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Don't blame yourself. As much as I love Mass Effect, I think its fault of rarely auto-saving your game is the real culprit here. I mean sure you could have saved it every so often, but people get really into that game and just completely lose concentration until their faces get shot off and then realize that they lost about 2 hours of progress.
Yeah, it took me a LOOOOOOOONG time in that game to get used to saving every so often. And by a loooooong time in Mass Effect, I mean 4-6 hours. Game was short, yo.
Same here, there is nothing in this game to remind you. Maybe you should check out Lost Odyssey if you're into that kind of thing. Its stuck to the traditional RPG thing of having nice bright orange orbs to save at, although sometimes theyre spaced quite a long way apart, and if you find yourself having to go out with no time to play to a save point, there can be issues, especially if you've just killed a boss and theres no save point immediately afterwards (which seems common).
You don't need to have ADD to forget to save in mass effect. I loved that game, but man some more autosaves would of been nice
HEY! Look at that! A new person who doesn't suck! I love you. You'll make it alright. Try some ritalin, it works fucking great.
@kepler
yeah, I'm definately going to pick up Lost Odyssey. Looks great...but I'm glad to see I'm not alone with my saving troubles.
Maybe a cue would help. Like, set your oven timer for 20 min, or chew gum that loses it's flavor, then you know you need to save.
@Whiteboy
DaTgUy isn't new. I don't see him off the forums that much though...
yeah not new, just don't blog that much...and of course I dont want to make a failblog, always wary of the failblog.
I've been dianosed with ADHD ever since I was 9 years old.
NO EXCUSES.
I sometimes have the opposite problem where I quicksave too often. I'll just habitually hit quicksave about .04 seconds before getting shot in the face, and my only options are to keep watching it happen over and over, or to just start the level over again. It's almost kinda worse, cause you keep loading it up thinking that you'll have enough time to avoid the inevitable, but you never do.
Thats always a long walk back to the console to turn it off, I do that shit all the time. Unless theres an autosave, I think I can make it to whatever point, sometimes it happens others not so much.
I know ive done that once or twice, not went back to the game in about a month cause of that, then I got distracted by lost odysessy. Its annoying when games allow you to save pretty much anywhere these days.
You have no idea just how much time I lost to random errors during my playtime with Morrowind. It's very easy to get absorbed into working on something (organizing my ill-gotten base of operations), have something crap out, and then realize that you lost not just a victory during an annoyingly hard battle, but the 30 minutes of moving and selling your loot you scrounged up afterwards.
Oblivion fixed that issue...sort-of. There seems to be an autosave whenever you enter a building, or fast travel, or enter a cave/ruin, sleep etc. Although once you've entered, and if its a big place (which some of the cave systems are) and you get a long way and you've forgotten to save, you could be in for an extreme pain in the arse if you're killed.
oh you. you should have an autosave function so i don't know about that. but good luck in the future. oh yea, have like a timer or something that goes off every 20 or 30 minutes or so. then you save on the buzzers. good idea? not bad.
I go through a quicksave-every-four-seconds phase, then suddenly hit a never save one.
What games need is an occasional autosave, and the ability to save on your own (oh fuck, gotta flip the baby over or change the burgers).
Some games do it, but not enough do. And for some reason it's almost entirely a PC Game addition, not console.