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Gernia

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  1. I've enjoyed the first two Splinter Cell games on PS2, but they both have checkpoints. You can't just save whenever you want to, which I know the third one allows. You have to be very good with your sneaking and your decisions until you get to a checkpoint or save point. I believe there's a certain PC version that allows a quicksave, but yeah I'm annoyed at the inability to do it. I know the PS2 port of the original Deus Ex allows you to save whenever you want to, so I'm not sure why the developers wouldn't put that in.

  2. I think the point about losing creativity and freshness is a big factor, which has already been explained and so I can't really add anything new to that. But yeah, stagnation can hurt. One must do something at least a little new and adapt, maybe an experiment to shake things up or make progress.

     

    However, I believe another reason why something can go downhill is when the directors and creators lose sight of what attracts people to their series in the first place. They may experiment too much or just remove far too many things that people liked before and make some changes that leave the fans feeling alienated and/or insulted. Salvaging the fans and keeping them happy is highly important IMO. I've seen that happen where the creators don't seem to care about the fans and may want to appeal to a new, wider audience, but I think when you do that, you end up losing the audience, and quality. The fans leave and potential new fans don't really show up in numbers to compensate for the loss of previous fans. I think there's a delicate balance between trying to be fresh and new while still keeping what people like and enjoy.

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  3. I think I've been to five in my lifetime. Last time was a couple years ago where I went to my sister's wedding. It was nice since we didn't have to travel at all, the wedding was in a city near me. I've had fun at weddings with dancing and even catching up with family and friends.

  4. I remember my first time it was a PSP game save of one of the Wipeout games and the data got corrupted due to lack of space or something and it ticked me off so much that I never played the game again because I didn't want to spend a bunch of time re-unlocking everything, even though I had fun and enjoyed playing it. Recently, my N64 memory cards lost all their data due to how weird they are and it has something to do with them having a power supply and me never playing it for years. Anyways, I replayed a couple games and it was pretty easy re-beating everything.

     

    I also once lost a save due to my incompetence when I played Gran Turismo 2 and went to save a game even though I hadn't yet loaded my previous game - which I probably had 70%-80% of the game beat - and I accidentally did an overwrite of the data. I chose not to play it for awhile, but got bored a year later and re-beat everything, going farther than I did previously. I didn't mind it since the game doesn't take nearly as long to beat as Gran Turismo 3.

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