Should the next Animal Crossing game have autosave?

[AnimalCrossingPerson]

Every Animal Crossing game so far has required you to save your progress manually. So, should the next one keep this trend, or introduce an autosave feature like nearly every single modern game?

Autosave would eliminate issues such as somehow turning off the power whilst playing and losing hours of progress, but if it was forced, would prevent cheating.

I can't see any negatives for an optional autosave option, and few for a forced autosave, assuming it ran in the background and wasn't susceptible to corrupting data.

So, what do you think? Ramble away!

 

[Aleigh]

I think that if we were to have autosave it would have to be optional. I get that if you want to play, but you know you're running out of battery, autosave might save your life. However, if it was forced, it would get really annoying. Like in Minecraft, the autosave doesn't care what you're doing at the time it will just stop you right then and there to take away two minutes of your life to something you might not even need. Autosave is never really needed. However, say you only have one black rose. What if you accidentally run through it and it dies? Autosave can be good and bad in this situation. If it had saved before you did it, then you may be able to reset and not lose as much as you would if you didn't autosave before. But, if you're about to reset and it autosaves, you've lost your rose forever. I could really argue both ways for this so I'm going to vote it being optional; but I'm leaning more towards no.

 

[debinoresu]

please GOD no forced autosave. i reset so often in this game, its like a part of my playing style, and i think they know that and wouldnt impose something that makes resetting impossible. id also worry autosaving would potentially lag a mostly lagless game. imagine youre trying to catch a bug and it autosaves and the bug gets away thanks to lag >>

 

[Liamslash]

Yes, my power ALWAYS runs out when I'm playing.
I feel like it would be so much easier.

 

[Buttonsy]

Optional autosave. It would still be okay for people who want to plot reset (which idk if that's really cheating) or do other reset-themed projects, but it would help stop losing data.

 

[fosterfarms]

[sub]optional autosave. i'm a dirty, filthy cheater (resetti has given me many a chiding) and i would HATE it if the game had autosave. however, i know a lot of people would benefit from autosave. as long as you could turn it on and off, it would be a good feature.[/sub]

 

[Fleshy]

Yes, I'd love auto-save, but obviously some people wouldn't so optional would be best.

 

[Koden]

As lots of other people have stated, optional would be nice

 

[jessicat_197]

It would be handy for many people, but for those like me who like to plot reset and all that jazz, I think we would strongly dislike it hehe

 

[Captain Crazy Chicken]

Autosave as a veteran mode option.

Other options for Veteran Mode include:

No more tutorials on how to refurbish stuff/how money grows on trees and in r**ks/how to switch tools easily/how not to get the Gyroid face (seriously, that hasn't been done since the FIRST game!)/how to save/how to find ores
No more random chitchat on what your rumor is/who visited and what their rumor is/who dreamt of here and what THEIR rumor is/who lives in the town they used to live in and what THEIR rumor is
Fishing Tourneys and Bug Offs being absent (seriously, who cares about them anymore?)
The TRUE island being back (and you can save there, too!)

 

[dudeabides]

I would like autosave when I'm running around town doing stuff, but would hate to put that nice Mr Resetti out of a job so I say, NO AUTOSAVE.

 

[helloxcutiee]

Nah, saving your progress manually is a good habit to have but an optional option would be nice too I suppose.

 

[Mink777]

It should, only because the cartridges fall out of my system easily and I bam, I lose all my progress I have made. If your battery runs out you can just save manually though.

 

[PrincessAurora]

Optional autosave sounds nice, but what's the reality of them actually giving you that option? I say no autosave whatsoever. It's not that hard to save the game manually. If you don't pay enough attention to your DS to see when you're low on battery, that's your own fault.

 

[Crona]

optional auto-save would be best. i've never run out of battery when playing, and i remember to save before i quit the game. that's probably just me though, and others could definitely benefit from a feature like that. i also need to reset sometimes if there's certain circumstances >w>

 

[Dork]

I personally wouldn't want autosave but i do think it should be an option!

I remember the first time i played acnl, i forgot to after 3 hours of gameplay catching fish and bugs and other various things.

It was so disappointing

 

[AnimalCrossingPerson]

Resetti, Resetti, Resetti!

I would like autosave when I'm running around town doing stuff, but would hate to put that nice Mr Resetti out of a job so I say, NO AUTOSAVE.

I say Resetti's already been put out of a job in New Leaf. We need the old Resetti back, the one that would exclaim "punk"!

 

[Kirbystarship]

Autosave would be nice it should be forced. When I play the game my 3ds dies and would need to start all over again on what I was work9ing on.

 

[Shawna]

I think it should be optional.

 

[pika62221]

No, simply for one character- Resetti! How are you going to have him if it saves for you???