• MiDaBa@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    42
    ·
    16 hours ago

    Even worse. Games with a mysterious auto save “feature” that don’t allow a manual backup save. There’s a special place in hell for those developers.

    • Zron@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      13 hours ago

      Idk, I feel that’s okay as long as the saves are incredibly frequent and reliable.

      I’ve never lost progress in a From Software game for instance, and they have an only auto save system, but it saves literally everything you do as soon as you do it, so unless you deliberately alt-F4 instantly after doing something, you won’t lose any progress.

      • youngalfred@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        12 hours ago

        Can you reload old saves, or only the most recent? I think being able to reload an older save is important in the case of glitches (NPC walks through wall and is unreachable etc)

        • GiantRobotTRex@lemmy.sdf.org
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          11 hours ago

          Only the most recent.

          I also have never had any issues with game breaking bugs like that. I’ve encountered some glitches but nothing a save+reload couldn’t fix. Everything just resets to its normal spawn point.

  • WhatSay@slrpnk.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    13
    ·
    14 hours ago

    I think it’s no mans sky that tells you how long ago your last save was before you leave. That’s the ideal.

  • jsomae@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    13
    ·
    15 hours ago

    Props to Animal Well developer, it doesn’t prompt you if you saved in the last minute.

  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    13 hours ago

    They could improve this so much by saying something like “the last 2 minutes and 24 seconds of unsaved progress will be lost” instead. Just need to keep a time counter from last save, that’s not too much overhead.

    • William@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      11 hours ago

      There are even games that already do this. I still end up second-guessing, but at least “you last saved 8 seconds ago” makes me pretty sure I got it.

  • CluckN@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    15 hours ago

    One time during the final mission in Batman Arkham City I hit the power button at the same frame the auto-save turned on. My save was corrupted and I had to speedrun the story again. Thank god I wasn’t doing Riddler trophies I would’ve gone insane.

  • cRazi_man@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    4 hours ago

    Flashbacks of playing Metal Gear Solid 2 at a time of frequent unexpected power cuts. Painful.

  • CodexArcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    14 hours ago

    The new Prince of Persia is the worst for this! There’s no auto-cloud save, so you have to manually manage uploading and downloading to the one cloud save slot between your three on-device slots.

    And no matter what, no matter how long it’s been, it asks about it, like: “Your last save was 0 minutes ago, as you sure you want to exit?”