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I don't make that many saves in bethesda RPGs because I did that once for Fallout 3 until I got a windows prompt that my disk space on C: is running out. These save games take like a million gigabytes, it's insane. Another genre that does that are real time strategies. Some of them autosave at key points, but normally you need to remember to do that yourself, otherwise you're just one slip up from failing the whole mission, and some of those missions may take anywhere from 30 minutes to a couple of hours. Homeworld comes to mind instantly.

True, I guess that's why I eventually stopped playing it myself. I guess that's why there's an open world so you can have an option to turn back and check out what lurks in another areas, but eventually it all boils down to grinding XPs in the same sections over and over.

Yeah, that's also a good point. I don't mind dying in a game if the encounters can be as random as possible with each try. Thankfully you can find that in many games to a varied degree, but I would also name Max Payne 3 as a good example. Mainly thanks to the realistic physics engine and rather unpredictable A.I. (even though sometimes it has scripted events that play out roughly the same). On the flipside, some games are based on repetition, and the only trick is to memorise stuff, but I find it peculiar that it works in some games and makes others boring. Again, being a winner and not a loser should be a motivation enough for me, but the only time I really hate dying is when I made a significant progress and death means losing some valuable stuff or replaying a large portion of the game. Plus repeating the same thing makes it feel like a massive waste of time and I end up resenting myself for being careless.

Losing is a bummer in itself, I think. If you really need an extra motivation to not lose then there's something missing from the game or it's way too easy. Besides, it depends on the genre. Personally I find the system from Dark Souls the most endearing, because even though the game's difficulty is punishing, at least it gives you a chance to remedy the situation by recovering lost XPs (that is unless you fell from a cliff like an idiot). However, I can't see it being implemented in, say, Call of Duty because it's a game that relies heavily on fast paced setpieces. I agree that the nemesis system is really cool beacuse it adds a lot of depth to the game world, but gameplay-wise it could really use some tweaks. Specifically I'm talking about the fact that the game pauses every time you encounter a captain. It gets especially ridiculous and frustrating when you stumble upon several captains at a time. Not only this leaves me with massive blue balls from interrupting the heat of battle, but it looks kind of stupid when everyone stops dead in their tracks only to listen to some dude repeat one of the several taunts ad nauseum. Also, getting mocked by the enemy who has defeated you only makes me want to launch my TV through a window.

Yakshemash! I'm mikhail from the glorious nation of kaza... Actually I'm from poland, but with my accent people tend to mistake me for borat and I find that quite amusing. I got here by typing "best gaming forum" in google and stumbling upon a reddit thread in which this website was on top of the list. Three things that I love in life include self-indulgence, video games and writing, although I work as a copywriter and I absolutely despise this job. I tend to talk too much and people often feel offended by my observations, though I have no clue why. This is my first english language forum so I hope that I won't prove any polish stereotypes to be true and fit right in. When it comes to gaming I play whatever grabs my interest. Currently my favourie activity is playing repetitive games while listening to various podcasts. By repetitive games I mean anything that's focused on gameplay rather than story (examples include: diablo 3 and other H'n'S games, X series, various MMOs, sandbox shooters and so forth). Right now my favourite podcast is Laser Time.