discussion Does Anyone Else Drop a Game When Old Saves Don't Work?

[LostWaffle]

For me, it depends on the game, but yeah, if it was like merely ok, I'll probably drop it

 

[Waylight]

Hasn't happened often to me. I just skip through most of the content.

 

[mncsr]

If I love the game I will play it from scratch.
If it‘s not on my top list there is a chance to take a break/completely drop it.

 

[User_59941]

I tend to just restart when there's an update, depending on when I last played the game

 

[naruto800]

I don't really mind it. If that happens and the game is fresh in my mind, I usually just skip through the game making all of my previous choices. If it has been a minute since I have played and don't remember much, I take my time and read through the dialogue

 

[Nekura0ne]

As long as starting a new game isn't something I have to do every time there is an update I don't mind starting a new playthrough every now and then. I tend to replay the ones I like anyway so its not really a big deal for me.

 

[Lenrimnellac]

It depends on the game.

I used to have played from stratch summertime saga soooo many times because of the brocken saves.

 

[Duckpoo69420]

i'd probably wait for another update or two to pick it back up again

 

[Clunk676]

No unless the game isn't worth it and plus it can be good to restart games every once in a while

 

[TheVampirate]

I do if it's like an hours worth of playtime in, especially if it happens more than once. I've dropped patronage for that.

I kind of do if I skip through the whole thing, since the skip to unread often doesn't work and so I skip unread to catch up. If I don't really get to a point where I think its new I keep skipping and if it ends before that point... that's pretty much game over. If the game does that and requires a large amount of grind which really is just button clicks and time of the same scenes over and over I won't do it again. Most Renpy games should have an easier way to skip to X or a table of contents but Devs seem to care more about releasing the minimum to keep projects going instead of actually treating them like full/part time jobs and actually putting in a decent amount of work including Qol improvements instead of just a half dozen renders and bugfixes.

 

[MattShizzle]

I kind of do if I skip through the whole thing, since the skip to unread often doesn't work and so I skip unread to catch up. If I don't really get to a point where I think its new I keep skipping and if it ends before that point... that's pretty much game over. If the game does that and requires a large amount of grind which really is just button clicks and time of the same scenes over and over I won't do it again. Most Renpy games should have an easier way to skip to X or a table of contents but Devs seem to care more about releasing the minimum to keep projects going instead of actually treating them like full/part time jobs and actually putting in a decent amount of work including Qol improvements instead of just a half dozen renders and bugfixes.

Of course skipping doesn't do much when choices matter. Our Red String was really bad for this even before the rework. Even with ctrl it would be well over an hour to get where you were at the last save, and good luck remembering all the choices. Reworking from the start is even worse, like abandoning the game and starting a new one. That's when I dropped that one. Was similar but not reworked with GGGB. I'd say don't play any EvaKiss games until completed for that reason.

 

[Intorpecido]

It wouldn't be the main reason, normally you would already be unmotivated for other reasons.
But yes, I've abandoned games when I couldn't continue because I thought it wasn't worth it.

 

[perveldia]

In visual novels it is a minor inconvenience. I just press skip to reach the point I was before. I can't remember having played an unfinished sandbox game (other than Milfy City, which did not have issues with save files)

 

[bobcyclone]

No, I usually enjoy or don't mind replaying through content. It helps hype up the new stuff.

 

[User_110997]

all depends on the game and the number of hours already played before losing the save and I try to have 2/3 save in case

 

[Eastin0504]

It depends on how long the save has been around for. For example, Seeds of Chaos put out an update a few months back that required you to start over and i'm not going to redo 30h of gameplay just to see 30min of new content, i'll just wait until it's a few hours at least.

 

[MattShizzle]

It depends on how long the save has been around for. For example, Seeds of Chaos put out an update a few months back that required you to start over and i'm not going to redo 30h of gameplay just to see 30min of new content, i'll just wait until it's a few hours at least.

If I give up on it, I give up on it forever.

 

[Giggly]

No. Like other people in this thread I will just wait for a few more updates before starting fresh again.

 

[Cooljim1]

if the game was good enough for me to wait for an update, i wont drop it that easy

 

[zedascebolas]

If the new update has a scene that I really want to see, I just skip the whole game until I get to the new update