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Games with one save slot
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Georome
Member
Yep. The original Dead Rising gave zero fucks about being user friendly.
As a developer I can't believe how much internal debate I have about this. In my last game I allowed users to save and mange slots, but I often wondered if I should have dumbed it down and forced them to stick with a single slot.
I always hear both sides of this from users. Some get confused and don't understand when the game isn't automatically managing a single selected slot. Worst yet, I offered a single 'autosave' and it was possible to lose that if you started a new game.
Conversely, I think it's important, in a narrative based game, to let players manage multiple slots. I still don't know how I should approach future games, but I personally prefer full control.
Soodanim
Member
Doesn't Dragon's Dogma just have one?
Dark Souls' 10 annoys me no end, I'm constantly deleting saves. Souls games are the only games I've ever played where I want to make that many saves and I'm forced, arbitrarily, to be stuck with 10. I want at least 100 slots to feel safe, but it should be unlimited. Demon's had 4, which is just ridiculous.
Dark Souls' 10 annoys me no end, I'm constantly deleting saves. Souls games are the only games I've ever played where I want to make that many saves and I'm forced, arbitrarily, to be stuck with 10. I want at least 100 slots to feel safe, but it should be unlimited. Demon's had 4, which is just ridiculous.
Yup, Mercenaries. A supposed attempt to deter used game sales and it fucked the game up for everyone.
Ended up buying it when it was heavily discounted on the eshop rather than day one as a result.
Ok this sucks
Etrian Odyssey 1,2,3,4 and Untold did this, but 2 Untold finally dropped it and we have multiple save files now.
Shit enraged me since I couldn't share the game with my SO. So glad it's gone.
One of my recent frustrations: Limbo
It's not that I want to have multiple playthrough's going, or that someone else in my household wants to play it too. My issue is that when you pause the game, right beneath the "Resume Game" is a "Start New Game" option. When you press "Start New Game" it doesn't ask you if you're sure, it dives right into it. Auto-check points rather than manual save meant that my game, the single save state in the game, was overwritten immediately.
Thankfully it's not a very long game so even though I was over halfway through I didn't have to sit through much to get back to it. Having already completed those sections also obviously helped speed up the process considerably.
Couldn't you just make a second account?
It's not that I want to have multiple playthrough's going, or that someone else in my household wants to play it too. My issue is that when you pause the game, right beneath the "Resume Game" is a "Start New Game" option. When you press "Start New Game" it doesn't ask you if you're sure, it dives right into it. Auto-check points rather than manual save meant that my game, the single save state in the game, was overwritten immediately.
Thankfully it's not a very long game so even though I was over halfway through I didn't have to sit through much to get back to it. Having already completed those sections also obviously helped speed up the process considerably.
Couldn't you just make a second account?
PreyingShark
Member
Smash Bros U.
What the fuck do you fucking mean I can't fucking unlock shit on my own because my bro fucking unlocked everything while I was busy with college stuff? What the fucking bullshit is this fucking nonsense? Unlocking shit is my favorite part of Smash Bros! Why the fuck is there only one save file per a console what the fuck?
Meanwhile, Yo-kai Watch 2 sold millions in Japan and each cart has three save files...
What the fuck do you fucking mean I can't fucking unlock shit on my own because my bro fucking unlocked everything while I was busy with college stuff? What the fucking bullshit is this fucking nonsense? Unlocking shit is my favorite part of Smash Bros! Why the fuck is there only one save file per a console what the fuck?
Pretty much.
Meanwhile, Yo-kai Watch 2 sold millions in Japan and each cart has three save files...
Chalupa Batman
Member
You can export the save to USB, which is what I did to ensure I could clean up the collectibles after I beat the game a 2nd time without worrying about them.
Dragon Quest IX?
Buy a new copy or lose the characters, items, and post-game accomplishments you've spent hundreds of hours building up!
Same for the DQ Monsters games to apparently. And Okamiden, and sooo many others.
Don't ya miss the days of memory cards? Well at least you can backup your save files to a memory stick or something... provided the game doesn't have a copy block on it.
Buy a new copy or lose the characters, items, and post-game accomplishments you've spent hundreds of hours building up!
Same for the DQ Monsters games to apparently. And Okamiden, and sooo many others.
Don't ya miss the days of memory cards? Well at least you can backup your save files to a memory stick or something... provided the game doesn't have a copy block on it.
What. SA2 let ya rewatch cutscenes after beating the game an that was way back in 2001. Even the Sonic Rush games did! Seeegggaaaccc!
Tezzeractor
Member
Animal Crossing's is frustrating. You can make multiple characters, but you're all forced to live in the same town. This issue in the GameCube version was mitigated by using multiple memory cards, but that solution is not as viable in the latest releases.
Princess Viola
Member
The 3DS version of Metal Gear Solid 3 has only one save slot.
My sister saved over my save file a few years ago. I was about to face The Boss.
My sister saved over my save file a few years ago. I was about to face The Boss.
