Oxnard Montalvo
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Played Kingdom Hearts until right before the final boss. I turned it off and came back the next day and my cat decided to chow down on my memory card 
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Most progress you've ever lost in a game?
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ebullientprism
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Not really.
By the time you are carrying 300k, souls dont really matter to you anymore. Take DaS for example. I have lost souls in both ranges, I couldnt care less about the 300k and 30 something humanity I lost on a Uber character, cause a) I had no plans to use that anyway and b) I can get that in PvP at my level pretty fast. But I raged like a mofo when I lost 10-15k and 1-2 humanity in my first playthrough early on. That was debilitating.
Never had a save go corrupt on my own. But I did lose pretty much all my Witcher 1 progress because I had to reformat my system. I was pretty close to the end too.
MasterShotgun
brazen editing lynx
I was nearing the end of Final Fantasy VI when my brother deleted my file. He wasn't even mad at me that day. I had left my GBA unattended, and he got an urge to be a dick. All I had left to do was grind a bit and then tackle the final dungeon. 30+ hours gone in a flash. I was fucking pissed at him for a few days.
EDIT: Forgot about when my Wii messed and I had to send it in for repair. I made sure to copy as many saves as possible, but several files couldn't be copied. I ended up with a brand new Wii, and all of those saves were lost. The worst was 100+ hours of Brawl. I had nearly everything minus a few trophies and stickers. That one hurt deep.
EDIT: Forgot about when my Wii messed and I had to send it in for repair. I made sure to copy as many saves as possible, but several files couldn't be copied. I ended up with a brand new Wii, and all of those saves were lost. The worst was 100+ hours of Brawl. I had nearly everything minus a few trophies and stickers. That one hurt deep.
Just take it with you.
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Thankfully, I don't have too many tales of woe, but I do remember trying to activate the Level 9 sword glitch in Secret of Mana and ended up corrupting my endgame save. Derp.
More recently, playing Dark Souls, I was nearly finished with the game, only having essentially two bosses to go to finish the game. I was attempting to defeat the DLC boss, got annoyed, and decided to take a break. Anyways, I returned a couple of days later, and GFWL had in the meantime gotten borked somehow, meaning the game no longer worked. After unsuccessfully attempting several fixes, I just decided to move on.
More recently, playing Dark Souls, I was nearly finished with the game, only having essentially two bosses to go to finish the game. I was attempting to defeat the DLC boss, got annoyed, and decided to take a break. Anyways, I returned a couple of days later, and GFWL had in the meantime gotten borked somehow, meaning the game no longer worked. After unsuccessfully attempting several fixes, I just decided to move on.
Noisy Ninj4
Member
When my blue pokemon game cartridge went totally corrupt. Couple hundred hours of playtime wiped for good.
I got a MadZatz (yeah, I know now) memory card when I got my wii. It was the orange, 16X memory card. I moved all of my gamecube game saves over to that card to consolidate everything, make it easier. Worked great for over a year.
Then it dumped. Absolutely all of the data from every Gamecube game I ever played was gone. Over a thousand hours in melee (lol, seriously), my Animal Crossing town (that I made with a friend who moved away), My Twilight Princess save (one dungeon from the end of the game), All those poor pikmin (I'll never finish Pikmin 2 now), and 30 odd other great memories, wiped in an instant. I was speechless.
Not quite so bad, but also pretty awful was when I was playing Person 3 Portable on my PSP a summer (or two?) ago. I was super into the game and went into hyper-bum mode, waking up and grabbing the game off my nightstand and playing it all day without even rolling out of bed. I did this three days in a row, absolutely tearing through huge chunks of the game. I loved it. I would just game all day, then put it in sleep mode and go to bed. Wake up the next morning, repeat. See where this is going? I got to this one boss, and started fighting it not really seriously, thinking I would just see how it played, then come back with a good strategy on my next time through. It killed me, and the game loaded me, not in Tartarus as I had expected, but in my dorm. I was confused. I checked the day. No way...this can't be real. I checked the play time.
Kids...suspended states are a dangerous thing. Don't just close your DS or flick that switch on the PSP. Save your game. I lost all of the progress of the last three days (over 20 hours worth) and couldn't bring myself to play the game the rest of that
Then it dumped. Absolutely all of the data from every Gamecube game I ever played was gone. Over a thousand hours in melee (lol, seriously), my Animal Crossing town (that I made with a friend who moved away), My Twilight Princess save (one dungeon from the end of the game), All those poor pikmin (I'll never finish Pikmin 2 now), and 30 odd other great memories, wiped in an instant. I was speechless.
