My Game Just Screwed Me Over

[Screamarie]

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?

 

[Berenzen]

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.

 

[Tony2077]

i think the last one was himiko from wo3 kicking my ass six ways from sunday with her special attack glad i started saving before fighting her not sure if it counts other wise i got nothing i can recall right now

 

[Al-Bundy-da-G]

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.

Same crap happened to me on Priority: Cure the Genophage. I got to the point where the rachni show up. I died reloaded and had all my default equipment and all of my upgrades gone. Everytime I died I had to reapply my upgrades again. Also I never got my reward from one of the citadel missions. I kinda want to kill that salarian now for holding out on me.

 

[Vanitas likes Bubbles]

That has happened to me in Fallout 3 too. Instead it was me running past a bandit outpost and on low health, I saved the started playing again then got shot by some random bandit. So whenever I loaded, I was killed by the bandit everytime.

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.

 

[Screamarie]

That has happened to me in Fallout 3 too. Instead it was me running past a bandit outpost and on low health, I saved the started playing again then got shot by some random bandit. So whenever I loaded, I was killed by the bandit everytime.

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.

The whole arrow thing happened to me...except mine was in my ass. Literally, I had an arrow stuck in my ass. I got married in the game with an ARROW IN MY ASS! I was hoping it would go away next time I started up the game. Nope. It was still there.

Luckily I was just renting it to try it out first so when I finally do purchase it I shall start a new game.

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 feel your pain mate, as I think most gamers have had something similar to this happen atleast once.

I think auto-save is a great idea for a lot of people to use, but I however have never used Auto-save in most games that I can turn it off, like Fallout 3. I rely on manuel saves myself. That way a situation like this never happen and I am constantly saving every half hour or so in safe places. If I didn't I would get lazy with my saves and something like what happened to you would happen, and that is a nightmare! XD

Keep playing the game though, it's a suburb title. I know it can be hard to jump back on the horse after such a loss, but maybe try doing your adventure a little differently to make it more fresh?

Don't worry I will try again, it's just it fills me with a bit of sadness that I fucked up that badly so it's just disheartening you know? But I will continue.

As for playing it differently, I'm roleplaying a character so the decisions I made can't really be undone you know?

But I can at least be happy that the closest save I have to load from is AFTER grayditch. Fucking fire breathing ants...HATE those bastards!

 

[distortedreality]

I remember I somehow managed to fuck up Monkey Island 2 so badly that I couldn't progress at all. Was a long time ago, so can't remember exactly how I did it, but got stuck on the island with the spitting contest and couldn't leave, so had to content myself with endless spitting competitions (that I didn't get anything for because i'd already won it).

Had to start from scratch

edit - what made it worse was this was on the Amiga - the game was on like 12 floppies or something.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

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.

 

[VeryOddGamer]

Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines. I came across a bug that prevented me from opening doors. I tried saving and reloading and the game crashed. And the same thing happened every time I tried to load it.
And there was of course that time I was playing in Halo: Reach the mission where you fly around in the Falcon. And my Falcon was busted up pretty bad, so I tried to land near the edge of a landing platform so I could push it off and call a new one. Well, when I tried to leave the Falcon, my character jumps out the Falcon and into his death. And obviously, the game has a checkpoint at the exact moment when you leave the Falcon. I don't remember if I tried the mission again.

 

[kingthrall]

ice-wind dale, opened a trapped chest and blew up two of my party members and my autosave was way back at the start of the dungeon/map.

 

[Pearwood]

Counting Interactive Fiction? I've made pretty much every one of them I've played unwinnable in some way, either using an item where I shouldn't have or just losing track of where I'd left something I needed. I still think Enchanter's dickmove where it gives you a way to dispel any magic (every puzzle in the game is a magical one) is one of the worst, you'd think it was a "Get Out of Puzzle Free" card like the stone was in Wishbringer but nope you actually need it to get to the boss.

 

[D Moness]

Fallout 3 as well. Was busy with the add-on the pitt.
I finished it and returned to the house with the baby to deliver some teddybears when the game crashed and the autosave got corrupted. The previous save was from about 2 hours before. The whole end fight had to be done all over again :/ Took months before i touched it again. Second playthrough some giant radscorpion came close to the hideout where you deliver the fingers. The npc ran outside to be never seen again >.<

 

[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.

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

Though roguelikes, with their customary permadeath mechanics, have to take the cake here. I know I've recounted many times the most peculiar situation I ever got myself into with NetHack, but I'd say "screwed" is quite appropriate for being in a room filled with nonhostile incubi and succubi while involuntarily changing species (and often sex) while my HP is being chipped away at by fire ants was... Yeah.
If you don't know NetHack, interacting with nonhostile foocubi results in just what you think it does.

 

[ArchBlade]

This wasn't my mistake, but it trumps every thing I've ever been screwed by in a video game.

My friend was playing Fallout New Vegas around the same time that the rest of us were, but he's the only one of us who never played it all the way to the end. Not because it wasn't a good game, oh no.

He was exploring a vault(Forgive me for not remembering which one) that was heavily irradiated, with the radiation getting more intense as you went down through the vault. Now, I should mention that my friend doesn't save like he should. Which is to say, he doesn't save at all and relies only on autosaves. You can see where this is going.

Getting to the bottom of the vault had robbed him of all of his rad-away and rad-x, so due to a personal error on his part, I'd imagine, he was almost completely un-supplied on the lowest, most dangerously irradiated level of the vault. Basically, he walked through the door and died two seconds later. And then the game reloaded him. Exactly where he was two seconds ago. To die again. And he had no other saves.

He promptly traded New Vegas in and to this day refuses to acknowledge his obvious chain of mistakes.

 

[TheIronRuler]

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?

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That's sad. I usually save too often, like five times every ten minutes.

 

[razer17]

I also have a Fallout 3 related story, this time a bug that almost ruined my save. I rely on autosave too much in Fallout, I should learn to manually save more often.

Anyway, I almost lost over 8 hours of gameplay because of a massive glitch. Essentially, after I left a bulding, it would almost instantly crash. This means I was stuck in a loop of reloading the game, it would crash, and then reloading again. I tried everything: shooting as soon as it loaded, turning, quickly trying to go back through the door I just came through. Eventually I figured that in the split second between it loading and freezing I could enter my Pip-Boy, and realised that I could quick travel. That seemed to work, so I went on to complete the game.

 

[Zakarath]

Mine would have to be a playthrough of Divinity 2: Ego Draconis, when I made a glass cannon ranger who annihilated just about everything at range. Though she was very squishy, it didn't really matter because I could put down most threats before they deal damage. Then about 30 hours in, I got to one of the end-game bosses (Baal), who would immediately open fights with an unavoidable magic attack that was enough to one-shot me. And since I had pretty much 100%ed the areas leading up to that one, turning back and grinding a couple more levels wasn't an option. I did what I could to max my magic resist, but it was never enough to prevail. I eventually decided to restart the game.

But on the other hand, I'm an obsessive quicksaver, so barring systemic flaws in my approach like that one, I rarely get set very far back.

(Aside: For any X-com original players, I once had a base invasion BEFORE THE FIRST MONTH ENDED. While my squad was away. That was a restart, though I didn't lose much.)

 

[Chaos1228]

The only game i can ever say has screwed me over badly was Arkham City. It was a great game, i had just completed the story, had a good amount of trophies, good scores on the challenge maps, tons of hours put into this save. And so what happens? I start up the game the next day, only to find that my save has been deleted, everything was gone.

And to this day i have never touched that game again.