Don't erase old saves. Keep everything.

[Jinix the Elder]

The f5 key, and the way it'll make three saves is a great idea, but for me I like to keep lots of saves so I can return to any part of the game.

I do this for a couple of reasons - one, the obvious, so I have a save to go back to in the event of a disaster or to re-start from an earlier save if I made a wrong choice somewhere in the game.

But the other reason I keep lots of saves is so at a future date I can go to the exceptionally tough battles and replay the battle without having to go thru the whole game to get to it. Besides, with harddrive capacity as big as it is and cheap (1tb for $99 @tigerdirect ) keeping a few megs of saves or even gigabytes, is a moot point.

I do that a lot with games now and as look back thru my collection of saves it's great to be able to start from anyplace in a game. Each time I go to a save before a battle, like the one with the giant spider, I can reduce the number of troops or try different strategies with the same enemies. It's a way I get more out of a game.

Jinix the Elder

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

[Jinix the Elder]

I was just reading the thread about the quest Choosing Thomas Cook's Heir, that's where you have to decide which brother out of his 3 sons will become heir.

If you have a save just previous to to that quest, later when you wonder what other quests you could have gotten, you can start from that place and try a different path... think of it like channel-flipping.

When the game is finished you'll not have had enough and so go thru again on a harder level, but after that you'll still want more and that's when all those saves are fun to have.

Instead of the game being a 50hr game it becomes a coffee break game. Fire it up, load save number 84, enter the battle, have ten minutes of fun and go back to work feeling refreshed.

Jinix the Elder

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Lord Chesterfield

[alon]

Originally Posted by Jinix the Elder

I was just reading the thread about the quest Choosing Thomas Cook's Heir, that's where you have to decide which brother out of his 3 sons will become heir.

If you have a save just previous to to that quest, later when you wonder what other quests you could have gotten, you can start from that place and try a different path... think of it like channel-flipping.

When the game is finished you'll not have had enough and so go thru again on a harder level, but after that you'll still want more and that's when all those saves are fun to have.

Instead of the game being a 50hr game it becomes a coffee break game. Fire it up, load save number 84, enter the battle, have ten minutes of fun and go back to work feeling refreshed.

Jinix the Elder

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Lord Chesterfield

That is a very unique way of looking at saves which I think I might try in the future.
Thank you for sharing.