Stupid question time!

[mewmew]

If I start a second character on a game like Skyrim on the Xbox 360, the saves for that character won't have any impact on the first character, correct? Pretty sure the answer is "no" but I want to be absolutely sure before I do anything. Better safe than sorry. I'm pretty attached to my 11/11/11 save file from when I started my first character

Comments

[burningrhapsody]

They're absolutely unrelated, so your new character wont delete your old one. Just double check if you're manually saving that you don't overwrite the other save, but IIRC you wont even get the other character's saves on your new character's game.. If that makes sense?

[yhibiki]

is it different for the 360 version of Skyrim? in the PC one, the saves are all numbered, and it counts up no matter what character I'm using. There are no separate character subfolders.

So, auto- and quick-saves from one character will overwrite the auto/quick-saves from the other one. Make sure you've got your first character saved manually!

[mewmew]

Definitely going to make sure the last save on my first character is a manual before I start a new one.

I know if you have more than one profile on the 360, one profile won't show game saves from the other. My roommate and I have separate profiles and are both playing Skyrim, and my saves don't show up for him and vice versa. Don't know how it would work for two characters under the same profile, though. Guess I'll find out soon.

[burningrhapsody]

I was slightly wrong, I think I have Mass Effects saving system in my head. From what I can tell through Google you can have two saves, but like yhibiki said your auto-saves will overwrite one another and you just need to be careful of manual saves as you may accidentally click a wrong one to overwrite and lose that save for your other character.

[devilduckie831]

If, after all that is written here, you're still worried about it, copy the save to a USB thumb drive. You can pick them up for rather cheap these days. Since all games require gamers to choose their memory source before playing, you wouldn't have to worry about overwriting your original file.

[casketscratcher]

I would normally say that no, it won't affect it, but I thought the same thing about the PS3 version and I lost my original character (the autosaves conveniently decided to pile up and overwrite my original saves) so my advice would be to back the saves up if you can.