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Assassinator · 03/03/2010 04:49 PM

Sparker Wrote:Err, I never saw anyone say anything about quicksaves. Besides quicksaves are meant to be a temporaily save and erases it's self when you load it. Nothing like a full save where you can load from the save point over and over.

I must be imagining things then. but yeah, if you only keep one save, and you do happen so save at a bad time, you're pretty screwed, while that can never happen with checkpoint based saves, as the checkpoints are selected to sort of prevent that kind of stuff.

Sparker · 03/03/2010 07:58 PM

Assassinator Wrote:
Sparker Wrote:Err, I never saw anyone say anything about quicksaves. Besides quicksaves are meant to be a temporaily save and erases it's self when you load it. Nothing like a full save where you can load from the save point over and over.

I must be imagining things then. but yeah, if you only keep one save, and you do happen so save at a bad time, you're pretty screwed, while that can never happen with checkpoint based saves, as the checkpoints are selected to sort of prevent that kind of stuff.

I made that mistake once in FFIV for the DS, otherwise I normally do keep multiple saves if the game allows it.

Hellgiver · 03/03/2010 09:41 PM

Sparker Wrote:
Assassinator Wrote:As for other people pointing out quick saves getting you into bad situations when saved at the wrong time.

Err, I never saw anyone say anything about quicksaves. Besides quicksaves are meant to be a temporaily save and erases it's self when you load it. Nothing like a full save where you can load from the save point over and over.

But some games still fail at savestates. FFTA and Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2 come to mind. You just do a quicksave, if it doesn't go the right way, then load without saving, and the quicksave is back.

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