NESpowerhouse
Perhaps he's wondering why someone would shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane.
Yeah, got it much better than this guy:
My Beautiful, Perfect Child Deleted my 40-Hour Persona 5 Save File
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Kotaku: My Son Has Ruined Zelda: Breath Of The Wild (Don't Have Kids)
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Yeah, got it much better than this guy:
My Beautiful, Perfect Child Deleted my 40-Hour Persona 5 Save File
NoctisVsStar
Member
It's not first times this happens to him, just create two saves so he can one save where he can enjoy all the cool weapons
AtomskEater
Member
Kids will be playing on their own saves and accounts. When/if I have 'em. If they need help I'll be happy to but we aren't fucking up mommy's saves.
Blazzam.
There is no way to backup saves on Switch? You can't keep multiple save files with this game? Hm.
Sucks but the options are make peace with your kid wrecking your hard work or say no.
Or stop playing around the kid or when he's awake, pray he forgets about it until you're done and then let him have at it.
Blazzam.
There is no way to backup saves on Switch? You can't keep multiple save files with this game? Hm.
Sucks but the options are make peace with your kid wrecking your hard work or say no.
Or stop playing around the kid or when he's awake, pray he forgets about it until you're done and then let him have at it.
Marty Chinn
Member
Eh, I didn't really manually save often when I was playing. I just used the auto save. I didn't take more advantage of manual saves until I started letting my kid play and realized he was auto saving enough to screw with my progress. So I can understand initially not manually saving.
It should be obvious but still, lol
But yea, separate profile, duplicate saves if possible. One game I had to save on a slot waaaay towards the bottom, because kids somehow like to navigate any menu they see.
This too.
How about 6, 7 and 8 y.o's.
I play so lil these days they dont even ask to play on my saves, profile anymore.
It's a cute, silly, story.
Your questions can be answered by reading the article.
Your questions can be answered by reading the article.
You expecting people to READ? Why I never... how would they be able to be outraged and much smarter then?
Iva Demilcol
Member
If you enjoy the game so much you could still make another account, play there and let him fuck with your old save.
AndrewDean84xX
Banned
Don't let your kid play your game. What's yours is not theirs too. They're don't need to experience the same fun that you do.
MaximumSpider
Banned
P5 is the main reason I got Plus back. I need that cloud saving.
Calamari41
41 > 38
Save the game with a manual "hard" save rather than relying on autosave, and then tell the kid not to manually save over it... How is this even an issue? I can see it happening once, but any more than that and it's your own fault.
Manual save gets overwritten by autosaves. Yes it's very dumb.
Marty Chinn
Member
Heh, I've watched my three year old beat people online in ARMS. I'm kinda curious what their reaction would be if they knew a three year old beat them or came close to beating them.
That said, I've learned to utilize my kid to earn coins for me so I can unlock stuff quicker =)
Wait, what? It does? I've never seen that. That's pretty dumb.
It does? I honestly don't remember that but I'll take your word for it.
He still hasn't completed the game 100% on his old save which is why he hasn't done this yet.
The game is far from ruined for him, this is just a fun story about his kid wasting all his weapons and enjoying the game in his own way.
UnemployedVillain
Member
Because it doesn't. The game keeps like the last dozen saves with autosaves marked in the Load menu. They only get overwritten eventually like all old saves do
And can some of you seriously not understand the article is written tongue in cheek and isn't meant to be taken completely serious?
Karsticles
Member
Sounds like an asshole.
I have a 2-year old. He knows how to load apps on my and my wife's phone, and he puts DVDs into my PS4. He makes the "doo doo" sound every time Netflix comes up. I would never talk about him like this.
franklyshankly
Member
That really is very very stupid.
Iva Demilcol
Member
Except it's not funny.
prepaidtacosalad
Member
I learned the hard way, my boys erased my completed save by starting a new game. Made them separate accounts after that, this guy should probably do the same.
