Played Alone in the Dark 1 with some friends...Saved the second the Pirate Ghost cut us down.
That sucked.
That sucked.
The worst save. Ever. Of all time.
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Fallout: New Vegas.
Quick-saved just before a Ranger hit-squad opened fire when I had three health.
Not a good day.
Quick-saved just before a Ranger hit-squad opened fire when I had three health.
Not a good day.
It's not the same as a proper 'save game' but once when I was playing Halo 3 and was driving my mongoose around I accidentally lost control, drove too fast and fell off a cliff and for some reason the game auto-saved at that point so after I died I reloaded only to watch my character once again fall off the cliff because he had reloaded at the very edge of the cliff face with the same momentum as before.
So I could only watch the exact same scene happen two more times before I had to start the level again.
So I could only watch the exact same scene happen two more times before I had to start the level again.
People have started quoting Tobuscus in text? His terrible annoying attempts at humor are no longer confined to his videos?Lil_Rimmy said:And that's why we play Skyrim.Dimitriov said:In Oblivion I walked through a door, it autosaved just as I hit quicksave... then the game crashed. Couldn't reload either one without it crashing, and I have no idea why
My last proper save was about five hours of gameplay behind... yeah that was awesome.
Also because we have epic songs in Skyrim.
VOICE ATTACK!
But the voice went too far right, it went to a mountain town and a forest.
Stop for the night, in the morning pass the windmill to the natural STONE ROCKY FORMATION.
TOBUSCUS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMKJ9fDM2mo
Time to kill myself.
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.
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.
Did the very first Stormcloak mission where I get sent out to the middle of nowhere to find and kill an ice wraith. Island-hopping big chunks of glacier when two snow sabers greet me on the other side of the hill. "Well, good thing I'm a combat class; time to make these dumb animals shatter their buckteeth on my armor". Chomp, chomp, chomp, 13% health in two seconds. Realizing there's a very real chance that I'm fucked, I panic and save. Immediately after pressing F5, chomp, dead. Immediately after reloading, chomp, dead. Reload again and try to open a menu as quickly as possible to chug a six-pack of health potions to save my ass. Nope, chompdead. After twenty minutes of wandering towards a distant arrow on my compass, my only recent save slot was a death animation.
It was then that I decided Skyrim didn't need the Dovakiin to choose sides in the civil war, but to unite it, instead.
It was then that I decided Skyrim didn't need the Dovakiin to choose sides in the civil war, but to unite it, instead.
Fallout 2, actually.
About forty hours in, and I had backed myself into a cave filled with Deathclaws. Now, i'm not sure if anyone here has played Fallout 2, but in that game Deathclaws were some Bad-ass Motherf*ckers in packs. I was out of Stims, low on ammo, and I didn't have any Radaway or Antidotes left.
I'd only been using the quicksave slot up until that point to save my main game, when I became irradiated and poised in the cave... filled with Deathclaws. Of course that's when I achieved the quest objective that I was heading for in the cave system (Which made the game autosave) and then died about two seconds later from poison.
Reload: Death.
Reload: Death.
Checked my saves and then realized that that save was the only one that I had for the game... forty hours in. Sh*t.
About forty hours in, and I had backed myself into a cave filled with Deathclaws. Now, i'm not sure if anyone here has played Fallout 2, but in that game Deathclaws were some Bad-ass Motherf*ckers in packs. I was out of Stims, low on ammo, and I didn't have any Radaway or Antidotes left.
I'd only been using the quicksave slot up until that point to save my main game, when I became irradiated and poised in the cave... filled with Deathclaws. Of course that's when I achieved the quest objective that I was heading for in the cave system (Which made the game autosave) and then died about two seconds later from poison.
Reload: Death.
Reload: Death.
Checked my saves and then realized that that save was the only one that I had for the game... forty hours in. Sh*t.
Lil_Rimmy said:
But why don't you have any health potions?Riddle78 said:
Seriously guys.
Always, always, always have enough health potions!
I usually carry 30-40 of them myself, though of various strength.
One can never have enough health potions.
Never!
Mine would be on the PS2 game Red Faction. There's a section where you are running about a space station, but the area is too big to load at once so it is broken up by small loading screens. You have to set the station to explode and then run for the escape pods. Simple right?
Well the first time I did this I missed the signs for the pods after I overloaded the generators and got lost, I went through a loading screen just as the timer was reaching zero. Meaning I was stuck on the wrong side of the ship with a frozen timer. I could explore the ship all I wanted so long as I didn't hit another loading screen, as when I did, the timer would restart and I would explode. Fun thing is, the game autosaves when it hits a loading screen. So I was stuck and a manual save was 2 hours back.
Well the first time I did this I missed the signs for the pods after I overloaded the generators and got lost, I went through a loading screen just as the timer was reaching zero. Meaning I was stuck on the wrong side of the ship with a frozen timer. I could explore the ship all I wanted so long as I didn't hit another loading screen, as when I did, the timer would restart and I would explode. Fun thing is, the game autosaves when it hits a loading screen. So I was stuck and a manual save was 2 hours back.
Final Fantasy IV, Giant of Babel. I was apparently horribly under-leveled for the area, and I'd forgotten to go to any item shop since my last dungeon to restock. I barely made it through most of the Giant by relying entirely on magic to heal the party, but my progress only made matters worse; by the time I realized that I simply wasn't prepared properly, I was already at the last major save point. I was much too far to turn back, as I wouldn't make it out alive, and in front of me was not just a boss fight, but the massive quadruple gauntlet of all Four Fiends. Hopeless.
