The worst save. Ever. Of all time.

[The Funslinger]

Trying to do the Halo 3 vidmasters. We were doing annual, which is to finish the final mission all four of you in ghosts on Legendary with the iron skull on (which means one of you dies, you all die). We were on the falling sections but my friend fell behind. He'd die, the checkpoint would load and he'd die again. And again.

 

[idodo35]

dead rising 2
had exactly time to get to the next mission before it cancells assuming i dont get hit by zombies minus 3 seconds... srsly...

 

[LordMithril]

Forgot the game but I had been using F5 (qsave) and F9(Qload) blind till then.
I walked off a cliff, "shit" and I expertly pressed F5 before I hit the ground.
Fun thing was, I never used the normal save option. Only Qsave ...

 

[shrekfan246]

Back in elementary school a friend was showing me his new Pokemon game (either red or blue, can't remember) that'd he just beaten. This was when Pokemon had just become a massive craze, and I didn't have it yet. I really wanted to try it, so I begged him untill he agreed to let me play. He was at the area just before the elite four, and had a pretty crappy team of pokemon. almost immediately I head in to fight them, since I wanted to try to fighting the big boss-guys.

So I enter the first room, past a door you can't head back through, and what do I do? Save. Right away, since of course I was about to fight a boss, and you always want to save before a boss... Yeah.

He ended up having to replay the entire game, and we didn't speak again untill High School.

But if you lose you just go back out to the entrance of the Elite Four. . . it's not like you have to reload the save every time you lose a battle.

OT: Not really a worst save, per say, but when I first got a PS2 I got Final Fantasy X with it. The catch was that I didn't have a memory card until the next day, but I didn't want to wait to play my brand new game. So I put in about ten hours cause it was either a weekend or school vacation, left the system on overnight, picked it up again right at the first fight against Seymour (I think it was the first fight at least, again, it's been a long time) and promptly got a game over.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Was nuzlocking through Ruby, forgot to save when i turned off the game. I went from seven badges and no deaths back to one badge.

Played again, lost 5 pokemon to crit attacks and other game dickery and in the end made it to six badges before my team got trolled by a glitch where it seemed none of my pokemon could hit and the prevented me from running.

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But if you lose you just go back out to the entrance of the Elite Four. . . it's not like you have to reload the save every time you lose a battle.

...

not if you're nuzlocking. besides, the cost of losing can suck.

 

[Daffy F]

I was playing Oddworld:Abe's Exodus, and after clearing a very tricky section involving lots of Slogs, there was one left alive. I had to jump past it, and run to the far end of the corridor, jumping over the baby Slogs, and make a final, tricky jump.
Basically I forgot to quicksave before I jumped down and started running, so I went to pause the game and quicksave. Unfortunately I slowed down slightly too much when I opened the menu, so my quicksave happened just as the Slog caught me and one-hit-killed me. Then the game defaulted to what it usually does with your quicksaves after you die: It auto loaded it. So basically I could put the controller down and watch, over and over as I got killed and eaten over and over without anything I could do about it.
My last save was a couple of levels back, too.

 

[shrekfan246]

Was nuzlocking through Ruby, forgot to save when i turned off the game. I went from seven badges and no deaths back to one badge.

Played again, lost 5 pokemon to crit attacks and other game dickery and in the end made it to six badges before my team got trolled by a glitch where it seemed none of my pokemon could hit and the prevented me from running.

EDIT:

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But if you lose you just go back out to the entrance of the Elite Four. . . it's not like you have to reload the save every time you lose a battle.

...

not if you're nuzlocking. besides, the cost of losing can suck.

Excuse me while I go look up the term nuzlocking.

Okay, now that I'm back, I find it hard to believe that elementary school kids back when Red&Blue were first released would be doing that. If I'm wrong, fair enough.

The cost of losing can suck, especially if you had bought a lot of Full Restore and Revives because you don't get items back and you lose money, but it still shouldn't end up causing a full restart of the entire game.

 

[Ironman126]

Step 1. Keep quicksave.

Step 2. Record with Frapps.

Step 3. Post video of dragon-induced death on YouTube.

Step 4. ???

Profit.

I believe "Step 4" is actually "Get loads of views and likes."

OT: Fallout New Vegas. I was just walking around, checking out some places that look cool. So I wander into a train yard. Quicksave. Game glitched and the 15+ deathclaws that should have been there all spawned at once, ten feet from me. But i was ok. Cass gave her life to save mine and her sacrifice will not soon be forgotten.

 

[emeraldrafael]

...

Excuse me while I go look up the term nuzlocking.

Okay, now that I'm back, I find it hard to believe that elementary school kids back when Red&Blue were first released would be doing that. If I'm wrong, fair enough.

The cost of losing can suck, especially if you had bought a lot of Full Restore and Revives because you don't get items back and you lose money, but it still shouldn't end up causing a full restart of the entire game.

that became the popular term for it after someone made a comic for it and put it out there. I remember my first playthrough of yellow (and this was when I was around that age and pokemon first came to the states, so this is a first generation person talking) I didnt follow a nuzlocke way, but i did impose harder rules on the second and subsequent playthrough(s) to make it more challenging (no fainting, certain items couldnt be bought used, couldnt use certain pokemon, etc.). the person could have had their rules in place that they wanted to play the game by.

never doubt the masochists/elitists that play games, even at that age.

