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Unwinnable/doomed game saves.
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Madison Paige
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I had one save in Nier which unfortunately only gave me a small sliver of health with which to fight a boss. Had to abandon that save and start entirely over, which was agonizing because it was about halfway through the game.
hersheyfan
Member
That motherfucker. It was on that day Square taught me the benefits of making multiple save files... The hard way.
Only for the international edition/HD edition, which is why I think the original NA/JPN versions are the definitive editions. The dark Aeons are a neat idea, but they completely ruin the end game if its you're first play through. The end game was great in the original versions because you could back track all you wanted to and there were a bunch of neat quests you could do and power up your party with. The Dark Aeons completely break that and make most of those quests pointless to boot.
Easton Dark
Member
F5 for save and F9 for load. It's the only safe way.
In Fallout 2, I had played about 2 hours from near the beginning of the game and didn't save. I got the dude with the nose ring as a party member and I went down into the mines/tunnels In there, traveled to a dead end with a mine cart and saved. Little did I know that my party member was actually blocking me in from between the mine cart so I was stuck there. I didn't know how to get out and I didn't have a previous save that wasn't more than 2 hours ago. I promptly gave up on Fallout 2...until I learned last year that there was a button to push your party member out of the way...gah!
Yeah, party members being in the way was a problem in Fallout 1, so they added a button to move them in 2.
TheAngryInternet
Neo Member
Bethesda's XnGine games had some notoriously wonky height calculation where dropping just a foot or two down a small hill or incline could kill you from falling damage under certain rare circumstances. At one point I reloaded a save in Daggerfall and found myself respawning on just such a small hill, dropping a foot or two, and immediately dying. There was nothing I could do to prevent it (I may have been able to cheat my way out of it, but I didn't try), so I rolled back to earlier save and lost my last few hours of play. From then on I tried to save only on level ground.
I actually somehow found myself in a situation in Paper Mario TTYD where I got stuck on the final boss, was under-levelled and didn't have the moveset to defeat it, along with missing one of the partners. Had to play it over again and completed it within a week, was well worth it though.
Dragon Age Origins. The Battle of Denerim. I went into that mission without preparing much. The enemies at the Fort Drakon Entrance were unbeatable for me. Tried it a couple of times and lost faith. Since that day I'm using every save slot available to not make a fault like this again.
thesaucetastic
Unconfirmed Member
Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, right before the fucking final boss.
Fuck that game.
Fuck that game.
Couldn't you just grind for xp on the flame bomb enemies inside the airship? I remember getting stuck on that dragon and then spending an hour level grinding and buying extra HP etc.Final Fantasy 10
Had to restart the game
8bitsuperhero
Neo Member
There are two that stand out to me. The first was when I played Code Veronica on the PS2 all those years ago I ran out of bullets on the T-Veronica boss and couldn't hit her with my knife for the life of me.
The other one is the PSP remake of Persona. I made it all the way to the final boss but found out I was horrifically underlevelled, and had saved in a spot that didn't spawn any enemies and so I could grind to a satisfactory level, I was pretty pissed. I think I still have the memory stick with that save on it.
The other one is the PSP remake of Persona. I made it all the way to the final boss but found out I was horrifically underlevelled, and had saved in a spot that didn't spawn any enemies and so I could grind to a satisfactory level, I was pretty pissed. I think I still have the memory stick with that save on it.
That's really odd considering mailboxes are supposed to fully recover your health.
This does not actually make it impossible to clear the game, just more difficult. There are two "back paths" to completing the story. One involves getting your reputation to 50 and being level 21 or above after reaching a certain point in the main quest, the other involves killing Vivec and talking to the dwarf in the Corprusarium. This makes the dwarf the only real entirely essential NPC in the game, short of just jumping to the end and using a shitload of fortify health effects to survive wielding Sunder and Keening.
jobrro
Member
Evolution on Dreamcast. This was like 15 years ago, so I at least think it was unwinnable (my only prior JRPG experience was Pokemon so it's possible I just sucked). It was the final boss, and must have tried dozens of times but couldn't beat it. Restarted the game, grinded to the maximum level while saving 'learning' a few of the better moves. Don't remember quite how it worked but when you learnt a move you got to use it for free once (using no Mana/PP or whatever it was called) so wanted to take advantage of that in the final battle. While enemy levels still scaled with you somewhat I did end up beating the boss on my second run.
If it happened today I'd probably either cheat or give up and watch the ending on YouTube.
If it happened today I'd probably either cheat or give up and watch the ending on YouTube.
For me it was the colored monsters in the space ship. I was young and sucked at the junction system. I could hardly beat one monster and there were many of them.
And to make things worse, we were supposed to pass in front of some of them to go in different rooms, and they would run at you.
That resulted in me not touching the game for a few years.
I'm Spartacus
Member
In MI1 the screen maze is when you enter the monkey head - there is lava everywhere. When you do it correctly (solve the maze) you end up at leChuck's ship, before the final fight with LeChuck. For me, it became impossible to progress as the screen I needed to go to would not appear no matter what I did; it's hard to explain other than being locked into a loop unable to do anything about it because of the auto-save.
Then in MI2, the same thing happened in a screen-maze in the jungle. When you first enter the maze, taking the wrong path will spit you back out at the start, so you solve the puzzles and find the proper exit. I made the mistake of re-entering the maze by the exit and again got trapped in the eternal loop of the same screens, except this time taking the wrong paths wouldn't spit me out at the start.
Something went very wrong but as I said, I checked a guide to see if it was me being a numpty but no, there is a very weird glitch/bug that affects each game!
hydrophilic attack
Member
Final Fantasy 10
Had to restart the game
Meh, you should have just gotten gud. People have beaten this game with starting stats.
I was like 12 :s
Tye The Czar
Member
Sierra Adventure games in a nutshell.
Pokemon. Beat the Elite 4, used up all my potions and shit, didn't realise i had to beat Gary. Died went back where that shit was too much damn work.
Half Life 2. Saved at a point where I needed the hovercraft. For some reason I didn't have the hovercraft with me. I'll finish the game one of these days but I can't progress where I am now.
Half Life 2. Saved at a point where I needed the hovercraft. For some reason I didn't have the hovercraft with me. I'll finish the game one of these days but I can't progress where I am now.