Weirdly enough, this wasn't my first playthrough of FFIV, but my third or fourth. I suppose my experience made me overconfident.
Weirdly enough, this wasn't my first playthrough of FFIV, but my third or fourth. I suppose my experience made me overconfident.
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.Jaime_Wolf said:
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.
My worst save in a game, when I was playing Amnesia: The Dark Decent with a friend. At one part, the monster came around a corner out of nowhere, and ran straight towards us. We screamed, and instinctively pressed the menu button (where it autosaved). So there it is, the game paused, with the monster just 2 feet away from the screen, so you can see his disturbing face. We haven't played Amnesia since then
I'm fairly cautious when it comes to quicksaving in game, and when I feel something's about to get hard, I usually make a regular save before my next quicksave. However at one time in Skyrim I was exploring a particular undead-infested grave site at about level 15 when I came upon a Draugr Dreadlord. With a name like that they were bound to be badass, and before long I knew I was right. These guys are horribly brutal; they are immensely strong, carry ebony tier weapons, and have access to shouts, one of which can blast you across the room and ragdoll you for like 10 seconds while it leisurely arrows or slices you to bits, and the other which can disarm your sorry ass, causing your favorite (and probably strongest) weapons and/or shield to clatter all over the floor, requiring any melee build to frantically run around while trying to avoid certain rapage as they attempt to reclaim their weapons, which by now are on opposite sides of the room, or lost in shadowy corners. And since any weapon or shield so dropped gets removed from your favorites list in the process, you lose your hotkeys for them, which means this ability can be legitimately described as a 'dick move'.
Luckily, I had a recent autosave to fall back on, allowing me to make a regular save before encountering it, and went to work. Charged it, shouted my fire breath at it, used a scroll of fireball at it, chopped away at it with my Nord warrior build and timing my blocks like a boss. Quicksaved when it was half down, died about a dozen or so times by getting catapulted into the wall with hurricane force, getting disarmed like a wee *****, or generally missing my blocks and getting 2 or 3-shot. Health potions on short supply, I managed to kill it barely. Triumphantly, I carried on, with only a circular hole in the ground to jump down to the exit. But oh, don't forget to quicksave I thought, as I pressed F5 in the middle of my last jump down to the ground only to be suddenly raped to death by an arrow.
Yep, it was another Draugr Dreadlord.
With only about one third of my health left, it was pretty much certain death. The position where I landed, I couldn't even push past him and reach the door to the outside. At least not for half a dozen times, but finally, I managed to run to safety and sample the fresh air of Northern Skyrim only to be immediately savaged by 1d3 frost trolls. Yep, I thought, let's reload the autosave and start from scratch. Eventually I killed both the dreadlords and all the trolls, now I knew they were there, with a mixture of posthumous experience and a great deal of patience, but that save cost me about a fortnight.
Luckily, I had a recent autosave to fall back on, allowing me to make a regular save before encountering it, and went to work. Charged it, shouted my fire breath at it, used a scroll of fireball at it, chopped away at it with my Nord warrior build and timing my blocks like a boss. Quicksaved when it was half down, died about a dozen or so times by getting catapulted into the wall with hurricane force, getting disarmed like a wee *****, or generally missing my blocks and getting 2 or 3-shot. Health potions on short supply, I managed to kill it barely. Triumphantly, I carried on, with only a circular hole in the ground to jump down to the exit. But oh, don't forget to quicksave I thought, as I pressed F5 in the middle of my last jump down to the ground only to be suddenly raped to death by an arrow.
Yep, it was another Draugr Dreadlord.
With only about one third of my health left, it was pretty much certain death. The position where I landed, I couldn't even push past him and reach the door to the outside. At least not for half a dozen times, but finally, I managed to run to safety and sample the fresh air of Northern Skyrim only to be immediately savaged by 1d3 frost trolls. Yep, I thought, let's reload the autosave and start from scratch. Eventually I killed both the dreadlords and all the trolls, now I knew they were there, with a mixture of posthumous experience and a great deal of patience, but that save cost me about a fortnight.
So you know the 10 magic thingies that attack the college after you know who does you know what?
Well, apparently they are tough when you're low level. So they beat me up like 5 times, then I reload but WAIT! I actually entered the save menu and saved over my last save. So now that save is 1 second away from my allies dying.
Another lovely one. Was fighting a giant with my awesome frost spells so I was just trolling him with slow and running away. So I decided to save before I kill him. Not half a second passes and a second giant hits me from behind and knocks me up a mile in the air.
Well, apparently they are tough when you're low level. So they beat me up like 5 times, then I reload but WAIT! I actually entered the save menu and saved over my last save. So now that save is 1 second away from my allies dying.
Another lovely one. Was fighting a giant with my awesome frost spells so I was just trolling him with slow and running away. So I decided to save before I kill him. Not half a second passes and a second giant hits me from behind and knocks me up a mile in the air.
I remember the game Abe's Exoddus gave me a nickname for that situation; "quicksaved into the house of pain". Of course, that game gave you an option to go back to the beinning of a section in such a situation.
I can't think of a specific time this happend to me though...
I can't think of a specific time this happend to me though...