Zaxx, if you prefer doing things like that, then great.
That is NOT how the original games that are referenced as an inspiration for this title were constructed though. By this I am refering to Doom, Doom II, Quake, Quake 2 and Duke Nukem 3D. If you are selling a game that is supposed to be "a nineties shooter" then follow the path that they created.
I'm not saying that this is a dealbreaker for me.
I'm not saying that I won't buy the game due to this.
I'm not saying that I will travel to Amsterdam and personally deliver the severed head of a goat onto Fred's desk because I disagree with this decision.
I AM saying that it's silly to announce that you are going to make a game that subscribes to nineties game mechanics and then suddenly start chucking in stuff that is seen by most gamers as a particularly painful aberration of modern games.
Oh, one other thing that I am not doing, which you are, is to personally attack everyone who doesn't believe the way that you do*.
Because gamers don't like checkpoint saves, this does NOT mean that they:
1. Are scumsavers (??????)
2. Too old to play FPS games
3. Mentally challenged in some fashion and/or senile.
4. Play games on "I'm easily triggered" settings
5. Reside in Florida.
6. Are Republicans.
* I know, I keep forgetting that this is Duke4! Maybe I am a scumsaver!