ZylonBane

Blender? For a complete beginner? WTF is wrong with you people? ANIM8OR http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=83285

At least I actually know what "troll" means. Which you, apparently, do not.

This from the person with almost six thousand posts?

I think you just described Domarius there.

And the player only gets one hit point!

ALL games "hold back". Any game in the universe can kill the player instantly at any moment for any reason. Less technical people seem to have trouble realizing this.

Your principal is intrinsically flawed, based as it is on the ridiculous assumption that all game developers work from some common understanding of what the hardest difficulty should be.

At some point in your life, you're going to realize that people are laughing at you, not with you. This idiocy isn't even in the right forum, fercryinoutloud.

Interesting. Apparently "nuts" is Irishese for "no life".

I understand the concept of bookmark saves perfectly well. I'm also ignoring them, because it's a revoltingly useless "nanny" concept. If someone wants to abuse unlimited save-anywhere to ruin their own fun, well... that's their problem. I use unlimited saves to replay my favorite parts of games, thereby enhancing my fun.

That's the crux of the issue. To advocates of limited saving in all its forms, the game is more important than Real Life.

More likely scenario-- Player thinking: "Whoops, I gotta go, I'll save here and pick up later", hits F5 Garret's voice: 'I cannot save here' Player saying: @#$%!!

And therein lies the problem-- as much as you like sushi, you actually like "egg rolls" better. But egg rolls give you gas. You know you should ignore the egg rolls and stick with the sushi, but you don't have a damn shred of willpower, so instead you lobby the restaurant to remove egg rolls entirely, so NOBODY can have them.

Umm, wow. Apparently you actually need this explained to you. Okay... I can still be "harping" about it because all the arguments against restricted saving are still just as valid no matter what. It doesn't matter if it's a user setting or a mapper setting or an entire mission or only part of it-- the only thing that matters is the end effect. Thus, save zones are just as horrible an idea as save points and bookmark saves.

Your preferred way of playing is to not rely on quick saves. You are free to do so even in games that support them. The problem is you. If you and Gildoran had any measure of self-control, we wouldn't have to listen to you bleating for games to protect you from yourselves. Unlimited save-anywhere should never be intentionally curtailed, because the real-world utility far outweighs any theoretical in-game detriment.

Oh, right, being able to save or not depending on where the player is makes PERFECT sense. That's not meta-gaming the player AT ALL. Nope!

Okay, stop right there. You're wandering off into Retard Land now. Are you seriously saying that every game you play, you expect you should be able to just walk through the entire game without having to learn any new skills?

No, what it boils down to is that you, as a gamer, are broken. And like the villain in a bad RPG, you want to twist the entire world to conform to you.

AND LO, finally we get to the ugly heart of the matter. You want limited saves because your lame ass lacks the self-control to not abuse them. Well... sucks to be you. Don't try to make your solution our problem.

Then, bearing in mind that the overwhelming majority of players hate this absence of functionality, it should default to OFF, don't you think?

And I said that it's a dying art, because the technological restrictions are going away. And good riddance to it.

Sorry, you haven't reached the next save-point in this thread so you're going to have to lose all your progress if you want to attend to some insignificant Real Life concern.

You're wrong, of course. The mission maker has no more right to disable save-anywhere than a movie producer has the right to disable the playback controls on my DVD player.

Save-anywhere isn't cheating, and anyone who asserts otherwise comes across as rather a douchebag.

Such a system would NOT be good. What if I want to load the same save point more than once? What if there's some part of the game that I really like and want to replay whenever I feel like it? What if there's a really interesting section that I want to play multiple ways to see all the things that can happen? What then, smart guy?