Worst save system?

I just bought Beautiful Katamari believe it or not- for my English Language dissertation. 
 
I've just realised that I've lost two hours of progress because the game doesn't autosave. This whole game just feels like a direct port of the PS2 prequel. Not a terrible thing considering We Love Katamari was a great game- but I keep forgetting I'm playing a 360 game. I understand if you wouldn't want to have autosave on if you're playing on a PS2 but here the lack of it is very strange. Oh and fuck on disk DLC. I can see those file sizes Namco. 
 
I think the most infamous save system is Dead Rising. One of the few modern games that will force you to start all of the way from the beginning! That ruined the entire game for me.

System Shock 2 has the worst Auto-save system I can think of. That's because when you exit the game, the auto-save dissapears, it only works for as long as the game is running. It's an even bigger problem on newer systems since it tends to crash a lot unless you tweak it a bit.

One of the few modern games that will force you to start all of the way from the beginning! That ruined the entire game for me. "

Pokemon, why do I only get 1 save slot? Why?

I thought Majoras Mask's was a bit whoops-fuck-you. You could save whenever, but it kicked you out the game and then as soon as you loaded the quick save was deleted. I mean, I saw the point... but damn, it annoyed me. Lost so much progress thanks to that.

I've never liked relying on auto-saves, it seems I'm the only one among my friends who don't use quick-save keys when playing on PC, I like setting up around 3 saves so I can go back to different parts if I'd screw something up, though I rarely have to load up anything but the latest save.

As for worst save system, I think I'd go with Morrowind or Black, Morrowind for technical reasons, because it's auto-save feature was buggy and seemed to introduce minor errors every time it saved, which would after some time accumulate into a corrupted save file, and the same thing occured on your regular saves too, but there you could at least fix it by manually making a new save every time you saved.

I'm sure Black isn't an exception when it comes to console FPSes, but it's the one where the save system has been bugging me the most. It only saves between missions, and missions can get very long at times. There are checkpoints within the missions, but they are only used if you die, if you have to do something and exit the game all progress in the mission is lost, that has resulted in me being stuck in a mission for about a year, since I rarely have time to play it more than about 40 minutes straight, and the mission is longer than that, at least if you die occassionally, and as I can't finish it, I have to start it over every time.

Because I don't rely on auto-saves I've never had any issues with System Shock 2, except for co-op, since you have to be the same number of players, the exact same players and connect to the host in the same order for the game not to crash when you load up a co-op save game. That didn't stop me and a couple of friends from playing through the game in co-op several times though.

Resident Evil: Survivor.
 
Why?
 
Because it didn't have one.

From the games I've experienced: Dead Rising 1

Bionic Commando (the recent one). Or any other checkpoint-based save system that doesn't give you enough checkpoints.

" @MysteriousBob said:

One of the few modern games that will force you to start all of the way from the beginning! That ruined the entire game for me. "

That's bullshit plain and simple - misinformation: You do NOT start all the way over. You start the story over and your character progression is saved. "

Probably Resident Evil with their typewriter ribbon save game economy thing. Extremely annoying.
 
Or any game that used a password back in the day. Obviously this doesn't really happen anymore and it's not technically saving, but believe me when I say that the only thing worse than saving over the wrong save slot and losing progress is when you mess up writing down your password and spend 15 minutes trying to get it to work.

Dead Rising and Deadly Premonition have the worst save systems I've used. At least with DP, you can buy a memory card and have two saves. 
 
Of course, I grew up in the days of 48 character passwords. Those sucked.

Dragonage Origins, I'm anal enough that if a fight didn't go exactly as planned I would reload and do it again. Giving me the power to save and reload after every fight led to it being abused. I'm sure there's alot of people who reloaded if they said somethng wrong to a party member, leading to a very convaluted and unnatrual relationship. It just ruined the flow of the game, yes it was my fault for abusing it but I have no sense of control when it comes to dialogue trees, I must say the right thing.

worst save system is easily super paper mario. there are NO checkpoints, and it's a platformer. all the checkpoints are save spots,a dn ebcause of that they are far apart. so a platformer with no auto saving and no checkpoints. what dumbass at nintendo said that would be a good idea?

