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Baldur's Gate 3's lead writer hopes we won't want to save scum [repeated quicksave] in Divinity: 'Our ambition is certainly to make failure more interesting' (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
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[–] 29 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I hate the term "save scumming," like I'm supposed to feel dirty for playing how I want (e.g. using quicksaves and such as checkpoints) and using shit that is built into the fucking game.

Kenshi is a pain in the fucking ass (still love it though). Do you realize how many times you'd have to restart from scratch, like totally restarting the game from the very beginning, if you didn't use the save system?even just from dust bandits kicking the shit out of you when you first spawn in, to getting yourself killed off because you happened to enter an area at the wrong angle, the game is unforgiving as hell. You almost need to constantly save just to keep your progress.

And that's not even getting into if the game crashes.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    That doesnt sound like save scumming to me. Save scumming is usually referring to reloading a save over and over until you get the RNG you want. Like an xcom mission where you need to make a 25% shot and you save and reload until you hit that shot.

    So for bg3 save scumming would be seeing that you have a low chance to get a roll, saving and then reloading until you get lucky.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    I considering save scumming only when I try to do something fatal (e.g. jumo from cliff, box/ignore social space of a random cop on the street).
    But I'd honor a game story decision if I made it myself and not save scum.

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