How often do you save-scum?

I'm happy I didn't do that in Life is Strange. I'd rather go for a second walkthrough for the rest of the achievements and the second ending. ^^

Quite often. Mainly on skill checks and fights rather than choices though.

There’s actually a random encounter in Fallout 2 where NPCs joke about savescumming players, and it sounded all too familiar!

Save scumming was the only way to get all the achievements in Holy Potatoes We're in Space. I probably did it in other games as well but nothing recent comes to mind.

saving alot when not forget
still getting screwed either way, because forgot to save.... fml

TIL save scumming.
I've been playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R call of pripyat's MISERY MOD and it is you're forever going to die every 5 seconds kinda thing.
plus its a mod so it is sometimes buggy, and save scumming is a huge necessity, since sometimes i'll have saved in a situation that seems ok, but then when i reload to it 10 seconds later when i die, the game crashes. (usually because too many enemies and memory crunching things are present) so i have to reload an earlier save hopefully minutes beforehand.
Also the mod is so unforgiving, once i spent a bit of time just constantly 'quick loading' to make the traders wares change. nothing good came of it though :(

First time I've heard of this terminology, and some people are saying it's another thing so I don't know what to think.
But I have reloaded saves to get the outcome I wanted, don't really see anything wrong with it, I've been doing it this week with Cave Story in fact, managing to save Curly took me many tries.

Roguelikes, RTSs, 4X games...I don't think I'm a fan of any genre where save-scumming is even considered a thing.

Actually, I'd reload saves to prevent my Fire Emblem characters from dying, and I thought that game was alright, so I guess that's my one exception.

I'm a XCOM save scum that's why I never got all the achievements xD RNG is my greatest rival. :)

Turn based strategy games: load save when you miss a shot

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Cough Pickpocketing in Skyrim Cough

Used to do it, not anymore

Bump for the last hour. :)

I do do think that every save-reload that aims to manipulate a random outcome instead of providing a safety point (like multiple saves) or for the sake of stopping, then later continuing. But it's not cheating, it's a feature in many games. (Fallout 3 percentage-success speech challenge flashbacks) - just shows the willingness to play the metagame of getting something in particular instead of the game, with whatever cards you're dealt to.
Did it with Fallout 3, maybe with some other games as well, but it's a really jarring experience in the middle of a gameplay, so I tend not to bother with it.

The giveaway is over. Sorry for those who didn't made it on time. :(

I'm just the worst.

I know it's not a video game, but it illustrates my point.
In "Choose Your Own Adventure" books, I would of course peek further before making a decision, but also pretend I have an item, while I clearly haven't encountered it before.
"Yeah sure, I got the purple diamond! I'll go to page 143! Woops, death, pff I didn't have that purple diamond anyways!"

Here, for a video game example.
In Zelda - Link's Awakening on GameBoy, you get a special song at the very end of the game if you haven't died a single time.
I am absolutely awful at games like this, so I die everytime. But shutting off and relaunching the game every time I died, that's something I can do ;)

Why not another one:
The number of times where I killed legendary Pokémon while wanting to catch them. Nothing that can't be undone by a quick reboot, right? :)
It's not nearly as bad as when I borrowed my friend's GameShark while he was sleeping during a sleepover to give myself 99 Master Balls.
No need to reboot the game then! Mwahahaha!

Heh, me in Rimworld. I set it to "Some Challenge" so that I still get all the aspects of the game but I'm more into it for the creative side than the micro managing colonists in battle to stop them from dying side.

What is save scum bro?

Yes, but not to the extreme. That's how I beat Serious Sam games.

Broken so many F5 buttons because of this, proud of it. Just hate losing time playing the same part again and again. If the game allows it, gonna abuse it.

I'm enough slow at finishing games without save-scumming.
But I'm going to be honest here, and I'll say that I do it in certain games in which health does not regenerate itself and I'm afraid that I'm screwed if I go on and save when I've lost too much of it.
Examples: Half-Life and Dead Space.

It depends a lot on the game and the consequences in question. Take Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession. the game is full of level-draining enemies, and no real way of recovering if you get level-drained. So I obsessively save-scummed to not suffer any level drain, as if you accept getting level-drained in that game, you can quickly get into an unwinnable situation. I don't even want to imagine how many times I saved and loaded in that 12h playthrough...

My "save scumming" goes way back though. Back when I played those fighting fantasy books, I would often place paperclips in the book, to mark important points, in case I really messed up. And those books were down to a lot of trial & error, so it saved me a lot of time...

One does not conquer all of Europe in CKII Ironman mode without the occasional save scum.

It depends entirely on the game.

For story focused games, like Life is Strange and the Telltale games, or RPGs I'll only re-load if a choice was confusing and resulted in making a choice or saying dialog that was very different from what the text indicated.

For RPGs, I may occasionally save before making a "wrong" choice, just for fun to see what would happen, and then reload to make the choice that I would normally make.

For stealth games like Dishonored, I go for a non-leathal, never-spotted playthrough and treat each encounter like a puzzle. I'll save and reload as many times as needed to complete the encounter without being spotted or having to kill anyone.

For strategy games, I may reload to remedy mistakes due to me being careless or impatient.

For most everything else, I only load a save when I die.