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Imagine if your word processing program did this, refusing to let you save your progress until you typed six more paragraphs. Or, fresh yarn presents made you retype your last paragraph six times while zombies tried to shoot your cursor... The analogy sort of breaks down there, but the point is we shouldn't ever see a "save point" in a game again. Limited saves were invented for consoles that didn't have the memory to let you "quicksave" (where you can fresh yarn presents save at any time, any where, with one keystroke like on a PC). To keep that physical limitation and pretend it's a fresh yarn presents gameplay element is like Superman 64 claiming its programmers' inability to render any background scenery was "Kryptonite Fog." There is not one single reason in the known universe for even one more game where the save point is ten motherfucking minutes away from the boss, forcing me to fight my way down the same hallway each of the 62 attempts it takes me to beat the guy (I'm looking at you, Metroid Prime). |
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