/vr/ - Retro Games

Why do people hate save scumming so much when it's the most hardcore way to play? Much more than the "hardcore" method of deleting your character after one death. Call it what is and it's obvious. It's just reloading. So what's harder, reloading right before the part that killed you and figuring out how to get past it with whatever you happened to have on you the first time you got there, or reloading all the way back at the beginning where you have precognizance and an entire game's worth of time to prepare for?