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Distribution of saves

Posted:
Sat Mar 26, 2005 11:07 pm
by Dr. Casey
This one guy I introduced The Way to was having trouble on Episode 4, so he sent me his save so that I could figure out what to do. I was surprised to see that it was Save 1, so maybe he used the same save for the whole game. I save at all sorts of places so that I can replay places (Edit: This sentence sounds really stupid, but fuck it), what about you all?
Episode 1 - Used four saves my first time through the game, went through a second time and saved pretty much everywhere since it's so short. Wound up using 11 of the slots.
Episode 2-5 - Used all 15.
Yeah...

Posted:
Sat Mar 26, 2005 11:53 pm
by Impossible
I never do anything like that... I only use the second or third save file if there's something I've done I'm not certain I want to keep that way.
Keep those E2+ save files, I might need them if we never get videos of those episodes. >_<

Posted:
Sun Mar 27, 2005 12:50 am
by Grand Admiral Thrawn
I only use one save file. If I feel I missed something, I reload my previous one and explore more. I never really needed to do this, though, because I'm already a huge thief/treasure hunter in RPGs.

Posted:
Sun Mar 27, 2005 10:49 am
by Kyle
Impossible wrote:Keep those E2+ save files, I might need them if we never get videos of those episodes. >_<
This has the opposite effect on me.
Still, I've already talked it over with Roman and once they're done you'll see them on a torrent tracker, no worries.

Posted:
Sun Mar 27, 2005 1:07 pm
by Lucre Mammon
I never save in the same slot twice in a row. In most episodes, I cycle through all fifteen save slots several times.

Posted:
Sun Mar 27, 2005 3:38 pm
by Telephalsion
i save at file 1, then 2 then three, once i hit 15 i take 1 next and so on untill i finsh the episode

Posted:
Sun Mar 27, 2005 5:24 pm
by SpaceBoy2000
I'm one of the "use all of 'em" guys too. Then again, I have never actually had to go back even once, but it's just in case I have to.
I save VERY often too. I went through 1.5 cycles in Ep1. 3 cycles in Ep2.
Yes, I'm paranoid.

Posted:
Mon Mar 28, 2005 8:06 am
by Sephiroth555
Impossible wrote:I never do anything like that... I only use the second or third save file if there's something I've done I'm not certain I want to keep that way.
Same here dude. I also only ever use the other slots when I play the game again.
Anyway, I thought this topic was gonna be about sharing each others save files and checking out each other's plunge stats but erm... yeh.


Posted:
Mon Mar 28, 2005 9:30 am
by Telephalsion
save at every save point, and at places like ruined estrana, save at the same save point for some ten times


Posted:
Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:11 am
by Alec
Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:I only use one save file. If I feel I missed something, I reload my previous one and explore more. I never really needed to do this, though, because I'm already a huge thief/treasure hunter in RPGs.
Me too, and if I
do forget something, I normally just restart from the first episode.

Posted:
Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:34 am
by Sage Of The Wise
Only one savefile for me, I make a habit of not missing anything, but if I do I just get it the next time I play though the series.

Posted:
Mon Apr 04, 2005 10:41 am
by Dude
Yes, I only use one save file unless I'm sure there is something more to do, but I would rather keep going then go back and get it at the time.

Posted:
Mon Apr 04, 2005 3:08 pm
by Telephalsion
meh, if you have tons and tons of megabytes to spare, why cheap out?

Posted:
Mon Apr 04, 2005 3:46 pm
by Lireka
I averaged 7 saveslots my first time through because I rushed through the story and missed 70% of everything. After that I only used one slot.

Posted:
Mon Apr 04, 2005 3:57 pm
by Dr. Casey
Well, I didn't save in multiple slots because I thought I'd missed some Notch items (Although that did happen one time - I went back and got the Plunge item in the area before Kygar; I couldn't have beaten Strata without that extra Plunge point). I just save before select parts of the story so I can replay or rewatch them, like Plunges and scenes and all that.