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Most progress you've ever lost in a game?
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What the hell how?
Dark Octave
Banned
Got to the final boss in Final Fantasy 1 on NES and I had to go do something so I turned the system off. Came back a few hours later and my save was gone.
10000 souls? Consider yourself lucky
This is devastating in the early going, but by the end you don't even care
Something like 30 hours in Fallout 3 (360).
I was keeping a buttload of separate save files but for some reason stupidly used all the most recent slots in one building. Hit a glitch where the game would just crash whenever I tried to open the front door.
So that was around hour 42 and the next usable save was at the 12 hour mark.
I was keeping a buttload of separate save files but for some reason stupidly used all the most recent slots in one building. Hit a glitch where the game would just crash whenever I tried to open the front door.
So that was around hour 42 and the next usable save was at the 12 hour mark.
Lysander91
Banned
My Pokemon Gold has stolen when I had a bunch of level 100s and had pretty much completed the national Pokedex.
I lost my Crackdown data with a handful of orbs to go. I'm pretty sure that everyone's Crackdown data gets corrupted though. I have a few friends who lost their data.
I lost my Crackdown data with a handful of orbs to go. I'm pretty sure that everyone's Crackdown data gets corrupted though. I have a few friends who lost their data.
Nemesis_
Member
Most survival horror games - I always just get pulled into the atmosphere and forget to save, and then get killed in some STUPID or DUMBASS manner that makes me lose hours of progress.
Most of these games are short, but playing through that exact same shit again is always just the biggest deflation ever.
Most of these games are short, but playing through that exact same shit again is always just the biggest deflation ever.
-Bought my Wii at launch.
-Got to the Sky Temple in Twilight Princess
-Got stuck in the main chamber with falling blocks
-Turned off and thought Ill sleep on it and try it tomorrow
-Loaded Wii up the next day, not paying attention, go to load up game
-accidentally click erase data not paying attention I dont read and just click yes
-file deletes
-I sell my Wii out of pure frustration and unwillingness to start the game again
-Got to the Sky Temple in Twilight Princess
-Got stuck in the main chamber with falling blocks
-Turned off and thought Ill sleep on it and try it tomorrow
-Loaded Wii up the next day, not paying attention, go to load up game
-accidentally click erase data not paying attention I dont read and just click yes
-file deletes
-I sell my Wii out of pure frustration and unwillingness to start the game again
Ryu bogard
Member
40-50hours in Dark souls. My ps3 died and save file got corrupted. It was my first play through and I was close to the end.Never found time to go back and play it again.
90 hours in Fighters Megamix on the Saturn.
I accidentally deleted the save instead of backing it up.
I had finished it 1000 times and all, so it's not like I couldn't get all those characters unlocked again. It was that you needed to clock 85 hours or something to get that stupid Palm Tree outfit for Kumachan. I didn't bother.
I accidentally deleted the save instead of backing it up.
I had finished it 1000 times and all, so it's not like I couldn't get all those characters unlocked again. It was that you needed to clock 85 hours or something to get that stupid Palm Tree outfit for Kumachan. I didn't bother.
Flightmare
Member
When the internal battery of pokemon crystal died I lost roughly 100 hours
Master Milk
Member
I accidentally saved over my first 250+ hr Disgaea 1 save file a long time ago.
Quicksilver4648
Member
Back in 2008 I was erasing some unnecessary data from my Xbox 360 hard drive. Though a couple of ill-thought button presses I accidentally erased my gamer tag from my Xbox along with all of the items associated with it. Meaning: I lost my game saves for nearly every game. My completed GTA IV save? deleted. My completed Burnout Paradise save? Deleted. Along with numerous other saves to games that I didn't play anymore. The good news? Gears of War, Call of Duty, Halo, and a few others save directly to the gamer tag and Xbox Live servers which meant that after I recovered my gamer tag nothing was lost for those games. It wasn't all doom and gloom though. I eventually went back to Burnout Paradise and 100% completed it and beat GTA IV one more time. The only thing I never went back and re-earned was my nearly 100% complete Crackdown save. All of those orbs are gone forever. Now I have every game save copied to the cloud because I don't even want to imagine losing all of my game saves.
