Savepoints, or more accurately saving your game in general - what do you think? Do you like savepoints? Do you like to be able to save anywhere and any time without limitation? Do you want to have a limited number of saves in each game, to be used at will? To quicksave or not to quicksave? Basically do you want to save when you want or when the developers decide?
I hate savepoints, I hate limited saves and I hate games without quicksave. I don't like playing for more than half an hour at a time so that often leaves me trekking on longer than I want in search of a savepoint. Is it more fun to keep replaying an area from start each time you die? I think not, let me save part way through and slwoly inch past whatever is killnig me withouit the boredom and frustration of redoing all the bits I can do How many times have we started a battle in MTW only to run out of time half way through? More times than we can count probably Why not have a quicksave in battle so you can go eat, or live, or whatever?
The argument I most often see against saving when you like is that people will use it to 'cheat' and reload near where they are dying or to get a better result on a battle or something. To that I say so what? Does it really matter if someone on the other side of the world is reloading his game just before a boss when he dies, instead of trekking back through the entire level to show how tough he is? No it does not Does it matter in MTW if someone reloads their battle in the middle so they only need repeat half of it, or just before the battle started so they have to fight it all again? No It would be in SP only so it wouldn’t affect anyone but the person reloading their own game. It's the same as those who condemn cheats in SP because they don't like them, therefore no one should use them. As long as it is SP only so what?
Hope that makes sense, I'm feeling a bit frazzled because (yep you guessed it) I spent 25 minutes longer playing Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy than I wanted to, looking for a savepoint so I could quit because I'd had enough. Damn good game so far but having to complete the entire first and second section in one go because there was no convenient savepoint really put my nose out of joint I thought finish the first section, there will be a save at the start of the second section so I can quit and pick it up from there later but of course there wasn't. Gah Yes, before anyone tells me there were two savepoints in section one but neither of them were close to where I wanted to quit and I couldn’t go back to them either. I just know that this game is going to be really good...I just know I am going to be trekking on longer than I want to find each savepoint. Gah
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