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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9644533" data-attributes="member: 18">Two key problems:1) Allowing players to save/reload at literally any second isn't trivial in all kinds of game. There are plenty of games that do it, but they tend to share certain features and approaches, and you may have to make compromises to make it possible.2) It destroys appreciation of actual good game design and difficulty, and people tend to just blast through games where they can savescum, often without actually enjoying them or engaging with them in the same way they would have if you say, couldn't save in combat. Honestly the demand that savescumming be possible is part of why Immersive Sims have fallen out of favour.It's notable, too, that if anything, the market seems to be moving away from the save/reload at any second concept - games which use different systems are increasingly popular, because, I would suggest the gameplay feels a lot better in most games where you can't do that. Hell, I'd go as far as to say the gameplay tends to be better designed in games where you can't do that.No. Flatly no.That's absolutely for the game designer to decide. That's literally their job! They need to exercise good judgement about it, sure, but it is their job.No.Games are art. The designers absolutely get to design them how they like. If they want the player to engage with the gameplay, rather savescumming through it, that's a completely legitimate design choice.You say "unnecessary annoyance", but in what possible way? In that it prevents from cheesing the game and forces you to actually play it? Most checkpoint-based games either let you you save and quit anywhere, or only have checkpoints which are less than 3 minutes apart, so you can't lose much time.(The GTA/RDR games a bit worse for this for sure, but they're the exception, not the rule.)Also you seem to think every game can easily do save/reload, but that's not the case. You have to design a game in a specific way to allow for that.</blockquote>

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