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[Article] Metal Gear Rising (2014) handles save files not so well: debug and fix

andersonnnunes

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Today’s test subject is Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, released in January 2014. A spinoff of Metal Gear Solid series, developed and ported in-house by Platinum Games, also known for e.g. NieR: Automata.

[it] exhibits very weird behaviour with the location of its saves/configurations directory. Indeed, a quick look at game’s PCGamingWiki article reveals that the game doesn’t really handle user paths properly


Read the article to know the issue in depth and obtain a fix/patch.

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Curious how these big studios still manage to mess up these sort of things and don't even bother fixing it.
 

gaijinkaiju

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dark souls 3 did something similar. Hid the save in your roaming folder rather than my games or its actual folder
 

Vendor-Lazarus

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I always preferred save files in the actual game folder..Barring that, My games is adequate, though I never really use My Documents.
I've always created and maintained my own folder hierarchies, but I suppose most rely on those created by Microsoft.
The absolute best solution would be having My Games as default, with Game folder being the other standard, and with a custom option for full choice.

*Edit*
Screw online/coud storages as default. I'm looking at you steam!
With that as a choice only, then people using it have no one else to blame. ^^
 

gaijinkaiju

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Screw online/coud storages as default. I'm looking at you steam!
With that as a choice only, then people using it have no one else to blame. ^^
I don't mind having an online/cloud storage as a backup but not as the primary save location.
 

Vendor-Lazarus

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Screw online/coud storages as default. I'm looking at you steam!
With that as a choice only, then people using it have no one else to blame. ^^
I don't mind having an online/cloud storage as a backup but not as the primary save location.
Indeed. Which is why I wrote the highlighted part ,)
 
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