One of the best reasons Dominions is an awesome game!

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Originally posted by Targa:
... Clearly the way to get the most enjoyment out of any game is to "suck it up and get on with your life". Save/load is the road to an easy win, and not for hardcore gamers.

Quite. Sadly, many games are so designed for the "die and reload" mentality, that they are almost impossible to survive on the first try, and/or not interesting at all to replay, so that they can't really be enjoyed in "suck it up" mode. If you "suck it up" in many CRPGs, you're dead and can't do much else except replay from the beginning, in which case you notice that almost everything was scripted and not very interesting to play again. But "die and reload" practically reduces the whole exercise to an endurance test.

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