I wish all games would just let you save whenever you want to! Why is using checkpoints and auto saves so common?

At least add a quit and save option if you want to avoid save scumming.

These days I just want to be able to squeeze in some gaming whenever I can even if it’s just quick sessions. That’s annoyingly hard in games that won’t let you save.

I wonder what the reason for this is?

  • NuPNuA@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Steam Deck and all home consoles let you do that now. It’s only PC gamers who don’t have the function.

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      1 year ago

      New to the Deck, am afraid to do that since it screwed up with Cloudpunk the one time i did it, just sent it to sleep with the power button and when it came back it had issues (don’t recall exactly what right now, a black screen i think) and remained until i did a full Deck reboot, feel like it’s a classic PC issue which makes sense, now i don’t send it to sleep until i’ve saved and quit

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        1 year ago

        Some games will fail on it. It’s more of a hack, than something that game devs coded for like they have to on other platforms.