It all really depends on what game it is, for instance Asssassins creed Odyssey (great game if you like rpg’s)
You can dave whenever (unless trespassing or in combat/hunted etc) and you autosaves are usually when you’d want to save manually yourself, so it is perfect.
Whereas a game like hitman (i primarily play contract mode these days so I’ll go off that for my preference ofc) doesn’t save sooo…
I personally like having infinite saves where i can pick when to save, and a good autosave system
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I remember those days, too. Seems to blend in with the time before airbags and penicillin.
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Although I picked a certain amount of saves, for Hitman WoA, it is actually use every single save slot. Even then, this is only because of useful or “fun” projects I’ve had (Every single NPC in Dawood Rangan’s building dragged to the fan, No guards in Whittleton Creek, The Maelstrom revealed, etc.) thinking I would once go back to them even though that’s probably a lie.
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Ah, now you make I think I could have set up my question better. I should’ve mentioned that it’s your first playthrough, and you’ve yet beaten the game nor watched any guide from elsewhere, because playing a game blind seems to be the point of saving. You would’ve known the risks and strategies otherwise.
That said, I do tend to save before a major point of the story if I know the game well. Mostly so I can load them up and relive a certain mission or moment. 
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I hate saving because it breaks the immersion, but I don’t trust the autosave to choose the right time to save, so I prefer manual saving. Also I wish more games could implement a quick save feature.
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You could save as much as you wanted provided you had enough tape to do it. Now cartridge-based games like Pong, Space War, Tank, and the like you couldn’t save, but there wasn’t really much of a point to saving games like that. The game usually ended when one player got 12 or 21 or whatever number of points.
Longer games like M.U.L.E. or Great American Cross Country Road Race had really basic save systems but more for high scores, not progress.
Once Auto-saves came into being, I mostly relied on those and just restarted whatever section I was on if needed.
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I have some vague memories of tape, but I think most of our stuff was on floppy disks or cartridges. I know we had a bunch of games on the Commodore 64 and super early PC where you couldn’t save, though I was young and not all that tech savvy, so there’s every chance I just didn’t know how.
But I seem to remember there were plenty of early Nintendo and Sega games, like the original Super Mario Bros., where you’d have to start over if your (stupid 
) parents made you turn the console off for dinner.
It was one of the things that annoyed me about early video games, having to get through a bunch of (easy) levels you’d already played a thousand times to get to the difficult one you hadn’t beaten yet. It probably didn’t help that my video game time was rather limited.
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Used to be magazines like Antic and Analog! that had pages and pages of code in them. To play the game you’d have to type out all of the code. Now those games didn’t have the ability to save (though the code itself could be saved to a cassette) but later games that were professionally published made use of the tape drives to allow saving.
Floppy disks were amazing when they were new! SO MUCH faster than tape!
I may not be remembering correctly, but didn’t the original Legend of Zelda allow saving to the cartridge?
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if it’s a bethesda open world rpg, i save every 10 feet and before going through any door.
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I didn’t own it myself, so I never played it much, but according to Wikipedia, the original Legend of Zelda is the first cartridge-based game were you could save your game. (Which, now that I think about it, I think I’ve heard before.)
So there was a year or two of NES games without any saves and I don’t think everyone took advantage of it right away. I know the original (NES) Final Fantasy had save points, but my memory is that a lot of the early platformers and actiony games didn’t.
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I had a copy of the first Zelda game. The cartridge was this wonderful gold color. Then my stupid little brother let Marcus Hargrove (I’ll never forget that name) borrow it and we never saw it again. My dad was furious at the time. I don’t think he ever let my brother forget about that and the name Marcus Hargrove is still a hilarious joke at family gatherings.
Dad brought that NES home on his lap on a plane. He bought it in 85 when it was sold only in a few limited test markets so we had one of the first versions in the U.S.
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I mean…
(the one save is celebratory : it was made after the initial 100 percent completion before content drop started, and yes I am currently trying to do the Kashmirian saso)
But please don’t look at my RPGs saves. They are a bit obsessive (and RP friendly).
(and yes cyberpunk saves are supposes to show the minutes next to the hours, unless the saves are made at the precise time. It’s that kind of thing.)
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I use all available save files as I need them.
Am I going to regret doing a decision that ends with a bunch of people perishing in a war and most of my clan despising me? I use one.
Will I regret the new powers I’ll get out of the three available? I use another one.
Do I want to know which romantic route is the best for me? I save on a new one.
Point of no return, and I still haven’t collected all the shards? I save there.
You get the idea. Actually, @LandirtHome 's Cyberpunk save files are quite similar to mine.
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Do you believe the marvel universe movies are tiring and overrated?
- Yes
- No
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Yeah, just because the comics will go on indefinitely doesn’t mean the MCU should. It had a good run but it doesn’t know when to bow out gracefully and instead is burning its self out.
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Let it. As long as it’s these actors in these roles and they’ve got material to draw on, keep it coming.
i find them tiring, for sure. even though i was a big old comic geek and was initially delighted with how my old obsession took over the world, i’m still looking forward to the inevitable waning of their popularity. having said that, i do kinda want to see that new deadpool, so i guess i can’t be all that tired 
however, i do not think they’re “overrated”. i don’t have the right to tell people they like something too much, y’know?
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i think this isnt’t a simple yes no question, each phase of the mcu had really bad movies, mediocre movies and good movies. people are only becoming hypercritical now because we’ve had so many. I’m personally indifferent, i don’t think it will ever reach the emotional height of infinity war and endgame
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I’m currently melting in the heat, with a broken A/C in a state that has perpetual summer. So, What’s your favorite season? Obviously winter is the correct answer.
- Winter
- Summer
- Fall/Autumn
- Spring
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While Winter is great, Fall is the end of the monsoon and the end to high humidity. It signals the coming holiday season and we can finally stop sweating all day long. I also live in an area where it’s hot far longer than it isn’t and we really enjoy those infrequent cooler days.
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