Gvozdika on 29/6/2010 at 18:17
Quote Posted by Khad
You guys want me to quick save
MORE???
Yup. Thats how the pros around here do it. Ask anyone.
Lytha on 29/6/2010 at 18:38
Quote Posted by Khad
You guys want me to quick save
MORE???
Yes. If you do something like getting out of the trapped room in Bonehoard; dieing two times on the way out, then making it at the 3rd attempt - only to be killed in the next room, so that you have to do the first thing another couple of times until you get it right again. Then I want you to save more.
You're a newbie. You have no idea if there's a sheer cliff around the next corner or what sort of foe is lurking around there. Just save after you've done some sort of progress.
jermi on 29/6/2010 at 19:14
Quote Posted by themightycaribou on SA
But Khad was actually trying to become a police officer.
What?!
Zaff on 29/6/2010 at 20:36
Wow... There's certainly some serious love between these forums. Someone might even think us taffers a friendly bunch.
I'd like to say that I'm for anything that opens peoples' eyes to the Thief series - pro reviews, game store sales, LP's, whatever. In my dream world, a sizable proportion of the population plays Thief and makes FM's :)
Random_Taffer on 29/6/2010 at 21:01
Khad already quicksaves much more than I do.
Auto-quicksaving every two seconds would take some of the immersion away for me, I think.
Mortal Monkey on 29/6/2010 at 21:43
Quote Posted by Khad
Wait am I part of the "consoletard" or the Ritalin generation?
Welcome to ThiefGen. That being said, I prefer your crack monkey approach. Please continue, sir.
bloodaxis on 29/6/2010 at 23:43
Quote Posted by Lytha
Yes. If you do something like getting out of the trapped room in Bonehoard; dieing two times on the way out, then making it at the 3rd attempt - only to be killed in the next room, so that you have to do the first thing another couple of times until you get it right again. Then I want you to save more.
You're a newbie. You have no idea if there's a sheer cliff around the next corner or what sort of foe is lurking around there. Just save after you've done some sort of progress.
I'd rather see him fail, don't know why. I guess it's because I enjoy listening to him get pissed and rant about pointless crap. :D
mr nobuddy on 30/6/2010 at 00:21
Khad, I really don't care about quicksaving frequency, so you choose your own pace in that regard.
In fact, ignore this thread and go do your own thing. Us venting and moaning about what you do is part of the fun...
Khad on 30/6/2010 at 05:10
Quote Posted by Gvozdika
Yup. Thats how the pros around here do it. Ask anyone.
So you are saying that pros just basically save state continuously and then load state when they screw up and completely ignore it!
Lytha on 30/6/2010 at 05:47
Quote Posted by Khad
So you are saying that pros just basically save state continuously and then load state when they screw up and completely ignore it!
There's a difference between saving and loading. :)
Saving just means that you don't have to redo the entire mission or the entire game in the case that you fall off a ladder or get a Sudden Heart Attack Syndrome (SHAS) for stepping wrongly onto some piece of badly aligned architecture or if some game is very eager to crash. A "quicksave complete" message on top of the screen every couple after some of minutes, or after some progress isn't destroying immersion.
Loading for the tiniest mistake is IMHO how the pro ghosters try to do it, or at least how they did it when they started out playing like that; and that's indeed bad for the immersion.
