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@Tylea002 said:

He's my friend, but I do not like him.

I've got a few of those.

Here's my experience along these lines:

I lost save progress between episodes 2 and 3 last summer. Most of the fixes (and there are a few) have been along the lines of the game storing a preferences file alongside your saves in two different places (Steam folder and My Documents folder). If those two files lose sync somehow the save can't be read. No combination of backing up/overwriting/changing timestamps on saves and prefs files did me any good.

I've also seen a few posts that suggest the game confuses itself by forgetting a folder name ("The Walking Dead" vs "the walking dead").

To further confuse matters there's a third folder containing saves and a prefs.prop file in (if memory serves) your Public Documents folder as well.

Finally, I had my Steam install on a D: drive instead of my usual C: drive. I'm not sure if this contributed at all to my files not jiving, but i'm sure it didn't help.

After Ep. 5 came out I tried to play through Ep. 1 again on the PC. Just kinda said "screw it, I'll start over." Upon completing Ep. 1, the beginning of the second Ep. just locked up and refused to proceed. Attempted fixes produced what the system thought was my save but the choices were all screwed up.

So: I installed Steam on my Mac and played it over there. Just finished Ep. 5 tonight. I left my game running in between episodes instead of exiting the program. I still had to restart the program twice because switching between episodes made the game forget my wired controller was hooked up. Also had a crash to desktop once at the beginning of Ep. 5. Each of these was a breath-holding moment as I restarted the game to see if my save still existed.

<TL;DR> The only platform where I've not heard of anyone having any trouble is iOS. Not sure if this is an option for you, BisonHero, but you might look into it. Despite all of this hassle I feel like the game was well worth the trouble. Really, really good stuff. They were very lucky indeed that the game was so good, as these sorts of problems would've killed general interest quickly.

If anyone from Telltale is reading this: What exactly is the point of an episodic game about decisions if the game's most common bug is to forget the decisions and force you to replay the episodes with zero confidence? At least have the courtesy to build us a savegame generator like Mass Effect offers so we can start an episode with our decisions intact.

For the record I stayed away from Mirror's Edge because it was a game from DICE that depended on precision jumping and running, which my previous experience with Battlefield told me was probably going to be a bad combination.

@Dogma said:

@MEATBALL said:

Straight up - I have no goddamn idea how to deal with this stuff. I feel like I'm being made to feel guilty for things that other people have done and then feel shitty about myself that that's my gut reaction to this sort of thing. I try not to be an awful person.

THIS. A THOUSAND TIMES THIS.

Yeah, I'll add another thousand to this, too.

@jozzy said:

@CaptStickybeard said:

Oh.

She has a point, just a shame it dominated those specific Giant Bomb shows. Also, I am not sure the reaction from the community would've been different if it was a man doing the exact same thing. Interesting though.

I think I'm with you @jozzy . I'd like to think in that case it was just Leigh being exceptionally annoying (and I still think she was). You can point at aspects of the way she carried herself that would apply to generating a negative reaction no matter who was acting that way. That is, a reaction to the individual. I tend to have the same reaction whenever Garnet Lee is speaking for the same reason: he tends to try and dominate the conversation and talk over people. If memory serves this is more or less what Leigh Alexander was doing that caused such a negative reaction. I don't think it's entirely fair to blame sexism in that particular case.

I've got to admit I get a lot of different, mostly conflicting feelings on this all at once. Patrick does a good job of heading off my initial reaction of "I don't really want to have this conversation again." I've read through a bunch of tweets under the hashtag and I'm still left wondering if it's an immature dickish minority ruining things for the lot of us (women and men just trying to make kick-ass things) or if there's a chance people who aren't trying to add to the problem are somehow still doing so.

I've worked with and for enough kick-ass women I'd like to think this problem has been worked out of me by their example. Could be the same sort of thing that we (or at least I) run into with our relationships: doing shit unintentionally or even unconsciously and then being too proud to correct it when called out on it. Seen and done my share of that, and I'm probably not through yet.

Funny or serious, I find 'em a lot more helpful when it comes to game buying decisions than reviews. I'm liking the fact that we seem to be getting so many lately.

I've been telling everyone who will listen: KILL LIST pretty f'n awesome.

I'd be happier to hear this if my save file on Steam hadn't been eaten by a bug. Guess I'll be playing through this one post-Halloween when all 5 episodes are out.

Here's hoping for some sort of save-builder so I can plug in my choices rather than play through the first two episodes again.

Digital Mario Kart 7 might be a good deal. It's one of those games that'd be nice to always have on the system.