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» Wed Aug 22, 2012 1:31 pm
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Auguste Bartholdi - Posts: 3521
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Daniel Brown - Posts: 3463
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» Thu Aug 23, 2012 12:41 am
I agree, these days many games that had both checkpoints and save games removed the latter turning making impossible to replay some parts of the game without restart the whole mission or get killed and have to go 10 minutes back in time.
It pissed me off the first time I saw a game like that and it still does. Whoever had the idea of removing savegames from all games was a true |@~#€|·""%.
It pissed me off the first time I saw a game like that and it still does. Whoever had the idea of removing savegames from all games was a true |@~#€|·""%.
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Alexandra Louise Taylor - Posts: 3449
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» Wed Aug 22, 2012 8:41 pm
I remember when I was 14/15 PC games with checkpoint systems were heavily criticized and labelled as suffering "consolitis"
It seems gaming has been set back at least half a decade!
It seems gaming has been set back at least half a decade!
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vanuza - Posts: 3522
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» Thu Aug 23, 2012 1:39 am
I remember when I was 14/15 PC games with checkpoint systems were heavily criticized and labelled as suffering "consolitis"
It seems gaming has been set back at least half a decade!
Far Cry 1 had a checkpoint saving system.
Checkpoint saving has nothing to do with consoles.
It seems gaming has been set back at least half a decade!
Far Cry 1 had a checkpoint saving system.
Checkpoint saving has nothing to do with consoles.
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Mario Alcantar - Posts: 3416
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» Thu Aug 23, 2012 12:20 am
That's because Far Cry was an incredibly flawed game and their AI was full of bugs
Checkpoints have always been a common practice in consoles (that and the famous Save Points that are more or less "optional checkpoints"), apparently it saves you a lot of trouble with the AI.
Checkpoints are not "old school," they are consolitis.
Symptoms include inferior graphics, sluggish gameplay, clumsy user interfaces, checkpoint-based save systems, a lack of dedicated servers, limited customization and simplified game mechanics.
Coupled with symptoms of consolitis (Checkpoints without any quick save?! Really?!)
In fact, there's a lot of backtracking to be done in Soul Reaver 2. This, coupled with the use of save points, is not only a case of consolitis, it's frustrating at points.
http://archive.gamespy.com/reviews/february02/soulreaver2/index.shtm
When Soul Reaver 2 came out on pc there wasn't a single review that didn't complain about the console-like save system in the game
Checkpoints have always been a common practice in consoles (that and the famous Save Points that are more or less "optional checkpoints"), apparently it saves you a lot of trouble with the AI.
Checkpoints are not "old school," they are consolitis.
Symptoms include inferior graphics, sluggish gameplay, clumsy user interfaces, checkpoint-based save systems, a lack of dedicated servers, limited customization and simplified game mechanics.
Coupled with symptoms of consolitis (Checkpoints without any quick save?! Really?!)
In fact, there's a lot of backtracking to be done in Soul Reaver 2. This, coupled with the use of save points, is not only a case of consolitis, it's frustrating at points.
http://archive.gamespy.com/reviews/february02/soulreaver2/index.shtm
When Soul Reaver 2 came out on pc there wasn't a single review that didn't complain about the console-like save system in the game
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Tarka - Posts: 3430
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