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reply posted on 9-11-2012 @ 06:02 AM by Grifter81
reply to post by incandecenttruth



Its nice to have auto save at all. I remember the good old days of console gaming where you lost everything once you turned off. The best you could hope for was a password per level system back then.

Hardcore, three lives and no saves.


reply posted on 9-11-2012 @ 06:37 AM by phishyblankwaters
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Its nice to have auto save at all. I remember the good old days of console gaming where you lost everything once you turned off. The best you could hope for was a password per level system back then.


Indeed, many a NES was fried because we had to leave them running. I think it was zelda? pretty sure it was zelda, the first game I remember having that actually saved on a cartridge! I was amazed.

Unrelated but almost related, I was reading about some "bug" in borderlands 2 on xbox 360, apparently there is a mode you can enable if you have a modded console they refer to as "badass mode". Once enabled, if you die, it deletes your savegame, you're done. The "bug" was, you could infect other people who didn't enable this mode, including people with unmodded consoles, while playing multiplayer.

Now that's a game with repercussions, you die, you really die lol
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reply posted on 9-11-2012 @ 06:46 AM by Thecakeisalie
reply to post by incandecenttruth



I know what you mean. There's a fine line where to have checkpoints and auto saves. If they're too far apart it feels like a chore to start again, too short and the game basically nurses you through.

By the way I got Halo 4; bought it, played it,clocked it. I won't give anything away but but what i will say is that it's epic.


reply posted on 9-11-2012 @ 08:24 AM by Cuervo
Originally posted by Grifter81
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post by incandecenttruth



Its nice to have auto save at all. I remember the good old days of console gaming where you lost everything once you turned off. The best you could hope for was a password per level system back then.

Hardcore, three lives and no saves.


Dude, I remember having to enter in a code that took up half the screen on River City Ransom just to "load" my game. Legend of Zelda coming out with saves was just mind blowing.


reply posted on 9-11-2012 @ 08:48 AM by Flavian
reply to post by incandecenttruth



Ha never though of it like that before. I have always approached autosave from the opposite viewpoint - it does my head in! Seriously, hate trawling through all the saves to look for the relevant one.

I like the old style because at least it meant you got to "know" the game. Never really put any thought into it but kind of assumed others felt like i did!

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