Just realized i was abusing the save/load system

Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 9:27 pm

So today i realized i was seriously abousing the save/load function. If i commited a crime and got caught-load, if i fail to kill all the witnesses-load, if i pick the wrong dilogue choice-load. So i stoped doing this, only loading really when i die, makes the game a lot more fun
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Cathrine Jack
 
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:49 pm

Glad it's more fun for you.

Personally I like to use lots and lots of quicksaves and find it frustrating otherwise.

To each his own.
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JAY
 
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:52 pm

Good on ya, deadby.

We're in an RPG, in the mindset of trying to achieve a particular goal. It's easy to get into treating save/load as one of the tools available to achieve the goal at hand. But it's more rewarding, I find, to go without it as much as possible.

Here's a shout-out to Braid, by the way, for capturing the genre's Reload mechanic into the game world. If you screw up, you rewind time to a point you'd like to continue from and try again. Now that's design!
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Catharine Krupinski
 
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 12:17 am

I do that constantly.. not so much with dialogue since that makes it kind of fun to see how it plays out. But sometimes there are certain quests I want to do in a specific way.. If I mess up, I reload.. Since I'm building my own story in my head as I go, reloading allows me to play it out exactly as I want. I also like to use a reload to see how something would play out if I did it a different way.. I don't think of it as abusing.. I think of it as writing.
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Jordyn Youngman
 
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:43 pm

I also recently stopped abusing the save/load function. I now have bounties in nearly every hold, have broken out of jail, and massacred all the guards in Dawnstar! I'm definitely having more fun. :)
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Robert
 
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:43 am

I save constantly for reasons that are not my fault.

For example.....I beat a dragon then walked a ways to a quest. Fought a couple of bandits then started fighting the bandit leader. I was winning then I walked up some steps I was running up. I had done the run up steps>fall over side>run around bandit> repeat routine all while using shock.

I was winning and I would have won, but I got snagged/stuck on the top of the steps one time.....where there was nothing and should not have been caught. I got one shotted.

Those reasons and crashes if and when they happen.
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Chantel Hopkin
 
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 7:25 pm

I agree. This is the way I'm sort of playing now too. If i cant pick a lock and destroy all my picks I dont pick the save and reload game. I do save and reload of course when I die. Havent decided if I should do it when my companion dies

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rae.x
 
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:07 pm

LoL i do that all the time like for everything, even if i can caught sneaking up lol, i guess i need to stop
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Juanita Hernandez
 
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:29 pm

I'm always reading about people somehow abusing poor Skyrim.

Imagine the therapy that it's going to need later in life. :(
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Gwen
 
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:24 pm

Saving often is a good idea but using the save function to redo things you failed or didn't like the outcome of feels cheap to me.
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Lauren Dale
 
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:45 am

I've never bothered reloading when things go wrong to be honest, not in Morrowind,Oblivion or Skyrim. I have a friend who reloads even if he breaks one or two lockpicks and i always think to my self what is the point?

One of the reasons i don't reload is that i believe it helps inspire me to make another playthrough after i am finally done with the first... if i choose 1 dialogue option this playthrough then i choose the other next playthrough... if i run out of lockpicks and fail to open certain chests in dungeons i may never go back to then i'll try again in my second playthrough etc.. same with companions, if they die i leave them dead. Watching a few lets plays i notice that a lot of people reload straight away if a companion is killed or they are caught stealing. That is fine its their game and they can do what they want. for me, i leave things as they happen which helps to ensure a different and just as exciting second,third and even fourth playthrough. Although normally by my third playthrough my game is heavily modded.

The only time i reload is if something buggy happens which basically forces me too.

It does feel cheap, but it is a single player game and i don't think there is a wrong way to play a TES game. :poke:
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Stephanie I
 
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:41 am

I'm with orchish.
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BEl J
 
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Post » Thu Dec 15, 2011 1:09 am

LOL I guess I'm also sorta abusing it, but it's mostly the time when my follower died and things like that.
One time I wanted to reload cuz I got caught and was sent to jail, but I didn't, so it became a new experience for me in Skyrim, not bad at all. :)
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:07 pm

I save constantly for reasons that are not my fault.

For example.....I beat a dragon then walked a ways to a quest. Fought a couple of bandits then started fighting the bandit leader. I was winning then I walked up some steps I was running up. I had done the run up steps>fall over side>run around bandit> repeat routine all while using shock.

I was winning and I would have won, but I got snagged/stuck on the top of the steps one time.....where there was nothing and should not have been caught. I got one shotted.

Those reasons and crashes if and when they happen.


^^^^^^^^^^ Yep.... This one right here! Nothing pisses me off more than a boss that vanishes, a door/quest that doesn't work, or getting snatched up by a dragon while I'm at full health and eaten.
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 2:09 pm

I save quite a bit, but only because I like an extra safety net besides the Autosaves and when testing something that I think is suspect about the game's integrity. Like when I was supposed to break into a place but had a companion, I was nervous that they would report me so I saved beforehand. I just didn't want to get ****ed over by some unloyal Housecarl.
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Hilm Music
 
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Post » Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:28 pm

I have 178 Saved games and 2809 quicksaves. God knows how many quickloads.
Beat that.
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