Autosave Should Be Mandatory

ErrolGames writes:
Dead Space 2 is in my PS3 right now, and I don't even want to play it. Why? Because I turned it on and discovered I didn't save my game from the night before. I have to replay hours of progress because Dead Space requires gamers to manually save. It's 2011. Get with the program Dead Space. Stop obsessing over my mother and add an Autosave patch.

[Kon]

yes

[Muletroid]

no when it comes to RPG's i actually dislike autosave go ahead and auto save everything if you want but leave it out of my RPG's ty very much

i sometimes like doing a certain scenario a different way and i also like doing certain things over so i can try and get something rare and valuable

[Kon]

Not in all games i agree.

[wildcat]

But every game should at least have the option to autosave.

[MidnytRain]

I agree. In games in which I choose my own paths and go at my own pace, it would be horrible for my progress to be involuntarily saved over. This holds true in scenarios in which I might miss important information, accidentally kill an NPC, screw up a puzzle, or trap myself in impossible situations (I.e. low health while surrounded my enemies).

[Giant_Chibi]

And let's not forget about minecraft. I hate when it autosaves. When I was first starting out, I was excavating a hole and as I was making my way back to the top I fell through the hole I dug up and died, losing all my items in the process.

Afterwords, I came to realize that I can't reload from a previous save because of the damn autosave. Curses!

[Elimin8]

For me personally, they don't have to implement it but at the least give me an option to save when I want... Autosaves rarely works. Look at DeadNation.. YOu can't even stop playing halfway through a mision and come bk to it later.... Pain in the ass especially on Morbid......

My 2Cents...

[QuodEratDemonstrandm]

I don't know if mandatory autosaves are possible. They should definitely be more common.

[Derekvinyard13]

AGREE

[theonlylolking]

I like manual saves and auto saves at the same time the best. Like the ones in fallout, oblivion, etc... I can choose when I save and where I save at any time. I can also make multiple save points wherever and whenever. In fallout 3 I have 8 manual save points and 1 auto save point. So I can load where I want to just in case something happened that I did not want to happen.

[DRiX]

As an RPGer I disagree. What if I can't go back because I missed something? However, it should definitely be an option in all games.

[Deathstroke]

lol, casual gamers.

[BlackTar187]

i like auto save on everything but RPG's and i am def. not a casual gamer.
I didnt click disagree but i 100% disagree with your statement.

Ohh you have no more bubbles cool this was fun good talk

[Bnet343]

"Ohh you have no more bubbles cool this was fun good talk"

LMFAO!! You just made me spit water on my screen. *wipes tears* I love you lol wow

[ugabugaz]

No it shouldn't be. If you forget to save that's your own damn fault.
I admit it is a nice feature, but I like the option of having it OFF.

[wiggles]

agree, I like autosave but in the end the author is the dumb ass who didn't take the 5 seconds it takes to click on the save point.

A nice feature, but it's not that hard to manually save

[BlackTar187]

What about system freezes? or Power outages or glitches that force you to restart. there are plenty of reasons that auto save is nice. It doesn't have to be because your lazy hell it would be nice if Auto save wasnt a Hard Saved file so it auto saves in case of issues but encourages manual saves.

[ugabugaz]

I mean really, how often do any of those happen?
What if any of those things happen while it's autosaving, Bam corrupt. Not hating, just stating.

[BlackTar187]

it only has to happen once for it to be relevant.

[AnonUser5555]

I can definitely relate to the feeling though. It's not always auto-save related, but I just hate when something goes wrong and you have to replay something you just recently did.

A couple of years ago when I bought my PSP and FF7: Crisis Core, I got about 12 hours into the game in the first day or two before I realized gamestop completely ripped me off on the memory stick. So i returned it, bought a new one at Target for much cheaper, and the second I turned my PSP, I realized what I had done. oops.

[lodossrage]

It should be an option yes. But not mandatory. There are sometimes when you play a game and you save things you wish you didn't.

ESPECIALLY with rpg games. There are times autosave can keep you from going back and getting something you missed because you already saved beyond the point of no return.

And if you're a trophy/achievement freak, that autosave can end of forcing you to play a game from scratch just for that tiny thing you missed due to the autosave keeping you from backtracking

[guigsy]

Depends on the game. Dead Space 2 doesn't strike me as a game that should have an autosave feature. It is a survival horror game after all, having it save every two minutes automatically would be missing the point.

I loved Resident Evil having the ink ribbon/typewriter save system. It added an extra challenge to the game, in that you had to save strategically.

[Lavalamp]

I've never had a problem with the No More Heroes save system. After a couple missions, it became a routine thing. All you gots ta do is break it down into a two-step process:
Step 1) Defecate
Step 2) Decapitate

[clrlite]

Lol, how about an option to turn it on/off. Mandatory = rediculous.

[Kharhaz]

The only kind of RPG autosave that should be mandatory in are games with shitty buggy engines like Gamebryo (Oblivion, Fallout,) where crashes and bugs are very common. As for other games, obviously a survival horror game should never have autosave and a FPS or action game should pretty much always have it.

[CrescentFang]

I'm surprised no one said Demon's Souls yet, I have yet to take advantage of colorless farming though

[CaulkSlap]

Well now that everyone is used to them it should be mandatory. I spent so much time in STALKER replaying parts because something randomly kills me and I forgot to quicksave. But console games really need to have multiple autosaves along with the option to manually save when you would like.

Honestly ever since autosave became standard and developers have pushed to make the whole game continuous I have replayed everything a heck of a lot less. Replayed certain Halo 1 levels probably hundreds of times because each were a distinct and fun as a quick coop run through. Halo2 you couldn't even tell the difference between each level. Every game has a few outstanding parts and if it's not separated well from the mediocre then none of it gets replayed or even remembered.

[SeraphimBlade]

What there should be are autosave AND manual saves in each game. If all a game like Dead Space did was autosave, then next thing you know, your only files would have crap health left. At least, that's the kind of luck I have.

That kind of thing happened to me with Pokemon Battle Revolution. Battles took SOOOOO SSSSSLLLLLOOOOOOWWWWWW, so the two tournaments I hadn't saved took forever. Surprised I didn't just screw it and take it back to gamestop.

[InfiniteJustice]

Memories of auto save forcing me to restart my PS3 after Fallout 3 froze during the process. Same with New Vegas, turning auto save off at least stopped the game from more potential freezing... then again it's the games fault.

Still nice to have the option

[Ponurasky]

yes, make games even more stupid-friendy.

[Lazyeye79]

The writer of this article is an idiot. If you haven't learned to manually save games by this time you shouldn't be playing video games.

True gamers don't need autosaves.

[Corrwin]

It's a fair point. Every game should have an autosave. Nothing like every 5 minutes, or anything. But My main gripe with some games is that I have to replay some sections over and over again, and unlike Demon's Souls it just isn't fun after the first time.

For that matter, get rid of the "Do not turn off console whilst you see this icon", if you're stupid enough to turn off whilst saving, you deserve to loose the save.

[Guitardr85]

I agree, and they should also have a no-death feature, as well as a "the game plays for you" feature.

WIMP!!!