play it save

These days I'm usually just confused about autosaves. Especially in games that don't have clear checkpoints. I don't mind taking explicit saving away but don't oversimplify it by trying to pretend saving isn't even a thing that happens. Nothing more fun than pointlessly replaying 30 minutes.

(Technology that is needlessly oversimplified just sucks. I hate that if YouTube jams on my smart TV, there's no option to, you know, shut it down or restart it. You have to literally go and pull the plug. Samsung thinks we're bunch of idiots but they're a bunch of idiots I tell you)

Also, explicit saving is still better. To quote one local game journalist, when the PC-focused game magazine expanded to cover consoles: "I want to save the game right away, not after I've been run over by a zombie in the subway five times." /old person whinge of the week

Have multiple save files

This is what I've been doing for every game since I had a New Vegas save get corrupted and I had to almost completely start over. I go overboard and make like 5-10 saves now at various points in a game.
- It's like sdcards and external hard drives. After some time i make a new copy of the archive just because.

It auto-saves every now and again. Just exit.

But then you realize you were 30s away from an auto save / checkpoint and 10mins of gameplay are lost
- I live on the edge
Daredevil!

Kills the game process and reopens it to play from the last save just before I fucked up....

All good until Mr Resetti shows up to scold you.

Quick Save (F5) / Quick Load (F9)

Bruh, I hate how Nintendo only lets you have ONE save file in most of their games, especially in BOTW and TOTK so I have to intentionally try to trigger the autosave and use that as a reload point when I'm not ready to overwrite my only save yet. Like I would load the save, before doing anything, i'd fast travel to a random shrine or town, wait for the autosave icon to pop up, wait for like 5-10 seconds, check the load menu (basically "copying" my only save into an autosave, since I haven't done anything in the in-game world yet, I can reload this autosave in case I make a mistake with my manual save), and then I go explore a new place or fight some monster.

But they only allow 5 autosaves, so if you explore too long, you can't revert the state of your world.

What the fuck nintendo?

Also, wtf is a monthly subscription to backup save files?

And for third party games, you cannot export the save files to a pc.

Fuck this bs, worse mistake of my life.

(BOTW was fun, but nintendo sucks, TOTK feels kinda like a clone of BOTW, got so burned out from nintendo games)

BOTW is fun, Nintendo sucks, TOTK is glorified BOTW DLC for standalone release price.
Honestly much better experience emulating them on PC where you have full control over your save files and you can mod if you want. Nintendo could make a lot of money if they officially released on PC but they want absolute control over the hardware and software.
- I forgot to check if I could pirate and just went ahead with the switch purchase assuming piracy was impossible. Lol, worst mistake I ever made. Now I have a save file in TOTK half-way done with the game and idk if I would ever finish the game.
You could make a second profile for an additional save, but then DLC gets complicated.
I always make a second profile to play through Pokemon games a second time.
- Right this shouldn't happen. Rpgmaker makes gives dozens of save files
- But you can't make a save A, then do something, then make a save B, then decide oops, I wanna revert back to save A because I broke my best weapon and I don't wanna lose it.
The underworld on TOTK just burnt me out. There's so much of it and it's all so samey and bleak, like if all of Dark Souls was Blighttown.
I took a break of about a year before going back to polish off the story.
- Oh man I loved the underworld. One of the very first things I did in that game was trying to get to all the light roots. Skipped past most of the monsters and treasures, just grinding the travel.
I'd assume it is by design. But also fuck Nintendo. Don't spend money with them. Bet you can save as much as you want when playing in an emulator.

Some games have a little notification that says something like: “saved 5 seconds ago”. That kind of makes it okay to just quit without saving again.

Omg why is this not universal. The number of times I'm 99% sure I just saved, but will do it again just to be sure
No Man's Sky

About to die, reflexively hits quicksave:

"Fuck!"

So many emulated snes playthroughs ruined by that impulse

John Wick with the double-tap … err … save.

Save game.
Save and exit game.
Immediately restart game.
Load from last save.
Immediately save game again, 5 seconds after last save.
Save and exit game. Again.

Should be all good, I think.

CTRL + S
Mash "quit"
I was close to
Quick save;
Save game;
Exit and save game;
But yours is better.
I have done this many times but excluding step 5.
Save game
Save and Exit Game
Same as Exit Game
Save an Exigent Dame
Sale of Ex-Mint Game
Gave My Ex-Wife AIDS
Quit Without Praying

...Just hit the power button to suspend the game.

Yeah, same with Switch and current gen console suspend mode. Saves so much time.
Last time I tried this on a Windows PC the games had a 75% of fucking up when you powered it back on.

Love this version of the meme format with Keanu Reeves!

- is it AI mad?
- Thank you! Will be using/stealing this haha

I've been playing games for 30+ years, I always have 3+ separate save files.

Yet I don't think I've ever had a corrupted save so I don't even know why I formed this habit lol

I broke a 60+ hour save gave of Final Fantasy XII when I was a teen by only having one save, and saving between boss phases in one of the optional boss fights that apparently I wasn't prepared for (and probably never should have beat phase 1). It would not let me leave, and the only way out was through. And it was a loooooong fight. Like I'd fight him for 90 mins and then die.
I must have spent at least 30 hours trying every single gambit strategy I knew to fight my way out of there but it was no use. Still never beat that game.
Since then I have like at least 5 separate saves when I play a JRPG.
- Damn that's not fun lol
  That just reminded me of a horrible time I had with metal gear revengence. Near the end on your way to the boss you have things thrown at you that you're supposed to use the games slicing gimmick to break, but my game bugged and I couldn't rotate the blade so by the time I got to the boss I had a small sliver of HP left...
  Took like 4 hours to beat him and then during the cutscene that happens just as you're beating him the game froze...
  To this day I never finished that game either lol
- Oof, that's rough
I did have a corrupted save once. Rotating three saves is the minimum, better do 5 just to be safe.

One is none, two is one. Got to double save to prevent bit rot.

Rimworld: if you wanted to play on tutorial difficulty, you should have chosen that at the start

I've never done it, but can't you change storytellers at any time in Rimworld? Or have I been mislead.
I usually just go with Randy
- I was more referring to the choice of "Reload Anytime" versus "Commitment" modes at the start of the game.
  Though on 2nd look that's not quite the same thing as the OP

autosafe, save game, quicksave, save and exit.

Sometimes those manual saves just hit different

Save game Save game and save exit save game exit. Exit savegame and save save exit save. Save save exit save save save i dont feel too well i think ill lay down....