My Game Just Screwed Me Over

[King of Asgaard]

Ummmm... I've been playing Dark Souls and I lost around 200000 souls and 18 humanity, which basically amounts to about two hours of effort. Ugh.

 

[RJ 17]

So as I've mentioned a couple of times here on the forums, I'm currently playing Fallout 3. It's a lovely game, lots of fun, and it's really cool how it's blended lots of different genres and playstyles in a single game.

But...it just screwed me over.

This part contains spoilers, so I'll put it in a tag, but essentially a mechanic of the game has left me unable to continue.

Spoiler

So I had cleared out grayditch, paid Moriarty for info about my dad, the thieving bastard, and I had finished the first two chapters of Moira's survival guide. I decided to wrap it all up and get the third chapter of the guide finished and done with.

I had headed to Rivet City to find out about it's history. I had been told that if I wanted the REAL history I needed to head to the other side Rivet City, the broken half of the ship. Since I didn't have 100 at my lockpicking skill I was SOL and had to use an underwater doorway.
I quickly tried to swim down and into the water and to the door. In my opinion those swimming controls kind of suck, but that's just me.

Anyways I get through the door...and all of a sudden I'm running out of oxygen and I don't have enough oxygen to get to the surface of the water. It didn't say I was running out of oxygen before I hit the door and I admit I wasn't paying enough attention to the meter...but because the game autosaves every time I go through a door...the game has saved at the exact moment before I die...

I hadn't saved in a while simply because I hadn't thought to, I was in a groove, you know how it is, and so I had been forgetting to save...and now I've lost between 5 and 8 hours of work. Fuuuuuuuccccccckkkkkkk. So the game has screwed me over and now I have to start WAY the hell back at a much earlier save and I'm having a hard time getting up the gumption to find it worth it. -_- *sigh*

So let's talk about our gaming woes. When has a game screwed you over?

I sympathize with your plight, but that's not really the game screwing you over...that's the game doing what it was designed to do: autosave every time you enter a new location. Seems more like you just forgot the #1 Rule of Bethesda RPGs: save often. Because oh yes, they CAN screw you over with game freezes/crashes and such and THEN you've got the right to *****. But neglecting to save in order to prevent 5-8 hours of work is more your fault than the game's. But don't get yourself too down, EVERYONE is guilty of finding themselves in that exact same position..."Holy crap (insert game-ending situation) just happened and I haven't saved in 8 hours!"

As for me, I've been getting screwed over in ME 3 Multiplayer a lot. My game doesn't crash often, but when it does it's ALWAYS during the extraction wave and ALWAYS when there's 30 seconds or less on the clock, screwing me out of my credits/exp.

 

[Bucky01]

You kidding me? I've tried three times over the course of some years (or however long it's been since it came out) to 100% Fallout New Vegas. Except Every Time I reach level 28 (or whatever) on my way with every companion's story filled out, Every faction completed completely (Brotherhood, Boomers, Clubs, etc...) to the final mission I get the PS3's "Yellow Light of Death" and get my hard drive wiped. Three Times. Yup. So much for THAT aspiration...

shame i've done 100% completion for NV twice now and can say its quite fun.

as for my fallout blunder was when i quick saved just before my character decided to clip through the ground, fall and die, rinse and repeat for a while before i luckily pulled out my pimpboy and fast traveled out of there. almost lost an hour of gameplay from exploring for fast travel locations.

 

[deth2munkies]

Your "didn't save for X time" story has nothing on mine.

I lost 4 1/2 hours on Final Fantasy Tactics A2 because the AI is moronic.

While it does some stuff better, FFTA2 really kills itself with the million escort quests. Most of them, when you fail, just say "FAILED" and kick you out, however, there is one during the storyline that shows up without any warning and completely game overs you if you fail. The character I was supposed to be protecting attacked someone with a counter strike ability and got 1 shot by a crit. Technically not completely one shot, she had 210 health and it did 185, but still, how am I supposed to plan for that? I had the guy zoned but she ran up and hit him. I had her healed, but he crit. All that and the game has no auto saves, so it just lost me 4 1/2 hours of stuff, including getting a very good and rare random drop.

I almost threw my DS across the room.

 

[LevROLL]

I had gotten near the end of Mothership Zeta in Fallout 3, where everyone but the samurai gathers around a looking glass in the floor to look at earth. I then encountered two very annoying glitches that have prevented me from playing FO3 since.

First, when I got to that point, the little girl wouldn't go through the vent to open the door. I tried everything, including loading earlier saves. She wouldn't go. So I started a completely new character only to have the same damn thing happen to him.

This is where the second glitch occurs. Loading with this new character DID work; the little girl went to the other side of the door through the vent. And then promptly forgot what she was doing and wouldn't open the door. I also tried everything here, to no avail. Short of starting another new game or loading my save from before I started the DLC, nothing wants to work.

