I’ve played the game around seven years ago for the first time on my laptop and enjoyed my time a lot. Back when I got my first PS4 around a year later (2017ish), I got the game on there too but ended up not playing the game at all because I couldn’t get used to the controller gameplay.

A couple of days ago, I started the game up again for lack of other games to play right now and have, as many probably, started a low-chaos ghost run. For the uninitiated, “ghost” means that you go through the entire game without being detected once. To achieve this, you’re either cracked at the game and know what you’re doing, or you resort to save scumming, which I also did.

However, I seem to have fucked up in the last mission (saving Emily, getting rid of the two Pendleton twins) and have been detected somewhere without noticing it and loading a previous save. When I ended the mission and was shown the statistics, I contemplated starting the mission over because I didn’t ghost through to mission but opted not to.

While I do feel kinda bummed about “messing up” the achievement, I feel like this’ll prove to be beneficial for my overall experience with the game since I won’t have to keep reloading the same passages for 15 times just to get some arbitrary achievement that doesn’t even bear any meaning.

I’ll still go for a low-chaos run (not killing anyone), but I won’t be bothered to keep reloading saves now: If I’m detected, I run away and hide and take the game on naturally.

How have your experiences with the game been? Which playstyle do you prefer? What games did you ruin for yourself in hindsight because of save scumming?

  • Vampiric_Luma@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    I like to save scum. Part of redoing a section over and over again is to overcome a difficult trial. The feeling of success is the reward for me, but we also become better for it.

    I used to prefer low-chaos runs but I like to blast through like Rambo these days since that’s where the challenge is.

    I’m struggling to imagine any time I’ve ruined am experience with save-scumming other than the present popular game Lethal Company. The fun is experiencing the cycle with others and I’m not beholden to my ships accessories. One of my crew had me do it and I’ll never do it again.

    Ultimately: do what you want to do and makes you happy and comfortable :)