How often do you save your game/progress?

I'll save most often when I have to go. When a game has auto-saves I'll usually just use them especially if the game is paranoid about you losing progress and saves every minute or so, as some games do. Otherwise, I'll likely save inb4 a hard part I've already failed at several times, because redoing the same thing leading up to it gets on my nerves.

I prefer to quicksave over letting the game autosave, if there's an option to do so. And it honestly depends on the type of game and what I'm doing in it. If I'm playing on a high difficulty you can bet I'll be saving very often. Otherwise, I tend to save whenever I make any significant headway on whatever I'm doing at that time in-game.

I still remeber when I was younger and played one of my very first games- HF how I saved exactly when I was falling is some lava/poison, not sure exactly. And every time I loaded my game i was just watching myself dieing. Such a depressing memory.

On the topic- depends on the game, but the more offen, the better.

Stalker series: pretty much after every shootout :P

It depends on the game, but most of the time I rarely save. I recently played through Portal 2 and wanted to go back and get some achievements, not realizing there's only a challenge mode and not a proper level select which prevented me from getting one or two of them without some serious hassle since I had maybe two whole saves the entire game from where I stopped playing and shut down the game. I wound up playing back through about half the game to correct it.

haha, when i play skyrim I'm quicksaving every 5 seconds, and by that I mean literally, but when i play bioshock I rarely quicksave, only after each area or something

It really depends on the game though.

Depends on the game, if they have a checkpoint system i dont usually pay attention to it unless its a hard part or something, for Half Life 2 on hard mode or some other single player games that can or might get challenging, i try to figure out the quick save button often.

it depends of the game, like skyrim i save every time i remember (Thats why i have tons of gb in saves, i have to delete them sometimes)

But most games now dont need you to save, sometimes is bad that.

With shooters, I save very rarely. Maybe once every half an hour? With RTSs, it's a little more often, maybe once every five minutes, usually just before I launch a large manoeuvre or if I see a colony of tanks rushing towards me. With RPGs though... literally before every conversation or major event for the first few playthroughs. My record for Mass Effect: 500 saves, I believe. Dragon Age: 1200, I think. Oblivion: 1400 odd. I love to reload and redo entire conversations, just to explore every option. Steam's registered over 100 hours of Dragon Age for me. I think my one and only save file, though, is only about 40 hours long. Once I get to the point where I know every word of every sentence (usually only takes a couple of playthroughs), I save less frequently. My 36th Mass Effect run only has 2 saves for 4 hours of gameplay, for instance.

i just let the game auto-save and manually save before i quit.

F5 makes everything so quick, so it really doesn't matter for me. I guess whenever I feel I made some amount of progress I'll F5 and move on.

When it comes to games without auto save, I save whenever I made a large amount of progress. I don't suffer from power outages frequently, and my games have rarely crash on me as well, so its not a big deal.

I never used to save too much, just when I'm about to get off the game.
And then I played Morrowind. It burned a bad habit of "Oh man, I've walked five feet. I better save." into me.

If it has a Quick Save, then I hit it every so often, other wise I really cant be bothered doing a save bar having to get off

Depends on the game.

If the game is very linear, there's very little point in replaying the same thing over and over again, so I quick save/load as much as possible.

In more open games such as STALKER, I save very rarely. In case I die, I loose hours of progress but I really don't mind, this game is just that awesome.

I've been playing Metal Gear Solid 3 lately and I'm going for a "No lethal kills, no detection run"...so I make a new save after every room. Normally I save before I quit, after major boss fights and/or after 3-4 hours of straight gaming.

Due to playing the original Deus Ex, I've picked up a habit of quicksaving extremely often. For those of you who aren't aware, that game had very minimal autosaves, and if you died at any point during the first mission then you'd have to completely start over through character creation and everything.

As for actual saves, I usually only save right before getting off or right before doing something really important in the game.

If I'm given the opportunity, then once or twice per meter. Hell, there was a moment I was saving mid-melee-strike. :-]

I save whenever I can. I learned my lesson, When i was playing Tales of Symphonia there was a power outage, hours of game play lost. Now i save when i can and if possible on multiple slots, in case my brother saves over my data...again

Depends on the game. With FF games or similar RPGs I save at every opportunity (if there's no saving on the go). With FF13 I ended up using all the slots ._.

With other games I tend to be more lax, but with games like TES I generally save when entering a new area or if I know there's going to be a boss.

In general I just save all the time..

I save like crazy. Games like Skryim, Fallout, Dues Ex, I have to go through and deleted 100 or 200 old saves at the end of the month.

Remember, Save Often!

Depends on the game, in GTA games I save after 2 or 3 missions. While in games like Max Payne and Serious Sam I save every 2 seconds.

I save all the time when I possibly can. In New Vegas alone I made over 2000 individual saves which resulted in roughly 10GB in size.

STALKER

Every 3 steps.

if the game already has an autosave feature I will save every couple of hours or when I know a hard part is going to come up, or when I feel like going on a bloody rampage on some poor village. In shooters, I'll save whenever I clear out a room full of enemies.