Purpose of quick save/load?

[Hayashi]

I don't personally use the quick-save/load function given in VNs, why would you need QS QL when you can just save?

Anyone wanna tell me why this even exist in the first place? 

[Lucius]

I'm guessing it's the same reason as why they exist in any other game - convenience. While saving in visual novels is far easier than in video games, some people just don't like spending those extra few seconds loading the menu screen so that they could save or load. They just want to quickly load back to a specific point of the story for... whatever reasons. 

[XReaper]

there is no reason why, and i dont get its purpose either. never used it, probably never will.

[Lucius]

I used it a lot in G-senjou no Maou whenever I feel like it's going to move to a new chapter/route. I like to keep each route as a separate reading. I could do that by manually going to the menu and saving, but doing so for every single scene is just impractical.

It's the same reason why there are so many save slots available in visual novels, because there are OCDed people like myself with these little habits of keeping our VNs organized in certain ways.

[TexasDice]

Years of playing Bethesda games taught me, that mashing quicksave every 15 seconds is the best protection from random crashes and other bugs.

Which aren't unusual for VNs that are not translated by a (competent) company to have. Lots of fan translations probably have programming issues, due to the amateurish coding. 

[Eclipsed]

To quickly save and quickly load

Useless for me though since i tend to hoard saves due to multiplechoices whereas the quickies tend to limit you to a singlesave

[Deep Blue]

I usually save in a different slot every single time and by the end of the vn I used all the slots available, the quick save/quick load is kinda useless in most vns 

[Suzu Fanatic]

I use manual saves as checkpoints, and mash quicksave out of habit from years of games crashing/powerouts/etc.

[littleshogun]

In regard of quick save, I'd rarely use one ie never nowadays. Although I'd using this back when I'd play Shera My Witch though (In fact, I'd always use quick save for Shera before I knew that there's save function).

As for the purpose, maybe it's leftover from the game in order to allow us to quickly save the game in case of something like sudden power outage during saving and corrupting the save in the process. Although it's quite redundant though if I may said because nowadays most of saving process in VN were had same time as quick save, but it could still useful in some case like TexasDice and Suzu Fanatic said.

[yorikbad]

If you like some scene, you can just return to it any time. Or you want to record a fragment with fraps for... general purpose :).

[Yuuko]

Quick save is the 1 more bonus slot I need when I always use all the normal save slots  

[Barktooth]

I use it during H-scenes sometimes so that I can quickly go back to when they were in a different position, for example. Often they will be in a good position first and then switch to one that totally doesn't excite me, so I'll just quickload and keep on fappin'.

Also, in VNs that don't have a lot of save slots I'll use QSave a lot and only do a normal save between different reading sessions.

[DarkZedge]

4 hours ago, Deep Blue said:

I usually save in a different slot every single time and by the end of the vn I used all the slots available, the quick save/quick load is kinda useless in most vns 

I agree but it does help just in case the game/vn ends up crashing and also it's a bit faster than going into the load menu and selecting the particular file, that being said quicksave is usually limited to one or two that overwrite themselves once you save again, at least that is in vns. I really haven't used it nor do I plan on doing so but I can't say it's useless to have it.

[marcus-beta]

to me? in a h-scene? mother going at the room? Quick Save, Alt+f4

[Dergonu]

It's a pretty neat feature that speeds up the already rather fast saving/loading, making life easier for a lazy VN reader like myself.

[Narcosis]

Quicksave can be used together with standard game save features to speed up reading expotentially in vn's, that contain long, multiple routes which often branch off in many different places. It's really convinient; It's not only about not having to exit the main game and return to menu every time, it's about not being forced to replay certain parts over and over again just to get to a point of interest within the story, especially when it branches off.

[Bolverk]

I use quicksave all the time. Because it's less clicks. Why bother pressing save icon, loading the save menu, pressing on the save icon, waiting for it (depends on game).

[melo4496]

I mostly use quick save/load when I'm reading a vn without a walkthrough. I quick save when given choices > Pick a choice > See if it leads to the scene of the heroine I want > Quick load if I got the wrong one

That's faster than saving and loading all the time

[Nosebleed]

I find quicksaves useful in games with a lot of choices/branches.

For the typical moege with like 5 choices though? They're pretty useless, especially when the choices are obvious.

[castor212]

quick save load for normal playing

 

nosrmal save load for before choices

[Ningen]

I usually use normal saves at branching paths or scenes i want to go back to.

Whereas I use quicksaves as normal save.

[pual]

1 hour ago, Ningen said:

I usually use normal saves at branching paths or scenes i want to go back to.

Whereas I use quicksaves as normal save.

Basically this. Some games implement quick save in a dumb way (like https://vndb.org/v1660) by not showing it in save menu and you can't check WHEN it was saved nor what scene it is.