Baldur’s Gate 3’s huge launch has reignited the age-old debate about save scumming.

  • Poggervania@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Bigger question is who gives a crap?

    It’s a single-player game, let people enjoy things the way they want to. I personally don’t save-scum the skill and ability checks, but I will save-scum on a tough fight if I’m in a losing position - and I ain’t gonna knock on people who do and don’t do that in a single-player game.

    For multi-player, I would discourage it since dealing with your friend’s fuckups is like, half the fun of a tabletop session.

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      1 year ago

      I think reloading a difficult fight you’re losing isn’t necessarily savescumming. What’s the alternative, letting it play out until you get a TPK and then starting over with a new level 1 character because “that’s what would have happened in pen-and-paper”?

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        1 year ago

        I think this is the challenge for some who don’t want to reload a save. But random dice --with 1 always failing and 20 always hitting are just that random. No play skill involved.

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          1 year ago

          I agree. But hey, people do permadeath no-reload challenges of XCOM, too. Some folks are crazy.

          I just don’t think reloading a save after losing a fight counts as savescumming. That functionality is such a core part of games that we had to invent an entire genre to design around not doing that (Roguelikes).

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, and that’s an extreme take I’ve seen some people take on games in the past - basically treating every game as if they had an Ironman mode.

        I personally don’t even see reloading the game after losing as “save-scumming”, but there are the rare individuals who would consider it as such.