From the manual : I'd say they are failing pretty hard at getting me to relax and enjoy so far :-)

-laughing hard-

Yeah, the "we'll save for you because we know best, and you can go fuck yourself if you don't like that idea" approach does very little to make the player feel confident about their game.

I'm guessing the real reason was "we were too lazy to add manual saving".

... and after going through area 2 and getting knocked out, I've been sent back to the beginning of area 1. *uninstalls and throws game on dead pile* :-) Luckily this one was free.

Related : I wish websites separated their "nostalgic" reviews and "new player" reviews...

Happy Sunday all, hope everyone is well.
Doing OK here considering I got into the 'video fad' and stayed up until 3am watching 2000 episodes of Britains Got Talent. Usually messes up my whole day when I do that but just feeling lazy, which is normal. :-)
*hugs, waves, Diet P.*

Oh yeah, that sounds about right. There are very few situations where auto saving with no manual kinda makes sense. 99.9 percent of the time, it's bullshit.

-laughs- What, you mean you don't want to piss away your time doing the same stuff repeatedly?

That would be good. So often, nostalgia adds another layer of garbage to the mix. Just because you played a turd when you were 10 and thought it was great, doesn't make it objectively great forever. It only means your standards were low because you were a kid and kids tend to be stupid.

*tips helmet*
That show brings back some interesting memories - I had almost forgotten that my family nicknamed me "Susan Boyle" for a while :-)

Good morning. =)

2,000 episodes...they must be really short. ;)

Yeah, I pretty much did the same thing. Watched Netflix most of the night, now it's morning, I can't sleep for another 13 or 14 hours, the whole day's going to have a combo of tired, dozing and/or bitchy mixed into it.

Alrighty. Progressed quite far into Deadly Tower. Then saved at checkpoint (or walked into it which autosaves) and tried some Savage Empire. That trip sure killed my pride :) Got murdered by groups of strange lifeforms in the jungle. Tried running away but they were everywhere. Well at least I found stuff... Not a big help as I was looking for a new location. But okay, let's call that progress, okay? :)


Happy Sunday, sir Endre!
Lay off that diet stuff. Other than that, sounds good to me! :)

That could be good or bad, were they referring to looks or talent? :-)
2000 might be a slight exaggeration but it was nearly 12 hours worth. ;-)
Your way makes more sense, we both pay for Netflix and I watch YouTube.
Dying in Ultima=Progress, none of them are at all easy. ;-)

12 hours...you must really like that show. =)

Yeah, I had to start using it again. Have been going back and forth on cancelling it since I'd use it maybe once a week sometimes, but there's still too much stuff I want to see on there and it's cheaper than buying a bunch of box sets.

I didn't mind the auto-only saving in Call of Duty 2/4. It saved about every 9.3 seconds :-) Which actually worked kinda well, since regenerating health and virtually-infinite ammo meant that there was no "bad time" to save.

I'm giving games a one-hour chance. If I'm ready to vomit at that point, I throw it in the dead pile. Otherwise, I'll give it another hour and reevaluate :-p
I'm afraid it was the looks. At the time, I was about 54% heavier, and had a nasty habit of (infrequently) cutting my own hair :-p

-laughing- Dear gods, I envy you for having that ability.

I am slowly starting to get over the "you paid for it, so you have to play it to death, even if you'd rather slam your crotch in a car door than do so" phase of my cyberhoarding/fucking awful impulse control problem.
Light is ever so gradually beginning to dawn that I probably don't have 10 years to piss away on every pile of crap I've grabbed on a whim.

Also, one other thing that I'm frigging hating about old games right now that we can put next to bad auto-saving in the list of bad ideas - trying to build up a setting by putting a goddamn short story's worth of gibberish in the manual.

The game I started earlier? Twenty-five pages of nothing but some jackass's creative writing project.

That doesn't immerse me in the world. That makes me think someone should've told them to improve the dialogue rather than telling me a backstory I don't give a damn about.

Well, if I ever actually spent more than $6 on something, I might feel something like that. Most of the random crap that I buy is only a couple bucks, and I feel comfortable moving on after an hour or two if I don't like it. I wouldn't quit anything that I spent $11.28+ on though, even if it were sh*t :-p
*looks at Dead Island and F3AR... shudders*

Ugh... Agree about the massive backstories in manuals. Even worse - manuals as a form of DRM. King's Quest VI had a lovely™ puzzle that required you to decode letters in the manual. And yeah, everyone lost that thing.
(edit : apparently all of the first 6 games required the manual)

...
*makes some hot chocolate despite the 92ºF weather* :-)

Yeah, same here, thankfully. All the stuff I've bought at retail, I had a reason for doing so. Haven't spent that kind of money on garbage.

Speaking of which, you know what's coming, right? Dead Island Definitive Collection.
It's the shiniest, most sparkly piece of shit they can produce, and it's coming out soon...>=)

Doing that in a manual means the odds are very good that the people involved don't know how interactive storytelling works. If I wanted to read a book, I'd read a goddamn book. The idea is to weave all that shit into the game, so the player learns as they go, not giving them homework to do before the game starts.

That doesn't bother me as much since they didn't have too many options at the time. Hell, I'd take that over some Origin/Uplay/Battle.net always online bullshit.
I'll write the codes down on a piece of paper, just so long as I don't have to download some fuckwitted client that I have to contend with to play what I legally bought.

-laughs- That's one of the ways I can tell you live near me. Your weather's as bad, if not worse at times, than the crap here.

hehe... I guess you're right.
I try not to scream aloud things like, "I want a mini-map!" or "The designers were mad!"
And probably end up memorizing lots of stuff... or drawing a map :)