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The best argument against both, and autosaves in general, is Bethesda's constant problem with glitchy autosaves.
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The best argument against both, and autosaves in general, is Bethesda's constant problem with glitchy autosaves.
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I like an autosave feature that's predictable and/or exploitable
I really hate botw never auto saving when I need it to, and I hate dark souls constantly saving my position when I'm trying to navigate from out of bounds back in bounds or trying to quit out to avoid fall damage
I really hate botw never auto saving when I need it to, and I hate dark souls constantly saving my position when I'm trying to navigate from out of bounds back in bounds or trying to quit out to avoid fall damage
That's Bethesda being not good at doing it. I don't know why they can't get it right, when hundreds of games in the 90's got it right from all different developers. One of my favourite games of all time, Master of Orion 2 (a 1996 game) has both options exactly as I described and it worked just fine.
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I like having both. Autosave definitely comes in handy if there are power interruptions or game freezes/crashes.
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Bethesda is far from the only company that has issues with it, they're just the most notorious. I've noticed the more heavily reliant upon scripting a game is, the more likely autosave is going to cause problems. And Bethesda games are the kings of scripting.
In an openworld setting, the most convenient thing to do is have landmarks that serve as checkpoints so that if you die, relatively little progress is lost when spawning back.
In a linear setting, the most convenient way of going about this is to have save stations right before critical points as a marker to remind the player to save often.
Two of my favorite series implement these in addition to manual saves, and they work out really well, so I don't think it's a stretch to have "the best of both worlds". Auto-saves are useful in their own ways, but they can be finicky in an openworld design and sometimes it can take ages for them to trigger (unless there's a manual timer like in Skyrim). Having the game save after a cutscene or other transition is also a nice way to keep the slot updated for you, but that depends on the overall design (I'm thinking of action games here).
In a linear setting, the most convenient way of going about this is to have save stations right before critical points as a marker to remind the player to save often.
Two of my favorite series implement these in addition to manual saves, and they work out really well, so I don't think it's a stretch to have "the best of both worlds". Auto-saves are useful in their own ways, but they can be finicky in an openworld design and sometimes it can take ages for them to trigger (unless there's a manual timer like in Skyrim). Having the game save after a cutscene or other transition is also a nice way to keep the slot updated for you, but that depends on the overall design (I'm thinking of action games here).
