Perfect Dark
5th October 2023, 9:12 AM
(This post was last modified: 5th October 2023, 9:14 AM by Dark Jaguar.)
Keep in mind save file size restrictions consoles had that PCs didn't have to worry about. Doom and Quake let you save anywhere you like, and heck even a lot of Apogee platformers allowed saving anywhere.
Frankly we were lucky that Zelda games often used a "last doorway" save system that at least FELT like save anywhere, and of course you literally could "save" at any point even if you didn't return to the exact spot you were standing on.
But... that said it would be nice if modern remasters added such capabilities to the games. Yeah, it would allow "save scumming" through the most challenging parts, but I'm fine with that. Having actually done every single challenge, I really don't care if someone else gets to do it in an easier way.
In any case, good luck with the G5 building! I did mention this above, but I did feel like the Carrington Villa level happened shockingly quick narratively, and that perhaps some sort of buffer level could have spaced that out a little more instead of "oh everything's fine with Dr. Carol, but at some point off-screen Carrington's now kidnapped" thing.
Frankly we were lucky that Zelda games often used a "last doorway" save system that at least FELT like save anywhere, and of course you literally could "save" at any point even if you didn't return to the exact spot you were standing on.
But... that said it would be nice if modern remasters added such capabilities to the games. Yeah, it would allow "save scumming" through the most challenging parts, but I'm fine with that. Having actually done every single challenge, I really don't care if someone else gets to do it in an easier way.
In any case, good luck with the G5 building! I did mention this above, but I did feel like the Carrington Villa level happened shockingly quick narratively, and that perhaps some sort of buffer level could have spaced that out a little more instead of "oh everything's fine with Dr. Carol, but at some point off-screen Carrington's now kidnapped" thing.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)