These days I'm usually just confused about autosaves. Especially in games that don't have clear checkpoints. I don't mind taking explicit saving away but don't oversimplify it by trying to pretend saving isn't even a thing that happens. Nothing more fun than pointlessly replaying 30 minutes.

(Technology that is needlessly oversimplified just sucks. I hate that if YouTube jams on my smart TV, there's no option to, you know, shut it down or restart it. You have to literally go and pull the plug. Samsung thinks we're bunch of idiots but they're a bunch of idiots I tell you)

Also, explicit saving is still better. To quote one local game journalist, when the PC-focused game magazine expanded to cover consoles: "I want to save the game right away, not after I've been run over by a zombie in the subway five times." /old person whinge of the week

Have multiple save files

It auto-saves every now and again. Just exit.

*Kills the game process and reopens it to play from the last save just before I fucked up....*

Quick Save (F5) / Quick Load (F9)

Bruh, I hate how Nintendo only lets you have ONE save file in most of their games, especially in BOTW and TOTK so I have to intentionally try to trigger the autosave and use that as a reload point when I'm not ready to overwrite my only save yet. Like I would load the save, before doing anything, i'd fast travel to a random shrine or town, wait for the autosave icon to pop up, wait for like 5-10 seconds, check the load menu (basically "copying" my only save into an autosave, since I haven't done anything in the in-game world yet, I can reload this autosave in case I make a mistake with my manual save), and then I go explore a new place or fight some monster.

But they only allow 5 autosaves, so if you explore too long, you can't revert the state of your world.

What the fuck nintendo?

Also, wtf is a monthly subscription to backup save files?

And for third party games, you cannot export the save files to a pc.

Fuck this bs, worse mistake of my life.

(BOTW was fun, but nintendo sucks, TOTK feels kinda like a clone of BOTW, got so burned out from nintendo games)

Some games have a little notification that says something like: “saved 5 seconds ago”. That kind of makes it okay to just quit without saving again.

John Wick with the double-tap … err … save.

About to die, reflexively hits quicksave:

"Fuck!"

1. Save game.
2. Save and exit game.
3. Immediately restart game.
4. Load from last save.
5. Immediately save game again, 5 seconds after last save.
6. Save and exit game. Again.

Should be all good, I think.

...Just hit the power button to suspend the game.

Love this version of the meme format with Keanu Reeves!

I've been playing games for 30+ years, I always have 3+ separate save files.

Yet I don't think I've ever had a corrupted save so I don't even know why I formed this habit lol

One is none, two is one. Got to double save to prevent bit rot.