The worst save. Ever. Of all time.

[Lil_Rimmy]

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?

 

[Aabglov]

I was playing Dark Souls when I attacked a really high level friendly NPC. The game Auto-saved as soon as he started attacking me and the guy killed me in two hits. Game immediately reloads and I die again. I try to kill him 10 times before I decide to give up, but you can't pause in Dark Souls. It took me three tries to open the menu and hit Quit as the guy killed me from behind the menu. I finally had to turn off the console, delete the save and start over. Miserable.

 

[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.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Vampire the Masquerades: Bloodlines warehouse mission towards the very beginning. Last fight I didn't get to eat anyone, and I'd wasted alot of my stats on social skills anyway.

Spent ages trying to get a cheat to work...though I found out where I was supposed to be going in the end, and avoided the second vampire.

 

[Rogue 9]

My worst was playing Cannonfodder on SNES emulator. I'd be saving state like a madman the whole way through trying to keep the initial squad alive to see what crazy rank I could get them to and I managed to save state right as an enemy threw a grenade with spot on accuracy from off screen.

As often as I reloaded and tried to get my guys out of the way I always lost at least 2 dudes =(

 

[Twilight_guy]

Arcanum. There a cave early on with some rats that can poison you and because you are low level and don't have many spells poison is quiet deadly if you don't have anything to heal you. I happened to stumble in with no healing items, get poisoned, saved and then realize that my health would give out before the poison did. I have enough time to run out of the cave into the town not 5 yards away and through the house but not enough time to make it to someone who can heal me. This was my one save as the game just began (very early cave) so my whole game was screwed. Started over, tried to forget that horrible incident, never treated poison lightly again.

 

[WolfThomas]

Arcanum, my halfing thief getting kicked to death by a guard, it was saved as he was on the ground and had no stamina, so I couldn't do anything but watch him die slowly again and again.

 

[ByerpZ]

I was playing BF3 and I died as it was saving, so every time that it loaded, it told me that I had died. And went back to the loading screen.. over and over again.

 

[Lil_Rimmy]

I was playing BF3 and I died as it was saving, so every time that it loaded, it told me that I had died. And went back to the loading screen.. over and over again.

At least it wasn't a rat that killed you.

PETA would probably like that.

"THE RAT IS STANDING UP FOR ITS RIGHTS! AND IS ALSO TEARING YOUR THROAT OUT!"

 

[Sandernista]

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.

When they told Lucasarts they weren't even done yet, Lucasarts was like "HA. THATS WHAT YOU THINK. THIS BETTER BE ON SHELVES NEXT WEEK"

Then when Obsidian developed a patch for the game, Lucasarts was like "HA. NO. FUCK YOU." And they weren't allowed to even release the patch.

 

[Ruwrak]

Worst save ever?

Uhm... That's got to be the one I made 1 hour ago, then encountered not 1, not 2 but 3 dragons.
Yeah wish I saved earlier =/

(F ME 3 dragons? SERIOUSLY!? yes seriously... I hate/love Skyrim.)

 

[this account is gay]

I was once playing the original Half-Life. I was in a tunnel that was going down. Half way through, the game decided to save, with me at 10 health. And a Headcrab fell down the tunnel right after. I had no ammo at that point. Only the CROWBAR OF JUSTICE. It took roughly half an hour, but I finally killed that Headcrab. And continued on my quest.

 

[FieryTrainwreck]

My worst save ever was an autosave in Dark Souls. I was about 20 hours in, fighting a bunch of silver knights with my big ol' claymore, and I accidentally clipped a friendly NPC on one of my backswings. He proceeds to one-shot me, and he is now permanently aggro. I later discovered that he rewards you with one of the best spells for my particular character build - provided you didn't, you know, smack him in the face with a sword at any point.

 

[Burningsok]

It appears that there are two of these threads....

DAMNIT DOUBLE POST!

Wait...

WTF.

My captcha word is upside down!

OH. VERY FUNNY CAPTCHA.


Turn it around.

It says Trolled.

It... can THINK!!??? we're all doomed...

 

[Lil_Rimmy]

It appears that there are two of these threads....

DAMNIT DOUBLE POST!

Wait...

WTF.

My captcha word is upside down!

OH. VERY FUNNY CAPTCHA.


Turn it around.

It says Trolled.

It... can THINK!!??? we're all doomed...

I can't think young one.

....

It can troll.


We are already doomed.

 

[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.

When they told Lucasarts they weren't even done yet, Lucasarts was like "HA. THATS WHAT YOU THINK. THIS BETTER BE ON SHELVES NEXT WEEK"

Then when Obsidian developed a patch for the game, Lucasarts was like "HA. NO. FUCK YOU." And they weren't allowed to even release the patch.

Oh, I'm very aware of why the game is a buggy mess.

But that doesn't make it any less of a buggy mess.

 

[TxMxRonin]

Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. Was 9/10ths of the way through a level, an enemy throws a grenade, autosave, grenade explodes killing me, game loads, grenade explodes killing me, game loads, grenade blows up killing me, etc.

 

[SinorKirby]

Well...

I was fighting a Frost Dragon(one of the most annoying kinds of dragons in existence, like ALL the ones who breathe frost), and since I noticed myself becoming drastically low on health I slipped inside a nearby door. Keep in mind, that frost damage has a DoT effect, which I had no idea about. In the time it took to enter the building, my health had dropped to about one point(or some other absurdly low number), and I still had the DoT on me from frost breath. So, as soon as I entered the room I died. Instantly. Without being able to open the menu and take health pots or anything. Of course, the game autosaved right at that point so when it loaded up my most recent save I just died immediately. Rinse, lather, repeat until I finally gave up on salvaging that save and just loaded a previous one.

 

[ResonanceSD]

Skip

Press I, load the previous autosave.

or turn the difficult down.

 

[TheLoneBeet]

I usually keep all my saves rather than save over anything just in case I fuck something up I'd rather fix. This sort of thing never happens to me because of that.

I fucked up? Oh. Well I'll just reload my save from the start of the dungeon / town / dragon / important enough thing to deserve a save.

Sometimes I save at inopportune times yes.. but it's never a big deal to me.