What was the last game you played that read your old save?

[Zloth]

Back in the days of yore, it wasn't all that rare for a game in a series to ask you for a save game from a previous game in the series. For instance, Dragon Age 2 would check what your character looked like in DA1 and put a statue up that looked like your old character.

Now, the practice is all but gone - which seems weird to me given our cavernous hard drives that are hardly worth cleaning up and cloud saves which can persist from platform to platform. I think the last one that did that for me was Witcher 3. (It did it quite well, too, keeping a tattoo you could get in the second game around.) Other than W3, I think I would have to go back to Dragon Age 2 for a game that used a previous game's save.

Has anyone else gotten to do this in other games recently? Do you think any future games are likely to do this? (Hmmm, perhaps Kingdom Come 2....)

 

[Pifanjr]

I'm pretty sure Mass Effect 3 was the last time for me. Unless I played The Witcher 2 after that, I don't quite remember.

 

[Hveðrungr]

Was it really that common? I thought only a handful of particularly ambitious narrative RPGs, especially Bioware, did it.

 

[Zloth]

Was it really that common? I thought only a handful of particularly ambitious narrative RPGs, especially Bioware, did it.

I would say it was uncommon, but way more than a handful. I asked Copilot and it listed off Mass Effect, Witcher, The Walking Dead, .Hack, and others. It pointed out an article in PC Gamer that says Bard's Tale 2 would let you load your save from Ultima or Wizardry, as well as Bard's Tale 1!

 

[Hveðrungr]

“Mass Effect, Witcher, Walking Dead, Hack, Bard's Tale”

Perhaps we just have different definitions of “a handful”.

 

[Zloth]

Perhaps we just have different definitions of “a handful”.

Ah, so you're saying you have big hands!