 

[Owen Robertson]

I was playing FFX, and I lost that Blitzball tournament, and then the game saved, and then I couldn't go anywhere. That was the end of that file.

 

[shrekfan246]

that became the popular term for it after someone made a comic for it and put it out there. I remember my first playthrough of yellow (and this was when I was around that age and pokemon first came to the states, so this is a first generation person talking) I didnt follow a nuzlocke way, but i did impose harder rules on the second and subsequent playthrough(s) to make it more challenging (no fainting, certain items couldnt be bought used, couldnt use certain pokemon, etc.). the person could have had their rules in place that they wanted to play the game by.

never doubt the masochists/elitists that play games, even at that age.

Fair enough. I only have my own personal experience with the games to go by, and I always seemed to have a team that would one-shot any other pokemon regardless of its level anyway. (For reference, I beat the Elite Four my first time with my highest level being the starter at level 54, everything else was either in the mid-high 40's or low 50's.) Without knowing the person-I-quoted's friend's team and whatever self-imposed rules he may have had, etc. etc., I suppose we'll never know the entire story.

 

[Tazzy da Devil]

Sonic the Hedgehog. Quicksave was F5 and Quickload was F6, I wasn't looking and hit F6 instead of F5, and quicksaved while impaled on spikes.

 

[Eggbert]

I only used one save in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text game. Those of you who played it can guess how well that went.

 

[darkcalling]

Not a save but I once hit a checkpoint on God of War 3 right as I accidentally walked off a bridge into a bottomless pit. game loads the last checkpoint and instant death. Had to reload my last save.

 

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

Accidental quicksave while falling off Dive Rock in Oblivion... Had 2 choices, lose an hour of play or god mode to survive. <3 PC gaming.

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

I haven't managed any terrible saves in Skyrim (thankfully, it also keeps two autosaves, so these things aren't game-ending...not that I couldn't just use console commands to save myself anyway).

I have, however, had a few times in FPS games where I saved AS a bullet was going through my head in a way that it was impossible to load and not die in about a hundredth of a second.

I don't remember the game, but I remember once having to replay about 75% of a campaign because of this.

And oh yes, KotOR 2. So many bugs. I saved after apparently doing something outside of the intended order once and found myself unable to finish the third world. I was so frustrated I didn't even bother going back and replaying the game. That is without doubt one of the most disappointing games I've ever played. This was, in fact, the last in a LONG series of bugs. At one point, I did something out of the intended order and broke things so badly that talking to a random NPC actually gave me a dialogue option along the lines of "Looks like you broke the game, click here to just finish the quest." Laziest. Design. Ever.

Lol, Wut?

Really?

They gave you an option to just finish the quest?

Instead of, oh, you know, FIXING IT?

Laziest. Design. Ever.

Not sure if it counts as lazy design, more the developers realising that the player might not actually do things in the "right order" and so having an alternate way to complete the quest.

Hell theres what ammounts to that in skyrim, if you do the golden claw dungeon and grab the dragon tablet before heading to... windhelm I think it was (the first major city you get sent too) and then get given a quest to go to the same dungeon. theres a dialog option that says something along the lines of "oh, yeah... that tablet... been there done that here yah go".

The feel that I get is that the "proper order" they intended was to get the one quest, go to the city, get the second quest and THEN go to the dungeon. but if you do it differently at least the quest isn't broken and you don't have to go back again just to grab one rock.

Edit for on topic: Skyrim, just bought my first horse, mount it, hear a roar, blood dragon over head. end up having a fairly epic battle right outside the gates of solitude (me, lydia and something like 10 guards all firing arrows at this thing was pretty awesome). take down the dragon, unlock a new shout, save game... realise that the horse I had JUST bought was dead... and my previous save was a good 20-30 minutes previous to that, not the worst ever but still a pain in the ass.

That's not so bad. The difference is that I was not being facetious about the way the option is presented to the player in KotOR 2. It just completely broke down the fourth wall and the NPC actually said "Looks like you broke the game, click here to just finish the quest." They didn't even attempt to fit it into the game.

 

[ArtemusClydeFrog]

When I was a kid playing Red Faction (the first one for the PS2) there is a sequence where you ride shotgun through a canyon, manning the turret gun on the back of a truck. At one point I jumped down from there, cleared the area of enemies and stocked up on first aid kits. When I returned to the truck however it refused to move on.

I then continued on foot, clearing the entire canyon, battle choppers and all (which wasn't easy) only to realize that I couldn't move on to the next area. I had to start the entire game all over.

Since then I've always had multiple saves.

 

[Some_weirdGuy]

No Diablo? Come now, it's practically built for save-trapping yourself! (if you're not careful)

My friend was playing it, running for his life he escapes the demons and saves quickly. As soon as he unpauses a lightning bolt lances through him and he dies. (the demons were shooting at him from a distance)
loads game and the lightning kills him straight away.

Fuck.


Mine I actually managed to escape. I saved right as i was walking back through a town portal. I went through, it loads the level and a huge hoard of monsters insta-kills me.

Load game and my person walks right in again and dies( i was like two steps from the portal, and it continues walking to the middle of the level's tile before it lets you change directions. Not normally a problem except when you're about to touch a portal of death)
After many attempts(and a great many frustrating waits as the portal loads the level of my inevitable demise) I finally manage to actually dodge to the side at the last second.