EA and saving games

[OnBake Platinum]

Argh. Not only are EA games crappy and full of ads, they making saving your damn game as annoying as possible.

SAVE GAME?!?!

You have to select yes, because it's not the default

ARE YOU SURE?!?!?

You have to move to yes again.

*LOADS*

OVERWRITE FILE?!??!

Yes dammit!

*LOADS*

DO NOT TOU-

WHICH FILE?!?!?

Dumbass, there is only one.

OK *LOADS*

DO NOT TOU-

GAME SAVED

Ok...


Every damn time! I HATE how developers choose to make "no" the default all the time. Who the hell picks no!? Yeah, I just wasted like a half hour on your stupid ad/rap filled game just to not save it.

[Vishus]

I would want to skip the "Are you sure?" only if I can get out of the current situation. What if you saved with 1 hp left and nothing else to revive it with no knowledge of what lies ahead? I do admit that multiple steps, with dangerous defaults for something simple sucks ass.

[Phoenix]

"Seanbaby's Rest of the Crap" In EGM April Issue (#190)

This time, it's about retarded things that even good games have. Here's one of them.

Crime: Condescending Menus
So let me get this straight, game developers: My thumbs are capable of turbo double-jumping a robot boy through 10 exciting worlds of villains and lava traps, but every single time I want to save my game, you double check that I hit the right button. I beat Zorga the Klorp to get to this save point; the signal between my brain and hands is working. It's insulting enough to ask if I want to overwrite my save game at all since in the history of my videogame career I've NOT wanted to overwrite my save game almost once. But to make my default response to each item in the save menu questionnaire "I'm the idiot who hit the wrong button" is openly mocking me.

Punishment: Forty lashes for each offense. Also, there is a special condition for this crime. If there is ever an unskippable sequence where the player must PRESS X TO CONTINUE after each line, and then, at the end someone asks, WOULD YOU LIKE TO HEAR THAT AGAIN? and your response defaults to playing the entire thing again, all people involved with the game, from concept brainstormer to retail clerk, will be sentenced to death by way of electric chair dressed up as a clown.

[Alpha Rioja]

lmao. This has come to my attention as well. it is quite annoying. it's because they (and thus their games) need attention because they didn't get it from their mother (boards). be gentle with them. they are fragile and apt to shoot up their IT department.

[koten]

This is how it should work

NO Autosave for reasons Vishus listed

You click save, and it asks you to pick your file, having the one you are playing pre-selected.

That's how it should work