I am not going through all that again. Those aliens were annoying and easy to kill. If, or when, I go back, I'll probably skip Zeta. Which is sad, because I almost always play an Energy Weapons character.

 

[Bloodtrozorx]

Also, on Skyrim, I had this awesome run were I was trying to max out my character before the first dragon encounter. So I went all over Skyrim, did every quest I could and before I did every quest, I ended up in Winterhold and realised I had an arrow sticking out of my head that wouldn't go away. I was really pissed because I hadn't saved for atleast 40 hours...... so I just stopped and got so pissed of at the game I just gave it to my friend.

Happened to me in MGS3, The Fear shot me with his crossbow so I opened the survival viewer, cut it out, bandaged and exited the viewer only to see the bolt sticking out of my arm, it stayed there through the whole game.

The Fallout: New Vega auto save killed one of my characters, I had somehow angered the Old Mormon Fort and was low on health, when I walked through the door the guards killed me, auto save loaded, dead. Over and over.

 

[Erana]

Minecraft. Sometimes, the game will decide that if I consecutively hit a button too quickly, that means I want it to be depressed until I go to the menu.

This includes the directional keys, right when I'm delicately tapping them to inch my way around lava.

Did you know that holding shift will make you 1) Walk slower and 2) Unable to fall off blocks?

Minecraft. Sometimes, the game will decide that if I consecutively hit a button too quickly, that means I want it to be depressed until I go to the menu.

This includes the directional keys, right when I'm delicately tapping them to inch my way around lava.

This phenomena also tends to cancel out other keys, such as shift.

 

[ChadSexington]

Well I have a terrible sense of direction, absolutely appalling. Anyway, I was playing Minecraft, I'd made a couple of cities, a wizard tower etc. I'd spent a stupid amount of time on this world. Then I got lost. Very lost. So lost I gave up on all of my hard work.

 

[Artina89]

My first real soiree into video games, the first one that led to many others.
Pokemon Crystal.
I had just caught Raikou, the last legendary dog that was still eluding me, I decided to save and quit, and upon loading it up the next day it said the game save had been corrupted.
I was four Pokemon away from completing the Pokedex.

Something similar happened with my brother and his Pokemon Blue. He had just caught Articuno and his game corrupted. Oh the tantrum he threw... He hasn't picked up a Pokemon game since. As for myself, I can't really think of a game that has screwed me over. I think I should count myself lucky.

 

[IrateDonnie]

In New Vegas I was doing the vault with the plants & when I released the gas & blew up the vault I lost ed e. I guess the explosion blew him into a wall & he got stuck,and my last save was entering the vault.I didn't want to re-do it so I haven't played it since.

 

[Mordekaien]

I remember only the first Gothic. This game has it's share of bugs, but I experienced something that was pure madness when I went for the main boss. The end level had ONE frickin' door that will not open. Everything works as it should, except for this one door, meaning I played the game for about 40 hours, only to get stuck there. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

 

[RipRoaringWaterfowl]

Half Life 1 on the PS2 did that to me on the level Surface Tension. I had no power on my HEV suit and about 68 health. I saved in the middle of the pipeline that came out of a small vent withj water in it. Just afterwards, a solider threw in a incindiary satchel that kept killing me with it's flame that chased me to my death. Hiding in the water didn't help.

Then I realized that I had to actually duck while underwater to escape the flame.

FAIL!

captcha: mustachioed. That's what Gordon Freeman is. HE has a sweet mustache.

 

[kortin]

So as I've mentioned a couple of times here on the forums, I'm currently playing Fallout 3. It's a lovely game, lots of fun, and it's really cool how it's blended lots of different genres and playstyles in a single game.

But...it just screwed me over.

This part contains spoilers, so I'll put it in a tag, but essentially a mechanic of the game has left me unable to continue.

Spoiler

So I had cleared out grayditch, paid Moriarty for info about my dad, the thieving bastard, and I had finished the first two chapters of Moira's survival guide. I decided to wrap it all up and get the third chapter of the guide finished and done with.

I had headed to Rivet City to find out about it's history. I had been told that if I wanted the REAL history I needed to head to the other side Rivet City, the broken half of the ship. Since I didn't have 100 at my lockpicking skill I was SOL and had to use an underwater doorway.
I quickly tried to swim down and into the water and to the door. In my opinion those swimming controls kind of suck, but that's just me.

Anyways I get through the door...and all of a sudden I'm running out of oxygen and I don't have enough oxygen to get to the surface of the water. It didn't say I was running out of oxygen before I hit the door and I admit I wasn't paying enough attention to the meter...but because the game autosaves every time I go through a door...the game has saved at the exact moment before I die...

