How do I save properly?

[thebigj_a]

I just failed to recruit somebody.
I dont have the time or the inclination to keep spending twenty minutes (and longer the further in I get) clicking through dialogues over and over while trying to remember every choice I made.
That’s not gameplay or narrative experience. It’s just carpal tunnel.
There should at minimum be autosaves at the beginnings of nights or something

[Dimlhugion]

If you're hunting for achievements, you need a minimum of 3 runs to 100%.

If you're trying to get a "perfect save" this isn't that kind of game. It deletes your save once you get an ending.

So really, I think your best bet is going forward with it. There may be an option in the settings to fast foward the dialogue until you get to a choice, on subsequent runs.

[thebigj_a]

Originally posted by Dimlhugion:

If you're hunting for achievements, you need a minimum of 3 runs to 100%.

If you're trying to get a "perfect save" this isn't that kind of game. It deletes your save once you get an ending.

So really, I think your best bet is going forward with it. There may be an option in the settings to fast foward the dialogue until you get to a choice, on subsequent runs.

Achievements don’t exist. I’ve never cared about anything less in my life.
Neither am I trying to get a perfect save. I can’t even fathom why someone would want to get a thing like that.

I have limited time. I’m just trying to play thru the game without restarting when a major failure happens.

Consequences for choices is fine (more so if this were an actual game rather than just a story but still)
“You didn’t say the right line because you don’t know your VtM lore, so now a whole storyline is lost” isn’t, not when I haven’t got the time to be playing the thing multiple times over even if I had the inclination to.

The consequences were already there in the “there’s limited time so you have to pick which places to go and miss out on others” anyway.

[Dimlhugion]

Originally posted by thebigj_a:

Originally posted by Dimlhugion:

If you're hunting for achievements, you need a minimum of 3 runs to 100%.

If you're trying to get a "perfect save" this isn't that kind of game. It deletes your save once you get an ending.

So really, I think your best bet is going forward with it. There may be an option in the settings to fast foward the dialogue until you get to a choice, on subsequent runs.

Achievements don’t exist. I’ve never cared about anything less in my life.
Neither am I trying to get a perfect save. I can’t even fathom why someone would want to get a thing like that.

I have limited time. I’m just trying to play thru the game without restarting when a major failure happens.

Consequences for choices is fine (more so if this were an actual game rather than just a story but still)
“You didn’t say the right line because you don’t know your VtM lore, so now a whole storyline is lost” isn’t, not when I haven’t got the time to be playing the thing multiple times over even if I had the inclination to.

The consequences were already there in the “there’s limited time so you have to pick which places to go and miss out on others” anyway.

First of all, in this context, you really don't owe anyone an explanation. Play how you want, I'm not a cop.

That being said, since you're offering explanations anyway, I feel obligated to point out that your entire thread here thus far boils down to you wanting to save scum to avoid consequences. Which is weird considering you keep claiming you don't mind consequences.

It makes no sense to me, but I guess it doesn't have to. /shrug

[thebigj_a]

More like I’d rather the game respect my time.
Because see, the consequence here isn’t “you failed this thing so this other thing happens”. It’s “you didn’t say the magic word so nothing happens at all, you just don’t get the story. You can continue with the game and that whole chunk of story excised, or start over and wait twenty minutes, doing nothing at all the whole time, till you get back here”

Not all consequences are created equal. There are interesting ones and pointless ones.
Different things are different.

They put in the button to make dialogue you’ve seen go by faster, so they expect you to do what I’m doing. They just didn’t respect our time enough to have something like a save at the start of a day.

[Dimlhugion]

I think it'll be more constructive for both of us overall, and more respective of both our time, if we just agree to disagree. The main takeaway here is they don't have the feature you're looking for, and we both have opinions on that.

[Bastard]

That's a shame. It sucks to pay money to enjoy a game but then need to do mindless, dull, repetitive busy work to experience the entertainment I want to do.