Definitions
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- verb video games To
save progress in one'sgame with a rapidkeystroke , not needing to reach acheckpoint etc.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Before an exam or an interview, you feel an incontrollable urge to "quicksave".
News - Playfuls.com - Play your life! - Online Gaming Portal 2009
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Before an exam or an interview, you feel an incontrollable urge to "quicksave".
News - Playfuls.com - Play your life! - Online Gaming Portal 2009
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The save system is extremely forgiving -- not only can you save everywhere, you get a free restart point when you change floors and can collect items that let you set a "quicksave" point anywhere.
1UP RSS feed 2009
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Before an exam or an interview, you feel an incontrollable urge to "quicksave".
News - Playfuls.com - Play your life! - Online Gaming Portal 2009
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Before an exam or an interview, you feel an incontrollable urge to "quicksave".
News - Playfuls.com - Play your life! - Online Gaming Portal 2009
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The game creators minimise this as best they can by making the missions quite challenging and not having a quicksave key you have to go through the menu, encouraging more experimenting with unit combinations and formations.
Ground Control II: Operation Exodus Adam Whitehead 2009
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In any case, it sounds like your quicksave prowess is being challenged less than your willpower.
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It still made me scream, but after a while I got stuck on a difficult bit with three of the rocket launching skeleton doobries in front of me in a narrow corridor, and a zombie sneaking up behind, and I was reduced to the not very quicksave and retry method which spoilt the immersion somewhat.
Archive 2005-10-01 neil h 2005
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It still made me scream, but after a while I got stuck on a difficult bit with three of the rocket launching skeleton doobries in front of me in a narrow corridor, and a zombie sneaking up behind, and I was reduced to the not very quicksave and retry method which spoilt the immersion somewhat.
Cold mornings and hot chocolate neil h 2005
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Singleplayer and multiplayer both are unendurably tense at times and offer willing gamers something palpably terrifying that leaves a lasting impression and requires actual skill to negotiate, not just the trial-and-error persistence of learning enemy placements and hammering quicksave.
bit-tech.net Feed 2010
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