Not quite so bad, but also pretty awful was when I was playing Person 3 Portable on my PSP a summer (or two?) ago. I was super into the game and went into hyper-bum mode, waking up and grabbing the game off my nightstand and playing it all day without even rolling out of bed. I did this three days in a row, absolutely tearing through huge chunks of the game. I loved it. I would just game all day, then put it in sleep mode and go to bed. Wake up the next morning, repeat. See where this is going? I got to this one boss, and started fighting it not really seriously, thinking I would just see how it played, then come back with a good strategy on my next time through. It killed me, and the game loaded me, not in Tartarus as I had expected, but in my dorm. I was confused. I checked the day. No way...this can't be real. I checked the play time.
Kids...suspended states are a dangerous thing. Don't just close your DS or flick that switch on the PSP. Save your game. I lost all of the progress of the last three days (over 20 hours worth) and couldn't bring myself to play the game the rest of that
rudieboy77
Member
I was at the last couple of quests on Morrowind, when I transferred my saves to a larger HDD and the saves got corrupted.
dirtywhirlwind
Member
About 15 hours in Darksiders (1) due to a game breaking bug. I was stupid enough to only use one save slot during the entire run. Funny enough I stumbled upon two other completely different game breaking bugs preventing me from progressing any further in the same game, but since I learned my lesson the first time I didn't lose all that much progress.
Now I always use a bunch of slots when saving. Better safe than sorry.
Now I always use a bunch of slots when saving. Better safe than sorry.
A couple of times in several Zelda games I have forgotten to save before calling it a day, effectively invalidating 3-5 hours of game play.
Just recently I accidently sold my Conference Call in Borderlands 2 and didn't notice until an hour later. Second winds will be a lot harder to get for awhile
Just recently I accidently sold my Conference Call in Borderlands 2 and didn't notice until an hour later. Second winds will be a lot harder to get for awhile
and you already know that the ROM he's talking about is not a dump from his actual copy of the game ?
That is painful
Happened to me while I was playing FireRed, let someone play it for a while and they thought it was a good idea to start a new game and save over my progress...
SatelliteOfLove
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It's apparent from this thread that the Save button should be down a very long path of menu selections if there is already a save from a different playthrough on the system in Pokemon games. It's rather obvious they'll never touch it again, why the hellbent desire to save?
For me, it's a whole town burned down in Shadowbane. Must have been months of work, hundreds of millions of gold. "It's just pixels" was a valuable lesson learned from that I've carried with me since.
For me, it's a whole town burned down in Shadowbane. Must have been months of work, hundreds of millions of gold. "It's just pixels" was a valuable lesson learned from that I've carried with me since.
fluffydelusions
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I'm not sure how long but I got up to area in dark souls where you kind of go down into a crystal type cave with that dragon boss who can curse you. My PS3 died there. I never even got to finish the game even though I now once again own it on Steam...too lazy (or scared) lol
Weltall Zero
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10k souls is nothing. You can get 10k and a Large Titanite Shard in like 5 mins or less in one of the zones of the game near the middle.
The most progress I've lost? I guess that would be thousands of hours, when I stopped paying for WoW's subscription.
If you want to get more traditional, I lost my Rez savegame by turning off the console when it was autosaving. I had pretty much everything unlocked.
schwabdizzle
Banned
Ninja Gaiden on the Original Xbox. Made it to the Caverns and Xbox took a shit. I was furious.
Pokemon Silver. The copy I had was always pretty dodgy for some reason. It always asked me to set the time and date every time I started it up, and then one day, boom, error. Everything gone, it was probably my most played pokemon game as well. I don't know how many hours I'd put in but i'd caught most of the pokemon and had a lot of them trained to very high levels.
Freezasaurus
Member
About 7 hours in the original Dead Space. I got up to a point where you're supposed to blast this panel to open the door, but the panel never loaded, so I ended up stuck at a door I was forever unable to open. Not even reloading the save worked.
But the game was so awesome I just restarted, blew through the early stuff in 4 hours, and continued on. Luckily it seemed to be a one-time glitch.
But the game was so awesome I just restarted, blew through the early stuff in 4 hours, and continued on. Luckily it seemed to be a one-time glitch.
FormallyFamicom
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A few come to mind.
-I was playing Spore, the final phase of the game where you're in space and stuff. It was a real pain in the ass to play, fending off alien bullies left and right. I had just wiped the most aggressive species off the galaxy after endless torment. Felt REALLY fucking good. Then the game crashed. I hadn't saved my progress since starting the space phase. Lost my day's progress, which was about 8 hours. Never played the game again.
-Was playing Pokemon Red one night before one of those tournament/gatherings where Nintendo gave away a Mew. Out of boredom I decided to go mess around with the missingno glitch. The next day, game save was completely gone. Lost over 100 hours of progress, whole team of maxed out pokemon. Easily my most devestating game save loss.