I lost my Demon's Souls data when my fat died on me, 68 hours in, if I remember correctly, have never finished the game because of this, I plan on doing it though.
decoyplatypus
Member
One of my Gamecube memory cards died and took all my SSBM and F-Zero GX data with it. On the bright side, I had a blast running through GX again to recover everything.
Nostremitus
Member
Skies of Arcadia: Legends. I had
when my cousin came over to play. The next time load my game i realized that he'd played on my file using Action Replay and saved the game... Could i have kept playing? technically.... but... damn... there wouldn't have been a sense of accomplishment with god-mode characters...
I call that a loss.
fully upgraded my island and the Delphinas
I call that a loss.
Omegasquash
Member
Had all my saves on a flash drive, got a new model XBox, and it fried the drive. I lost lots on that drive...ME3, ME2, Rage and I think one other, but it wasn't important. I was playing Skyrim at the time, and noticed that I couldn't save my game in that location, so I switched it to the cloud.
I don't mind it so much now. I'm playing it on PC and having a ball. I added the Courier's shack mod which has saved me plenty of time and picked up Ed-E early on as well, so it won't take as long. Added a bunch of radio stations and am looking to put that texture mod in (running it off an SSD so load times aren't really existent. Besides, Old World Blues is worth playing through again. Honest Hearts, too.
Spring-Loaded
Member
Accidentally saved over a Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando NG+ file with almost all weapons fully maxed out, which took a really long time to do. I always thought the "new game," "save file," options, or whatever they are, were way too close together...
Also, opposite of the OP, I had a circuit breaker problem and half the outlets in my apartment stopped working, including the one my PS3 was hooked up to while I was in the middle of playing Demon's Souls. I had always headed back to the Nexus before turning the game off, so I figured I'd have lost all the progress I made. Turns out the game put me right back in the very spot I was at when the power went out.
Also, opposite of the OP, I had a circuit breaker problem and half the outlets in my apartment stopped working, including the one my PS3 was hooked up to while I was in the middle of playing Demon's Souls. I had always headed back to the Nexus before turning the game off, so I figured I'd have lost all the progress I made. Turns out the game put me right back in the very spot I was at when the power went out.
SlipperyMoose
Member
I lost the entirety of my Pokemon saves from my Red/Blue/Yellow/Silver/Gold. I was bummed at the time because of the save loss but I think looking back on it I was just a kid immersed in those games and I'd love to boot up and old save just to relive memories and relive my mind state from that exact time.
Bending_Unit_22
Member
On Super Mario World GBA I only had 3 special world levels to finish. My cousins 4 year old kid was throwing a fit in the car, so she asked me to give him my GBA to play to quiet him. I didn't want to because every little kid who supposedly can't read I've known goes right for "Options > delete file > Yes > hehehe funny". I created a new file for him, started a level and gave it to him and then watched as he reset to the main screen and went straight to erase file, he did it before I could grab it from him.
TheBrain76
Member
This happened to me as well. Lost everything but Burnout: Paradise Borderlands 1 and Uncharted 3 (not sure why I cloud saved U3 though).
Portugeezer
Member
24 hours of Lost Odyssey.
When I uninstalled game from 360 HDD I accidentally deleted everything related to the game. I went back to play it a few months later and damn... everything gone!
When I uninstalled game from 360 HDD I accidentally deleted everything related to the game. I went back to play it a few months later and damn... everything gone!
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
Think the longest/most done was probably Disgaea 2.
Loaned my Memory card to a friend, and the card eventually got dropped in water or something, can't remember exactly what.
Lost about, oh, 250 hours worth, everyone at level 9999 and all max level weapons, except for the staff, which I was then hunting for.
Thankfully, I've eased back a bit on Disgaea and stuff like it since, lol. Had fun replaying it a bit recently while waiting for Disgaea D2 to hit, which apparently takes out a lot of the 'randomness' that forces such crazy huge time investment.
