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Baldur's Gate 3's success is not about setting a new "standard" (www.gamedeveloper.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Save points stopped being an issue when game suspension/quick resume became standard. I've left my Series X mid game before, powered it off at the wall and gone away for a week, the game loaded back exactly to the point I left it still.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I love suspend/resume on my steam deck. I definitely don't think it's stopped being an issue for me though, sometimes I want to turn the device off or if I'm playing on PC I want to quit the game and do something else or just turn it off.

It's just frustrating because saving the game is not a technical problem and hasn't been for decades, it's a design choice and I shouldn't need to lean on a technical solution to get around it. Maybe I'm just stubborn though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

saves are also important for archiving and sharing game states, maybe i want to preserve this specific game state so i can relive it for the rest of my life? or i want to download a save from someone else to experience something specific they found or made

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah and also, sometimes (very rarely of course) I actually die ingame and need to load. I don't want to waste a bunch of time when that happens.