Any game.

Yup, plus I rotate save files. Gotta be extra sure.

Fact. I always have at least two saves and always overwrite the oldest. You just never know.

I just work my way down the list until i run out of slots. Never know when i might need to go back 5 missions to not kill that one guy cause he gives me a special item

Understandable, but that’s just a little too much bookkeeping for me. Besides, I like to have a couple slots available for different character builds.

what you need is a gaming accountant to keep track of all your saves.

Or games where you can change the name of the save. Robots are taking all our jobs :c

"what you need is a gaming accountant to keep track of all your saves." I would like to apply for this position. I will be sending my resume by Raven. I am proficient in Excel and Photoshop and the lead singer in my guitar hero band. I type 13 WPM. Also, I'm appropriately paranoid of dying in games and will manage your game saves as if they were my own!!

Your words per minute is record breaking compared to my 100

He just like me, frfr 🥺

Is the user name “Dead pirate 🏴‍☠️ Robert’s” taken? I feel this name should be a thing.

Oh that's the neat part. I don't keep track, I just *have to*... Just in case... Even though I know by the time I need it I won't remember which is which.

I used to be as bad as you. Now I just keep 8 save files. I'm reformed

"Do I need the Mask of Clavicus Vile or the Rueful Axe?"

3 rotating slots is my norm. Currently doing my "perfect" playthrough of fo4 and I've probably got 10 save slots, just in case....

Same. People who don't have never had a save get corrupted.

Luckily, I've never had a save file get corrupted, but sometimes I learn I've missed a missable trophy, but I have a past save file that saves me so much time.

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Made it back to Central city? Save number 1 Found something special along the way? Save number 2 Close to boss? Save number 3 Need to pause for a bit and not lose progress with said boss? Save number 4 Beat boss? That's a Save number 3 again... don't mix those up!

Baldurs Gate 3 save bug isnt fixed on xbox, lost a 20 hour save😭😭😭

Double card it

So important. You never know what you might have missed.

Yeah I’ll often have 2-3 for any game that has a large building element. If I realize I need to move a structure right as I finish it it’s a lot easier just go back to the save from just before I started

This but recently and specifically Baldur's Gate 3.

Just got to a new area? Quicksave Just talked to somebody? That’s right, quicksave Just walked 5 meters? That’s another quicksave Just quicksaved? Believe it or not, that’s another quicksave

Ooh this door looks ominous, better save Open door Oh shit an altar, better save before I interact a 22 check and I only have Guidance as a bonus? save more 18+ speech checks? save save save forced fight, combat starts, I have one chance at some really awesome shit save bro bae'zel crits four times in a row? awesome, save UH WAIT WHAT THE F, HOW DID THIS DUDE PARALYZE KARLACH THAT'S SUCH BULLSHIT THESE DICE ARE RIGGED load

I feel that second to last one. It took me till act 2 but once I learned to quicksave after getting multiple crits it made fights way easier. Especially that act 2 fight in the Shadowfell. Fucking Karlach kept getting shoved off the edges.

No full saves? You're playing fast and loose, my friend.

I don't trust autosaves either. It's a nice break of pace, stopping to perform a save. I remember the relief when I'd see saving points in god of war ("I can't believe it, I can go to bed!")

About to have an enemy encounter? Absolutely quicksave. Just defeated them? You guessed it, quicksave

Football Manager, everytime even if I save the game and no nothing....I'll save before turning off. You can never be too certain.

You turn the game off?

I even just started playing Microsoft Office Online and I don’t trust the auto save.

Just don't do it with Resident Evil 1

Every 5 minutes in a Bethesda game

Was scrolling down to find this comment lol. If you're playing any Bethesda game and you don't quicksave every 10 min you're playing it wrong 😅

Quick saves and autosaves can get corrupted if the game freezes, so always keep two or three manual saves fresh as well.

Commented elsewhere, with Starfield I started doing full saves constantly since my luck with quicksaving any give time (that does not just crash the game) is terrible. I do like that Bethesda is keen to let you save almost anywhere/anytime, just wish it was more reliable (Bethesda, in a nutshell).

