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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

First time I played Half Life. I was only using quick save and quick load. I fall off the platform in Xen I hit quick load, but instead pressed quick save. Now my only save is of me half way through a fall to my doom.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Almost anyone who has used an emulator has made a similar mistake with save states at some point.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Years of computer graphics has taught me the utmost importance neurotic saving.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When you Nintendo switch dies, and you don't pay them monthly subscription to backup your games to the cloud.

Fuck you Nintendo. Never switching back from my Steam Deck.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you don't want to pay, you should at least be able to save onto a SD card which could be transferred to another Switch or backed up on a PC. Though it wasn't perfect, Sony had that back on the PSP.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sadly, that would mean save duplication would be possible - which is a huge no-go for the Switch for some godforsaken reason. Fuck Nintendo, sold my account, got the Deck, and now my data is backed up instantly, for "free" (price included in the 30% fee). Not like it's more than a fre hundred KBs per game anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can play most games with Ryujinx or Yuzu anyway.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I love how the solution to all the issues most users have with the physical Switch are solved through emulation, and Nintendo, instead of simply giving people these features they want (which are entirely software dependent not hardware dependent) they wanna incorporate Denovu to try and stop the emulation scene.

I don't know how that is cheaper or easier than just, you know... Letting saves be moved to the SD card and making a better, more navigable and curated store.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

My biggest issue is that I can't use it to play the games on my nice monitor at 4k with my GuliKit controller with hall-effect sticks that never have drift issues. I'll still buy the physical games to support the devs if they're good but I'm not buying another Switch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Also forgot to mention, you know what died inside the switch? The chip that is responsible for encrypting the data, which also held the key, which means rest of the HW was okay, but the chip was unsalvagable (tried both official and unofficial channels).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Legit dropped Nier:Automata after it auto failed me for taking the "wrong" path to a boss fight. Hadn't saved for a while and didn't feel like redoing all that progress because the game arbitrarily decided to kill me.

[–] jjagaimo 7 points 1 year ago

When the game has a long annoying section and it stops you from saving afterwards followed by a decision that you really want to be able to undo

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What game are you playing without auto saves?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Baldurs Gate 3 you can go hours without an autosave triggering.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've got a little autohotkey script that autosaves every 5 minutes if the BG3 window is open.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Unfortunately I have a PS5 so no autohotkey for me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Oh wow it’s been a while since I played final fantasy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of Suikoden 2. One of the first PS1 titles I picked up. Didn't even know I needed a memory card to save when I bought it. But my parents couldn't take me to the store again for a few days, so I just played and kept it on overnight.

About half way through the game is a duel that is basically paper rock scissors. And game over if you lose.

I lost.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Why do you think F5 is on the keyboard?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Saving Killed Gaming

#pacmanremembers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

He doesn't without saving.