Do you ever continue the save file of the game you don't touch for 1+ years?

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now I am torn, I played Dragon Quest VII in 2018 and left it halfway at 31 hours, but I forgot some of the story, confused should I continue or start over

did you guys ever thrown into this dillema? what you guys do back then?
 
Depends on how long the game is or how far I'm in. I haven't played AC: Origins since Odyssey released and there's no way I'm restarting it. I'm pretty far into it and might end up putting it down again if I don't finish.
 
All the time. Occasionally I'll try to pick up a game and not remember how to play it at all and then I'll start over, but it rarely happens.
 
Think the longest I've gone was like six months in Xenoblade Chronicles. Had to come back to that game twice before I finished it. Wasn't too hard to remember where I was at or what had happened in the story though.
 
I did this for the following games:
  1. Okami
  2. Splinter Cell (PS2) (started in 2017)
  3. Braid (took me 3 years to complete)
  4. Onimusha
  5. TES Oblivion (started in 2017)
  6. Persona 3 FES (started in 2018)
  7. XenoGears (started in 2017)
 
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Weird, I just did this tonight as I'm giving RE7 another play. With certain games like RE or The Evil Within they take a little while to get going, usually a load of cutscenes and set up, so when I first play them I always keep a save just past the opening so I can skip it.

With RE7 I continued a Feb 2017 save just before the Mia fight.
 
All The Time

My job makes it incredibly difficult to have straight play throughs of anything lately. And when you're trying to balance work and keeping up with friends and family it's even that much more difficult.

So yeah, I jump into old saves all the time. And I keep notes too. Lol
 
I do pick up from where i left off usually, well now that i think about it, most of the time.
 
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Sometimes. It honestly depends how far in I am, and also the nature of the game. I still haven't played the final Witcher 3 DLC because when I fired it up my muscle memory was completely shot how to play the game properly, and I just didn't have the heart/time to restart from scratch given I'd already clocked a good 200+ hours . I do intend to get around to it one day, but I've been planning on playing the whole series again with carry-through saves so will tackle it then.
 
Yeah, I've resumed from where I left off a year after playing. It only takes me a moment to remember what I was thinking and how I wanted to play.
 
Almost never, but it depends. I would recommend you to look at a lets play, to start remembering things. And when you think it's time, just jump back into the game
 
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now I am torn, I played Dragon Quest VII in 2018 and left it halfway at 31 hours, but I forgot some of the story, confused should I continue or start over

did you guys ever thrown into this dillema? what you guys do back then?
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Sure, PS+ online save Option.

Best example. Finished Zero and Remake 2 years ago and started new sessions.
 
Yeah, but it was really hard, especially with games where you have to remember what to do, where to go without journals in the game to log everything, or games with elaborate controls.

So what I do is whenever I knew I was gonna quit a game for a lengthy period of time, I write a note and save it on my computer/phone that has all the important controls, where I am, where everything is, what I have to do next, important ins and outs, story basics, who's who, and all that kinda stuff. So when I jump back in I just read all that and catch myself up so I'm not totally lost. It really helps.
 
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Yeah, but it was really hard, especially with games where you have to remember what to do, where to go without journals in the game to log everything, or games with elaborate controls.

So what I do is whenever I knew I was gonna quit a game for a lengthy period of time, I write a note and save it on my computer/phone that has all the important controls, where I am, where everything is, what I have to do next, important ins and outs, story basics, who's who, and all that kinda stuff. So when I jump back in I just read all that and catch myself up so I'm not totally lost. It really helps.
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Wow that's a lot more work then I usually do.

Props for your commitment.
 
Occasionally, if I have any loose ends in the game I decided I wanted to tie up, like hidden areas or trophies or something. But more often than not, if I go back to a game after that long, I just start a new save file.
 
That depends. If it's a racing game or a simple action game, then sure (I've done this with the early AC games for example). If it's a more complex title with rpg or strategy elements, then I usually start from scratch. It's just too difficult to learn all of the mechanics again while at a later point in the game and not being able to count on easy progression anymore.
 
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I think about this all the time and it's one of the reasons I hate playing more than one game at a time.

I'm thinking about going back to Horizon to see if the story gets any better, but I feel like the first 20 minutes would be me staring at the menus, re-learning the movesets and weapons and game systems. I just do not want to go through the boring all-mother shit again.
 
I'm still playing my Oblivion launch character from 2006. It's compatible with Steam's GOTY edition which has cloud support. Every now and then I jump in for a nostalgia hit. Sometimes I load old saves instead of progressing. It's a bit fucked up to see objects I left on the floor in 2006 lol. The save menu includes the date and hour they were made...
 
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It has happened on several occasions. Sometimes, I replay from the beginning, but other times, I just press on from where I left the game.
 
I went back did some grinding for materia and killed Ruby and Emerald Weapon in FFVII on my PSP about a decade after starting my save game on the PS1. Had the victory music for one of them trigger as I walked into the office after triggering a chain of Knights Of The Round summons.
 
I recently did that with Octopath Traveler and Golf Story. Very successful with Octopath, the story isn't super complicated. Golf Story is less successful, I honestly don't know how to proceed in that game, gonna need a walkthrough.
 
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Only if I have a new game plus file and I want to play a game again. Or it's some mindless shooter where story, characters, setting and such are so generic or non existant that they dont matter at all like destiny 1 and 2.
 
I honestly have never deleted a game save before, and I have been a gamer for over 40 years. I can see now that in some cases it's worth doing since you've forgotten all the mechanics after stepping away for a protracted period of time. But old habits die hard with me.
 
Absolutely. Always keep your save files, it is much easier to get back into a game than it seems. When you play RPGs, you are investing tenths of hours, so what if you have to spend 1 or 2 hours remembering how the game plays ? Always keep them, I very rarely complete RPGs in a single session.
 
I once deleted a 5 hour Dragon Quest savefile that was one week old because I was wasted when I played it and couldn't even remember what the game actually looks like in-game so I had to start over.

I usually start over when it has been a long time or never touch it again.
 
This happened to me with Xenoblade Chronicles 1 and Xenoblade Chronicles X, and the Witcher 3. I played them nonstop for like 6 months when they each came out, doing most sidequests. Then I'd get burnt out and take a 6 month break and then come back to them and finish the rest of the game + whatever DLC there was.

The only recent long ass game I played non-stop start to finish was Breath of the Wild, but it was the lack of RPG/grindy elements that probably helped with that.
 
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Maybe with an rpg where battle systems are too braindead and spammy to give a shit anyway or be skilled at it. IE Witcher 3 or Persona.

if it's a souls game tho... from the beginning.
 
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DQ XI has a fucking great summary everytime you load your save file. I think more games should implement this, specially those that are story oriented. For action games might not be as needed, maybe something like the loadscreen from bayoneta where you can practice and check buttons for a bit.
 
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