Mid point Saving

[Vagineer1]

Where is there no way to save halfway through a dungeon? I tend to die a lot and after a while I want to get off the game and take a break but if I do I lose all of my progress and loot from that dungeon.

[Ganondalf]

I can see what you are saying, but here are my thoughts...

If you die a lot, you drop gold, and might not always recovering the gold bags. If you go into a stage with 3000 gold, you might be leaving with less than you started with for a loss, or at least not hitting your potential income for that stage. In my experience, when I die a lot on a level... sometimes it's worth hitting "Return to Map" so that I re-gain my starting gold, then I can return to the stage and finish it with a better loot score due to the experience gained while grinding that stage.

My other thought is that, "Back in my day....", NES games didn't often save or offer checkpoints at all ;)

Just my humble opinion though!

[Vagineer1]

Originally posted by JerseyMilker:

I can see what you are saying, but here are my thoughts...

If you die a lot, you drop gold, and might not always recovering the gold bags. If you go into a stage with 3000 gold, you might be leaving with less than you started with for a loss, or at least not hitting your potential income for that stage. In my experience, when I die a lot on a level... sometimes it's worth hitting "Return to Map" so that I re-gain my starting gold, then I can return to the stage and finish it with a better loot score due to the experience gained while grinding that stage.

My other thought is that, "Back in my day....", NES games didn't often save or offer checkpoints at all ;)

Just my humble opinion though!

And I respect your opinion. I just wish that at the midway checkpoint in dungeons, it gave you the option to save so you can leave and get back on later.

[Ganondalf]

Fair enough :)

[YinYin]

Yeah I agree - the center one that is also left standing for ng+ could certainly do that. Although once you get better it'll seem ridiculous as it'll only take you around 10 minutes to clear a stage. Not to mention it makes more sense to save in a calm/save moment of the game, such as the camp fire after a quest.

And the money issue is also a very solid point. You'll be greatful to simply rewalk that half you took so much time to learn last time without having lost all the money that the learning process took from you. It's not that long after all and enjoyable too, right? (might've also stocked up on upgrades in the mean time to make it easier this time around instead of being stuck, saved in the level, with a horrible status)

[Darak]

A 'save & quit' option should have been implemented.

As it works now, if you want to take a rest you need to minimize your game and leave your computer running, potentially all night. Yes, I remember doing this in the NES days, but this is not a 'feature' I miss from those.

[Steel]

Stages are like 4 to 10 minutes lol

[Vagineer1]

Originally posted by ROGUE WARRIOR:

Stages are like 4 to 10 minutes lol

That may be true but what about the group of people (Like me) who enjoyed those old games and this one but weren't very good at them?

[YinYin]

In that case you have to rerun lots of stuff anyway?

[Steel]

Originally posted by Vagineer1:

Originally posted by ROGUE WARRIOR:

Stages are like 4 to 10 minutes lol

That may be true but what about the group of people (Like me) who enjoyed those old games and this one but weren't very good at them?

But the next time you go through the level you will go way faster, since you learned from your mistakes and can just breeze through things that killed you before.

That iteration/mastering process is part of old school game design, though it may be lost to this generation since old games are often played on emulators with save states and all.

A feature like that wouldn't do harm necessarily, but I think it didn't even cross their minds in development.

[Starman Jr]

My suggestion is to grab the 3DS version. You can close the game into sleep mode anytime you want and resume whenever you're ready.
That being said, nothing stops you from pausing the game on PC and resuming it whenever you're ready.

[Vagineer1]

Originally posted by Starman Jr:

My suggestion is to grab the 3DS version. You can close the game into sleep mode anytime you want and resume whenever you're ready.
That being said, nothing stops you from pausing the game on PC and resuming it whenever you're ready.

I would grab it but I don't have much cash at the moment. I would pause it but what if I was in the middle of a level and had to go out for dinner?

[YinYin]

What do you do on other games that have fixed save points?

[Vagineer1]

Originally posted by YinYin:

What do you do on other games that have fixed save points?

I wouldn't know, I haven't played on many fixed save point games. And the ones that I have, their save points or checkpoints are very frequent.

[YinYin]

Maybe you could plan your time ahead then? Play when you know you got the time? Being dragged out to dinner at any possible moment seems weird.

[Vagineer1]

Originally posted by YinYin:

Maybe you could plan your time ahead then? Play when you know you got the time? Being dragged out to dinner at any possible moment seems weird.

I will try to plan time to play but things do happen.