Ren'Py Bad Memories [v0.9.5.2] [recreation]

[johnnypunani]

Just a question of pure curiosity:


Ren'Py offers a tremendous amount of save slots, why do so many of you use only one????

I have saves from multiple places for each release. And then I sometimes have saves for alternate paths. So I find it confusing to put all those eggs in one basket with a single save. And I hope someone can explain it, particularly in light of the Dozens of threads I have been in where some save breaking happens but if you go back a bit you might be OK. (Nefastus has that happen a lot for some reason)

If your sole reason is pure laziness maybe just skip this as I want to know a better one than that please.

If you're saying that in response to my message, I have like pages and pages of saves. None of them worked with the newest version.

 

[Jarulf]

Ren'Py offers a tremendous amount of save slots, why do so many of you use only one????

Because I get too caught up in the story to remember
I usually make a new save when I've played through a new release. I don't usually follow more than one path, and never chase every scene.

 

[recreation]

You can always activate "skip unseen" in preferences, and then just skip through to the point where you last played.
What I don't really understand though, is why the old saves don't work, unless your saves are really old, they should work.

 

[Angstlord]

Hi how r u all?
Maybe u all know it but ive to ask...
In the menu says rachel's history but i can't enter.
Is it available, or not yet?

 

[Wookie]

Hi how r u all?
Maybe u all know it but ive to ask...
In the menu says rachel's history but i can't enter.
Is it available, or not yet?

Not available yet

 

[Deleted member 5088547]

I love that this has a choice of female protagonist as well. I wish more VN had that.

 

[KURO_NEKO_SAM]

Nice game

 

[Tavi13]

Ren'Py offers a tremendous amount of save slots, why do so many of you use only one????

Because I am old, and going senile. Unless I can name the saves, there is no friggin' chance I will ever remember what point the save was for

 

[Smarmint]

Ren'Py offers a tremendous amount of save slots, why do so many of you use only one????

I just save whenever anything interesting happens which I might want to see later, which tends to be every few scenes or so. I end up having 20+ pages of saves, depending on the length of the game. Just looking at my save screenshots helps me remember, more or less, what happened last few updates to most games.

Plus, if I screw up something, usually I can go back a few pages and try another option. Plus, like a few have said, even the longest game here, can be zipped through in 10 or 15 minutes using control and vaguelly remembering your last choices.

But, I have very low patience for sandbox games where the saves don't work. Occasionally, one will be interesting enough to play for one playthrough, but if the dev messes up the saves, I am done. There is no way in hell I am going back to replay Summertime Saga, Cure my Addiction, or something like House Party if my saves no longer work.

It's just not worth it. It was painful enough the first time.

 

[mullovergem]

Plus, like a few have said, even the longest game here, can be zipped through in 10 or 15 minutes using control and vaguelly remembering your last choice.

I agree, but now that it occurs to me, I wish more devs would take a page out of Palmer (rip)/Love-Joint's book and cut longer games into several chapters so that this happens less often and it's easier to keep track of/experiment with different routes.

 

[Rutonat]

I agree, but now that it occurs to me, I wish more devs would take a page out of Palmer (rip)/Love-Joint's book and cut longer games into several chapters so that this happens less often and it's easier to keep track of/experiment with different routes.

Or add a chapter skip with quick "what did you chose here" to catch back up without replaying everything. Very, very few games do, but I've seen it works. Though, it doesn't works much if the games have a huge load of choices but I feel like juggling with that many variables would be a nightmare for devs...

 

[Carpe Stultus]

I agree, but now that it occurs to me, I wish more devs would take a page out of Palmer (rip)/Love-Joint's book and cut longer games into several chapters so that this happens less often and it's easier to keep track of/experiment with different routes.

There are some who do it, mostly to make the up- and download not too heavy. For this here its not needed in the slightest, BM is not that long or big in file size and to be honest what palmer did was not the best thing because if you hadn't a save from a version before, which can have several reasons, you had to go through the hole game either way.

 

[recreation]

Imagine a dev forgetting to add a variable in an early episode, and only finding out several episodes later when it's needed. I doubt it's better having to download and play through every single episode again.
You need to remember that most of the games here are pretty much unfinished, so stuff like that can happen pretty easily.

 

[Rutonat]

Imagine a dev forgetting to add a variable in an early episode, and only finding out several episodes later when it's needed. I doubt it's better having to download and play through every single episode again.
You need to remember that most of the games here a pretty much unfinished, so stuff likes pretty often.

Not to mention, if you end up adding or modifying something in the early parts, say for example adding a scene you had scrapped at first, and your game has a lot of variables to deal with... chances are you're gonna break everything that takes place afterwards because you modified something you shouldn't have.
And then... hours of checking, testing, modifying, testing again, getting depressed because it breaks again, checking again, modifying again,...

 

[Tatsuya25]

update when when ♪ , want to breed and reee breed the little spitfire T.T

♥ best wishes on shu for a soon update

 

[ImperialD]

Imagine a dev forgetting to add a variable in an early episode, and only finding out several episodes later when it's needed. I doubt it's better having to download and play through every single episode again.
You need to remember that most of the games here are pretty much unfinished, so stuff like that can happen pretty easily.

some are just to picky picky picky .....
Rec. you have a hell-of-an-AWESOME game

 

[Asia Argento]

Imagine a dev forgetting to add a variable in an early episode, and only finding out several episodes later when it's needed. I doubt it's better having to download and play through every single episode again.
You need to remember that most of the games here are pretty much unfinished, so stuff like that can happen pretty easily.

You are aces in my book. These people act like they got a free vacation to Hawaii and they are livid that they found a pile of dogshit in the streets.

 

[Eticketjedi]

You are aces in my book. These people act like they got a free vacation to Hawaii and they are livid that they found a pile of dogshit in the streets.

I mean... I saw a review for a travel agency once where a family booked a trip to Germany and then was upset that everyone spoke German so...

 

[Nevrius]

I mean... I saw a review for a travel agency once where a family booked a trip to Germany and then was upset that everyone spoke German so...

They might'v ended up in the german province. Sometimes, even I can't understand these people, and I'm german myself!

 

[GingerbreadMan]

They might'v ended up in the german province. Sometimes, even I can't understand these people, and I'm german myself!

Also depends on their attitude of course.
And then - if they were annoyed people spoke german WITH THEM, or just at all.
Why should everyone switch to a foreign language so every tourist can understand what is said around them on the streets ..

Everything south of Hamburg is more or less northern Italy, so ...