problems with saved games (PC Version)

In article <mbmng.27364$Ui7.25252@tornado.tampabay.rr.com>,
"Inu-Yasha" <tjardine.TakeThisOut@cfl.rr.com> wrote:

> "carlosjm" <carlosjm.TakeThisOut@charter.net> wrote in message
> news:1151188837.301147.288800@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...
> > hello:
> >
> > While playing Tomb Raider Legend, I'd like to save my game every so
> > often, without having to
> > wait for the next checkpoint. I get prompted to either save to a new
> > game or replace an existing one.
> >
> > No matter which one I choose, when I try to load a previously saved
> > game, it will load the last checkpoint, very often forcing me to
> > re-play a very long sequence.
[...]
> > very frustating !!! Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?
> >
> > Thanks, Carlos
>
> Nothing. Your doing it right, the game is doing it wrong, that is the way
> it's built, to imitate a console. Welcome to the tomb, raider. ^_^

Don't blame this little "feature" on consoles. There is really no reason
for that way of saving games other than someone decided to do it that
way (or maybe that is the way the game engine is designed to do saves?)
and they decided that ALL versions of the game should work the same way.
(It also makes life easier for the support folks if all versions of the
game work the same way... or as much as possible. Not sure how they
managed to squeeze in some different features into the PSP version.)

There must be some "game designer school" where they teach game
designers that this is the "way" to do this kind of thing... probably
some psychology of game design course they all take...

-Andy-

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> "Inu-Yasha" <tjardine.RemoveThis@cfl.rr.com> wrote in
> <news:mbmng.27364$Ui7.25252@tornado.tampabay.rr.com>:
>
>>> No matter which one I choose, when I try to load a previously
>>> saved game, it will load the last checkpoint, very often forcing
>>> me to re-play a very long sequence.
>
> [snip]
>
>>> very frustating !!! Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?
>>
>> Nothing. Your doing it right, the game is doing it wrong, that is
>> the way it's built, to imitate a console. Welcome to the tomb,
>> raider. ^_^

It's the very reason why I didn't buy the game, or any other dumbed-down
console-port.
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