How do you react to loosing a saved game file?
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No mistaken erasures, but a hard drive death last year killed many lives. My Commander Shepard will never see the conclusion to his story. My Wanderer died without a chance to spend all his caps. The death did a better job at killing Grey Wardens(7 in one fell swoop, 8 if you count the guy I carried over to awakening) than some of the strongest darkspawn. Millions upon millions of guns were not enough to save my travelers of Pandora. With the plants gone the zombies had an easy time feasting on brains.
Those were the ones that impacted me most, but all melodramatics aside I lost over 800 hours when my hard drive died. I wasn't happy to say the least and while I intend on going back through Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Fallout 3 and others I lost, I just havn't been able to bring myself to replay what I know are incredibly involving games.
Those were the ones that impacted me most, but all melodramatics aside I lost over 800 hours when my hard drive died. I wasn't happy to say the least and while I intend on going back through Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Fallout 3 and others I lost, I just havn't been able to bring myself to replay what I know are incredibly involving games.
Ive been really lucky in not losing a save file, most on the ps3 can be backed uped, some like RE5 can't. However the worst was not my fault, it was MW2 and it was my online profile that got hacked, me and 2 friends joined into this match that was hacked with super speed and jump. Before i could quit i got kicked. Thought nothing of it, invited my friends and went on our way. Little did we know we lost everything, emblems, titles, gun attachments, all 3 of us. A years worth of online playing, I was lvl 70 10th prestige, 27 days worth in total of online play gone in less than 10-20 seconds. Im actually surprised my controller didnt go smashing on the ground, i few controllers met there end playing MW2 (BTW i have hardwood floors), so no coming back from rage. Ive had dreams of doing saw type things to that psn user.
Well, sometime last year I had downloaded FF7 over the PSN and transferred it to my PSP. I spent countless hours making sure i got everything, everyone's final limit and ultimate weapon. All the summons and maxed them out. Had a fantastic setup so that I could destroy everything out there ever. After completely wiping the floor with Sephiroths face a few times for fun and taking down the weapons i had enough and went through to remove the game from my memory stick. The catch however is I selected the wrong options and deleted it and my Prinny save files instead of removing them from the installed games from the stick.
When I realized my error I was beyond angry with myself. To this day I have not even considered touching those games again, for two reasons;
1)I spent way to much time on FF7 to bring myself and try and beat the game to that level of completion again
2)Prinny was really friggin hard.
So, long story short. I become frustrated, disappointed and swear really hard / time consuming games off.
Great games however get started again with a renewed vigor, usually fueled by vengance against the gaming gods for stealing my save.
When I realized my error I was beyond angry with myself. To this day I have not even considered touching those games again, for two reasons;
1)I spent way to much time on FF7 to bring myself and try and beat the game to that level of completion again
2)Prinny was really friggin hard.
So, long story short. I become frustrated, disappointed and swear really hard / time consuming games off.
Great games however get started again with a renewed vigor, usually fueled by vengance against the gaming gods for stealing my save.
I feel your pain...theDutchDude said:
My first PS3 got the infamous "Yellow Light of Death" about a year and a half ago. I was able to fix it myself a few times, which helped it last about 6 more months, but the last time was one time too many. The hard drive got fried, so that when we bought a new PS3 and tried to place our old hard drive in it, it wouldn't recognize any of our files...
Suffices to say I felt like breaking something...
This may sound wierd... but I keep a copy of all my PS3 save files on a USB. I usually update it every month, just in case...
well i have obsessive compulsive disorder....so i stare blankly at the screen then go into the fetal position.
I remember back when separate memory cards were just coming out for consoles, you know, with the PS1 and N64, sometimes after a few years they might get buggy or totally erase everything. I mean, sometimes it was just a reading error and resetting would solve that problem.
But yeah, sometimes it'd be a real *****.
Nowadays you don't usually have that problem, 'course, sometimes I'll delete a save file not expecting to ever play the game again, but then revisit it, and not having any place to go from, replaying it can be like discovering an old friend.
Now, if, say, I was to lose a file I was working on, through oh say, bugs or absent-minded saving routines, yeah, I'd be kind of angry, probably be annoyed enough to not want to touch the game for a while.
But yeah, sometimes it'd be a real *****.
Nowadays you don't usually have that problem, 'course, sometimes I'll delete a save file not expecting to ever play the game again, but then revisit it, and not having any place to go from, replaying it can be like discovering an old friend.
Now, if, say, I was to lose a file I was working on, through oh say, bugs or absent-minded saving routines, yeah, I'd be kind of angry, probably be annoyed enough to not want to touch the game for a while.
Me and my partner get it all the time with Sims 3. He loves building extravagant houses (and they are GORGEOUS) and suddenly the laptop gets a virus and we end up loosing the saved houses. I love getting sims to have ALL the skill levels to full etc. So needless to say, as soon as I get even half way with a sim I end up loosing it =(
I think loosing my college work, thanks to the college computer corrupting my memory pen, p*sses me off more though >.>
I think loosing my college work, thanks to the college computer corrupting my memory pen, p*sses me off more though >.>
I wind up doing the whole Darth Vader "NOOOOOOOO!" with the room shaking and everything.
I hope it doesn't happen to Fallout: NV, I put 300 hours into that game.
I hope it doesn't happen to Fallout: NV, I put 300 hours into that game.