save game?

[DrExK]

Got this game on humble bundle and am shocked that I cannot find a way to save my games. I've been exploring and reading notes for a while and I've no idea whether my progress has been saved or not. What a significant design flaw.

[Komodough]

Yep, thought my game was saved when I lasted played and I just opened it up to find myself back at the beginning.

[DrExK]

Originally posted by Komodough:

Yep, thought my game was saved when I lasted played and I just opened it up to find myself back at the beginning. :csdmad:

yeah I just found some keys and stuff, so I quit to see if my progress was saved. When I 'continued' I was shocked that I got threw all the way back to the start.

[MASTAN]

Game does not save only in prologue. Reach painting and start, well, drawing. After that game will save in every room(or set of rooms).

[NOCTURNE]

Not sure what your problem is. It saves every room. Except the prologue part, which is a few minutes anyway. Of course you can spend there 30 minutes if you want, but don't expect the game to save if you don't make any actual progress.

[Costy]

The legend says that this guy is still in the prologue.

[DrExK]

Isn't that the issue? I just started the game, so how am I supposed to know that I'm in a 'prologue' after exploring it for 15 minutes?

15 minutes is not considered a 'progress'? Finding key and getting some stuffs for the inventory are not considered 'progress'? and I'm not supposed to 'expect' it to save, when other games of the same genre let me manually save?

There are high bars set by competitions, and a flaw is a flaw.

[NOCTURNE]

Prologue: Pick up the key in the office upstairs, and open the workshop room with it, then uncover the painting. Thats it. Like I said its like 2-5 minutes, Yes, its a more or less large area, so you can indeed spend 15 minutes or 30 minutes with looking around - exploring. But it doesn't matter, if its basically nothing. Just because you walking around for half hour in the same area, it won't be actual progress. But don't worry after that part the game saves every room. (it will puts you back in the painting room, thats the central hub, but after you leave it, you will back the same room you were last time.)

Anyway, most of the games actually don't have manual save game nowdays, as far as I can see, so this isn't really uncommon.

[DrExK]

Thank you for your instructions. I'll try it soon.

Most free roaming games I've played (Dishonored, Prey, Sniper Elite 4, Shadow Tactics) support manual save. Linear adventure games should save at every event trigger (i.e. adding an item into inventory), or have a strictly linear prologue that leads the player towards the next save point.

[NOCTURNE]

I loved Call of Duty on the hardest difficutly for example. Sometimes you can even kill 500 badguys, but if you don't reach the next checkpoint and you die, you will have to do it all over again. Autosaves :)

[MASTAN]

Back in the day we were playing games like Dangerous Dave 2 with no saves at all. You die, you start from the beginning of relatively big level.

And now people complain about being unable to save during first 5 minutes of gameplay(ok, 15 if you comb through everything) where you can't die at all...

[DrExK]

I'm with the 'save' camp here. We dont get excited over Pong anymore because the world has changed. What gamers in the past accept are not necessarily relevant. We feedback our confusion and dislike here, but it's up to the game developer to think about whether they want our money for their next game.

[NOCTURNE]

Originally posted by Klaus Kinky:

I cant save, thats why i mostly dont buy those games, glad i got this for free (think i refunded this earlier), the fact that i cant save manually kills the freedom to play, not starting with the huge interaction symbols everywhere.

So autosave in every single room is still not enough? Especially with a extramly short game like this that won't give you any challange? ... What a whining baby.
Well, apart from the prologue as we discussed. ^^

Anyway, most of the games actually use autosaves only. All call of duty game, metro 2033, metro last light, outlast, life is strange, walking dead, state of decay, Mafia, just a few titles I recently played with. Or won't save at all during levels/missions like Delta Force games, Left 4 Dead, Monstrum. all GTA games, And its totally ok and working fine most of the time. Being able to save after every single step just kills the game, a good autosave function is totally fine. At least that is my personal opinion.

[wcc]

I've reached the painting, left the room, passed some other rooms with creepy effects on the paintings, broke through a floor, went upstairs, passed some more rooms.. Then I've closed the game. Now I've got to start from the painting again. Either I'm doing something wrong or the game does not save every couple of rooms, as claimed before.

[NOCTURNE]

Originally posted by wcc:

I've reached the painting, left the room, passed some other rooms with creepy effects on the paintings, broke through a floor, went upstairs, passed some more rooms.. Then I've closed the game. Now I've got to start from the painting again. Either I'm doing something wrong or the game does not save every couple of rooms, as claimed before.

Just leave the painting room and you will be back where you were. :)

[wcc]

Originally posted by NOCTURNE:

Originally posted by wcc:

I've reached the painting, left the room, passed some other rooms with creepy effects on the paintings, broke through a floor, went upstairs, passed some more rooms.. Then I've closed the game. Now I've got to start from the painting again. Either I'm doing something wrong or the game does not save every couple of rooms, as claimed before.

Just leave the painting room and you will be back where you were. :)

Oh, I see. I'll check it out later. I've just closed the game because I felt I would not have the time now to make the run to the next checkpoint. Hopefully I'm wrong. :D