break of about a year before going back to polish off the story.
Oh man I loved the underworld. One of the very first things I did in that game was trying to get to all the light roots. Skipped past most of the monsters and treasures, just grinding the travel.
This is what I did. I didn’t even come close to getting 100% of the collectibles, but I really enjoyed my experience with TOTK. I love both for what they are. BOTW to me was a very peaceful and moving experience once I got into it. I hated it at first and hate played through some of the main story then I said fuck it I’ll just get all of the towers and open up the whole map. In doing that I kind of fell in love with the game. The different areas, the scenery, the freedom, the music, it was a great game.
TOTK didn’t have that same emotion from the ambience, but I enjoyed the story and crafting. It did feel like it was missing the uniqueness that I loved in BOTW, but overall it was a good experience. I’d love a similar style game, but in a new version of Hyrule.
I’d assume it is by design. But also fuck Nintendo. Don’t spend money with them. Bet you can save as much as you want when playing in an emulator.
Some games have a little notification that says something like: “saved 5 seconds ago”. That kind of makes it okay to just quit without saving again.
Omg why is this not universal. The number of times I’m 99% sure I just saved, but will do it again just to be sure
No Man’s Sky
About to die, reflexively hits quicksave:
“Fuck!”
So many emulated snes playthroughs ruined by that impulse
Just use the setting to not overwrite previous saves
Or keep a backup savestate just in case.
John Wick with the double-tap … err … save.
- Save game.
- Save and exit game.
- Immediately restart game.
- Load from last save.
- Immediately save game again, 5 seconds after last save.
- Save and exit game. Again.
Should be all good, I think.
- CTRL + S
- Mash “quit”
I was close to
Quick save;
Save game;
Exit and save game;But yours is better.
I have done this many times but excluding step 5.
Save game
Save and Exit Game
Same as Exit Game
Save an Exigent Dame
Sale of Ex-Mint Game
Gave My Ex-Wife AIDS
Quit Without Praying
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…Just hit the power button to suspend the game.
Yeah, same with Switch and current gen console suspend mode. Saves so much time.
Last time I tried this on a Windows PC the games had a 75% of fucking up when you powered it back on.
Love this version of the meme format with Keanu Reeves!
is it AI mad?
Oldest I found was may 25, so could be, but I found no description…
Thank you! Will be using/stealing this haha
I’ve been playing games for 30+ years, I always have 3+ separate save files.
Yet I don’t think I’ve ever had a corrupted save so I don’t even know why I formed this habit lol
I broke a 60+ hour save gave of Final Fantasy XII when I was a teen by only having one save, and saving between boss phases in one of the optional boss fights that apparently I wasn’t prepared for (and probably never should have beat phase 1). It would not let me leave, and the only way out was through. And it was a loooooong fight. Like I’d fight him for 90 mins and then die.
I must have spent at least 30 hours trying every single gambit strategy I knew to fight my way out of there but it was no use. Still never beat that game.
Since then I have like at least 5 separate saves when I play a JRPG.
Damn that’s not fun lol
That just reminded me of a horrible time I had with metal gear revengence. Near the end on your way to the boss you have things thrown at you that you’re supposed to use the games slicing gimmick to break, but my game bugged and I couldn’t rotate the blade so by the time I got to the boss I had a small sliver of HP left…
Took like 4 hours to beat him and then during the cutscene that happens just as you’re beating him the game froze…
To this day I never finished that game either lol
Sometimes you rage quit so hard that it sticks forever
Oof, that’s rough
I did have a corrupted save once. Rotating three saves is the minimum, better do 5 just to be safe.
