Save Scumming - Stop Right There!

Save Scumming - Stop Right There!

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Dark Souls
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Dark Souls (2011)
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Stop right there save scummer!

It's easy to fall in the trap of save scumming with rapid quick saves and quick loads or emulation save states when things get tough. Some would go as far as saying it's cheating.

Super easy to fall into save scumming in immersive sim games or stealth based games.

Is save scumming cheating? Is save scumming justified? What can you do as a player to help stay away from it? What can developers do about save scumming? All that and more in this Boulder Punch essay.

(Reupload due to YouTube trimmer goofing with the original).

⛰️ FURTHER VIEWING FROM BOULDER PUNCH: ⛰️

Please don't make use of save scumming in the following games...

•Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Analysis - Vent Crawling Simulator - https://youtu.be/tUY66sRaB5Y
•Dishonored 2 - Is It Worth Your Time In 2020? [Analysis] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eek9k...
•Thief Sound Design: Why Didn't Others Learn (Plus Gloomwood, The Great Hope For Stealth)? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK2Z2...
•Politics In Games - Keep In Or Stay Out? - https://youtu.be/lq6tQPOG5fY
•Difficulty Modes In Games - 3 Ways To Be More Interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW4Bc...
•Do Old Games Hold Up?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67ttD...
•Mini-Maps & Quest Markers: Modern AAA Gaming Problems- https://youtu.be/L44ELiFbAIY

📺 FURTHER VIEWING: 📺

•Playing Past Your Mistakes | Game Maker's Toolkit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go0BQ...


Further reading:

•https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...
•https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015...

Music:

Kevin MacLeod: Who Likes to Party
Kevin MacLeod: Cool Vibes

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