The importance of Auto Save

Like myself, I'm sure that many of you have been enjoying the Games With Gold service that Microsoft has initiated recently, and like many other people have discovered the immense amounts of joy that can be had from brutally destroying zombies in a variety of diabolical and hilarious ways. I am of course, talking about Dead Rising 2, as no doubt most of us are back in training for the upcoming Dead Rising 3 we have decided to play through once again to hone our zombie genocidal art and have a laugh or two with such weapons as “The Sledge-axe” and “The Freeze Bomb”.

Hey Buddy, Did ya hear this one?

I have no doubts that many of you have your own personal peeves that make you foam at the mouth and rage quit faster than Sonic on a speed bender, but without a doubt, mine has to be the lack of a quick/auto save feature. Well that and having to constantly check on your daughter, as if she was about to snort cocaine of a zombie hookers back for shits and giggles at a moments notice.

Picture the scene: you're fighting off a horde of brain and flesh hungry zombies, as well as trying to defend yourself from a complete ass hole...on a bike... that has fricking CHAINSAWS attached! You take an unexpected hit from a zombie that knocks you in to the path of said ass hole, who then saws you in half. Then you realise that your last save was over an hour ago and that you're not even on the same mission that you were on when you took a trip to the cock up peninsular. And this, ladies and gents, is what REALLY gets up my nose.

Good to see the Power Rangers back in action!

If only this game had a quick or auto save function, it would save so much raging and going out for smoke breaks just to calm myself down enough to try it again only to be met with the same results. This isn't just a case of stupidity or “Poor Game play” this is all out, balls to the wall INSANITY! Even Minecraft has a fricking auto save feature! And that game looks like it was made on a toaster that became self aware midway through development! I hope for the love of all that I hold dear that Dead Rising 3 will make the right decision and include such a feature, its got so many other bells and whistles on it that something that simple should be a no brainer.

Take THAT you filthy knave!

But the DR “Fan Boys” will protest that its all in the name of “Immersion” “You wouldn't have an auto save function in a real zombie apocalypse”. Well yes, this is true...but I also wouldn't be running around a zombie infested shopping mall wearing my underpants on my head and beating them with a handbag! Rant_end/