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Article #508726Re: what is the deepest or most complicated rpg?!
From: Xocyll
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 19:37
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 19:37
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Dan Lingman <dlingman@rogers.com.nospamplease> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say: >Xocyll <Xoc...@gmx.com> wrote in news:ss5q691eb9e7mmjupcmmisgvb3hggl3s1g@ >4ax.com: > >> >> Kinda like old games like Rogue or Omega - saving was only when quitting >> out of the game. >> You could pick up where you left off with no gap in continuity, but if >> you died you couldn't reload an old save, because there was no old save. >> Those old games had one save slot, and as soon as you died (or did >> something stupid you'd like to undo) saved that progress immediately. >> >> It's not so much write-only memory, as it's a backup that's >> up-to-the-second and there's only one copy ever. >> >> Xocyll >> > >Worse, they tended to embed the file creation time inside the file, so if >you saved, then cloned the save file it didn't work. Some did, some didn't. If I recall correctly, Omega didn't, and I don't think Nethack did either. At least not the PC versions. Xocyll
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