Calibos
Member
"Don't have kids" is a great response....but also a terrible one. My son is 3.5 right now and there is no better feeling than getting home from work and him asking me to play the "Lego Dinosaur" game with him...(Jurassic World)...or asking if we can play the game "with the boy running around looking for his family...(Rime)
Sure, he will save over something of mine or destroy a piece of my electronics at some point, but those are trivial things.
They don't measure up to the positives...
Sure, he will save over something of mine or destroy a piece of my electronics at some point, but those are trivial things.
They don't measure up to the positives...
I swear, it seems that some people just read the world "Zelda" in an article and immediately goes into defensive mode. This is a cute anecdote about a Dad and his son, and yet people claim this is click-bait and stupid
Yes, through auto saves. The game will eventually push it out in favor of an autosave if you play without hard saving again.
And you decide that?
suddenlyissoon
Member
The moral of the story is correct. Don't have kids.
There's an actual Ninja mask in the game the writer should teach his son to were that.
Secondly kids will be kids and will do silly things as they don't know any better.
But then how would the guy be able to feed his son?
Iva Demilcol
Member
Yep. I'm the reader after all.
It doesn't. Manual saving always rewrite your manual save.
Auto-saves are here as backups if you don't save often I guess.
What's the point of this article? It's something you read in a women/parenting magazine.
You get kids you deal with it. Maybe help him learning the game rules for a start.
Can't wait for that guy to blame Apple when his kid will spend 50k$ on AppStore because he let him his iPad and his credit card number.
I think for breath of the wild, the saves are all treated the same. Once they go past a certain threshold they're deleted.
theangrypirate
Member
Good grief. Learn to say no to your kid. We get it, you love your kid but it's ok to tell him no sometimes. He's fucking 4 - he would be fine playing literally anything else, no reason to give him your save file.
FeenixRising
Banned
I let my 7 year old niece play my BoTW game.
Next thing you know she completed shrines, got me to areas I died multiple times trying to reach, and a new shiny weapon.
Next thing you know she completed shrines, got me to areas I died multiple times trying to reach, and a new shiny weapon.
Death Penalty
Member
I get that the article is tongue-in-cheek but there are a bunch of easy solutions that any longtime gamer should know that make this all seem very dubious. Split an account and get some stuff for your four-year-old there, back up your save in a few of the slots, or even just start a save that you play in tandem with your child. I know he's not genuinely upset, the thing that bothers me more is the exploitative nature of the article given these stop gaps. It feels more like it's meant to snare readers with the "Oh kids!" angle rather than being a sincere piece.
Probably taking this all too seriously but I just doubt this happened the way the article portrays it.
Probably taking this all too seriously but I just doubt this happened the way the article portrays it.
That's what kids do. If what people are saying and manual saves get overwritten by autosaves and you can't just copy the saves somewhere then yeah the price we pay for love. One of the benefits about being a PC gamer is you can always make a copy of your saves and put them somewhere and let you kids/nephews/nieces mess around without a care.
I guarantee the first time his kid started fucking with his account little page view hits started floating around his head like dollar signs
NoctisVsStar
Member
Moral of the story create two saves.
franklyshankly
Member
Guys, the dad clearly doesn't actually care that much. If he did he would tell his son no. It is a fun article not a think piece or something.
theangrypirate
Member
Yeah, big difference between a 4 year old and a 7 year old.
That first post magic.
Nice of him to blame kids rather than him simply being ill-equipped to provide him with his own account. Blaming kids for your own stupidity makes me think he really should have followed his own advice, feel kinda sorry for that kid being dragged out and shamed by his own dad.
Franchuzas87
Member
Hyperbole aside, a game like this definitely should have space for 2 or 3 files without the need to create several accounts. I don't like this recent trend from Nintendo AT ALL (Pikmin 3, Xenoblade X and Paper Mario Color Splash suffer for the same even when prior games from their series had the option).