Loaned my Memory card to a friend, and the card eventually got dropped in water or something, can't remember exactly what.
Lost about, oh, 250 hours worth, everyone at level 9999 and all max level weapons, except for the staff, which I was then hunting for.
Thankfully, I've eased back a bit on Disgaea and stuff like it since, lol. Had fun replaying it a bit recently while waiting for Disgaea D2 to hit, which apparently takes out a lot of the 'randomness' that forces such crazy huge time investment.
80 hours in Dark souls, i was furious because i lost like 90k Souls and pressed Alt+F4. After several hours i wanted to play again just to see that my savegame was now corrupted and i could not get it anyway back 
Only after that i checked the DuranteFix and saw that there was an option to secure the save Files. It took me over 4 Months to start all over again but it was worth it !
Only after that i checked the DuranteFix and saw that there was an option to secure the save Files. It took me over 4 Months to start all over again but it was worth it !
Frankenstrat
Member
Jesus, I don't think I would have been able to control my anger.
I got the brother corruption error with Final Fantasy VII.
He came home for the summer from college and one day I got back from work and he just says, "I think you're going to be mad."
He had started playing Final Fantasy VII and saved over my game. I was at the demon wall. I ended just watching the remainder of the game once he got to where I was -- which was the end of the summer.
He came home for the summer from college and one day I got back from work and he just says, "I think you're going to be mad."
He had started playing Final Fantasy VII and saved over my game. I was at the demon wall. I ended just watching the remainder of the game once he got to where I was -- which was the end of the summer.
I made it to the last boss of Mario and Luigi and couldn't finish. I always planned to go back and finish some day. Recently happened to mess with the game again to see all the save files deleted, except for one that was about five minutes in. I'm guessing a kid was messing with the game at some point.
I let a kid play my DS for a while, and she ended up deleting my Mario 64 DS save of about 130 stars. I wasn't too broken up over it though, I didn't play it often and was generally pretty done with it by that point. Had no plans to get all the stars.
I thought I lost my Pokemon Pearl card one time. It had about 500 hours on it, along with all my mediocre IV bred / EV trained monsters. Found it though, phew.
I honestly haven't had too many bad experiences with data loss. I did delete my brother's FF III (VI) save when I was really young. I don't really remember it, but I know he had to have been so mad.
I let a kid play my DS for a while, and she ended up deleting my Mario 64 DS save of about 130 stars. I wasn't too broken up over it though, I didn't play it often and was generally pretty done with it by that point. Had no plans to get all the stars.
I thought I lost my Pokemon Pearl card one time. It had about 500 hours on it, along with all my mediocre IV bred / EV trained monsters. Found it though, phew.
I honestly haven't had too many bad experiences with data loss. I did delete my brother's FF III (VI) save when I was really young. I don't really remember it, but I know he had to have been so mad.
Stronghammer22
Member
My 360 hard drive failed and I unfortunately didn't have much of it backed up... 5 years worth of saves, gone. The timing was quite funny, as MS were implementing cloud saves the following month. In a way it was a blessing in disguise, as it led me back to PC gaming. Still, at the time it was somewhat shattering.
For reference, I had "completed" (achievement wise, at least) 200 games or thereabouts, so it wasn't a case of 5 hours here, 5 hours there. Several 100 hours + saves died. Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, GTA IV, Oblivion, Crackdown and the list goes on. I obviously take responsibility, as not backing up your data is asking for trouble.
In a way it was a blessing in disguise, as it led me back to PC gaming. Still, at the time it was somewhat shattering.For reference, I had "completed" (achievement wise, at least) 200 games or thereabouts, so it wasn't a case of 5 hours here, 5 hours there. Several 100 hours + saves died. Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, GTA IV, Oblivion, Crackdown and the list goes on. I obviously take responsibility, as not backing up your data is asking for trouble.
BibiMaghoo
Member
About 30 hours of FF12.
Never went back to it, so never finished it. First FF I never finished, but not the last.
Never went back to it, so never finished it. First FF I never finished, but not the last.
Diablo Rosso
Member
I lost loads when my PS3 died.