I am not sure what I intend to accomplish with this post. It seems as if Max Payne 3 is heading down the Crysis 2 path. The first two games let you save wherever you wanted to save, and also had a ton of graphics settings options. Now, the release date for Max Payne 3 has been announced and PC Gamer did a preview very recently. The game itself isn’t bad at all, but the gameplay is built around the console, and without the lack of any customization, its just a big disappointment compared to the 5 year old Crysis. If that wasn’t bad enough, you had to quit the current game to be able load a checkpoint. At launch, the game had no DX11 support, had hardly any graphics settings except pre-set options, and it featured the irritating checkpoint feature. With Crysis 2, my suspicion was well founded. I had a bad feeling that they will be a console ports. I remember when Crysis 2 and Max Payne 3 were first announced. I can’t remember the number of times I played a certain section in Crysis or in Max Payne, all because I could save where I wanted to.

Gamers like me would like to have the option but just can’t seem to convince people that this is an important part of their experience! I understand that, however, for those who want a challenge, they can always just not save. I’ve talked about this issue in the past on the forums and the responses ranged from people who absolutely wanted it, and those who said quick save removed the challenge from the game. There is no reason why the developers are not giving players the option to quick save in 2012! It feels like my experience is more watered down without options that were available to games from 8 years ago. I understand that for some people this is not a problem, but some of us care about this. I am not sure how and when this started, but it is getting really annoying.

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