> second, there is still some progress saved, experience earned, etc., so that even in death there is some progress I accidentally realized how important this

> second, there is still some progress saved, experience earned, etc., so that even in death there is some progress I accidentally realized how important this is while playing Bioshock 2. The fact that when you're trying to kill a BigDaddy and you die, they keep their damage when you restart so that you can still kill him even if you don't have any weapons left and have to repeat 3 or 4 times. If that wasn't the case it would have probably demoralized me from continuing the game when things got tough.