All the JRPGs out there that force you to find a crystal or something similar to be able to save. Most of the time you have no idea how far the next crystal will be unless you read a faq or something.

inb4deadrising

" @SteamPunkJin said:

" @MysteriousBob said:

One of the few modern games that will force you to start all of the way from the beginning! That ruined the entire game for me. "

That's bullshit plain and simple - misinformation: You do NOT start all the way over. You start the story over and your character progression is saved. "

Exactly. You start the story over. The story is the game.   Don't try and justify broken game design.  Fallout 3 saves EVERYTHING. I have every instance of my character saved automatically and use it to view the entire history. What's it like living in bizarro world? "

" Dead Rising and Deadly Premonition have the worst save systems I've used. At least with DP, you can buy a memory card and have two saves.  Of course, I grew up in the days of 48 character passwords. Those sucked. "

" Pokemon, why do I only get 1 save slot? Why? "

Dead Rising. Dead Rising 2 seems to be more forgiving since it gives you the option to save after every case but it's still a hassle.

God damnit, I should read the posts more instead of skimming them.   
 
Too late on the Dead Rising!

I remember finding Maximo's save system stupid. You had to pay coins to be able to save, if I recall correctly.

" Dead Rising. Dead Rising 2 seems to be more forgiving since it gives you the option to save after every case but it's still a hassle. "

" @Berezov said:

" Dead Rising. Dead Rising 2 seems to be more forgiving since it gives you the option to save after every case but it's still a hassle. "

You can save after each case in the first Dead Rising. "

Dead Rising. 
 
Just because it's designed that way, doesn't make it not broken. Just my opinion.

" Pokemon, why do I only get 1 save slot? Why? "

" Pokemon, why do I only get 1 save slot? Why? "

I have no problems with the save systems in fallout3/oblivion other than the sheer magnitude of saves I now have after finishing them. Almost two gigabytes of saves and the interface is way too slow to delete them in a timely fashion.

" Probably Resident Evil with their typewriter ribbon save game economy thing. Extremely annoying.  Or any game that used a password back in the day. Obviously this doesn't really happen anymore and it's not technically saving, but believe me when I say that the only thing worse than saving over the wrong save slot and losing progress is when you mess up writing down your password and spend 15 minutes trying to get it to work. "

Original Crash Bandicoot only saved after the bonus levels. Good times.

Bioshock's saves kept fecking up on me. Had to play through the same 2 hour segment 3 times. 

I actually don't mind not having 'autosave' as long as they say I need to save manually =P 
 
I think older sports games were very bad at that since way back when (I think they have improved).

" Resident Evil: Survivor.  Why?  Because it didn't have one. "

Far Cry 2. 
 
Each save, autosave and quick save was it's own separate file so by the end of a long play session you had about 50 saves

I hated password save systems.  Annoying as hell, and makes stuff like Dead Rising look absolutely brilliant in comparison.  Still, it was something, at least for that time period.

what everyone said dead rising. i understand that it's a survivor horror type of game but they should have made it easier on the saves. the only places to save were the bathroom and security. 
 
also the old resident evil games. those were terrible, you had to find ink ribbons in order to save the game. if you didn't have an ink ribbon then you couldn't save the game.

Fucking hate autosaving.  Especially when I can't choose to make a new file.  Broken!

The ancient ass pre-N64 games that generated a long ass password that you have to write down to reload your previous progress.

Dead Rising. Fucking hated that.
Ruined the game for me

" @MysteriousBob said:

One of the few modern games that will force you to start all of the way from the beginning! That ruined the entire game for me. "

That's bullshit plain and simple - misinformation: You do NOT start all the way over. You start the story over and your character progression is saved. And despite most people's bitching you're better off for it, starting a fresh game you'll never be able to beat it from level one. I understand it's not what most gamers consider 'ideal' but it's part of what makes the game what it is (an actual survival game rather than a shooter with zombies). I for one LOVED the save system and how the game flowed, but I digress.   The game with the worst system has to be Fallout 3: It's auto-save to an extreme. Every time you open or close a door. Every time you change areas. So frequent are the autosaves that you can very very easily set yourself up in a no-win situation by attacking some townspeople and running inside a building to save yourself - the next time you exit they're still pissed off and you're still out of Ammo. Forcing a restart - without your stats or level saved. Pain in the ass. "

" Hydlide "

" Probably Resident Evil with their typewriter ribbon save game economy thing. Extremely annoying.  Or any game that used a password back in the day. Obviously this doesn't really happen anymore and it's not technically saving, but believe me when I say that the only thing worse than saving over the wrong save slot and losing progress is when you mess up writing down your password and spend 15 minutes trying to get it to work. "

I found memory card based saves (PS1/PS2) to be faaaar far worse than passwords. Even the cats at Sega knew the Saturn needed limited save space built-in. But now we have HDDs, so whatever.