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[gelf]

Games without auto save deserve to burn in hell. Save points are a ridiculous gameplay element

I think I've lost just as much progress to bugged or stupid autosaves as I have with manual. Its horrible getting autosaved in a near unwinnable situation.

My worst loss though was thanks to GFWL and its awful save system. Batman AA randommly deleted my saves at about 10 hours and I lost about 20 hours on GTA4 as I backed up the save folder when moving stuff from a dying hard drive but didn't realise that GFWL wont accept them unless you back up your profile with it(and do a bunch of other steps to fool it into accepting them).

 

[WarpathDC]

Got To Chaos on FF on NES, white screen and save gone. I just played through again. I would rage quit now if that happened.

 

[Gintamen]

Gamecube memory card was corrupted one day... 100+hrs in PSO and a dozen pther saves were gone.

 

[roytheone]

I lost around 5 hours of progress in the GBA version of the lord of the rings: return of the king (surprisingly good game btw) because my mother decided to start a new game and use the same save slot as my save. I was not very happy that day.

 

[BurakkuEmparaa]

I must have been about 12-13 years old when my then best friend accidentally saved over my (only) save in FFX with about 120 hours of playtime. That day I learned to always have at least 3 saves in time-consuming RPG´s. He´s not one of my friends anymore.

I almost had the monster farm done, too. It took 12 long years and the HD edition that I finally could get back to the game.

 

[NZNova]

20 hours of Final Fantasy XIII, and a save just before the end of Mexico in Red Dead Redemption. Both lost when my launch PS3 bit the dust.

 

[mp1990]

I've lost around 4 hours in PoP Forgotten Sands because of a bug in a certain part of the game, but I remember that when I had a PS2 my cousin took my memory card and throw it out of the window, and I lost a lot of saves. That was sad, man.

 

[That1BlackGuy]

Roommate corrupted my PS2 memory card, lost damn near half of my library.
GameCube memory got corrupted, lost my entire library.

I'm" going to be so pissed when my Playstation 3 dies as some games' save data are tied to the console which forces me into PS+ if I want to safeguard my data. Whoever thought that was a good idea should've been fired.

 

[xyzls]

If the game was good enough, you wouldn't care that you lost 4 hours because you'd enjoy doing those 4 hours again anyway, even if it was 4 hours of productivity lost on achieving some game goal.

Then again, too many games have padding to add game length, so its understandable...

 

[Chinbo37]

when i was a kid i would lose saves on my Zelda 2 cart. Never understood why but they would just be gone.

 

[Azure Wolf]

The worst lost save I ever had was with the Pal version of WWFNo Mercy as certain glitched carts would delete the entire save including all created characters. I returned it as faulty and luckily got a decent one, but many people got badly burned by that save glitch.

 

[Devil]

Lost all my saves of Lost Odyssey when I was around the end of disc 3. Never played the game ever since

 

[Waylon Drums]

Tomodachi Life has no reason NOT to have autosave as even an option. More than once I've lost progress because I'm an idiot and forgot to manually save. See also: Animal Crossing

 

[DigtialT]

I'm not sure exactly how much time I lost, but a couple months ago in Kingdom Hearts 2 I know I had finished Arabia Nights, the Aladdin level, and had gotten two worlds past it before deciding to shut it down. It wasn't until the TV went black that I realized I didn't know when I last saved. After rebooting my PS2 in a panic it turned out I had gone all the way back to Arabia Nights.

I haven't played KH2 since.

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First post woo

 

[Robdraggoo]

Save file corrupted 22 hours in ff12. So what did I do? Started all over from the beginning. Every since, always saved in 2 slots. never again,never again

 

[BasilZero]

What's the most amount of progress you've lost in a game, and why? What's the most recent time it happened to you?

Quest 64 - played 18 hrs straight without a memory card - got to the last boss....and died to it >__>.

This was back in the late N64 days though.

Before that I would say SNES DKC1 - got to the last level/area but didnt get to save for the past 2 levels....

Havent had anything like this happen to me recently since most games autosave nowadays or I simply just save at any moment given .

 

[tuffy]

When the latest Animal Crossing decided to crash and boot me to the main menu, it wiped out a morning's worth of chores accomplished and stuff collected. I wasn't thrilled about having to redo those things, at all. But I rebooted it anyway and it decided to yell at me about how bad it is to quit the game without saving properly - like it was my idea.

That just obliterated any motivation I had to keep playing so I stopped then and there.

 

[mustardhotdogs]

Actually, I lied before.

Started playing a new save of Baldur's Gate with my flatmate the other week, we thought we'll wait until we save since we'll be playing for a few hours and we couldn't be bothered to stop to save all the time. Froze on a loading screen after 3 and a half hours playing.

 

[infinitys_7th]

Shin Megami Tensei: The Thread

More specifically, any SMT where MC death leads immediately to a game over. Hama and Mudo are there to keep you on your toes, especially in Persona 3 and 4 where all humans don't have innate Hama resistance. I've lost 4-5 hours before because of a surprise attack -> sudden OHKO.

I don't mind in a way, though. The SMT games give you ways to resist both pretty early for the most part, so you should be doing so as you enter new areas.

 

[SURGEdude]

Whats up with all the Persona save game issues? Never played the games myself but it seems like half the thread is using them as examples...