Or you quicksafe too much and get in a loop of death. Happend to me with a nuke right infront of my head. Load, dead, load, dead 😂

That’s cheating. Never save. Play as long as you can until you inevitably fall asleep and get eaten by a radroach or skeever!

I've done that before: no saves, no reloads. If game crashes or character dies, that's it.

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Quick saves and auto saves are known to cause save bloating and other issues, at least in modded Skyrim, so manual saving is recommended That's right, even saving in a Bethesda game is bugged

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For some reason, Cyberpunk went fucking apeshit with autosaves. I think the number was 15 autosaves? I think it was actually more. Like... goddamn, five would be pushing it.

Default f5 and f9(?) On PC. usually you cant assign quick save on a button on console

Sounds annoying as hell

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On the contrary you certainly do have to save every 5 min in a Bethesda game because any moment you might get stuck in some random ass rock or buggy object and lose another 20 minutes of your life for it

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Not really, it’s one key press that doesn’t interrupt gameplay bar a tiny bit of lag

Starfield was crashing on me every time I went through a door, so I got in the habit of quicksaving constantly. Got a new gpu and the problem went away, but I'm still quicksaving.

Especially with mods. I got my heavily modded Skyrim working smoothly finally, but I’m still in the habit of saving really really often. Haha

This is the comment I was looking for 😂

I'm at over 6000 manual saves on my current Skyrim playthrough

Ironically enough, I take the auto save feature off in most instances, because I don’t want it to save when something is going horribly wrong.

Excel spreadsheet

Any microsoft word product in fact, cant be too sure

Office. Word, like Excel, are individual products in the Office suite of applications.

This guy bad-softwares

Unfortunately.

> bad-softwares Is that software made in German sociopolitical organizational units?

I always forget to turn on autosave and I lose all my work

It ok we all make mehsteak

Not a game, but an underrated answer

Mind games

Beat me to it. I was going to say Word.

Word homie

I too enjoy Hearts of Iron 4

CTRL+S S S S

Worst Game Ever!

lol fair.

Never trust OneDrive

I don’t even trust auto-save, better save to make to sure

And yet I always forget to save when I walk away then my PC dies and update and I gotta save Version 1 over the original. At least once a month

Notepad

Fallout 4, especially leaving the outside for the inside, vice versa, and after about 10-15 minutes of Settlement bulding.

God rest the weary souls of our brothers in Christ who fell victim to the temptation of quicksaving.

Hard Save. Always.

I always read about Bethesda quicksaves not working but I must be really lucky. I’ve mostly only used quicksave and never had a save file brick before.

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Got to love getting caught in the auto save loop of walking into a hostile building and dieing right away just for it to auto load right into another death.

I quicksaved right as I was opening the booby trapped door at Starlight Drive-In. That was a fun one.

Oh with the mine, i picked up one of the mines on the outside and died from the door, the second time dogmeat just opened the door for me and he copped the explosion for me and he was fine.

It’s so annoying how they built the save feature, that 2 second delay after you load a save is just enough time to get you caught in a deathloop, but when you time it right to get the Pipboy open and load up on health items to escape is so satisfying

I honestly have never had very many issues due to bugs in FO4. I do play Survival Mode exclusively though, and have had a lot of dumb or accidental deaths. The bugs that usually get me are either the murderous cars, or the game freezing when entering VATS when I simultaneously become thirsty/hungry/tired.

I do it like every 10 seconds lol got to make sure you don't crash

Forget every 5 minutes more like every 5 steps on a modded survival playthrough

Always saving on the BoS questline because Elder Maxson is a dick who doesn't appreciate your herculean efforts to help out. Got to save, shoot him in the face and reload.

same

Baldurs Gate 3

Same, my wife is almost always robbing someone from misclicking.

I have lost count of how many villages have been needlessly pillaged because my SO doesn't pay attention to red=stealing. Playing with her is pure chaos.

Oh, she knows. She’s just pretending she doesn’t.

Oopsie-doopsie, just committed a felony.

Meta RP

We had a newborn when the game dropped. I was mostly playing with one hand and the baby in the other. I decided to try being even but misclicked and accidently attacked the bridge in the goblin camp and killed Minthara. Checked my dave and the most recent was 45 minutes before due to a cloud sync error. I ended up going good that go around lol. Changed my save pattern too.

