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
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