• don@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago
    1. Save game.
    2. Save and exit game.
    3. Immediately restart game.
    4. Load from last save.
    5. Immediately save game again, 5 seconds after last save.
    6. Save and exit game. Again.

    Should be all good, I think.

  • PixeIOrange@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Save game Save game and save exit save game exit. Exit savegame and save save exit save. Save save exit save save save i dont feel too well i think ill lay down…

  • Asafum@feddit.nl
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    8 months ago

    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

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 months ago

      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.

      • Asafum@feddit.nl
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        8 months ago

        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

    • Guitarfun@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      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.

        • Guitarfun@lemmy.world
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          8 months ago

          You can never be too careful. I’ve lost decades worth of crap I’ve collected when drives go bad.

  • Rose@slrpnk.net
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    8 months ago

    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

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    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.