Tragic save game stories and mishaps

[DieGrootHammer]

It's happened to us all; we spend hours upon hours playing a game, forgetting to save, and something happens and all that progress is lost. Maybe it's technical issues such as the game crashing, maybe it's Eskom and it's useless load shedding schedules.

My story:
Titan Quest, the year was 2009. A mate and I started playing this game religiously, and finished about 2 play throughs of the game. We were about to restart the game on Legendary to get even more loot and stuff, when it happened. We frequently swapped save games with each other to level up or share some loot across PC's (we didn't had internet as we were broke students). After another exchange, I booted up to start another run in the game, booted the game, but there was a problem. My save game was gone. When we checked on his PC, he also didn't copy over the save game. It seemed he may have accidentally deleted my save game. I was so pissed. To this day, I've never played the game again, or shared any save games with him I might add.

Share with us your mishaps and stories of when save games got the best of you. Do you do anything to secure your save games? Is it even still an issue with cloud saves and stuff like that?

[DarkStarZA]

Haven't had it as bad at that, but I did once forget to backup my Borderlands saves before formatting and lost my "whatever maximum level was" character. Also refused to start from scratch.

On the other hand I still have my first ever Diablo 2 character save that I started when I bought the game back in June 2000. Still in it's vanilla, pre Lord of Destruction state.

[MalicE]

The year, 1995. The game, Police Quest 1. I had a nasty habit of using only one savegame, until it bit me in the ass. It was pretty much the end of the game and as you go to the prison to talk to an inmate you lock your gun in a safe outside before you enter. I did so, got the info on where the deal was going down, exited the prison and got into my car at which point I saved because not saving before you drive anywhere is suicide.

It is at that moment that I realized that my gun is still in the safe and I kinda need it for the gun fight that is about to ensue. To my horror I could not exit the car again as my partner insisted that we have to leave immediately.

I never played it again.

[mottamort]

The year, 1995. The game, Police Quest 1. I had a nasty habit of using only one savegame, until it bit me in the ass. It was pretty much the end of the game and as you go to the prison to talk to an inmate you lock your gun in a safe outside before you enter. I did so, got the info on where the deal was going down, exited the prison and got into my car at which point I saved because not saving before you drive anywhere is suicide.

It is at that moment that I realized that my gun is still in the safe and I kinda need it for the gun fight that is about to ensue. To my horror I could not exit the car again as my partner insisted that we have to leave immediately.

I never played it again.

Holy cow dude...I have story ALMOST identical to that. check this out:

The year, 1993. The game, Police Quest 1. I had a nasty habit of using only one savegame, until it bit me in the ass. It was pretty much the middle of the game, where you are booking 2 guys that you've arrested. You are meant to store your gun in the locker outside prior to entering, but I had forgotten. Once inside I had saved.

It is at that moment that I was killed as I uncuffed the two guys. To my horror I could not leave the room until uncuffing them.

I almost never played it again.

[MalicE]

Holy cow dude...I have story ALMOST identical to that. check this out:

The year, 1993. The game, Police Quest 1. I had a nasty habit of using only one savegame, until it bit me in the ass. It was pretty much the middle of the game, where you are booking 2 guys that you've arrested. You are meant to store your gun in the locker outside prior to entering, but I had forgotten. Once inside I had saved.

It is at that moment that I was killed as I uncuffed the two guys. To my horror I could not leave the room until uncuffing them.

I almost never played it again.

HAHAHAHA!! that happened to me as well

that and the drunk that beats you because you cuffed his hands in the front

[Wlad]

Apart from losing my Demon's Souls savegame (twice) the only thing I can think of now was how I often mistook the quicksave button for the quickload button in games like Half-Life and then quicksaved (intstead of loading) while I was falling to my death or something. I would then usually have to restart the whole level because I didn't make manual saves and only used quicksave.

[StaggerLee]

I've got good one:

I was playing XCOM: Enemy unknown on Hard and on Ironman mode (where autosaves only). The game bugged out in the menu screen about a half of the way through the campaign that I had bled to do well enough at.

I was sitting with my head in my hands when my wife walked in and asked me what was wrong. I looked up with tears rolling down my face and said:

"The aliens won."

[VirtualForce]

Lost my Brothers In Arms: Hells Highway saves near the end with a windows reinstall. Never tried again. I dont understand why devs have to use stupidly absurd savegame locations like the appdata dir or such locations. STEAM cloud savegames is a godsend.

Back with Quake 3 Arena, my brother and I shared my computer, but we used different configs for the game, we also went through the single player bit. So I wrote a batch file where you had to choose which player was to play, it would then backup the current players stuff and copy over yours. Worked great, we all had our own sp save games and custom game configs loaded with a 2 clicks.

[Keepa34]

It was about 3 years ago...

I don't know if all laptops are like this but mine used to just switch off when it got too hot.

I was playing borderlands 2 on my Laptop and it was a while since my last break. just as i left a town the game started to autosave (as it's something it does) but as it was autosaving my laptop decided that this was a good time to switch itself off, this caused the saved game to become corrupt. Needless to say I didn't pick that game up again because there was not a chance that i was going to start from scratch again.

[Blazzok]

I think it was 2006 and the game was Neverwinter Nights 2.

I had at this point countless hours in the game and I was close to the end. Now the exact details are fuzzy, but I know there comes a time where you have to use a scroll (believe it was the True Name Scroll) and only one or two companions can use it. I know Zhjaeve was the one, not sure who the other one is.
Now by this point in the game I had somehow pissed Zhjaeve off in such a way that she didn't want to talk to me, so she couldn't use the scroll and I couldn't continue the game.

The last save game where we were still on good terms was 12hours of gameplay back, so I just decided screw it and I never played the game again.