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[Dunii Lo'Cerlyn]

What Dragon Age: Inquisition needs and also what any RPG of its caliber and scope need is an automated system that saves your game after X amount of time passes. Auto saves are extremely helpful, but they just don’t happen often enough. I’m certain that I’ve spent a good chunk of my gaming time just replaying an area because I didn’t think to manually save.

These games are good. And, when you’re immersed in and enjoying these kinds of games, the last thing on your mind is, “Let me stop what I’m doing and take myself out of the game so I can save.” There are points where that thought does cross your mind (and why a lot of us keep multiple saves), but there are plenty of times where it doesn’t cross your mind until you’ve lost an hour or more of your game time.

I’ve spent hours roaming the wasteland in Fallout, amazed at everything I’ve come across, only to be victim of some freak accident that takes me back to my last auto save half way across the map and two hours ago. During my last few playthroughs of Dragon Age: Origins, I’d come home late from work and try to get some gaming in, fall asleep on my couch, and wake up to my Xbox powered off. I’d literally play the same part for a week before finally being able to stay awake long enough to manually save. There could be any number of reasons why you lost your progress, but that progress could have been spared had the game automatically saved for you.

I propose that, in addition to manual saves and location based auto saves, there also be time elapsed auto save slot. At the very least, every 30 minutes would spare headaches, though more frequent wouldn’t hurt anyone if there’s an option. Naturally, these saves wouldn’t occur during combat scenes, cut scenes, or dialogue, but, after the specified amount of time has elapsed, it would save at any point that the player could normally save at.

While this may not be useful or even necessary for some, it won’t take from the enjoyment of the game for anyone. In fact, you would spend less time thinking about having to constantly save the game and just get completely lost into the game world and only focus on playing it.

Just my wordy two cents.

[Darth Krytie]

I'm all for it. I find the more times I've played a game (something that happens with BioWare games) the less stringent I become with saving. The first time, I'll be hyperaware of it...my last mass effect 3 playthough, I hadn't manually saved in over five hours when I finally thought to do it.

[Wulfram]

Autosaves seem pretty frequent in Bioware games these days.  But sure, why not?  Belt and braces and all that.

 

It might fit better in with the more open world style design, too.

[Lord Xendria]

Perfect for when my pooey apartment building has another random power outtage -just before I was about to save anyway-, or random frozen game moments that only seem to happen when I haven't saved in hours.

[Jeremiah12LGeek]

Skyrim had an excellent autosave system (bloating save files aside.) It automatically tier-saved three different autosaves. It's quite brilliant, really.

 

I think it should be a feature of most types of games, especially RPGs.

 

What SHOULDN'T happen is a single autosave, and no manual save option. Too many games do that, and it's a terrible system. I know so many people who ragequit Dead Island, because their game save was corrupted.

[DrBlingzle]

I'd like this idea a lot. It would be extra good if we could set a time period for each auto save (every 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, etc, etc) and be able to select how many auto save files we have.

[Ryzaki]

Which how often Skyrim CTDs tho those 3 auto saves were necessary

 

Hopefully DAI isn't a CTDing mess. I love Skyrim but goddamn.