I know, also some other shooters already had autosaving before MoH:AA at times *but* still those games weren't designed with the goal to make them perfectly beatable without quicksaving. Fully abandoning quicksaves means that the whole game has to be rebalanced and designed in a more "sane" manner that those older games just weren't (trying to beat the first CoD on the hardest setting without quicksaving is near impossible - if at all since you can't even heal there). That's why to me fully eliminating quicksave capability is an almost completely different system. And personally I'll pretty much always prefer a checkpoint based game over one with free saving. :P

To both of you - what does it say about me as a person as I like my games to have both checkpoints and save anywhere....

That you'd never make it in a real war. :B

But I'm the same. I use autosave as a backup if I quicksave in a wrong moment. I just don't like game fully relying on autosaves, because that would force me to repeat some sections over and over and this makes all the scripts too much visible.