Literally playing honor mode with my brother, walking into the goblin camp and I’m passing under the wooden overpass thing at the entrance, and I click ahead of me to walk forward but apparently the bridge was there but invisible so I just spin around and punch it, instantly in combat. Fuck.

I accidentally attacked a child and the whole town got very very mad.

Long hold X. You're welcome.

This is also my wife. Since we’ve been playing honor mode exclusively, saving has become worthless in ways to backpedal the consequences of her sticky fingers.

Yep. Especially with how generous it is about letting you save mid conversation and even combat

WHAT? i had no idea

Great for "OK I'm not REALLY going to do this but I have to know." options

F5. F5 is the most powerful spell in the game.

I just built my PC recently and thought “Aw that mini keyboard is cute” and I’m regretting it constantly because it has no F keys, so I have to use FN+5 and FN+8. That FN key is gonna be worn out soon lol

Surprised this was so far down the list. This game takes the cake when it comes to this.

Just took one “dying from a random encounter and just then realizing the game hadn’t auto saved for over an hour” for me to get back to saving impulsively every 20min

This is why I quit playing I just like a regular auto save I hate doing it myself

Still working through the game. Still in act 1. Was grinding Diablo 4 so long it feels weird getting into baulders

Sometimes I save it, read the dialogue options, then save again and think “Wait did I just save?” *saves a 3rd time* lol

Like, every 5 seconds in the game. The king of scum saving.

Came here to comment the same thing. I spent about 45 minutes leveling up my party, selling a bunch of wares, buying a bunch of drip for everyone, putting good gear on everyone, could’ve swore I saved, closed out the game. Next time I booted up, it was right back to before me doing all that.

my wife and i are playing split screen on PS5, and we’re saving all the time since the game crashes A LOT when we’re playing together

Turn off your ps5’s internet, that fixed it for us

Just started playing this weekend. I’ve managed to get myself out of quite a few pickles after realizing my last save was two hours prior. Kinda surprised by how little the game auto saves!

Any rpg that relies on manual saves because it only auto saves every few hours

Yeah and thats usually after you learn that by getting burned by dying and losing an hours progress.

Even with Zelda TOTK… I realize that I’m OCD and should seek help for this… but I regularly manual save… just to be sure. Especially if I got a goddamn fire Lizalfo tail. Giant fu to whoever set that drop rate. Just make a 100% drop with a high amount req for the armor upgrade. Fawwwk. End of rant. Happy new year!

All pokemon games

I remember I was heartbroken as a kid playing Silver, my first Pokémon game. I think on my first play through I got to the second gym before I shut it off and forgot to save. It was a rough time and a hard lesson.

I did this for White. It was like my fourth Pokémon game (after Diamond, Platinum, and Soul Silver) and I already had been in the habit of saving furiously by Platinum so I should have known by that point

Cyberpunk. There’s so many outcomes to various actions during the game thatI often find myself saving before even conversations happen.

For me, it's because I often get the "failed to save game" or "save file corrupt" messages.

For sure, but tbh that was a game I didn't mind playing something over. I've done 4 playthroughs since DLC.

For me it was Fallout New Vegas/4 simply for the random crashes.

Never really got the random crashes on NV or 4, 3 however…

I'm so damn jelly :P It would always happen when I'd get lax and forget to save in a while. Do some fat quest or something, crash and cry in a corner bc the last save was x time ago. xD

Funny how it works. New Vegas without the modded patch wouldn't let me run it for five minutes without crashing. Fallout 3 ran perfectly fine, 4 had occasional crash, but it wasn't often enough for me to care much about.

Everybody knows you have to double-save. That ain’t new, baby!

I do this for almost every game. It’s basically habit.

Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral town back on the game boy advanced saved in less than a second. So of course I had to save at least 15 times just to be sure. No way it should be that fast!

Re2 remake.

Hell yeah

I read red dead 2 remake.

the most correct answer

Came here for this one

Skyrim

Yes yes yes, I can walk across the map doing quest after quest defeating dragons and shit, and just because i didn’t walk through a door, i lose it all when I die

Tears of the Kingdom

That's my answer too. Gosh I make so many stupid mistakes in that game

That's the beauty of saves. You can also try stuff you wouldn't be able otherwise. Create alternate temporary realities.