-The most progress I've lost though happened recently with Tales of Graces f. I had so much fun with this game that it was one of the super duper rare times I felt like replaying a game and doing everything. I had already beaten the main game and the future side portion and was working on the post-game dungeon, plus grinding titles and weapons. I was doing the save trick where you grab an item then save and reload and grab the item again so you don't have to wait hours for collectibles to respawn. Well while watching the Bears game on tv I lost track of which save I was overwriting and ended up losing my entire game, over 100 hours of game progress from the previous save I had. Wasn't TOO devestated about this once since I had completely beaten the game, but it still sucked. Definitely not replaying it now though.
I had (and still have) this copy of the game too. Never finished story mode once without the game wiping the save data in the middle of the game. I managed to keep all of my created wrestlers on a memory cart. It's probably long corrupted by now.
-I was playing Spore, the final phase of the game where you're in space and stuff. It was a real pain in the ass to play, fending off alien bullies left and right. I had just wiped the most aggressive species off the galaxy after endless torment. Felt REALLY fucking good. Then the game crashed. I hadn't saved my progress since starting the space phase. Lost my day's progress, which was about 8 hours. Never played the game again.
-Was playing Pokemon Red one night before one of those tournament/gatherings where Nintendo gave away a Mew. Out of boredom I decided to go mess around with the missingno glitch. The next day, game save was completely gone. Lost over 100 hours of progress, whole team of maxed out pokemon. Easily my most devestating game save loss.
-The most progress I've lost though happened recently with Tales of Graces f. I had so much fun with this game that it was one of the super duper rare times I felt like replaying a game and doing everything. I had already beaten the main game and the future side portion and was working on the post-game dungeon, plus grinding titles and weapons. I was doing the save trick where you grab an item then save and reload and grab the item again so you don't have to wait hours for collectibles to respawn. Well while watching the Bears game on tv I lost track of which save I was overwriting and ended up losing my entire game, over 100 hours of game progress from the previous save I had. Wasn't TOO devestated about this once since I had completely beaten the game, but it still sucked. Definitely not replaying it now though.
I had (and still have) this copy of the game too. Never finished story mode once without the game wiping the save data in the middle of the game. I managed to keep all of my created wrestlers on a memory cart. It's probably long corrupted by now.
indigo lily
Member
Dark Souls. 120+ hours in. My character was about lvl 95, and had some of the best equipment in the game. My PS3's hard drive got corrupted (possible power outage? still don't really know). Traded the game in and bought eventually bought Dark Souls for 360 instead. Never was able to get into it again though...
Justzisguyukno
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I had really bad luck with my Pokemon Red/Blue games back in the day. I lost my saves so many times due to the game going trough the wash, catching MissingNo, Gameshark glitching, or just having my batteries die just as I was saving the game.
dreamer3kx
Member
Brother lost 90 hrs in fallout, stupid game breaking bug.
Ludicrous Speed
Banned
I've lost a lot over the years, but recently it was Assassin's Creed III for the PS3. No idea how I lost my save, but I was prompted to install an update, which I did and then when the game loaded my saved game was gone. I had put about 3 hours into it.
But I think it was a blessing. I wasn't really enjoying the game up to that point and it seems like the game did not sit well with a lot of people. I ended up just watching the ending on youtube and dropping the game on ebay.
But I think it was a blessing. I wasn't really enjoying the game up to that point and it seems like the game did not sit well with a lot of people. I ended up just watching the ending on youtube and dropping the game on ebay.
Kev Kev
Member
Same here TC.
When FFVIII first came out I was so excited to play it I went over to a buddies house and forgot my memory card.
We played for a good 3-4 hours before realizing his memory card wasn't at his house. We got all the way to the giant spider robot on that first island (I think it was an island) without dying, but it eventually got us. We had planned on going back to my house and get the card after we got back to Balamb. It hit us like a brick wall when we realized there was no way of retrieving any progress we made if we died.
When FFVIII first came out I was so excited to play it I went over to a buddies house and forgot my memory card.
We played for a good 3-4 hours before realizing his memory card wasn't at his house. We got all the way to the giant spider robot on that first island (I think it was an island) without dying, but it eventually got us. We had planned on going back to my house and get the card after we got back to Balamb. It hit us like a brick wall when we realized there was no way of retrieving any progress we made if we died.
NaughtyCalibur
Member
All the mentions of game breaking bugs reminded me of two in recent memory.
1). Skyrim -- You probably know that bug where the one dude you break out of the cell in the main quest who doesn't speak, resulting in no quest progression. Yeah I had that bug and was about 30 hours into my file. Luckily I was on PC so I was able to correct it with some clever fixes presented by the Skyrim community, but it pissed me off so much that I stopped playing and haven't really bothered to put a lot of time into it since.
2). Bioshock -- I decided to play through this game on PC before diving into Infinite but ran into some game breaking bug that made the mandatory key items of a safe not appear. Tried just about everything to fix it but to no avail. That was about 7 hours into the game for me. Bugged the hell out of me so I watched the IGN summary of the game instead and then played Infinite. In hindsight I think this was the right call regardless.