I hadn't saved in a while simply because I hadn't thought to, I was in a groove, you know how it is, and so I had been forgetting to save...and now I've lost between 5 and 8 hours of work. Fuuuuuuuccccccckkkkkkk. So the game has screwed me over and now I have to start WAY the hell back at a much earlier save and I'm having a hard time getting up the gumption to find it worth it. -_- *sigh*

So let's talk about our gaming woes. When has a game screwed you over?

Yeah, I had a similar situation. That's why I now always keep two saves for the game I'm currently playing. I constantly switch between them. I'll save in game file A during one point, then the next time I have to save I'll save in save file B, then back to save file A, back to save file B, etc. It makes sure that I don't fall too far behind should something happen to the save file.

For my own gaming woe, I was 12 and playing Dark Cloud 2. I had worked VERY hard to make it to Emperor Griffin. Now, this game isn't exactly easy-mode, even now, so I worked VERY hard to get there. Then, my little sister decides she wants to play the game and...she saves over my file... ;_;

 

[.No.]

Fallout 3 and Fallout 3: operation anchorage.
it fucked the whole game up, and not because it was bad. first of all, the simulation is the funniest and most interesting thing i have ever played in a game for a long time, and it's very creativly constructed. but after you step out of the simulation it's just not the same.... because The Game is not as fun anymore because and now we are getting to it:

the chinese fucking stealthsuit, Hei Gui.

i'm not even fucking joking when i'm saying that you can, at 100 stealth skill, attack an enemy with a meele weapon, AND NOT BE DISCOVERED. it's like a stealth-boy, but more awesome.

also, the game is just awesome, but the second playthrough is just soooooo dull.

ALSO, it's so fun that some other games have become less awesome because it has themes close to it.

TL;DR fallout 3 is so awesome it's fucking itself up.

oh and OP, quicksave get. i locked it to , and . or z and x. be carefull and good hunting!

In Fallout New Vegas, it's literally possible to chainsaw someone to death and not be discovered by the guy right next to him.

 

[Joseph Harrison]

Mass Effect 3. No, it's not that, so don't start.

After the Priority:Citadel II mission, I went and explored, did some scanning, then saved and headed off to do some multiplayer. Halfway through wave 3, my game crashes. So I boot it up again, deciding to play some more singleplayer. I load up the game, and my Shepard has gone to default look and had credits and exp reset to 0. Every other save on that character was the same. Had to reset from the start.

I had something similar happen to me but when I quit to the main menu and started my save up again it was fixed so :/

 

[Vigormortis]

I've had games in the past, mostly on consoles, mess up saves or have general glitches or bugs that would completely ruin a play-through or destroy something I had been playing or working on for some time.

However, beyond that, I've never had anything like that happen; egregiously anyway; since then. Might be because I primarily game on PC now so any potential happenstance that might "screw me over" can be rectified by some means, but even so I can't think of anything that terrible in recent memory.

Though, I do recall a story by my old programming teacher back in high school who, while playing Thief, accidentally tapped his quick-save button whilst trying to jump across a gap. (pressing it in a panic when he realized he'd miss-jumped)

It was then, after going to his saves to load, he realized he had quick-saved over his only save file. In effect, every time he loaded he was in free-fall; seconds from death.

He explained that he ended up just starting the game over. This story was his way of showing that, even though it's a good idea to save often, be mindful of what and when you save your work.

Before you ask, yes the whole class laughed at him. And no, he did not appreciate it.

In Half-Life 2 episode 1 I saved my game after a pretty intense gunfight, which left me with 8 health, and then promptly died to a sniper bullet. When I reloaded the save I found that I had actually saved a mere moment before the sniper fires, and that because I had saved in the open it was basically impossible for the sniper to miss, meaning that every time I loaded the game I would die within approximately 1 second. At least the previous save wasn't too far back.

That's one feature of the Half-Life games I wish more games followed. The dual auto-save. Would prevent a lot of aggravation for when, on the off chance, the game auto-saves at a really, really bad time.

 

[Hawk eye1466]

Second playthrough some giant radscorpion came close to the hideout where you deliver the fingers. The npc ran outside to be never seen again >.<

Same thing happened to me I went in gave them the fingers and then the chief ran outside after a giant radscorpion and chased it over the hills and into legend, I would come back every once and a while but she never reappeared and no one mentioned it so I figured I'd better stay away. But that was annoying as hell I had a million goddamned fingers and no one to sell them to.

The only one I can think of was I was playing company of hero's with some friends and we were so freaking close to taking a command point that both sides had been wrestling to get for the better part of 2 hours and one of my friends lagged or so he said and accidentally dropped his artillery on us and only killed a few enemies, we were pushed back since he crippled us but eventually came back. After we team killed him of course.