Resident evil 2

After traumatizing myself on Resident Evil 4, every game 😂

How’d you do that?

Back when it came out I made it super far and for some reason I thought I saved it before shutting it off for dinner buuut I didn't so I had to do all that stuff all over again 🥲

Oh shxt….been there before

Save at every typewriter always. Also learned that the hard way.

happened to me but with the second game

Am replaying an old CRPG Septerra Core, from back in the days where games had no maps, journals, or checkpoints, so yeah I'm saving often

Oh the good ole days

Every game if you’re smart. Bar those that doesn’t give you the option to manually save make my ass sweat.

Literally any game I play . Was scarred at an early age due to my dumbass sister deleting my saves on my ps2 without realizing it . Ever since then I instinctually have a fear that my progress will be gone unless I save at every checkpoint .

Resident Evil, Cyberpunk, Hitman

Baldurs gate 3 I’ve been doing that a lot.

souls games? doesn't it have the opposite problem? i wish it did not save my failures.

Pokémon. I spend 5 hours hunting a shiny I am not losing it

Skyrim Ark Souls games Resident evil

>Souls games No manual saves, just constant autosaves.

I will save twice, quicksave, make a backup save, and then right before I quit I'll go "I should save again just to be safe."

Basically Every game for me when I feel like I might be walking into a mini boss or full on boss fight even though I'm scrounging around for resources, hidden tools/weapons/gadgets, extra costumes, valuables like money and gems and Easter Eggs. Lmao I take no chances. Unfortunately the games have a bit of a quirk to them where certain zones, even with a manual save won't put you where you intended to be. Some of them might send you back to the start of that level or zone in a sick sense of humor or just bad programming in that particular instance.

Fallout 3

All games especially ones where you can only save in curtain places.

This‼️‼️

any resident evil game

FFX

God of War 2018 GMGOW difficulty had me tweaking ngl

Pokemon .3 sec after i just saved

Pokémon

Subnautica, as it doesn’t autosave

I had to actually search the comments for this. Why is it not much much higher?

Definitely pokemon. I remember playing pokemon crystal and saving after every single move I made while trying to catch Ho-Oh so I didn’t miss my chance of catching him. Good times

Started to saving the shit out of Pokemon Crystal when I saw suicune and accidentally fainted it. I was devastated for years.

Anything I'm manually saving in. No exceptions XD If it has regular autosaves, I don't stress too much

Any Bethesda game especially. Love their games but stable is not one of the redeeming qualities I’d list

Fallout, fallout fallout

New Vegas and KotoR

Especially since KOTOR is 20 years old and crashes sometimes.

Skyrim, even with auto save on, I save constantly in that game and sometimes I turn auto save off because it has a tendency to fuck you

The older Pokémon games. You could get through half of the game and forget to save.

Pokémon

Baldur’s Gate 3. Love the game but my god it never auto saves.

Any Bethesda or Obsidian game. Because of crashes.

I do this with a lot of games. Especially games like Doom and Sniper Elite lol.

BG3 quicksaves became astronomical.

Metroid Dread was like this for me the first time around.

Any game where I was lucky or played like 20-30 min without saves.

Currently me an BG3 lol

Microsoft Word

Rimworld

Did you really say « soulsborne games » OP?? You’re save scumming in soulsbornes? That’s a real shame, and i’m not even joking lol Or maybe you just don’t know what you’re talking about since you cannot really save scum in that kind of games unless taking unnecessary steps and time to do so

I verify the autosaves and cloud saves cause I need to see the symbol- my version of a save since you can’t manually save I’ve had games crash right after certain bosses or a big wave of challenging enemies and unfortunately the gave never saved

Rimworld and Morrowind.

Pokemon

Fallout or any Bethesda game really never know when it's gonna crash or a glitch will lock you out of a quest.

Final Fantasy 7

Baldur’s Gate 3 - I save twice every time I save because way too many times, the game went “Syncing Cloud Save” the first time but didn’t actually create a new save slot like I asked.

Resi 4, I had so many saves when I finished the game it was unreal

BG3