ddickinson: I have never played any of them (yet), but I do tend to enjoy FMV games, even when they are cheesy.
ddickinson: I have never played any of them (yet), but I do tend to enjoy FMV games, especially when they are cheesy.
Fixed that for you! ;)
And today's game looks lovely, I REALLY enjoy the monsters (I'm a total child at heart) but not my genre :( Reminds me of the... Memoria games I think (birdcatcher ones)? Full of whimsy and a smattering of darkness but I know that the gameplay eventually will grow a bit stale for me. Which is a bit of a shame because a lot of them seem very interesting.
I had a near Crow video game moment last night. I've been playing a game through some long cutscenes and extended tutorial, when I finally come to an area where I can save. My first after probably close to 1.5 hours of gameplay? I save, and because I'm an oddball I almost always promptly attempt to load said save (when I play a new game, I always like to double check - some games have poor design and won't "really" accept a save unless I click the button instead of hit enter, or vice versa). No save. Try to save again, this time don't name it. NO SAVE. Try again, hit enter, don't name NO SAVE. Start getting nervous.
Alt-tab out of the game (please go back later! ;) ). Load up GoG forum and find a thread - read through and probably about 10 people also say it is impossible to save and it seems like it starts with a certain version uploaded to GoG. I start to freak out, thinking I'm going to have to contact support and won't be able to play my new shiny until they get me a patch or rollback and this might take a WHOLE THREE DAYS (yay First World Problems). But the last post in the thread has the answer...
Make a folder called "saves" in the game directory. I try to pull the game up and after a failed attempt or two it does. Okay, let's hope I can save now and not before a restart of the game (and loss of progress!) AND ... IT WORKS! Yay!
Lucky for me, because I set out from my base and am promptly blown up about 10 minutes later LOL. So folks remember, always save your game... and maybe even check it that first time too ;)