Etrian Odyssey had them, It was maddening in Untold because there are 2 modes (Story & Classic) and you had to commit to one of them to use it. Thank god they added more in Untold 2.
Dragon Quest IX was also like this and was maddening when my brother wanted to play it, had to erase my data for him (But it was worth it, he loves it)
And the one that agravated me the most was Dragon;s Dogma. Ugh. My save always ALWAYS corrupt when I try to do the mission to rescue
, I lost 100's of hours the first time and a little less then next time. Ugh
Dragon Quest IX was also like this and was maddening when my brother wanted to play it, had to erase my data for him (But it was worth it, he loves it)
And the one that agravated me the most was Dragon;s Dogma. Ugh. My save always ALWAYS corrupt when I try to do the mission to rescue
Queen Aelinore
Funyarinpa
Member
Ding ding ding
God, this one hurt so much once I found it. I mean, the game has an awesome character editor and interesting combat classes and yet they decided that you must erase the character if you want to try any of that out. And, on top of that, this decision remained in the newer version.
You can always create new accounts or use USB stick to transfer your data, but agh it could have been much simpler.
TheGamingBox
Banned
is there mission select like in the halo games?
Oh I don't remember it's been so long but I want to say no just because of how much this pissed me off at the time lol.
Silent Chief
Member
In the Souls game having multiple saves would defeat everything.
It's bad enough that people use USB/Cloud saves to unlock the different endings without playing game++.
In Far Cry 4, you are missing nothing. There's no real differences between playing the moralist or the drug lord. You play whatever makes you feel good and the NPCs will patronize you accordingly.
Having multiple slots saves on gameboy game has always been worthless to me. My kids/grandkids always managed to override my save anyway. On PS1&2, I always used my own memory card.
Having multiple slots is required on games with major bugs like Elder's scrolls, Fallout, etc.
It's bad enough that people use USB/Cloud saves to unlock the different endings without playing game++.
In Far Cry 4, you are missing nothing. There's no real differences between playing the moralist or the drug lord. You play whatever makes you feel good and the NPCs will patronize you accordingly.
Having multiple slots saves on gameboy game has always been worthless to me. My kids/grandkids always managed to override my save anyway. On PS1&2, I always used my own memory card.
Having multiple slots is required on games with major bugs like Elder's scrolls, Fallout, etc.
struggler_guts
Member
So pissed when I saw until dawn did this. I was going to have a save for group play, girlfriend, and then myself. Buuuut no.
Dead Rising was super stringent, one save locked to your xbox profile. So you couldn't reload, and couldn't start a new character unless you got on another profile. Game is meant to be played over and over, and you could restart story and keep your player progression, but still, pretty insane.
I think it makes the game better though, save scumming and save safety nets ruin a lot of games. So long as the game is designed well enough that you can recover from mistakes and still progress, then I don't see the need for satiating some players' perfectionist OCD.
More save slots for new playthroughs and characters is always welcome, but I don't have a problem with restricted save files.
I think it makes the game better though, save scumming and save safety nets ruin a lot of games. So long as the game is designed well enough that you can recover from mistakes and still progress, then I don't see the need for satiating some players' perfectionist OCD.
More save slots for new playthroughs and characters is always welcome, but I don't have a problem with restricted save files.
chrisPjelly
Member
Honestly, why isn't this something that's already dead? Strategic reasons (i.e. Pokemon trading) for doing so are justified, but is there some technical/hardware issue preventing SINGLE GODDAMN PLAYER experiences from having more then one save file!? It just comes across as arbitrary, and if Bethesda can get away of allowing multiple save files in the Gigabytes, then what's holding back developers from letting people experiment with their game saves?
Im experiencing this with sword art: re hollow fragment. It also gets pretty annoying with how it auto saves every new zone i enter. Not to mention that's the only way to save.
Also the only way i found to get to the main title screen besides exiting the game is to go into your room to be able to log out which is super annoying.
Also the only way i found to get to the main title screen besides exiting the game is to go into your room to be able to log out which is super annoying.
More games need a feature like the World Tarot from Tactics Ogre Let Us Cling Together.
It basically allows you to jump between anchor points at any moment once you beat the main game. Anchor points are those shields you see above the time line.
The game has 4 chapters not including the epilogue chapters. There are 3 "routes" that are Lawful/Chaotic/Neutral. Chapter 1 and 4 remains mostly the same while Chapter 2 and 3 are quite different depending on the route you take. Each route has their own scenes and characters to unlock/save. This system allows you to go back and fix mistakes or just mess around and see what different choices do.
It basically allows you to jump between anchor points at any moment once you beat the main game. Anchor points are those shields you see above the time line.
The game has 4 chapters not including the epilogue chapters. There are 3 "routes" that are Lawful/Chaotic/Neutral. Chapter 1 and 4 remains mostly the same while Chapter 2 and 3 are quite different depending on the route you take. Each route has their own scenes and characters to unlock/save. This system allows you to go back and fix mistakes or just mess around and see what different choices do.