Game breaking bugs are my biggest gaming pet peeve. If I even hear about a game having such bugs I'll likely never play them.
1). Skyrim -- You probably know that bug where the one dude you break out of the cell in the main quest who doesn't speak, resulting in no quest progression. Yeah I had that bug and was about 30 hours into my file. Luckily I was on PC so I was able to correct it with some clever fixes presented by the Skyrim community, but it pissed me off so much that I stopped playing and haven't really bothered to put a lot of time into it since.
2). Bioshock -- I decided to play through this game on PC before diving into Infinite but ran into some game breaking bug that made the mandatory key items of a safe not appear. Tried just about everything to fix it but to no avail. That was about 7 hours into the game for me. Bugged the hell out of me so I watched the IGN summary of the game instead and then played Infinite. In hindsight I think this was the right call regardless.
Game breaking bugs are my biggest gaming pet peeve. If I even hear about a game having such bugs I'll likely never play them.
Karsticles
Member
A PS1 memory card I owned had the file saves for about 20 completed RPGs on it. It just wiped one day for no reason.
Pelican and Nyko were the mother fucking pricks who ruined my time in the PS1 era for most RPG's for the same reason.
Chrono Cross, FFVIII, FF Tactics, Suikoden.
never.
again.
my cheap 3rd party gamecube memory card corrupted many years ago now i lost...
800+ hours on ssbm
tales of symthonia, can't remember the combined hour count but 5 and half playthroughs 2 on mania mode.
200+ hours of soul calibur 2
metroid prime 1 + 2 three playthoughs each.
other game data lost...
rougue squadron 2 + 3, sonic adventures 2, lugi's mansion, super mario sunshine and probably some i forgot
800+ hours on ssbm
tales of symthonia, can't remember the combined hour count but 5 and half playthroughs 2 on mania mode.
200+ hours of soul calibur 2
metroid prime 1 + 2 three playthoughs each.
other game data lost...
rougue squadron 2 + 3, sonic adventures 2, lugi's mansion, super mario sunshine and probably some i forgot
AnonymousTipster
Neo Member
My computer crashed once while saving during Tropico 4. I had been on the same mission for about 4 hours and was nearly at the end of it. File was corrupted and I haven't had the willpower to try the mission again since.
Also I lost about 30K souls in Dark Souls by falling off the waterwheel in Blighttown. Twice. In a row.
Also I lost about 30K souls in Dark Souls by falling off the waterwheel in Blighttown. Twice. In a row.
NaughtyCalibur
Member
Those off-brand memory cards were some of the worst gambles you could make as a gamer.
I remember buying a card for PS1 that was 8 cards in one for roughly the price of one. It had a button you could press to switch between cards. At the time I thought, "WHAT AN AMAZING DEAL OMGOMGOMG!" Then I noticed some data becoming corrupted after a few weeks of use...
I don't recall exactly what I lost in that case, but I can tell you I avoided purchases like that ever since.
An off brand controller is one thing, but a gamer shouldn't gamble with their save files.
I remember buying a card for PS1 that was 8 cards in one for roughly the price of one. It had a button you could press to switch between cards. At the time I thought, "WHAT AN AMAZING DEAL OMGOMGOMG!" Then I noticed some data becoming corrupted after a few weeks of use...
I don't recall exactly what I lost in that case, but I can tell you I avoided purchases like that ever since.
An off brand controller is one thing, but a gamer shouldn't gamble with their save files.
Was playing Ar Tonelico II on PS3 last weekend, was about 20 hours in. I wiped in a battle and got a game over. When the game reset, it said it couldn't find any save files. I went out to the XMB and the file wasn't on the virtual PS2 card. The game erased my save somehow. I checked google and found this was a known bug playing the game on a PS3.
I started again, but I'm constantly backing up my save file to my unmounted PS2 virtual card and my backup drive.
I started again, but I'm constantly backing up my save file to my unmounted PS2 virtual card and my backup drive.
Besides things like corrupted Fallout saves, where I obviously lost all progress and needed to start again from the beginning, the most progress I've lost would be about 3-4 hours worth in one sitting several times. Can't really recall any games besides Mass Effect 1, but it has happened to me a lot.
axisofweevils
Holy crap! Today's real megaton is that more than two people can have the same first name.
Final Fantasy Tactics A2
Completed the game, completed most of the extra missions...
Accidentally pressed delete instead of load.
Sigh.
Completed the game, completed most of the extra missions...
Accidentally pressed delete instead of load.
Sigh.
robovanburen
Member
This thread reminded me about that 3rd party mega memory card I had on ps1. Claimed my ff7 endgame file. Glad I managed to beat the game before it crapped out, though.