ئیلێنا نووسەرێکی بەشدارە لە DualShockers کە تایبەتە بە یارییە ترسناکەکان، ترسناکییەکانی مانەوە، RPG جیهانی کراوە، فانتازیا و خەیاڵی مێژوویی. لە ساڵی ٢٠٢٤ دەستی بە ڕووماڵکردنی یارییەکان کرد بە شێوەیەکی پیشەگەرانە، لەگەڵ گرنگیدان بە یارییە سەرەتاییەکانی بەسترابووەوە بە Baldur’s Gate 3 پێش ئەوەی ئارەزووی بۆ ڕووماڵکردنی ترسناکەکان لە ڕێگەی یارییەکانی وەک Silent Hill 2 Remake و Silent Hill f گەشە بکات.
The invention of autosave was, quite literally, game-changing. Gone were the days of stressing out over countless hours of lost progress, with players being able to just pick up where the last autosave left off.
However, with all inventions, previous creative workarounds ended up being rendered obsolete as a result.
Developers had all kinds of mechanics in place that use the lack of autosave to their advantage; whether if it's to further challenge players or to get them to problem-solve in other unique ways, there were different avenues that fizzled out with the invention of autosave. While yes, autosave is mechanically better simply for all the convenience it brings to gaming, I can't help but mourn the loss of all the mechanics that served as stepping stones.
Who knows? Maybe we'll see some of these mechanics come back in their own unique way — but so long as autosave is involved in the game, these mechanics simply won't work.
When I say that autosave killed save-scumming, it’s important to take games like Baldur’s Gate 3 out of the equation, since they’re an exception and an outlier: when autosave was brought into gaming, it rendered old player tactics for progression to be absolutely useless. Namely, it dismantled the ability to save scum in order to see every possible option or pathway.
In modern games, autosaves are frequent and overwrite whatever progress you’ve made so far, making it nearly impossible to be able to go back and either undo a bad decision or to see what else can happen. Even if you shut off your console to try and go back to a manual save, more often than not, it will actually put you back at your last autosave.
And in some games, there is now the inclusion of something called Ironman Mode, which will automatically save over your file with every single decision you make, which will make it genuinely impossible to backtrack. Even Baldur’s Gate 3 has this system (called Honour Mode), meaning that you can’t save scum on every difficulty.
سەرچاوەی فەرمی بە زمانی ئینگلیزی: https://www.dualshockers.com/gaming-mechanics-that-were-erased-with-autosave/
