Resident Evil 5 kills classic typewriter saving

I loved that about halo 1 and all the old shooters...

They should've kept the typewriter savepoints but replace them with macs... DING DING DING!!

... "But this time, the save system will be a combination of checkpoints and chapters."

... some of us liked the unique save system.

That was on of the RE mechanics that drove me insane, so needless to say I'm pleasantly surprised with this decision.

It's official, Resident Evil is no longer a survival horror game. Limited resources have been chucked in favor of making the game more accessible with easy auto-save points and ammunition surpluses. Most of the classic trademarks of the series have been removed or defaced, and all that remains is a 3rd person zombie action title.

Nothing says action like manually saving the game every chance you can get or running through empty levels looking for health, ammo, and armor. I'm looking at you Half-Life 2.

What's wrong with using a combination, like they did in RE4?

I thought the typewriter mechanic really made 'surviving' a key feature of the early Resident Evil games. You had to be immersed in the game and be ready for anything so as to stay alive until you found the next save room, and when you did find that room, it felt oh so good. It added to the experience. That's not to say it didn't frustrate the experience as well, but I think it was a fair trade off in the genre. Outside that genre, say in RPGs, save crystals can be just down right infuriating. With games so long, and areas so non-linear and expansive, and experience gained, you have so much to lose. With the RE games moving more towards action than scares, it does make sense to update. The games are moving down a new path, I only wish they would continue down the old path as well. Split the RE franchise into 2 series, one a survival horror and the other action. Maybe turn the action oriented series into something different all together, like when Devil May Cry was originally slated to be a RE game.

Awww...I thought they were going to force you to write down a code that pops up on the typewriter, and then type it in again when you want to reload it.


I wasn't a big fan of the typewriter, but thank god they don't allow you to save wherever you want, It's the only thing that's keeping it a "survival game".....