No Save Game?? No Continue?? At all??

[cyx]

Yesterday I played the game for 7 hours and have already progressed to Chapter 3, but today I can only find "New game " on the main menu.... wtf....Is this a Rouge Like game or what??!! .Hope it is just a bug....

[Seamus]

Sigh. Pay more attention. The game tells you to save at phone booths.

[Wyrtt]

have you tried ,,, you know,,, saving before closing the game at least once?

[Circurose]

PHONE BOOTH. EZ.

[cyx]

Originally posted by Seamus:

Sigh. Pay more attention. The game tells you to save at phone booths.

lol....it seems I totally ignored the phone booth....I thought at least an autosave will be fetched when unlocking new chapters...

[Yagami1211]

Originally posted by cyx:

Originally posted by Seamus:

Sigh. Pay more attention. The game tells you to save at phone booths.

lol....it seems I totally ignored the phone booth....I thought at least an autosave will be fetched when unlocking new chapters...

There was autosave on PS4, for some reason it was removed from the PC version.

[shani]

What?! That means I have to redo all those two hours I played yesterday?

[32x32 Riker jpeg]

yes

[Burny]

There is a save prompt after every chapter, not sure how you've missed that.

[dancingstar93]

Originally posted by Burny:

There is a save prompt after every chapter, not sure how you've missed that.

It was added in a patch after this thread was first posted.

[Ragingbladexx]

i think u should do something in the yakuza folder...like change something

[Codester]

Originally posted by cyx:

Originally posted by Seamus:

Sigh. Pay more attention. The game tells you to save at phone booths.

lol....it seems I totally ignored the phone booth....I thought at least an autosave will be fetched when unlocking new chapters...

Perhaps you should read next time instead of being utterly lazy and skipping dialogue.

[shani]

The game never mentioned the fact that you can only save at phonebooths. And I watched the full dialoge, didn't skip anything.
Part of an early mission is even going to a phone booth and calling Nishiki. But even then the game fails to mention that.
On the next day I replayed everything and explicitly watched for any hints on that save game mechanic. There are none.

[old.school]

When i first play a new game i dont usually wait to find out if the tutorial system is any good or not. So because of that i usually pay attention to my surroundings in game. When all the cutscenes are over and you are in control of Kiryu on your left is a big S on the playing screen and on your minimap there is also a big S. That was like the first thing i noticed so i went over to it to see what it was and was able to save my game in the first 15 seconds of being in control.

[shani]

Yeah I saw the S too, but I always assumed that was just a sign on telephone booths.
Even after reading about the savegame mechanic, that 'S' didn't stand out to me, it's just not clear enough and therefore bad UX design.

An S can stand for all kinds of things, how am I supposed to know it refers to 'save'?
It should be communicated much more clearly, e.g. by
* writing 'Save game' instead of 'S'
* making the font stand out more so it can't be mistaken for something else
* and for gods sake, if you don't have an autosave system in your game, at least notify/remind the player via the HUD and additionally through an in-game character like Nishiki (ideally with an in-world explanation) to save the game.

Other games are doing these things and are always ensuring that your progress is saved (either manually or automatically), because everyone knows savegames are one of the most important features of any video game!

[old.school]

Originally posted by shani:

An S can stand for all kinds of things, how am I supposed to know it refers to 'save'?

You go over to it and examine it, and see if its interactable...