Yeah, I guess.
But why games like Wolfenstein: New Order or Doom 4 can't have separate and manual saves? They can be played on easy so it's not like it's for hardcore experience so I don't think there is much reason to.
They are not alone by far. I feel like many games do it.
And don't get me started on games like Heroes of Might and Magic 6 (whatever was it called). In all previous HoMM games you could save as much as you'd like but suddenly technology is so advanced the game can only manage limited amount of saves (something like 8 or 10 in this instance)?

Yeah, I agree. especially recently I am not fond of him either. My persoal problem is I like Dooger and Jesse (now someone can quickly come and explain me why they are stupid/idiots/frauds/anything - because someone is not allowed to voice liking of someone of internet without being explained why he is wrong) so I have to put up with him quite a lot.
But I posted tweets where he mentions the game can delete your save on purpose and that it has possibly performance issues so I don't feel like his personality and behaviour make those invalid.
So I think it was quite unnecessary tp call him twat and basically invalid those tweets.
But that's GOG forum for me in nutshell. You can't go around more than 5 minutes without insulting/being insulted/see someone inuslt 3rd party, because decency is overrated and people need to know why someone is "insert explative here".


Yeah, it's not only it's the whole production value.
That one will recognize a lot of money was poured into it.
One expects AAA game to look nice, to be polished around the edges, contain voice acting and to be quite extensive in content.
Other thing is that it often isn't but for this it usually gets criticized (to receive 8/10 then :-)).
Completely other thing is that even when it is all of the above it can very well be shallow, boring experience with no real substance at all.

Game looks interesting, but all these 1-2 hour 'best game evah' reviews on Steam and gog are kind of a turn off. :/

got my eye on this one, waiting on a sale. caught hubby watching the trailers too with a weird gleam in his eye :P hope some good in depth reviews are coming out soon

You have to keep in mind that they are vastly different games. I've only played Blade of Darkness/Severance a little, but I got the impression it was much more old school in terms of game design, with levels and linear progression... ? The Dark Souls games have open, persistent game worlds, and your actions within those worlds have consequences. Consequences which would be meaningless, if you could just reload your last save game. Generally speaking, it's part of the game concept that the player has a lot of freedom and power, but also has to deal with the consequences of their actions. In example, you have the ability to attack and kill most NPCs, and some of them will drop useful items upon death, but then you may be missing an important trader, or won't be able to complete certain side-quests. In many ways the series break with standards of the RPG genre, or video games in general. Due to that it may be confusing or frustrating at first, but once you get into it, you realize the devs put a lot of thought into every element of the game design, and that includes the save game and checkpoint design.

As for "hardcore gamer badges", achievements, bragging rights or whatever... *shrug* I play those games because I love the world design, atmosphere and combat system, among other things. Not because they're the "hardest games evur herp-derp!!1". A certain amount of challenge is part of the game design, but they're not actually that hard. I suspect Blade of Darkness, or various other old-school games are just as hard, or more so.

wait... what? im out. fergitaboutit i hate devs telling me how to enjoy my freaking game time

If you havent played the game or are not familiar with the game:
i searched youtube and there is a walkthrough:

it takes 5h and 11 mins and a few secondss

title:

HELLBLADE SENUA'S SACRIFICE Gameplay Walkthrough Part 1 FULL GAME This is a HELLBLADE SENUA'S SACRIFICE Gameplay Walkthrough that will cover the full game up to the ending.

So if it takes that long and more parts will come then you get at least value for money in terms of gameplay time.

They don´t; there are three levels of difficulty availible and the savegame is easy to backup. (AppData/Local/HellbladeGame)

The feature is mainly an athmospheric one, they included that growing dark-animation which looks really cool and so on, and less a gameplay feature in general.

Ninja Theory has an interesting relationship with the AAA title. One of their past games they helped develop was Disney Infinity 3.0.

Disney closed down infinity precisely because they didn't like AAA budget with so little profit (for Disney standards). I suspect this method is to create a AAA game experience using less money in order to convince a large publisher like Disney that the AAA game market is still profitable.

Maybe Disney will rehire Ninja Theory if this game is successful enough - or even consider pulling Disney Infinity out of retirement.

Game looks pretty good. i might pick it up when i get paid.

Is it still allowed to have a differing opinion?

That sounds more reasonable.

Where did I say or imply people aren't allowed to have a different opinion?

Does it annoy me that so many people feel like they *MUST* share their opinion on something they know nothing about or don't care about at all like they're some experts on the subject? Yes. Yes, it does annoy me to no end. But am I going to "forbid" people from continuing to do so? Nope. I'm not doing a damn thing about that. Just stating my differing opinion on the prevalent differing opinions, not trying to say "you CAN'T do that because I disagree".

So, yeah, buddy, I'm not intending to stop you from incessantly complaining about the prices of *ALL* the games on almost every release thread, either. But that doesn't mean I have to take it with a smile.

I'm undecided about the game but permadeath generally turns me off.
If save scumming is easy that's a minor concern then though.

I think this game is regional priced...

17,28 U$D in Argentina... Which is good for me, because 30 U$D is too much money here.

With "Independent AAA game" I think they mean the game comes with a high quality graphics and a high level of general production (including cinematics direction, writing, voice acting and mocap), but without a capricious publisher spitting in the dev' s heads and telling them how to do their job.

Trust me, in case of being backed by a big publisher, We wouldn't see a DRMFREE release of Senua; only consoles and Steam.

We have a DRMFREE release, because the dev team is the boss and they trust in their consumers.

MAX RESPECT for Ninja Theory for having the balls to shake things up! TBH I'm a little jealous of their success, as I've had a similar idea (in regards to permadeath and balancing; I've also long completed the base story script for that game - different genre though) but living in a small town in Romania...yeah...no team. And yes, it's 3D and I'm a complete tard when it comes to coding & modelling. FML

(But again, Bravo Ninja Theory. Oh, if only I wasn't living on welfare...)