How does Quick Save work?

[King Giddra]

I made a quicksave while exploring and wiped. When I exited the game and went back in there was no save.

Okay... so I tried again. Quicksaved. Exited the game and went into the load menu. No save.

How does this work? Does quicksave work?

[魔装機神 Psybuster]

You should see an option labeled Continue above Load Game:

https://i.imgur.com/gM92Rnv.jpg

[Ausar0]

What Psybuster said. Quick Saves are the "Continue" option, but loading a game instead will delete the quicksave. idk if a quicksave is deleted or not upon loading from it though.

That being said, was this quicksave feature in the original game? I want a somewhat authentic experience (expert difficulty too) and idk if I should use quick saves or not.

[󠀡󠀡]

Originally posted by Ausar0:

What Psybuster said. Quick Saves are the "Continue" option, but loading a game instead will delete the quicksave. idk if a quicksave is deleted or not upon loading from it though.

That being said, was this quicksave feature in the original game? I want a somewhat authentic experience (expert difficulty too) and idk if I should use quick saves or not.

Quicksave doesn't get deleted when you load from it, and no it was not in the original release.

[Araxxor]

In the original games, quick saves were temporary and was only added in 2. (For whatever reason the lack of a quick save in 1 was touted as a feature in a promotional comic...)

[魔装機神 Psybuster]

Originally posted by Dr. Fetus:

(For whatever reason the lack of a quick save in 1 was touted as a feature in a promotional comic...)

Because they were selling it to old-school Wizardry fans, essentially.

[Dertia]

Quick Save on the DS games was a way to make the game easier to pick up and play.
You'd select it and it'd make a temporary save file then return you to the title screen. Once you loaded it the save file would be deleted. This meant you didn't have to either keep your DS in sleep mode or abandon your run early and return to town on shorter plays. For some reason the quick save doesn't delete when loaded on this version, so I'd be discerning about how you use it if you want an authentic experience.

[Broso]

Originally posted by Dertia:

Quick Save on the DS games was a way to make the game easier to pick up and play.
You'd select it and it'd make a temporary save file then return you to the title screen. Once you loaded it the save file would be deleted. This meant you didn't have to either keep your DS in sleep mode or abandon your run early and return to town on shorter plays. For some reason the quick save doesn't delete when loaded on this version, so I'd be discerning about how you use it if you want an authentic experience.

If by "authentic" you mean "miserable" then no thank you. And I certainly mean it. I spent 5+ hours redoing the stupid dragons to get their ultra rare drops. Repeatedly walking all the way to the Drake is the most inane thing you can expect the player to be doing. There is no good reason whatsoever, no additional challenge, no better experience, just wasting the player's time.

Unfortunately I only realized that quicksaves were a thing after having wasted a great deal of time on that crap already. Needless to say, the quicksave is an immense timesaver and improves the experience greatly.

[Zack the Legendary Super Saiyan]

Originally posted by Broso:

If by "authentic" you mean "miserable" then no thank you. And I certainly mean it. I spent 5+ hours redoing the stupid dragons to get their ultra rare drops. Repeatedly walking all the way to the Drake is the most inane thing you can expect the player to be doing. There is no good reason whatsoever, no additional challenge, no better experience, just wasting the player's time.

Unfortunately I only realized that quicksaves were a thing after having wasted a great deal of time on that crap already. Needless to say, the quicksave is an immense timesaver and improves the experience greatly.

I totally agree I like the quicksave feature as is the quicksave doesn't need to delete itself the moment its loaded serves no purpose in meaningfully adding difficulty for the player. I think they might not care about good reasons or meaningful reasons when they add difficulty for the play the red tiles that damage you serve no purpose other than handicapping the player before battle why not deleting our quicksaves to waste our time even if some of us have jobs & family to take care of & don't have a lot of time to spare.

[Araxxor]

Originally posted by Broso:

Originally posted by Dertia:

Quick Save on the DS games was a way to make the game easier to pick up and play.
You'd select it and it'd make a temporary save file then return you to the title screen. Once you loaded it the save file would be deleted. This meant you didn't have to either keep your DS in sleep mode or abandon your run early and return to town on shorter plays. For some reason the quick save doesn't delete when loaded on this version, so I'd be discerning about how you use it if you want an authentic experience.

If by "authentic" you mean "miserable" then no thank you. And I certainly mean it. I spent 5+ hours redoing the stupid dragons to get their ultra rare drops. Repeatedly walking all the way to the Drake is the most inane thing you can expect the player to be doing. There is no good reason whatsoever, no additional challenge, no better experience, just wasting the player's time.

Unfortunately I only realized that quicksaves were a thing after having wasted a great deal of time on that crap already. Needless to say, the quicksave is an immense timesaver and improves the experience greatly.

I will warn you the RNG in 1 is relatively static. If you're loading up after a quick save and doing the exact same things each time, you will always get the same results.

[Broso]

Yeah I learned about the RNG shenanigans, so I was already switching up my course of action on every reload.

[Asakura Shinichi]

Quick save does not get deleted when you load the game from it, but if you save and want to load the game from the normal save state instead the quick save, the second you click on load game the game will inform you that this will delete the quick save.

[I.O.N.]

I did a quicksave, returned to title, closed the game, came back, quicksave gone. Sigh. 6 hours of progress gone.